{"title":"Translation and Machine Translation","authors":"Atsushi Fujita, Masaru Yamada, K. Kageura","doi":"10.5715/JNLP.27.975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5715/JNLP.27.975","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":218014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natural Language Processing","volume":"28 10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126607857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Language Resources for Japanese Lexical Simplification","authors":"Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Daiki Nishihara, Tomonori Kodaira, Mamoru Komachi","doi":"10.5715/JNLP.27.801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5715/JNLP.27.801","url":null,"abstract":"This study introduces three language resources for Japanese lexical simplification: 1) an evaluation dataset, 2) lexica, and 3) a toolkit that can be used to develop and benchmark Japanese lexical simplification systems. The word complexity lexicon adopted in this study was automatically expanded using a classifier trained on a small word complexity lexicon created by Japanese language teachers. Based on this word complexity estimator, simplified word pairs were extracted from a large-scale synonym lexicon, and a simplified synonym lexicon that is useful for lexical simplification was developed. In addition, a Python library, which implements automatic evaluation and key methods in each subtask to ease the construction process of a lexical simplification pipeline, was developed. The experimental results on the developed evaluation dataset revealed that the proposed method, which is based on the developed lexicon, achieves the highest performance of Japanese lexical simplification.","PeriodicalId":218014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natural Language Processing","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115229118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Language Processing for Finance and Economics","authors":"Hiroki Sakaji, K. Izumi, Hiroyuki Sakai","doi":"10.5715/JNLP.27.951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5715/JNLP.27.951","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":218014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natural Language Processing","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128792582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-dialect Neural Machine Translation for 48 Low-resource Japanese Dialects","authors":"Kaori Abe, Yuichiroh Matsubayashi, Naoaki Okazaki, Kentaro Inui","doi":"10.5715/JNLP.27.781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5715/JNLP.27.781","url":null,"abstract":"We present a multi-dialect neural machine translation (NMT) model tailored to Japanese. Although the surface forms of Japanese dialects differ from those of standard Japanese, most of the dialects have common fundamental properties, such as word order, and some also use numerous same phonetic correspondence rules. To take advantage of these properties, we integrate multilingual, syllable-level, and fixedorder translation techniques into a general NMT model. Our experimental results demonstrate that this model can outperform a baseline dialect translation model. In addition, we show that visualizing the dialect embeddings learned by the model can facilitate the geographical and typological analyses of the dialects.","PeriodicalId":218014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natural Language Processing","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128037250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SHINRA Project","authors":"S. Sekine","doi":"10.5715/jnlp.27.945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5715/jnlp.27.945","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":218014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natural Language Processing","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127138014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coordinate Structure Analysis using Local Models and CKY Algorithm","authors":"Hiroki Teranishi, Hiroyuki Shindo, Taro Watanabe, Yuji Matsumoto","doi":"10.5715/JNLP.27.719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5715/JNLP.27.719","url":null,"abstract":"The task of coordinate structure analysis is to identify coordinated phrases linked by a coordinator. Coordination is a major source of ambiguities in natural language and confuses even state-of-the-art syntactic parsers. In this paper, we generalize a scoring function that takes a pair of spans with a coordinator and returns a higher score for the two spans to be coordinated. During inference, our system employs this function with the CKY parsing algorithm and produces coordinate structures for a given sentence. To obtain such a function, we decompose the task into three independent subtasks and build the function based on three different neural networks for the tasks. The experimental results on English corpora demonstrate that our model achieves stateof-the-art results, ensuring that the global structure of coordination is consistent.","PeriodicalId":218014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natural Language Processing","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127393948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tatsuya Ishigaki, Kazuya Machida, Hayato Kobayashi, Hiroya Takamura, M. Okumura
{"title":"Semi-Supervised Extractive Question Summarizer Using Question-Answer Pairs and its Learning Methods","authors":"Tatsuya Ishigaki, Kazuya Machida, Hayato Kobayashi, Hiroya Takamura, M. Okumura","doi":"10.5715/JNLP.27.825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5715/JNLP.27.825","url":null,"abstract":"We treat extractive summarization for questions. Neural extractive summarizers often require much labeled training data. Obtaining such labels is difficult, especially for user-generated content, such as questions posted on community question answering services. In this paper, we propose semi-supervised extractive summarizers for such questions that exploit question-answer pairs to alleviate the problem of insufficient labeled data. To this end, we propose several learning methods, namely pretraining, multi-task learning, distant supervision, and sampling methods, to examine how to effectively use such unlabeled paired data. Experimental results show that multi-task training performs well with an appropriate sampling method or distant supervision, especially when the labeled data is small.","PeriodicalId":218014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natural Language Processing","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133058708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yudai Kishimoto, Yugo Murawaki, Daisuke Kawahara, S. Kurohashi
{"title":"Japanese Discourse Relation Analysis: Task Definition, Connective Detection, and Corpus Annotation","authors":"Yudai Kishimoto, Yugo Murawaki, Daisuke Kawahara, S. Kurohashi","doi":"10.5715/JNLP.27.889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5715/JNLP.27.889","url":null,"abstract":"uments, (2) automatically annotating discourse units and connectives, (3) designing a discourse relation tagset consisting of seven classes organized into a two-level hierar-chy, and (4) annotating discourse relations through two types of annotators, namely experts and crowd workers. We report that there is significant room for improvement in data annotation performed by crowd workers. Based on this corpus, we develop a Japanese discourse parser. Experimental results show that the proposed parser outperforms previously developed models. We also demonstrate that the automatic recognizer of discourse connectives can be used as a high-quality parser for explicit discourse relations. We implement a recognizer of discourse units and discourse connectives in KNP. We also make the corpus publicly available.","PeriodicalId":218014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natural Language Processing","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127233998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing a Site for Worldwide COVID-19 Information Aggregation through Open Collaboration","authors":"Daisuke Kawahara","doi":"10.5715/JNLP.27.939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5715/JNLP.27.939","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":218014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natural Language Processing","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132281929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Natural Language Processing Application to the Chemical Domain","authors":"Tomoya Iwakura, Hiyori Yoshikawa","doi":"10.5715/JNLP.27.969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5715/JNLP.27.969","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":218014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natural Language Processing","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123583490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}