Symposium Program

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FIRST DAY: 25 March 2004 (Thursday)

9:50-10:00 Opening Address: (Program Chair)
10:00-11:00 Invited Speech:
Trends in Natural Language Processing to Overcome Language Barriers
Prof. Eduard Hovy (USC)
11:00-11:30 Oral Presentaion 1:
A Method for Retrieving Translations of Collocation in Web Data
Masahiro Shibata, Yoichi Tomiura, Shosaku Tanaka
11:30-12:00 Oral Presentaion 2:
An Analysis of Translation Equivalents of Japanese-Mongolian Functional Expressions
Sanduijav Enkhbayar, Takehito Utsuro, Satoshi Sato
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-14:30 Invited Speech:
Projects corresponding to multilingual environment in the "Asia Broadband Program"
Mr. Shuichi Honda (Japanese Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications )
14:30-15:00 Oral Presentaions 3:
The m17n Library - A General Purpose Multilingual Library for Unix/Linux Applications -
Nishikimi Mikiko, Handa Kenichi, Takahashi Naoto, Tomura Satoru
15:00-15:30 Oral Presentaions 4:
Agent-Mediated Architecture for Efficient Goal-Oriented Communication across Languages
Akira Kataoka, Yamato Takahashi, Setsuo Yamada, Naoki Asanoma, Osamu Furuse
15:30-16:00 Refreshment Break
16:00-17:00 Invited Speech:
Knowledge Acquisition and Knowledge Management for Practical Machine Translation
Prof. Tiejun Zhao (HIT)
17:00-17:30 Oral Presentaion 5:
Example-Based Machine Translation Based on Translation Corresponding Tree Representation
WONG Fai , TANG Chi Wai, DONG Ming Chui, MAO Yu Hang, LI Yi Ping
17:30-18:00 Oral Presentaion 6:
Development of Chinese-Japanese MT System based on Language-Independent Translation Engine
Mihoko Kitamura, Tetsuji Nakagawa, Seika Kim, Toshiki Murata

SECOND DAY: 26 March 2004 (Friday)

10:00-11:00 Invited Speech:
Disabled by language? Problems of limited majority language skills in doctor-patient communication
Prof. Harold Somers (UMIST)
11:00-11:30 Oral Presentaion 7:
MT-Aided Analysis of Comprehension of English Verb Preposition Constructions
Ge Naisheng, Zhu Jiang, Wang Haifeng
11:30-12:00 Oral Presentaion 8:
Domain Lexico-Taxonomy: An Approach Towards Multi-domain Language Processing
Chu-Ren Huang, Xiang-Bing Li, Jia-Fei Hong
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-15:00 Poster Presentations:
  1. The First Step Toward a Machine Translation System from Japanese Text to Sign Language
    Tadahiro Matsumoto, Nobuaki Tanaka, Akiji Yoshida, Yoshimasa Imai, Takashi Ikeda
  2. ECJK Multilingual Patent Retrieval System
    Mitsuharu Makita, Shigeto Higuchi, Atsushi Fujii, Tetsuya Ishikawa
  3. Japanese-Sinhalese MT System (jaw/Sinhalese) and a Solution for the Translation of Japanese Function Words after Predicate into Sinhalse
    Samantha Thelijjagoda, Yoshimasa Imai, Nayana Elikewala, Takashi Ikeda
  4. Question Answering for Spoken Documents Using Spoken Queries
    Hiromitsu Nishizaki, Seiichi Nakagawa
  5. Putting NLP Tools into Action: Incorporating NLP Tools in Web-based Language Learning Environment
    Md Maruf Hasan, Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Hitoshi Isahara
  6. Incremental Japanese Spoken Language Generation in Simultaneous Machine Interpretation
    Koichiro Ryu, Atsushi Mizuno, Shigeki Matsubara, Yasuyoshi Inagaki
  7. An English-to-Chinese Machine Translation Method Based on Combining and Mapping Rules
    Rongbo Wang, Zheru Chi, Changle Zhou
15:00-15:15 Refreshment Break
15:15-17:15 Panel Discussion:
NLP for Language e-Learning : Asian Perspectives
Yoshihiko Nitta, Thomas Chuang, Hitoshi Isahara, Kin Chew Lim, Virach Sornlertlamvanich
17:15-18:00 Discussion