APCLC2018: ASIA-PACIFIC CORPUS LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE 2018
PROGRAM

Days: Sunday, September 16th Monday, September 17th Tuesday, September 18th Wednesday, September 19th

Sunday, September 16th

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10:00-13:00 Session WS1: Workshop 1 (Stefan Evert)

Pre-conference workshop 1: 

Stefan Evert, Multivariate analysis (with R)

Location: Classroom B
10:00-13:00 Session WS2: Workshop 2 (Michael Barlow)

Pre-conference workshop 2:

Michael Barlow, WordSkew: Text and Corpus

Location: Classroom C
14:00-17:00 Session WS3: Workshop 3 (Mike Scott)

Pre-conference workshop 3:

Mike Scott, Exploring Features of WordSmith 7.0

Location: Classroom B
14:00-17:00 Session WS4: Workshop 4 (Stephen Jaeco)

Pre-conference workshop 4:

Stephen Jeaco, The Prime Machine – a tool to help English language learners get started with the exploration of English language and literature

Location: Classroom C
Monday, September 17th

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09:20-10:20 Session PL1: Plenary 1: Michaela Mahlberg

Plenary speech 1:

Corpus Linguistics and the Study of Fiction – Methodological and Theoretical Challenges

Michaela Mahlberg (University of Birmingham, UK)

 

Location: Conference Hall
10:20-10:40Coffee Break

Entrance Lobby of Kagawa International Conference Hall, Tower building 
6F, Takamatsu Symbol Tower

10:40-12:40 Session 1A
10:40
Automatically Enhancing Tagging Accuracy and Readability for Common Freeware Taggers (abstract)
11:10
Using gestures in speaking a second language ---A study based on a multi-modal corpus (abstract)
11:40
Corpus Filtering and Clean-up Operations (abstract)
12:10
Acquisition of the Chinese Particle le by L2 Learners: A Corpus-based Approach (abstract)
10:40-12:40 Session 1B
10:40
A Study on the Use of Color Wheel for the Representation of Emotions (abstract)
11:10
Acquisition of Tense/Aspect markers in Learners Corpora of English/Chinese/Japanese (abstract)
11:40
MWE in a small learner corpus: Lexical bundles, formulaic phrases, and light verbs across four levels of learners (abstract)
12:10
A Corpus-based Investigation of Chinese EFL Learners’ Use of Modal Verbs in Writing for Practical Purposes (abstract)
10:40-12:40 Session 1C
Chair:
10:40
A qualitative analysis of the effect of reference corpora and choice of statistic on keyword analysis (abstract)
11:10
The effects of corpus use on correction of article- and preposition-omission errors (abstract)
11:40
Errors and Beyond—A Corpus-based Stylistic Analysis of “Japanese English” Discourse (abstract)
12:10
Corpus-based Error Detector for Computer Scientists (abstract)
10:40-12:40 Session 1D
10:40
Corpus based Critical Discourse Analysis: A study of Political Ideology in Hindi Newspapers (abstract)
11:10
Chinese-Arabic parallel corpus-based study of Chinese body language chengyu (abstract)
10:40-12:40 Session 1E
Chair:
10:40
Stylistic Features in Corporate Disclosures and Their Predictive Power (abstract)
11:10
Is the Continuation of The Mystery of Edwin Drood a Posthumous Work of Charles Dickens?: A Multivariate Analysis (abstract)
11:40
A corpus-driven analysis of present-tense fiction (abstract)
10:40-12:40 Session 1F
Chair:
10:40
Corpus-based Approaches to ELT: Current Situation and Future Implications in Pakistan (abstract)
11:10
“When you don’t know what you know” – Use of Māori loanwords in a diachronic corpus of New Zealand English (abstract)
12:40-14:00Lunch Break
14:00-15:00 Session PL2: Plenary 2: Laurence Anthony

Plenary speech 2:

Understanding and Advancing the Data-Driven Learning (DDL) Approach

Laurence Anthony (Waseda University, JAPAN)

 

Location: Conference Hall
15:00-16:00 Session POS: Poster session

Poster session

Entrance Lobby of Kagawa International Conference Hall, Tower building 
6F, Takamatsu Symbol Tower

15:00
The construction of a Business Katakana Word List using an instant domain-specific web corpus and BCCWJ (abstract)
15:00
Corpus based analysis of semantic relations between two verbal constituents in lexical compound verbs (abstract)
15:00
Visualizing English Classroom Spoken Data on Multi-modal Interface to Create Versatile Linguistic Resources (abstract)
15:00
Predicting EFL learners’ oral proficiency levels in monologue tasks (abstract)
15:00
Elucidation of the influence of the structure of lyrics on the ease of understanding lyrics (abstract)
15:00
Multi-Domain Word Embeddings for Semantic Relation Analysis among Domains (abstract)
15:00
Functional Classification of Lexical Bundles in TED Talks (abstract)
15:00
Automatic Generation of Japanese Question-Answering Pairs (abstract)
15:00
Exploring word-formation in science fiction using a small corpus (abstract)
15:00
Comment Corpus for Study Abroad Program Evaluation (abstract)
15:00
Study on tour guide support integrating real examples and Web resources (abstract)
15:00
A Semi-Supervised Clustering Method for Dialogue Identification in Meeting Minutes Corpora (abstract)
15:00
How distinctive is your corpus? A metric for the degree of deviation from the norm (abstract)
16:00-16:20Coffee Break

Entrance Lobby of Kagawa International Conference Hall, Tower building 
6F, Takamatsu Symbol Tower

16:20-17:50 Session 2A
16:20
Can Neural Machine Translation System Create Training Data? (abstract)
16:50
Mixing and Matching DIY and Ready-made Corpora: Introducing the DIY Text Tools built into The Prime Machine (abstract)
16:20-17:50 Session 2B
16:20
A case study on the features of Spoken Academic English: “a/an+N+of construction” (abstract)
16:50
A Corpus-based Study on English Adjectives Ending with Suffix –ly (abstract)
17:20
Lexical characterization of semi-popularization articles on agricultural topics (abstract)
16:20-17:50 Session 2C
Chair:
16:20
Using Corpus-derived Co-occurrence Information to Extract Terminology (abstract)
16:50
Dialogue Act Annotation and Identification in a Japanese Multi-party Conversation Corpus (abstract)
17:20
Inter-annotator agreement: By hook or by crook (abstract)
16:20-17:50 Session 2D
16:20
Discourse function of après in French informal conversations (abstract)
16:50
A Usage Based Analysis of Bangla Discourse Markers in Mass Media Texts (abstract)
17:20
Extending Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis for Exploring Japanese Social Media (abstract)
16:20-17:50 Session 2E
Chair:
16:20
A Topic-aware Comparable Corpus of Chinese Variations (abstract)
16:50
Towards the First Online Indonesian National Corpus (abstract)
17:20
Developing multilingual language learning resources using the CEFR-J (abstract)
16:20-17:50 Session 2F
Chair:
16:20
A Developmental Study of Prepositional Phrases in English L1 Students’ Academic Writing (abstract)
16:50
Deviant Uses of Metadiscursive Nouns in NNS Essays (abstract)
17:20
A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis of Racial Stereotyping in American Newspapers (abstract)
Tuesday, September 18th

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09:00-10:00 Session PL3: Plenary 3: Stefan Evert

Plenary speech 3:

Distributional Methods in Corpus Linguistics: Towards a Hermeneutic Cyborg

Stefan Evert (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Germany)

 

Chair:
Location: Conference Hall
10:00-10:20Coffee Break

Entrance Lobby of Kagawa International Conference Hall, Tower building 
6F, Takamatsu Symbol Tower

10:20-12:20 Session 3A
10:20
Identifying the vocabulary size for Korean EFL students in linguistics (abstract)
10:50
Distinguishing L1 and L2 Using Three Linguistic Aspects: A Logistic Regression Model Study (abstract)
11:20
S-genitives and Of-genitives Seen in L2 English Learners’ Essays: A Study Based on the ICNALE Written Essays (abstract)
11:50
A Japanese/English DDL Tool for Primary School CEFR Pre-A1 EFL Learners (abstract)
10:20-12:20 Session 3B
Chair:
10:20
A corpus-based analysis of the use of subordinators by Japanese learners of English (abstract)
10:50
Analysis of Associative Information for Second Language Learning of Japanese (abstract)
11:20
Politeness and consensus building strategies in a task-based corpus of English learners (abstract)
11:50
Annotating the functions of learner utterances from a spoken corpus and assigning the degrees of their grammatical accuracy and discoursal acceptability (abstract)
10:20-12:20 Session 3C
Chair:
10:20
Dead of a lesser God: Victims’ voice and representation in the Colombian press (abstract)
10:50
Developing Language Resources for Indigenous Languages in Indonesia: Annotated Indonesian and Javanese Corpus Building (abstract)
11:20
Design principles and data collection for CELEN: a corpus of Learner Spanish in Japan. (abstract)
11:50
A Corpus-based Analysis of Formulaic Expressions in Korean Academic Prose (abstract)
10:20-12:20 Session 3D
10:20
Scientific Findings and their Markers (abstract)
10:50
Compiling Chinese Learner Dictionary with Corpora: practices and challenges (abstract)
11:20
The phraseological treatment of non-high-frequency words by online dictionaries for English learners (abstract)
11:50
What determines the quality of “good examples” for CEFR-levels? (abstract)
10:20-12:20 Session 3E
10:20
The representation of nurses in oncology and paediatric nursing research articles - who are they and what do they do? (abstract)
10:50
Is the relationship between semantic prosodies and transitivity reliable? A corpus-based cross-linguistic investigation (abstract)
11:20
Corporate Cautionary Statements (Disclaimers): A Critical Genre Analysis of Professional Communication (abstract)
11:50
Combining Corpus Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis to study the “Leftover Woman” phenomenon in Hong Kong press (abstract)
12:20-13:40Lunch Break
13:40-15:10 Session 4A
13:40
CEFR Receptive and Productive Vocabulary Knowledge of Japanese English Learners (abstract)
14:10
Investigating Japanese EFL learners’ overuse/underuse of English grammar categories and their relevance to CEFR levels (abstract)
14:40
Assigning CEFR-J levels to English texts based on textual features (abstract)
13:40-15:10 Session 4B
Chair:
13:40
A Corpus-based Study on the Use of Linking Adverbials in Master Theses in Psychology by Taiwanese EFL Learners (abstract)
14:10
A Corpus-based Study of Stancetaking as Seen from Stance Adverbials in Interpreter-mediated Political Discourse (abstract)
14:40
A Corpus-based Study on Linking Adverbials in Academic Writing by Taiwanese EFL Students (abstract)
13:40-15:10 Session 4C
13:40
The textual functions of lexis: A case study of "nowadays" in learner and English – Thai general corpora (abstract)
14:10
Examining the usage of phrasal verbs in theses of Taiwanese TESOL MA students versus TESOL papers in foreign journals (abstract)
14:40
Specific Syntactic Complexity Measures Across Two Corpora of EFL Writing (abstract)
13:40-15:10 Session 4D
13:40
Lexical Bundles and Disciplinary Variation in EFL Master’s Thesis (abstract)
14:10
Speech Acts in the Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (HKCSE) (abstract)
14:40
A Corpus-based Study on Frequent Noun Phrases in Engineering Academic Texts (abstract)
13:40-15:10 Session 4E
13:40
A Corpus-based Cognitive Study on the C-E Translation of Chinese Political Publicity Texts (abstract)
14:10
Comparing the Hedging Devices Used in Two NNS Academic Writing Corpora (abstract)
14:40
Alternative Look: A Collostructional Analysis of Ditransitive Constructions in Mandarin (abstract)
15:10-18:00 Pre-banquet tour to Ritsurin Garden

Pre-banquet tour for Ritsurin Garden

18:00-20:00 Banquet at Ritsurin Garden

Banquet at Ritsurin Garden

Wednesday, September 19th

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09:00-10:00 Session PL4: Plenary 4: Naoaki Okazaki

Plenary speech 4:

How Deep Learning Changes Natural Language Processing

Naoaki Okazaki (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

Location: Conference Hall
10:00-10:20Coffee Break

Entrance Lobby of Kagawa International Conference Hall, Tower building 
6F, Takamatsu Symbol Tower

10:20-11:50 Session 5A
10:20
Using a Large Social Science Corpus to Build an Automatic Writing Suggestion System (abstract)
10:50
The Use of Active Reading to Integrate Language Skills: A Data-Driven Learning Approach (abstract)
11:20
Prefixes and suffixes in Japanese junior high school English textbooks (abstract)
10:20-11:50 Session 5B
10:20
A Usage-based Approach to Criterial Canonical Construction in an L2 Learner Corpus (abstract)
10:50
Examining the applicability of the mean dependency distance (MDD) for SLA: A case study of Chinese learners of Japanese as a second language (abstract)
10:20-11:50 Session 5C
Chair:
10:20
A Corpus-based Analysis of Hedging in Korean Academic Texts (abstract)
10:50
New English Education in North Korea: A Corpus Approach (abstract)
11:20
Trends of Interdisciplinary Corpus Research Conducted by Korean Undergraduate Students Majoring in Sciences (abstract)
10:20-11:50 Session 5D
10:20
Is this "problem" giving you "trouble"? A corpus-based examination of the differences between the nouns "problem" and "trouble" (abstract)
10:50
A phraseological account of structural patterns: "it is no NN that" and "there is no NN that" (abstract)
11:20
The Transitivity Continuum in English Non-finite Verbal Complement Clauses: A Corpus-based Study (abstract)
11:50-13:00Lunch Break
13:00-14:00 Session PL5: Plenary 5: Michael Barlow

Plenary speech 5:

The Individual and the Group in Corpus Linguistics

Michael Barlow (University of Auckland, New Zewland)

Chair:
Location: Conference Hall
14:00-14:20Coffee Break

Entrance Lobby of Kagawa International Conference Hall, Tower building 
6F, Takamatsu Symbol Tower

14:20-15:50 Session 6A
14:20
Analyzing English Verb-Noun Miscollocations Extracted from a Large Chinese/Taiwanese EFL Learner Corpus (abstract)
14:50
An Analysis of the Vocabulary Used in Oxford Reading Tree: As a Reference for Early English Education in Japan (abstract)
15:20
Extracting Patterns from Transition of Occurrence Frequency of Grammar Items in a Junior High School Textbook in Japan (abstract)
14:20-15:50 Session 6B
14:20
Corpus-based study of the spontaneous forms omowareru and omoeru in Japanese (abstract)
14:50
The many faces of Lelouch Lamperouge: A corpus approach to language in Japanese animation (abstract)
15:20
The varying complexity of the syntactic role of nouns: Evidence from Japanese corpora (abstract)
14:20-15:50 Session 6C
14:20
Structural approaches for understanding diachronic culture corpus (abstract)
14:50
Historical Analyses of English Negative prefixed words from ME to PE - ‘-able’ adjectives - (abstract)
15:20
Negation in Benjamin Franklin’s Writings: A Stylistic Analysis of his Autobiography and Letters (abstract)
14:20-15:50 Session 6D
14:20
Lexical bundles in ESL science and technology perspective majors’ writing (abstract)
14:50
Genre-based comparative study of German word length (abstract)