JWLLP-23 (2017/12): The 23rd Joint Workshop on Linguistics and Language Processing

JWLLP-23 (2017/12): The 23rd Joint Workshop on Linguistics and Language Processing
jointly organized with
The Fifth International Workshop on the Linguistics of Ba
with
a virtual session on MIC/DGGI
and
a Tongues-on Seminar on Gastronomic Onomatopoeia across Languages and Cultures
and
a featured session on Abductive Reasoning and Creativity in the Context of Ba

Announcements

Registration
- No fees required for participation.
- If you intend to participate, please send a message to event@decode.waseda.ac.jp with your name and affiliation in the body and "JWLLP-23 (2017/12) participation" in the subject line.
- If you intend to join the Tongues-on Seminar on Gastronomic Onomatopoeia across Languages and Cultures on December 16th Saturday, please indicate your intention in the message.
Dates and Venue
- Dates: December 15th Friday Afternoon through 17th Sunday, 2017
- Venue: 8-303/304/305 on the third floor of building 8 in Waseda Campus of Waseda University
  postal address: Nishi-Waseda 1-6-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8050, JAPAN
  http://www.waseda.jp/top/en/access/waseda-campus
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Joint Program
[provisional, not finalized and subject to change without prior notice]

day one:
2017/12/15
Friday
Linguistics
of
Ba

12:00-13:00	preparations and registration with welcome coffee and/or tea with Godiva chocolates and a five-minute tour of the campus
13:00-13:10	opening remarks Chu-Ren Huang and Yasunari Harada
13:10-14:00	[Invited Talk] Ba based thinking and unconscious dimension in communicative interaction Sachiko Ide abstract and slides
14:00-14:50	[Invited Talk] Speech Levels in Matrix and Subordinate Clauses: Where Japanese and Korean Meet and Diverge Kaoru Horie abstract and slides
14:50-15:10	Q&A and break
15:10-15:40	Lexical Effects on Processing Doubly Quantified Sentences in Chinese Yu-Yin Hsu abstract and slides
15:40-16:10	Querying Universal Dependencies: Asian Languages Special Natalia Klyueva abstract and slides
16:10-16:25	Q&A and short break
16:25-17:15	[Invited Talk] Title TBA Yasuhiro Katagiri abstract and slides
17:15-18:05	[Invited Talk] What is Exceptional? Stanley Peters abstract and slides
18:05-18:25	Q&A and break
18:25-19:55	Linguistics of Ba Business Meeting three-teir Japanese style bento by Takahashi [closed session for speakers, organizers and designated participants]

day two:
2017/12/16
Saturday
Linguistics
and
Language
Processing

09:50-10:00	preparations and registration
10:00-10:30	[Invited Talk Online] From General back to Japanese Linguistics (Around Japanese Noun Particles) Andre Wlodarczyk http://celta.paris-sorbonne.fr/JWLLP-23.html
10:30-11:00	[Invited Talk Online] Major Phrases Word Order in Utterances (in the Distributed Grammar Program) Helene Wlodarczyk http://celta.paris-sorbonne.fr/JWLLP-23.html
11:00-11:10	short break
11:10-12:00	[Invited Talk] The Quantity Adjective 'Mahn-' (Many) in Korean Jae-Woong Choe abstract and slides
12:00-12:10	Q&A and short break
12:10-13:40	lunch with sandwiches by Le Pain Francais Sekiguchi featuring the One and Only Tongues-on Seminar on Gastronomic Onomatopoeia across Languages and Cultures lead by Nami Fukutome
13:40-13:50	short break
13:50-14:40	[Invited Talk] When and How to Use the Response Particles 'Yes' and 'No': From a Cross-Linguistic Perspective Jong-Bok Kim abstract and slides
14:40-15:00	Q&A and break
15:00-15:50	[Invited Talk] How (ordinary) people respond to (potentially deviant) sentences is not as simple as linguists thought to be: An initial report on Acceptability Rating Database of Japanese (ARDJ) project Kow Kuroda abstract and slides
15:50-16:40	[Invited Talk] A corpus study of the construction of evaluative stance in Introduction in Psychology and Radiology journals Winnie Cheng abstract and slides
16:40-17:00	Q&A and break
18:00-20:30	JWLLP Business Meeting @ Okyaku http://www.marugotokochi.com/shop/okyaku.html [closed session for speakers, organizers and designated participants]

day three:
2017/12/17
Sunday
Abductive Reasoning
and
Creativity
in the
Context of
Ba

10:00-10:20	preparations and registration
10:20-10:50	The Qualitative Difference among Tones: Evidence from an Acceptability Judgement of Taiwanese Tone Sandhi Chuyu Huang, Tzu-Yin Chen, Yuki Hirose, and Takane Ito abstract and slides
10:50-11:00	Q&A and short break
11:00-11:50	[Invited Talk] Phonological Integrity or Orthographic Integrity: Challenging Traditional Views on how Sounds in a Language is Defined Chu-Ren Huang abstract and slides
11:50-12:00	Q&A and short break
12:00-13:00	Abductive Reasoning and Creativity Business Meeting with Bento Boxes by Masumoto https://masumoto.co.jp/shop/cart/#regular [closed meeting for speakers, organizers and designated participants]
13:00-13:10	short break
13:10-14:00	[Invited Talk] Innovation and Abductive Reasoning Eiichi Yamaguchi abstract and slides
14:00-14:50	[Invited Talk] Language Understanding and Abductive Reasoning: Abductive Reasoning in L2 English Dictation Tasks and in Interpreting L1 Japanese "NP1-no NP2" Constructions Yasunari Harada, Miwa Morishita, Sachiko Shudo and Kazuo Sakai abstract and slides
14:50-15:10	Q&A and break
15:10-15:40	Impact of Recording Devices on Students Performance in English Classes in Japanese Universities Lisa Nabei, Miwa Morishita and Yasunari Harada abstract and slides
15:40-16:10	Voices of a priest: Participation framework and language socialization in a household Shinto ceremony Tomoko Endo abstract and slides
16:10-16:20	closing remarks Chu-Ren Huang and Yasunari Harada

JWLLP-23 (2017/12): The 23rd Joint Workshop on Linguistics and Language Processing

JWLLP-23 (2017/12) is the 23rd installment of JWLLP, organized under the auspices of JWLLP Steering Committee. See the web page indicated below:
- http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/jwllp/
Topics
- theoretical analysis of linguistic data
- natural language and speech processing by computing machinery
- human sentence processing and cognitive and brain imaging studies
- compilation and analysis of large scale language data
- learner corpora and learning data
Organized and supported in part by:
- Grants-in-Aid Scientific Research (B), 15H03226, Autonomic Mutual Language Learning Process among Japanese Learners of English through Interaction, PI: Yasunari Harada
- Grants-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research, 26580074, Construction of Linguistics of BA: BA and Emergence of Meaning, PI: Yasuhiro Katagiri
Jointly hosted by:
- Institute for the Study of Language and Information, Waseda University
- Institute for Digital Enhancement of Cognitive Development, Waseda University
Co-sponsored by:
- JELES: The English Language Education Society of Japan
- JASLLI: Japanese Association for the Study of Logic, Language and Information (formerly known as Logico-Linguistic Society of Japan)
Local Organizing Team:
- Yasunari Harada: Organizer in Chief
- Sachiko Shudo: Executive Organizer
- Ryo Otoguro: Executive Organizer
- Miwa Morishita: Acting Organizer
- Makiko Takekuro: Acting Organizer
- Lisa Nabei: Acting Organizer
- Mayumi Kawamura: Supporting Organizer in Chief
- Nanako Kuwahara: Supporting Organizer
- Nami Fukutome: in Charge of the Tongues-on Seminar

The Fifth International Workshop on Linguistics of BA

Mission Statement of the Workshop Series on Linguistics of BA
- http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/lob/#mission
Topics
- linguistics of ba
- context-dependent and/or location-sensitive communication
- emergence of meaning
Organized and supported in part by:
- Grants-in-Aid Scientific Research (B), 15H03226, Autonomic Mutual Language Learning Process among Japanese Learners of English through Interaction, PI: Yasunari Harada
- Grants-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research, 26580074, Construction of Linguistics of BA: BA and Emergence of Meaning, PI: Yasuhiro Katagiri
- Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), 24720193, A linguistic anthropological analysis of social interaction: The intersection of language, gesture, and environment in Ishigaki, PI: Makiko Takekuro
Jointly hosted by:
- Institute for the Study of Language and Information, Waseda University
- Institute for Digital Enhancement of Cognitive Development, Waseda University
Local Organizing Team:
- Yasuhiro Katagiri: Honorary Organizer
- Yasunari Harada: Organizer in Chief
- Sachiko Shudo: Executive Organizer
- Ryo Otoguro: Executive Organizer
- Miwa Morishita: Acting Organizer
- Makiko Takekuro: Acting Organizer
- Lisa Nabei: Acting Organizer
- Mayumi Kawamura: Supporting Organizer in Chief
- Nanako Kuwahara: Supporting Organizer
- Nami Fukutome: in Charge of the Tongues-on Seminar
related past events
- March 26th Saturday and 27th Sunday, 2016, Waseda University, Tokyo
  The Third International Workshop on Linguistics of BA:
  http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/announcement/2016-03-26-27-e.html
- July 4th Saturday and 5th Sunday, 2015, Future University Hakodate, Hokkaido
  The Second International Workshop on Linguistics of BA:
  http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/announcement/2015-07-04-05-e.html
- December 10th and 11th, 2011, Waseda University, Tokyo
  An International Workshop on Linguistics of BA:
  http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/announcement/2011-12-10-11-j.html
- November 6th, 2010, Tohoku University, Sendai.
  Symposium: Toward a Linguistic Theory of Ba: Semantics and Pragmatics of Ba, a special symposium in in PACLIC 24: The 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation:
  http://www.compling.jp/paclic24/speakers.html#symp2

notices

First drafted September 8th, 2015. Last revised December 22nd, 2017.
The meeting and talks announced in this web page are subject to change without prior notice. The organizers should not be held responsible for any purported or actual damages by prospective participants due to those changes.