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  Proceedings of the Sixth Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium, November 27-30, 2001, Hitotsubashi Memorial Hall, National Center of Sciences, Tokyo, Japan. 2001

Invited Talks

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  Julia Hirschberg, Michiel Bacchiani, Philip L. Isenhour: Audio Browsing and Search in the Voicemail Domain. 3-8
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  Benjamin K. Tsou: Corpus, Information Mining and the New Global Village. 9-18
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  Sadaoki Furui: From Read Speech Recognition to Spontaneous Speech Understanding. 19-25
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  Sanda M. Harabagiu: Just-In-Time Question Answering. 27-34

Panel discussion

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  Jun'ichi Tsujii: Are NLP technologies really ready for application? (Panel). 37-38

Word Sense Disambiguation (I)

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  Hiroya Takamura, Hiroyasu Yamada, Taku Kudo, Kaoru Yamamoto, Yuji Matsumoto: Ensembling based on Feature Space Restructuring with Application to WSD. 41-48
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  Saim Shin, Yong-Seok Choi, Key-Sun Choi: Word Sense Disambiguation Using Vectors of Co-occurrence Information. 49-55
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  Rebecca F. Bruce: A Bayesian Approach to Semi-Supervised Learning. 57-64

Word Sense Disambiguation (II)

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  Hiroshi Nakagawa: Disambiguation of Compound Noun Translations Extracted from Bilingual Comparable Corpora. 67-74
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  Qujiang Peng, Takeshi Ito, Teiji Furugori: Word Sense Disambiguation with a Corpus-Based Semantic Network. 75-82
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  Nancy Ide, Tomaz Erjavec, Dan Tufis: Automatic Sense Tagging Using Parallel Corpora. 83-90

Summarization

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  Kai Ishikawa, Shinichi Ando, Akitoshi Okumura: Evaluating Automatic Text Summarization with Summary Results by the Experienced and the Inexperienced. 93-100
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  Haeseung Paik, Young-Soo Kang, Key-Sun Choi: Analysis of Linguistic Features for Identifying Information Constituents of a Concept. 101-107
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  Rui Pedro Chaves: WordNet and Automated Text Summarization. 109-116

Lexical Database

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  Gilles Sérasset, Mathieu Mangeot: Papillon Lexical Database Project: Monolingual Dictionaries & Interlingual Links. 119-125
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  Mathieu Lafourcade, Violaine Prince: Relative Synonymy and Conceptual Vectors. 127-134
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  Takenobu Tokunaga, Yasuhiro Syotu, Hozumi Tanaka, Kiyoaki Shirai: Integration of heterogeneous language resources: A monolingual dictionary and a thesaurus. 135-142

Language Modeling (I)

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  Fuchun Peng, Dale Schuurmans: A Simple Closed-Class/Open-Class Factorization for Improved Language Modeling. 145-152
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  Chin-Chung Wong, Helen M. Meng, Kai-Chung Siu: Learning Strategies In A Grammar Induction Framework. 153-157
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  Kentaro Inui, Satomi Yamamoto: Corpus-Based Acquisition of Sentence Readability Ranking Models for Deaf People. 159-166

Language Modeling (II)

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  Weijun Chen, Fuzong Lin, Jianmin Li, Bo Zhang: A New Prosodic Phrasing Model for Chinese TTS Systems. 169-175
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  Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Yusuke Inutsuka, Masato Takeichi: Personalization of Text Entry Systems for Mobile Phones. 177-184
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  Khalil Sima'an: Enhancing the Robustness of DOP for Speech Understanding. 185-192

Paraphrasing

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  Yujie Zhang, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Chengqing Zong, Masashi Sakamoto: Paraphrasing Utterances by Reordering Words Using Semi-Automatically Acquired Patterns. 195-202
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  Kazuhide Yamamoto: Paraphrasing Spoken Japanese for Untangling Bilingual Transfer. 203-210
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  Kentaro Torisawa: An Unsupervised Method for Canonicalization of Japanese Postpositions. 211-218

Nominal Extraction

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  Tatsunori Mori: Re-interpretation of Rules for Named Entity Task by Probability Assignment. 221-228
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  Choong-Nyoung Seon, Youngjoong Ko, Jeong-Seok Kim, Jungyun Seo: Named Entity Recognition using Machine Learning Methods and Pattern-Selection Rules. 229-236
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  Do-Gil Lee, Sang-Zoo Lee, Hae-Chang Rim: An Efficient Method for Korean Noun Extraction Using Noun Occurrence Characteristics. 237-244

Syntax

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  Mark Pedersen, Helen C. Purchase: A Case Study of Free Word Order Grammar Development in DG, TAG and LFG. 247-254
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  Taisuke Sato, Shigeru Abe, Yoshitaka Kameya, Kiyoaki Shirai: A Separate-and-Learn Approach to EM Learning of PCFGs. 255-262
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  Mi-Young Kim, Sin-Jae Kang, Jong-Hyeok Lee: Resolving Ambiguity in Inter-chunk Dependency Parsing. 263-270

Topic Detection

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  Narjès Boufaden, Guy Lapalme, Yoshua Bengio: Topic Segmentation : A First Stage to Dialog-Based Information Extraction. 273-279
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  Weiquan Liu, Joe F. Zhou: kNN vs. Linear Support Vector Machine in Event Tracking. 281-288
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  Toru Hisamitsu, Yoshiki Niwa: Topic-Word Selection Based on Combinatorial Probability. 289-296

IR/IE

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  Luo Xiao, Dieter Wissmann, Michael Brown, Stefan Jablonski: Hierarchical Concept Description and Learning for Information Extraction. 299-306
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  Akiko N. Aizawa: Linguistic Techniques to Improve the Performance of Automatic Text Categorization. 307-314
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  Hiroko Inui, Masaki Murata, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Hitoshi Isahara: Classification of Open-Ended Questionnaires based on Surface Information in Sentence Structure. 315-322

Morphology & POS Tagging

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  Tetsuji Nakagawa, Taku Kudo, Yuji Matsumoto: Unknown Word Guessing and Part-of-Speech Tagging Using Support Vector Machines. 325-331
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  Jun'ichi Kazama, Yusuke Miyao, Jun'ichi Tsujii: A Maximum Entropy Tagger with Unsupervised Hidden Markov Models. 333-340
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  Alexander Clark: Partially Supervised Learning of Morphology with Stochastic Transducers. 341-348

Parsing

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  Takahisa Murase, Shigeki Matsubara, Yoshihide Kato, Yasuyoshi Inagaki: Incremental CFG Parsing with Statistical Lexical Dependencies. 351-358
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  Yong-Jae Kwak, Young-Sook Hwang, Hoo-Jung Chung, So-Young Park, Sang-Zoo Lee, Hae-Chang Rim: GLR Parser with Conditional Action Model(CAM). 359-366
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  Noriko Tomuro, Steven L. Lytinen: Abstract Left-corner Parsing for Unification Grammars. 367-374

Multilingual Applications

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  Kenji Imamura: Hierarchical Phrase Alignment Harmonized with Parsing. 377-384
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  Tatsunori Mori: Segmented LSI for Fully Automated Large-scale Cross-Language Information Retrieval. 385-392
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  Eric Brill, Gary Kacmarcik, Chris Brockett: Automatically Harvesting Katakana-English Term Pairs from Search Engine Query Logs. 393-399

Misc. Topics

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  Kazuhiro Seki, Atsushi Fujii, Tetsuya Ishikawa: A Probabilistic Model for Japanese Zero Pronoun Resolution Integrating Syntactic and Semantic Features. 403-410
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  Masatoshi Tsuchiya, Sadao Kurohashi, Satoshi Sato: Discovery of Definition Patterns by Compressing Dictionary Sentences. 411-418
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  Ji-Eun Roh, Sin-Jae Kang, Jong-Hyeok Lee: Korean Text Generation from Database for Homeshopping Sites. 419-426

Project Notes: IR/Text Searching

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  Tsunenori Mine, Hiroki Fujitani, Makoto Amamiya: Japanese Information Retrieval Method Using Syntactic and Statistical Information. 429-434
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  Satoru Takabayashi, Hiroyuki Komatsu, Toshiyuki Masui: Migemo: Incremental Search Method for Languages with Many Character Faces. 435-438

Project Notes: Text Analysis

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  Xuanjing Huang, Lide Wu, Xu Guowei, Hiroyuli Ishizaki: Language Independent Text Categorization. 441-446
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  Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Yuji Matsumoto: Acquisition of Sentence Reduction Rules for Improving Quality of Text Summaries. 447-452

Project Notes: Applications

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  Wei Wang, Jin-Xia Huang, Ming Zhou, Changning Huang: Finding Target Language Correspondence for Lexicalized EBMT System. 455-460
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  Hideki Uematsu, Akira Shimazu, Manabu Okumura: Generation of 3D CG Animations from Recipe Sentences. 461-466

Project Notes: Morphological & Syntactic Analyses

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  Mark Pedersen, Helen C. Purchase: A Usability Case Study of Grammar Formalisms for Free Word Order Natural Language Processing. 469-474
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  Fuchun Peng, Dale Schuurmans: A Hierarchical EM Approach to Word Segmentation. 475-480
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  Tony Mullen, Rob Malouf, Gertjan van Noord: Statistical Parsing of Dutch using Maximum Entropy Models with Feature Merging. 481-486
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  Tomaz Erjavec: Harmonised Morphosyntactic Tagging for Seven Languages and Orwell's 1984. 487-492
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  Pongthai Tarsaku, Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Rachod Thongprasirt: Grapheme-to-Phoneme for Thai. 493-498

Project Notes: Entity Extraction

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  Wenjie Li, Kam-Fai Wong, Chunfa Yuan: Application and Difficulty of Natural Language Processing in Chinese Temporal Information Extraction. 501-506
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  Toshifumi Tanabe, Kenji Yoshimura, Kosho Shudo: Modality Expressions in Japanese and Their Automatic Paraphrasing. 507-512
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  Chung Won Seo, Key-Sun Choi: Analysis and Reconstrution of Dictionary Definition Units. 513-518
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  In-Ho Kang, Yeojin Lee, Gil-Chang Kim: Improving accuracy in Base Noun Phrase Identification with the variation of context length and position. 519-524
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  Aysenur Akyuz Birturk, Sandiway Fong: A Modular Approach to Turkish Noun Compounding: The Integration of a Finite-State Model. 525-530

Project Notes: Generation/Text Planning

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  Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo, Lucia Helena Machado Rino: A summary planner based on a three-level discourse model. 533-538
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  Camilla Brandel Martins, Lucia Helena Machado Rino: Pruning UNL texts for Summarizing Purposes. 539-544
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  Graham Wilcock, Kristiina Jokinen: Design of a Generation Component for a Spoken Dialogue System. 545-550
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  Chengqing Zong, Yujie Zhang, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Masashi Sakamoto, Satoshi Shirai: Approach to Spoken Chinese Paraphrasing Based on Feature Extraction. 551-556
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  Mitsuko Yamura-Takei, Miho Fujiwara, Teruaki Aizawa: Centering as an Anaphora Generation Algorithm: A Language Learning Aid Perspective. 557-562

Posters I

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  Yasuhiko Watanabe, Shigeru Toji, Yoshihiro Okada: Speaker Determination in Video News by Using Acoustic Features and Transcripts. 565-570
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  Isao Goto, Noriyoshi Uratani, Terumasa Ehara: Cross-Language Information Retrieval of Proper Nouns using Context Information. 571-578
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  Yusuke Inutsuka, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Masato Takeichi: Thai Text Entry with Digits. 579-584
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  Zenshiro Kawasaki, Keiji Shibata, Masato Tajima: Sentence Extraction by Questioning. 585-591
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  Mamiko Hatayama, Yoshihiro Matsuo, Satoshi Shirai: Summarizing Newspaper Articles Using Extracted Informative and Functional Words. 593-600
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  Takahiro Ito, Kenji Matsumoto, Yasuo Tanida, Hideki Kashioka, Hideki Tanaka: Monologue Summarization: Extraction of Important Sentences for TV News Commentary Programs. 601-608
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  Masami Shishibori, Kazuaki Ando, Jun-Ichi Aoe: A E-mail Filtering System Based on Personal Profiles. 609-616
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  Md Maruf Hasan, Yuji Matsumoto: Multilingual Document Alignment - A Study with Chinese and Japanese. 617-623
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  Mats U. Nystrand, Naoto Takahashi, Kazuhiro Ueda: Acquiring word meanings with questions, answers and a dynamic environment - generalizing with neural networks.. 625-630
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  Sang-Bum Kim, Gum-Won Hong, Sang-Zoo Lee, Hae-Chang Rim, Myoung-Sook Ko: Usability Word-Pair Features for Probabilistic Text Classifiers. 631-638
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  Seong-il Yang, Young Kil Kim, Young Ae Seo, Sung-Kwon Choi, Sang-Kyu Park: Korean to English TV Caption Translator: ""CaptionEye/KE"". 639-645
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  Yoon-Hyung Roh, Young Ae Seo, Ki-Young Lee, Sung-Kwon Choi: Long Sentence Partitioning using Structure Analysis for Machine Translation. 646-652
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  Hong-Jia Wong, June-Jei Kuo, Hsin-Hsi Chen: Headline Generation for Summaries from Multiple Online Sources. 653-660

Posters II

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  Elliott Franco Drábek, Qiang Zhou: Use of a Lexical Feature Database for Partial Parsing of Chinese. 663-668
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  Oi Yee Kwong, Benjamin K. Tsou: Automatic Corpus-Based Extraction of Chinese Legal Terms. 669-676
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  Tom B. Y. Lai, Changning Huang, Ming Zhou, Jiangbo Miao, Tony K. C. Siu: Span-based Statistical Dependency Parsing of Chinese. 677-684
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  Akshar Bharati, Rajeev Sangal, Sushma Bendre, Pavan Kumar, Aishwarya: Unsupervised Improvement of Morphological Analyzer for Inflectionally Rich Languages. 685-692
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  Dirk Lüdtke: Chunking with Decision Trees. 693-699
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  Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Takashi Chikayama: Estimating Reliability of Contextual Evidences in Decision-List Classifiers under Bayesian Learning. 701-707
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  Songwook Lee, Tae-Yeoub Jang, Jungyun Seo: The Grammatical Function Analysis between Adnoun Clause and Noun Phrase in Korean. 709-713
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  You-Jin Chung, Sin-Jae Kang, Kyoung-Hi Moon, Jong-Hyeok Lee: Word Sense Disambiguation Using Neural Networks with Concept Co-occurrence Information. 715-722
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  Shin Won Lee, Dong Un An, Seong Jong Chung: Korean Adverb Ordering in English-Korean Machine Translation Using Clustering. 723-728
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  Seung-Shik Kang, Chong-Woo Woo: Automatic Segmentation of Words using Syllable Bigram Statistics. 729-732
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  Young-Sook Hwang, Yong-Jae Kwak, Hoo-Jung Chung, So-Young Park, Hae-Chang Rim: An Empirical Study of Feature Set Selection for Text Chunking. 733-740
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  Anna-Maria Di Sciullo, Sandiway Fong: Efficient Parsing for Word Structure. 741-748
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  Dinh Dien, Hoang Kiem, Nguyen Van Toan: Vietnamese Word Segmentation. 749-756

Exhibitions and Demonstrations of NLP technologies

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  Key-Sun Choi: A Korean Language Processing Workbench. 759-760
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  Takaaki Hasegawa, Takefumi Yamazaki, Yoshihiko Hayashi: SummaryBIFF: An E-mail Summarizer for Mobile Phones. 761-762
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  Ryu Iida, Kentaro Inui, Tomoya Iwakura, Atsushi Fujita, Tetsuro Takahashi: Kura: A Lexico-Structural Paraphrasing Engine. 763-764
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  Jun'ichi Tsujii: LiLFeS/GENIA Project --- NLP Tools and A Biology Domain Corpus ---. 765-766
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  Yohei Seki: XML Transformation-based three-stage pipelined Natural Language Generation System. 767-768
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  Tatsuya Sukehiro, Mihoko Kitamura, Toshiki Murata: Collaborative Translation Environment 'Yakushite.Net'. 769-770
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  Akihiko Takano, Yoshiki Niwa, Shingo Nishioka, Toru Hisamitsu, Makoto Iwayama, Osamu Imaichi: Associative information access using DualNAVI. 771-772
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  Koichi Takeda, Hiroshi Nomiyama, Tetsuya Nasukawa, Mei Kobayashi, Takashi Sakairi, Hirofumi Matsuzawa, Tohru Nagano, Akiko Murakami, Hironori Takeuchi: Text Mining and Site Outlining Projects. 773-774
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  Hozumi Tanaka: JSPS project: Natural Language Understanding and Action Control. 775-776
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  Naoyuki Tokuda, Liang Chen, Qing Zhong: AZALEA: A KE-Free ICALL (intelligent computer assisted language learning) System for Japanese-English Translation. 777-778
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  Masao Utiyama, Hitoshi Isahara: Tools for Exploring Natural Language. 779-780
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  Toshihiko Watanabe, Yusuke Inutsuka, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Hiroshi Nakagawa: Text Entry/Conversion Systems for Mobile Phones. 781-782