Language Resources in Asia

Preface

Language resources play an essential role in empirical approaches to natural language processing (NLP). Previous concerted efforts on construction of language resources, particularly in the US and EU, have laid a solid foundation for the pioneering NLP researches in these two communities over the last decade. In comparison, availability and accessibility of Asian language resources is still very limited; even though Asia can boast of much richer linguistic contents in terms of cultural, historical, and structural variations.

The purpose of this workshop is to give a chance to investigate and discuss many problems related to the construction, dissemination and NLP research based on Asian language resources. According to the increase of not only the demand of multi-lingual NLP but also the size of language resources, it is very important for us to look for the way of collaborations among Asian countries in developing, sharing, and exchanging Asian language resources. We hope this first workshop can also contribute to solve these issues.

Program Committee

• Tanaka, Hozumi (Chair) - Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
• Chu-Ren Huang (Co-chair) - Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
• Tokunaga, Takenobu (Co-chiar) - Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
• Choi, Key-Sun - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Korea)
• Hammam Riza - BPPT (Indonesia)
• Iida, Hitoshi - Sony Computer Science Laboratory (Japan)
• Kawtrakul, Asanne - Kasetsart Univerity (Thailand)
• Kurohashi, Sadao - University of Tokyo (Japan)
• Matsumoto, Yuji - Nara Institute of Science and Technolgy (Japan)
• Rim, Hae-Chang - Korea University (Korea)
• Sangal, Rajeev - Indian Institute of Information Technology (India)
• Shirai, Kiyoaki - Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technolgy (Japan)
• Sornlertlamvanich, Virach - NECTEC (Thailand)
• Tsou, Benjamin - City University of HongKong (China)
• Kim, Jin-Dong - University of Tokyo (Japan)

Table of Contents

A multilingual news database and its application to a translation memory system

Isao Goto, Naoto Kato and Terumasa Ehara
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The language resources development and language processing service for Thai

Asanee Kawtrakul, Yuen Poovorawan, Frederic Andres, Mukda Suktarajarn, Patcharee Varasrai, Nithiwat Kampanya, Supavat Vongwatthaporn, Nattakan Pengphon and Chaiwat Ketsuvarn
..........7

Development of very large corpora in Thailand

Rachod Thongprasirt, Thatsanee Charoenporn, Wasin Sinthupinyo and Virach Sortlertlamvanich
..........15

Japanese-English paraphrase corpus

Satoshi Shirai, Kazuhide Yamamoto and Francis Bond
..........23

The open language archives community and Asian language resources

Steven Bird, Gary Simons and Chu-Ren Huang
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A bilingual corpus in the legal domain and its applications

Oi Yee Kwong, Benjamin K. Tsou, Tom B.Y. Lai, Robert W.P. Luk, Lawrence Y.L. Cheung and Francis C.Y. Chik
..........39

Defining principled but practically manageable lexical units in Japanese textual corpora

Maho Okada, Koichi Takeuchi, Masaharu Yoshioka, Kyo Kageura and Teruo Koyama
..........47

Towards a reference tagset for Japanese

Yasuhiro Kawata
..........55

Using multiple pivots to align Korean and Japanese lexical resources

Kyonghee Paik, Francis Bond and Shirai Satoshi
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LERIL : Collaborative effort for creating lexical resources

Akshar Bharati, Dipti M Sharma, Vineet Chaitanya, Amba P Kulkarni and Rajeev Sangal
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Combining the lexicon knowledge base with Chinese corpus processing

Duan Huiming, Hu Junfeng, Zhu Xuefeng and Yu Shiwen
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