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ICCLC2000

2000 International Conference on Chinese Language Computing

Workshop on Virtual University for Multilingual Education

July 8 Saturday - 9 Sunday, 2000

Hotel W Chicago Lake Shore

Sponsored by

Chinese Language Computer Society
Knowledge Systems Institute
Branden University

Co-Sponsored by

City University of Hong Kong
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Tamkang University


Technical Program


July 7 Friday 7pm - 9pm Reception (Pinnacle Room, 33rd Floor)


July 8 Saturday


8:30am - 8:40am Opening Ceremony (Ontario Room)
Opening Remarks, Dr. C. N. Liu, General Chair, ICCLC'2000
Welcome Address, Dr. Yao-Han Chu, Honorary General Chair, ICCLC'2000
Technical Program Overview, Dr. S. K. Chang, Program Chair, ICCLC'2000


8:40am - 9:20am Keynote I, "E-Business in Taiwan", Dr. J. S. Ke, Institute for Information Industry, Taipei (Ontario Room)


9:20am - 10:40am
Session 1: Machine Translation (Ontario Room)
Chair: Tianshun Yao, Northeastern University, Shengyang

Yao Tianshun, LI Mu, "E-chunk based Machine Translation in the CETRAN

Chao-Huang Chang, "Towards an Ontology-based Multi-lingual Spoken Dialogue System"

Hui-Feng Li, Sin-Jae Kang and Jong-Hyeok Lee, "Korean Sentence Generation in Mtran-C/K System based on a Multi-Level Processing Strategy"

Lee Kin Hong and Roy Chan, "Domain-Specific Chinese-English Mchine Translation: Syntactic Analysis in GPSG" (short paper)


10:40am - 11:00am Coffee Break


11:00am - 12:10pm
Session 2: Web-based Systems and Applications (Ontario Room)
Chair: J. H. Lee, Pohang University of Science : Technology, Pohang

Jun Shigematsu, Kouichi Kamichi and Takayuki Seki, "A Web-based Computer Assisted Language Learning Tool for Learning Chinese"

H. W. Chan and W. H. Cheung, "Chinese Font Server Caching"

K. Kamichi, "A Suggestion And Its Technical Requirement of the Automatic Font Generating System of the Chinese Character" (short paper)

Yan Qu, Hongming Jin, David A. Evans, "An Interactive Chinese to English Retrieval System" (short paper)


12:10pm - 1:30pm Lunch Break

1:30pm - 3:30pm

Session 3: Virtual University Software Systems (Ontario Room) (Workshop on Virtual University for Multilingual Education)
Chair: Josephin Yu Sche, Southern Connecticut State University, USA

Electronic Mobile Notebook -- an Application for Distance Learning on the WWW
by Timothy K. Shih, Jason C. Hung, Jung-Hung Wang, Nigel H. Lin, and J. Ma
Tamkang University, Taiwan, ROC, and Hosei University, Japan

Data Management in University21 Using Object-Oriented Database and CORBA
by R. Hayasaka, R. Huang and J. Ma, Hosei University, Japan

A Multimedia Administration Tools Using Proxy Undeniable Signature Method
by Jinn-Ke Jan and Whe Dar Lin
National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, ROC

An English-Learning Application Based on Extended Link Grammar Formalism
by Ying-Hong Wang, Yuan-Kai Wang, and Show-Ping Lin
Tamkang University, Taiwan, ROC

The Design of Multimedia Database for English Learning Application (short paper)
by Ying-Hong Wang, Yuan-Kai Wang, Chi-Ming Chung, and Chin-Hao Lin
Tamkang University, Taiwan, ROC

3:30pm - 4pm Coffee Break

4pm - 6pm
Session 4A: Syntactic and Semantic Analysis (Ontario Room)
Chair: K. F. Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Oliver Streiter and Pei-Yun Hsueh, "A Case Study on Example-based Parsing"

K. F. Wong, K. C. Chan, C. H. Cheng, "An Investigation on Transformation-based Error-Driven Learning Algorithm for Chinese Noun Phrase Extraction"

Ruzhan Lu, Guangjin Jin, Libin Shen and Tiansi Dong, "The Representation, Interpretation and Computation of Chinese Semantics" (short paper)


Session 4B: Multilingual and Web-based Distance Learning Tools (Michicagan-Superior-Huron Room) (Workshop on Virtual University for Multilingual Education)
Chair: Denis Gracanin, Virginia Tech (VPI&SU), USA.

"Cataloging And Development of a Digital Union Catalog for Ancient Chinese
Book; Prototype Course Unit for a Multilingual Distance Education Course"
by Josephin Yu Sche and Stan Walonoski
Southern Connecticut State University, USA

Making MOO Multilingual as a Backbone for Every-Citizen Learning Communities
by Qun Jin
University of Aizu, Japan

Collaborative Learning in a Multi-cultural, Multilingual Virtual Environment
by Denis Gracanin, Jamie L. Callahan, and Ing-Ray Chen
Virginia Tech (VPI&SU), USA

A Web-Based Intelligent Chinese Computer Assisted Instruction Using Programming Language Course As Example
by Chien-Wen Lin, Pi-Ching Lou and Chien-Ho Wu
Chung Cheng Institute of Technology, Taiwan, ROC

A Web Approach to Multimedia Presentation Based on Timed Petri Net (short paper)
by Lun-Ping Hung, Ding-Jung Chiang and Chun-Chia Wang
Kuang Wu Institute of Technology and Commerce, Taiwan, ROC


6:30pm - 8:30pm Conference Banquet (Pinnacle Room, 33rd Floor)



July 9 Sunday


9am - 10am: Keynote II, "The Illinois Virtual Campus: High Touch Solutions for a High Tech World", Dr. Cathy Gunn, Director, Illinois Virtual Campus (Ontario Room)


10am - 10:20am: Coffee Break


10:20m - noon:
Session 5A: Character Recognition and Input Methods (Michigan-Superior-Huron Room)
Co-Chairs: M. Y. Ma and Patrick Wang

Tiansi Dong, Yue Wang, Libin Shen and Yuquan Chen, "Qualitative Approach to Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition"

Chi Zhang, Matthew Ma and Patrick Wang,
"Retrieval of Cursive Chinese Handwritten Annotations Based on Radical Model"

Hwei-Jen Lin, Fu-Wen Yang and Shwu-Huey Yen, "Progress in Verification of Off-Line Chinese Signatures"

Tak-Ming Law, "Segmentation Analysis and Similarity Measure for online Chinese Character Recognition" (short paper)

Chong Sze Tong and Yiu Ming Shing, "Two-Stage Entropy-Enhanced Chinese Character Recognition" (short paper)


Panel 5B: E-Learning, E-Commerce and E-Entertainment (Ontario Room)
Chair: Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taipei and Co-Chair: Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Tokyo, "E-Learning, E-Commerce and E-Entertainment: Challenge and Opportunity"

Panelists:
Timothy Arndt, Cleveland State University, Cleveland
Cathy Gunn, Director, Illinois Virtual Campus, Urbana
Qun Jin, University of Aizu, Aizu, "E-Communication Support for E-Activities"


noon - 1:30pm Lunch Break

1:30pm - 3pm
Workshop 6A: English-to-Chinese Cross Language Information Retrieval (Ontario Room)
Chair: K L Kwok, City University of New York, New York
Co-Chair: Wai Lam, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

"Web parallel Text Mining for Chinese-English Cross-Language Information Retrieval" by Jiang Chen & Jian-Yun Nie

"Construction of Chinese-English Semantic Hierarchy for Information Retrieval" by Gina-Anne Levow, Bonnie Dorr & Dekang Lin

"Phrasal Translation for English-Chinese Cross Language Information Retrieval" by Aitao Chen


Session 6B: Communication and CSCW Environments of Distance Learning (Michigan-Superior-Huron Room) (Workshop on Virtual University for Multilingual Education)
Chair: Qun Jin, University of Aizu, Japan

Towards Java-centric TV-quality Distance Learning Services
by Sheng-Tun Li and Tan-Sheng Li
National Kaohsiung First Univ. of Tech. and Sci., Taiwan, ROC

A Design of IETM in the CSCW Environment
by Yu-chuan Hwang, Taoi Hsu and Hsing-Han Meng
Chung Cheng Institute of Technology, Taiwan, ROC

A Novel Broadcast Technique for Theaters in the Air
by Simon Sheu, Kien A. Hua, and Ying Cai
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, ROC

The Implementation of A Server for Internet Virtual Classroom
by Chao-Tsong Fangtsou and Lih-Tain Kao
Tamkang University, Taiwan, ROC


3pm - 3:20pm Coffee Break


3:20pm - 3:50pm General Meeting of CLCS Society (Ontario Room)


3:50pm - 5:20pm
Session 7A: Large Scale Chinese Databases (Michigan-Superior-Huron Room)
Chair: B. T'sou, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

"LIVAC, A Chinese Synchronous Corpus, and Some Applications"
Benjamin K Tsou, W F Tsoi, Tom B Y Lai, Jerome Hu, and Samuel W K Chan

"Constructing Word-segmented & POS-tagged Chinese Corpus
and a Chinese Tree bank"
Sun Maosong, Zhou Qiang, Sun Honglin, Huang Changning,
Zhang Pu, Xing Hongbing

"Applying Genetic Algorithms to Query Optimization in Document Retrieval"
J. T. Horng, C. C. Yeh and B. J. Liu

Session 7B: Distance Learning Architectures and Methodologies (Ontario Room) (Workshop on Virtual University for Multilingual Education)
Chair: Simon Sheu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, ROC

Administration, Awareness, and Assessment Criteria of Distance Learning
by Timothy K. Shih, Jianhua Ma, and Runhe Huang
Tamkang University, Taiwan, ROC and Hosei University, Japan

An Open Intelligent Agent Architecture for a Virtual University
by M. Nonaka, J. Ma, and R. Huang
Hosei University, Japan

An Assessment Protocol for Distributed Multimedia System (short paper)
by Whe Dar Lin
National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, ROC

A Security Personal Learning Tools Using a Proxy Blind Signature Scheme (short paper)
by Jinn-Ke Jan and Whe Dar Lin
National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, ROC

5:20pm - 5:30pm Closing Ceremony (Ontario Room)

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