Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th

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ACL-IJCNLP 2009
ALR-7
7th Workshop on Asian Language Resources
Proceedings of the Workshop
6-7 August 2009
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Introduction
This volume contains the papers presented at the Seventh Workshop on Asian Language Resources,
held on August 6-7, 2009 in conjunction with the joint conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of
the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural
LanguageProcessingoftheAsianFederationofNaturalLanguageProcessing(ACL-IJCNLP2009).
Languageresourceshaveplayedanessentialroleinempiricalapproachestonaturallanguageprocessing
(NLP) for the last two decades. Previous concerted efforts on construction of language resources,
particularly in the US and European countries, have laid a solid foundation for the pioneering NLP
research in these two communities. In comparison, the availability and accessibility of many Asian
languageresourcesarestillverylimitedexceptforafewlanguages. Moreover,thereisagreaterdiversity
inAsianlanguageswithrespecttocharactersets,grammaticalpropertiesandtheculturalbackground.
Motivatedbysuchacontext,wehaveorganizedaseriesofworkshopsonAsianlanguageresourcessince
2001. This workshop series has contributed to the activation of the NLP research in Asia particularly
of building and utilizing corpora of various types and languages. In this seventh workshop, we had
37 submissions encompassing the research from NLP community as well as the speech processing
community thanks to the contributions from Oriental COCOSDA. The paper selection was highly
competitivecomparedwiththelastsixworkshops. Theprogramcommitteeselected21papersforregular
presentation, 5 papers for short presentation, and one panel discussion to enlightening the information
exchangebetweenALRandFLaReNetinitiatives.
ThisSeventhWorkshoponAsianLanguageResourceswouldnothavebeensucceededwithoutthehard
work of the program committee. We would like to thank all the authors and the people who attend this
workshop to share their research experiences. Last but not least, we would like to express our deep
appreciation to the arrangement of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 organizing committee and secretariat. We
deeplyhopethisworkshopfurtheracceleratesthealreadythrivingNLPresearchinAsia.
HammamRiza
VirachSornlertlamvanich
WorkshopCo-chairs
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Organizers
ProgramChairs:
HammamRiza IPTEKnet-BPPT
VirachSornlertlamvanich NECTEC
ProgramCommittee:
PushpakBhattacharyya IIT-Bombay
ThatsaneeCharoenporn NECTEC
Key-SunChoi KAIST
Chu-RenHuang HongKongPolytechnicUniversity
SarmadHussain NationalUniversityofComputer&EmergingSciences
HitoshiIsahara NICT
ShuichiItahashi NII
Lin-ShanLee NationalTaiwanUniversity
HaizhouLi I2R
ChiMaiLuong InstituteofInformationTechnology,
VietnameseAcademyofScienceandTechnology
YoshikiMikami NagaokaUniversityofTechnology
SakrangeTuranceNandasara UniversityofColomboSchoolofComputing
TheinOo MyanmarComputerFederation
PhonpasitPhissamay NAST
OskarRiandi ICTCenter-BPPT
RachelEditaORoxas DeLaSalleUniversity
KiyoakiShirai JAIST
MyintMyintThan MyanmarComputerFederation
TakenobuTokunaga TokyoInstituteofTechnology
ChiuyuTseng AcademiaSinica
ChaiWutiwiwatchai NECTEC
BookChair:
TakenobuTokunaga TokyoInstituteofTechnology
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Table of Contents
EnhancingtheJapaneseWordNet
FrancisBond,HitoshiIsahara,SanaeFujita,KiyotakaUchimoto,TakayukiKuribayashiand
KyokoKanzaki...............................................................................1
AnEmpiricalStudyofVietnameseNounPhraseChunkingwithDiscriminativeSequenceModels
LeMinhNguyen,HuongThaoNguyen,PhuongThaiNguyen,TuBaoHoandAkiraShimazu .. 9
Corpus-basedSinhalaLexicon
RuvanWeerasinghe,DulipHerathandVirajWelgama......................................17
AnalysisandDevelopmentofUrduPOSTaggedCorpus
AhmedMuaz,AasimAliandSarmadHussain.............................................24
AnnotatingDialogueActstoConstructDialogueSystemsforConsulting
KiyonoriOhtake,TeruhisaMisu,ChioriHori,HidekiKashiokaandSatoshiNakamura........32
Assas-band,anAffix-Exception-ListBasedUrduStemmer
Qurat-ul-AinAkram,AsmaNaseerandSarmadHussain....................................40
AutomatedMiningOfNamesUsingParallelHindi-EnglishCorpus
R.MaheshK.Sinha.....................................................................48
BasicLanguageResourcesforDiverseAsianLanguages: AStreamlinedApproach
forResourceCreation
HeatherSimpson,KazuakiMaedaandChristopherCieri....................................55
Finite-StateDescriptionofVietnameseReduplication
LeHongPhuong,NguyenThiMinhHuyenandRoussanalyAzim...........................63
ConstructionofChineseSegmentedandPOS-taggedConversationalCorporaandTheirEvaluationson
SpontaneousSpeechRecognitions
XinhuiHu,RyosukeIsotaniandSatoshiNakamura ........................................ 70
BengaliVerbSubcategorizationFrameAcquisition-ABaselineModel
SomnathBanerjee,DipankarDasandSivajiBandyopadhyay................................76
PhonologicalandLogographicInfluencesonErrorsinWrittenChineseWords
Chao-LinLiu,Kan-WenTien,Min-HuaLai,Yi-HsuanChuangandShih-HungWu ........... 84
ResourceReport: BuildingParallelTextCorporaforMulti-DomainTranslationSystem
Budiono,HammamRizaandChairilHakim...............................................92
ASyntacticResourceforThai: CGTreebank
TanethRuangrajitpakorn,KanokornTrakultaweekoonandThepchaiSupnithi.................96
PartofSpeechTaggingforMongolianCorpus
PurevJaimaiandOdbayarChimeddorj .................................................. 103
InteractionGrammarforthePersianLanguage: NounandAdjectivalPhrases
MasoodGhayoomiandBrunoGuillaume................................................107
KTimeML:SpecificationofTemporalandEventExpressionsinKoreanText
SeohyunIm,HyunjoYou,HayunJang,SeunghoNamandHyopilShin.....................115
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CWN-LMF:ChineseWordNetintheLexicalMarkupFramework
Lung-HaoLee,Shu-KaiHsiehandChu-RenHuang.......................................123
PhilippineLanguageResources: TrendsandDirections
RachelEditaRoxas,CharibethChengandNathalieRoseLim..............................131
ThaiWordNetConstruction
SareewanThoongsup,ThatsaneeCharoenporn,KergritRobkop,TanSinthurahat,ChumpolMokarat,
VirachSornlertlamvanichandHitoshiIsahara.................................................139
QueryExpansionusingLMF-CompliantLexicalResources
Takenobu Tokunaga, Dain Kaplan, Nicoletta Calzolari, Monica Monachini, Claudia Soria, Virach
Sornlertlamvanich,ThatsaneeCharoenporn,YingjuXia,Chu-RenHuang,Shu-KaiHsiehand
KiyoakiShirai.............................................................................145
ThaiNationalCorpus: AProgressReport
WiroteAroonmanakun,KachenTansiriandPairitNittayanuparp...........................153
TheFLaReNetThematicNetwork: AGlobalForumforCooperation
NicolettaCalzolariandClaudiaSoria....................................................161
TowardsBuildingAdvancedNaturalLanguageApplications-AnOverviewoftheExistingPrimaryRe-
sourcesandApplicationsinNepali
BalKrishnaBal.......................................................................165
Using Search Engine to Construct a Scalable Corpus for Vietnamese Lexical Development for Word
Segmentation
DoanNguyen.........................................................................171
WordSegmentationStandardinChinese,JapaneseandKorean
Key-SunChoi,HitoshiIsahara,KyokoKanzaki,HansaemKim,SeokMunPakand
MaosongSun..............................................................................179
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Workshop Program
Thursday,August6,2009
8:30–9:00 Registration
9:00–9:10 Opening
9:10–9:35 EnhancingtheJapaneseWordNet
FrancisBond,HitoshiIsahara,SanaeFujita,KiyotakaUchimoto,
TakayukiKuribayashiandKyokoKanzaki
9:35–10:00 AnEmpiricalStudyofVietnameseNounPhraseChunkingwithDiscriminative
SequenceModels
LeMinhNguyen,HuongThaoNguyen,PhuongThaiNguyen,TuBaoHo
andAkiraShimazu
10:00–10:30 Break
10:30–10:55 Corpus-basedSinhalaLexicon
RuvanWeerasinghe,DulipHerathandVirajWelgama
10:55–11:20 AnalysisandDevelopmentofUrduPOSTaggedCorpus
AhmedMuaz,AasimAliandSarmadHussain
11:20–11:45 AnnotatingDialogueActstoConstructDialogueSystemsforConsulting
KiyonoriOhtake,TeruhisaMisu,ChioriHori,HidekiKashioka
andSatoshiNakamura
11:45–12:10 Assas-band,anAffix-Exception-ListBasedUrduStemmer
Qurat-ul-AinAkram,AsmaNaseerandSarmadHussain
12:10–13:50 Lunchbreak
13:50–14:15 AutomatedMiningOfNamesUsingParallelHindi-EnglishCorpus
R.MaheshK.Sinha
14:15–14:40 BasicLanguageResourcesforDiverseAsianLanguages: AStreamlinedApproach
forResourceCreation
HeatherSimpson,KazuakiMaedaandChristopherCieri
14:40–15:05 Finite-StateDescriptionofVietnameseReduplication
LeHongPhuong,NguyenThiMinhHuyenandRoussanalyAzim
15:05–15:30 Construction of Chinese Segmented and POS-tagged Conversational Corpora and
TheirEvaluationsonSpontaneousSpeechRecognitions
XinhuiHu,RyosukeIsotaniandSatoshiNakamura
15:30–16:00 Break
16:00–16:15 BengaliVerbSubcategorizationFrameAcquisition-ABaselineModel
SomnathBanerjee,DipankarDasandSivajiBandyopadhyay
16:15–16:30 PhonologicalandLogographicInfluencesonErrorsinWrittenChineseWords
Chao-LinLiu,Kan-WenTien,Min-HuaLai,Yi-HsuanChuangandShih-HungWu
16:30–16:45 Resource Report: Building Parallel Text Corpora for Multi-Domain Translation
System
Budiono,HammamRizaandChairilHakim
16:45–17:00 ASyntacticResourceforThai: CGTreebank
TanethRuangrajitpakorn,KanokornTrakultaweekoonandThepchaiSupnithi
17:00–17:15 PartofSpeechTaggingforMongolianCorpus
PurevJaimaiandOdbayarChimeddorj
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Friday,August7,2009
8:45–9:10 InteractionGrammarforthePersianLanguage: NounandAdjectivalPhrases
MasoodGhayoomiandBrunoGuillaume
9:10–9:35 KTimeML:SpecificationofTemporalandEventExpressionsinKoreanText
SeohyunIm,HyunjoYou,HayunJang,SeunghoNamandHyopilShin
9:35–10:00 CWN-LMF:ChineseWordNetintheLexicalMarkupFramework
Lung-HaoLee,Shu-KaiHsiehandChu-RenHuang
10:00–10:30 Break
10:30–10:55 PhilippineLanguageResources: TrendsandDirections
RachelEditaRoxas,CharibethChengandNathalieRoseLim
10:55–11:20 ThaiWordNetConstruction
Sareewan Thoongsup, Thatsanee Charoenporn, Kergrit Robkop, Tan Sinthurahat,
ChumpolMokarat,VirachSornlertlamvanichandHitoshiIsahara
11:20–11:45 QueryExpansionusingLMF-CompliantLexicalResources
TakenobuTokunaga,DainKaplan,NicolettaCalzolari,MonicaMonachini,
ClaudiaSoria,VirachSornlertlamvanich,ThatsaneeCharoenporn,YingjuXia,
Chu-RenHuang,Shu-KaiHsiehandKiyoakiShirai
11:45–12:10 ThaiNationalCorpus: AProgressReport
WiroteAroonmanakun,KachenTansiriandPairitNittayanuparp
12:10–13:50 Lunchbreak
13:50–14:15 TheFLaReNetThematicNetwork: AGlobalForumforCooperation
NicolettaCalzolariandClaudiaSoria
14:15–14:40 Towards Building Advanced Natural Language Applications - An Overview of the
ExistingPrimaryResourcesandApplicationsinNepali
BalKrishnaBal
14:40–15:05 UsingSearchEnginetoConstructaScalableCorpusforVietnameseLexical
DevelopmentforWordSegmentation
DoanNguyen
15:05–15:30 WordSegmentationStandardinChinese,JapaneseandKorean
Key-SunChoi,HitoshiIsahara,KyokoKanzaki,HansaemKim,SeokMunPak
andMaosongSun
15:30–16:00 Break
16:00–17:50 Paneldiscussion“ALRandFLaReNet”
17:50–18:00 Closing
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