Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC)
PACLIC 39 – Conference papers
Cover and Front Matter
Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics; Hanoi, Vietnam; 5-7 December 2025
Emmanuele Chersoni, Jong-Bok Kim (Editors)
pp. 1-2
Foreword and Committees
Emmanuele Chersoni, Le Minh Nguyen, Rachel Edita Oñate Roxas, Shirley N. Dita
pp. 3-5
Improving Interpretability of Lexical Semantic Change with Neurobiological Features
Kohei Oda, Hiroya Takamura, Kiyoaki Shirai, Natthawut Kertkeidkachorn
pp. 6-19
Same Spelling, Different Functions Mah: Evaluating Language Models’ Understanding of Singlish Particles
Chan Young Jung
pp. 20-30
Evaluating Syntactic Generalization in Transformer-Based Models Using Korean Honorific Agreement
Nayoung Kwon, Seongmin Mun
pp. 31-42
Towards Improving Low-Resource Machine Translation with Lightweight Training and Synthetic Data: Case Study of Vietnamese - Khmer
Trong Huy Nguyen, Thanh Huong Le, Que Nhu Tran
pp. 43-55
Researching and Rethinking the Culture and Practice of Eldercare in Hong Kong: A Corpus-assisted Discourse Analysis
Jesse W. C. Yip, Michelle Man-Long Pang
pp. 56-68
Syllabic Distribution and Developmental Patterns of Mandarin Glides in Preschool Children
I-Ping Wan, Xiang Li, Yu Ching Tsai
pp. 69-83
Assessing GPT Models’ Sensitivity to Epistemic Meanings in Korean Periphrastic Construction
Yebin Lee, Arum Kang, Sanghoun Song
pp. 84-93
Speech-Like Cues and the Limits of Musicality: Lexical Tone Normalization in Mandarin across Speech, Rap, and Song Contexts
Yujia Tian, Yanyuan Ye, Mency Lu, JIA Fanlu, Ran Tao
pp. 94-101
RMCP: Enhancing LLM-based Translation via Prompting with Retrieved Monolingual Corpora Wenhui Shi and Ziman Han Institute of Language Sciences Shanghai International Studies University
Wenhui Shi, Ziman Han
pp. 102-117
Preserving Ambiguity: Prompt Sensitivity in Gender-Neutral Literary Translation by GPT Models
Jin Yim
pp. 118-130
Bridging the Modality Gap by Similarity Standardization with Pseudo-Positive Samples
Shuhei Yamashita, Daiki Shirafuji, Tatsuhiko Saito
pp. 131-144
PRISM: A Pedagogical Multi-Agent for Structured Group Learning
Van-Khanh Tran, Van-Khai Dang, Duc-Huy Nguyen
pp. 145-154
A Persona Dialogue Dataset of Lesser-Known Characters for Fairer Evaluation of Role-Playing LLMs
Ryuichi Uehara, Michimasa Inaba
pp. 155-168
Exaggeration Scoring of News Summaries through LLM-based Relative Judgments
Keisuke Iwamoto, Kazutaka Shimada
pp. 169-178
BV-FRD: A Multimodal Vietnamese-English Food Review Video Description Generation
Bao Pham-Thai, Vy Do Le Khanh, Huy Quoc To
pp. 179-194
Large-Scale Japanese Metaphor Corpus Construction: Expanding BCCWJ-Metaphor with Automated Annotation
Hang Zhu, Rowan Hall Maudslay, Kanako Komiya, Sachi Kato, Masayuki Asahara
pp. 195-204
Converging and diverging variations in metaphorization of light verbs: A corpus study on four Chinese speech communities
Ka-Fai Yip, Yaxuan Ji, Dicky Ko, Thomas Ho, and Benjamin K. Tsou
pp. 205-219
Effect of Emotional Congruency and Cognitive Load on Word Processing
Jieyu Chen, Yujia Tian, Jing Qi, Ran Tao
pp. 220-230
Toward True Neutrality: Evaluating Inference-Time Debiasing Strategies for Gender Coreference Resolution in LLMs
Arati Mohapatra, S Jaya Nirmala
pp. 231-240
A/E Pelita as an Aspectual Marker in Korean Auxiliary Verb Constructions: An Experimental Comparison with Spanish Optionalse
Nakyung Yoon
pp. 241-249
‘But this one was so . . . male.’ A Corpus-Based and LLM-Augmented Analysis of Language and Gender Bias in Barbie
Xin Luo, Wing-hei Lok, Yuyin-Hsu
pp. 250-258
A corpus-assisted metaphor analysis in portraying businesswomen: Diachronic changes in Hong Kong English news
Yifan Li, Yanlin Li, Kathleen Ahrens
pp. 259-267
Analysis of the Correlation Between Theory of Mind and Dialogue Ability to Identify Essential ToM for Dialogue Systems
Haruhisa Iseno, Atsumoto Ohashi, Tetsuji Ogawa, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
pp. 268-279
An Empirical Survey of Model Merging Algorithms for Social Bias Mitigation
Daiki Shirafuji, Tatsuhiko Saito, Yasutomo Kimura
pp. 280-300
The Propositional Idea Densities of Different Languages in Multi-Lingual Parallel Corpus
Yuka Kaise, Yuto Tsuchiya, Masanori Oya
pp. 301-305
Scaffolded AI Feedback for L2 Writing: Fostering Self-Correction in Japanese University Students
Atsushi Nakanishi
pp. 306-313
ScheduleMe: Multi-Agent Calendar Assistant
Oshadha Wijerathne, Amandi Nimasha, Dushan Fernando, Nisansa de Silva, and Srinath Perera
pp. 314-324
AsRED: Development and Evaluation of an Assamese Reduplication Dataset
Pankaj Choudhury, Chaitanya Kirti, Dhrubajyoti Pathak, Sukumar Nandi
pp. 325-333
Non-Interactive Symbolic-Aided Chain-of-Thought for Logical Reasoning
Phuong Minh Nguyen, Tien Huu Dang, Naoya Inoue
pp. 334-345
Sensory and Affective Dimensions in Mandarin Monosyllabic Adjectives
Yimei Shao, Yu-Yin Hsu, Chu-Ren Huang
pp. 346-356
KWordinaryVQA: A Keyword-Driven Generative Visual Question Answering System for Culinary Exploration
Huy Trieu, Thanh Thai Nguyen, Thanh Nghia Vo, Thinh Vuong Vo, Thanh Tu Dang, Tung Le
pp. 357-371
MoE4EDiReF: Mixture of Experts for Emotion Discovery and Reasoning its Flip in Conversation
Katarzyna Szczepaniak, Piotr Andruszkiewicz
pp. 372-381
Diagnosing the Cultural Gap in Machine Translation of Classical Chinese: A Computational Analysis of The Analects
Menghan Dong, Youzhi Wu, Siqi Wang, Zhen Wu
pp. 382-388
From Span Extraction to Classification: A Multi-step Framework for Cognitive Distortion Analysis
Manh-Cuong Phan, Thi-Ngoc-Phuong Nguyen, Huu-Loi Le, Huy-The Vu, Hajime Hotta, Minh-Tien Nguyen
pp. 389-398
Is CCGbank Semantically Valid? Insights from Negation Scope Analysis
Kentaro Kojima, Yoshihide Kato, Shigeki Matsubara
pp. 399-406
VIDAI : VIDukathAI Interpretation Through Analysis of In-context Reasoning in Tamil using LLMs
R S Mughil Srinivasan, Kesavan T, Abhijith Balan, Abhinav P M, Parameswari Krishnamurthy, Oswald C
pp. 407-417
Do Multimodal Large Language Models Have Good Taste? An Evaluation of MLLMs via the Visual Aesthetic Sensitivity Test
Yi Yao, Zhuang Qiu
pp. 418-423
L3Cube-MahaEmotions: A Marathi Emotion Recognition Dataset with Synthetic Annotations using CoTR prompting and Large Language Models
Nidhi Kowtal, Raviraj Joshi
pp. 424-432
Exploring Synonymy Representation in Large Language Models: A Comparative Analysis with Referential and Use-Based Lexical Resources
Sara Besharati
pp. 433-442
Non-English Code Generation with Cross-Lingual Chain of Thought
Yuha Nishigata, Waka Ito, Kimio Kuramitsu
pp. 443-451
The Relationship Between Dialogue Acts and Idea Generation in Human–Human Collaborative Story Writing
Natsumi Ezure, Michimasa Inaba
pp. 452-465
Non Idiomatic Conventionalised Expressions: A New Pain in the Neck?
Ganesh Katrapati, Manish Shrivastava
pp. 466-471
Forecasting Time Series with LLMs via Patch-Based Prompting and Decomposition
Mayank Bumb, Anshul Vemulapalli, Sri Harsha Jella, Anish Gupta, An La, Ryan Rossi, Franck Dernoncourt, Hongjie Chen, Nesreen Ahmed, Yu Wang
pp. 472-484
Keeping LLMs from Being Distracted: Grade-Aware Kanji Reading Estimation Fully Executable in Web Browsers for Japanese Education
Yo Ehara
pp. 485-494
Controlling Emotion Intensity and Blending in Text via Task Vector Composition for Dialog System Personalization
Ryota Amano, Kazuya Mera, Yoshiaki Kurosawa, Toshiyuki Takezawa
pp. 495-504
USA Model: Japanese Universal Sentiment Analysis Model & Construction of Japanese Sentiment Text Classification and Part of Speech Dataset
Chengguang Gan, Qinghao Zhang, Tatsunori Mori
pp. 505-515
SiDiaC : Sinhala Diachronic Corpus
Nevidu Jayatilleke, Nisansa de Silva
pp. 516-532
The Evolutionary Mechanisms of Transitivization in Mandarin VO Compounds: A Corpus-Driven Study of Competing Alternations
Menghan Jiang, Chu-ren Huang China
pp. 533-539
HisGraphRAG: GraphRAG for Vietnamese Historical question answering
Hoang-Thanh Nguyen, Tung Le, Huy Tien Nguyen
pp. 540-548
Time Tells: Temporal Event Ordering in Frontier LLMs — Performance, Limitations, and Human Comparison
Feifei Sun, Ziyi Tong, Teeradaj Racharak, Minh Le Nguyen
pp. 549-560
Semantic Meaning or Script Shape? A Comparative Study of Cross-Lingual Transfer in mBERT and PIXEL
Zhenming Li, Kazutaka Shimada
pp. 561-569
Reference Points in LLM Sentiment Analysis: The Role of Structured Context
Junichiro Niimi
pp. 570-580
RoSRL: Adaptive Rule-of-Sum Reinforcement Learning for Efficient and Reliable Summarization
Thu Phuong Tran Thi, Vinh Nguyen Van, Thai Nguyen Phuong, Quang Vu Ngoc, Khoa Nguyen Dang
pp. 581-596
Online Information Extraction System (EAOS) for Social Media Comments
Khanh-Hung Huynh, Phuc Bui Hoang Gia, Huyen Dinh Doan My, Phi-Long Nguyen, Thien-Vu Nguyen-Ho, Trong-Hop Do
pp. 597-604
On the Role of Contextual Information and Ego States in LLM Agent Behavior for Transactional Analysis Dialogues
Monika Zamojska, Jarosław A. Chudziak
pp. 605-613
Enhancing Scientific Title Generation via Optimized Sentence Ordering
Thanh-Thien Khuu, Thien-Thuan Huynh, Nam Van Chi, Tung Le
pp. 614-623
Dependency-Aware Word Prediction Integrated with Incremental Parsing
Hiroki Unno, Tomohiro Ohno, Koichiro Ito, Shigeki Matsubara
pp. 624-633
How “empirical” is corpus linguistics?: A meta-analysis using formal concept analysis
Kazuho Kambara, Yuki Sugawara, Norihisa Takahashi
pp. 634-644
MahaParaphrase: A Marathi Paraphrase Detection Corpus and BERT-based Models
Suramya Jadhav, Abhay Shanbhag, Amogh Thakurdesai, Ridhima Sinare, Ananya Joshi, Raviraj Joshi
pp. 645-653
Computational Linguistic Approach to Empathy and its Language Communication Pattern
Xinyi Wang, Mingyu Wan, Chu-Ren Huang
pp. 654-661
Ancient Tamil Palm Leaf character recognition using Transformers
Aswinkumar I, Sangeetha Sivanesan, S Jaya Nirmala
pp. 662-670
MTikGuard System: A Transformer-Based Multimodal System for Child-Safe Content Moderation on TikTok
Dat Thanh Nguyen, Nguyen Hung Lam, Anh Thi-Hoang Nguyen, Trong-Hop Do
pp. 671-682
Personalized Graph-Based Retrieval for Large Language Models
Steven Au, Cameron J. Dimacali, Ojasmitha Pedirappagari, Namyong Park, Franck Dernoncourt, Yu Wang, Nikos Kanakaris, Hanieh Deilamsalehy, Ryan A. Rossi, Nesreen K. Ahmed
pp. 683-703
Improving Classical Language Machine Translation using Supervised Fine- T uning with Philological Commentary
Yuzuki Tsukagoshi, Ikki Ohmukai
pp. 704-714
Lore Coherent Encounter Generation for Dungeons and Dragons: LLM Fine-tuning and Benchmark
Aravinth Sivaganeshan, Nisansa de Silva, Akila Peiris
pp. 715-727
Verb Phrase Idioms in Valency Alternation: A Selection-based Approach
Tomokazu Takehisa
pp. 728-736
Improving the Efficiency of Long Document Classification using Sentence Ranking Approach
Prathamesh Kokate, Mitali Sarnaik, Manavi Khopade, and Raviraj Joshi
pp. 737-746
Diverse Target Representations for Language Models with Word Difference Representations
DongNyeong Heo, Daniela Noemi Rim, Heeyoul Choi
pp. 747-759
How Is Context Important in Named Entity Recognition? A Comparison of Non-contextual and Contextual Word Embeddings
Dawid Smalcuga, Piotr Andruszkiewicz
pp. 760-768
IndicSQuAD : A Comprehensive Multilingual Question Answering Dataset for Indic Languages
Sharvi Endait, Ruturaj Ghatage, Aditya Kulkarni, Rajlaxmi Patil, Raviraj Joshi
pp. 769-776
HILIGAY NER : A Baseline Named Entity Recognition Model for Hiligaynon
James Ald Teves, Ray Daniel Cal, Josh Magdiel Villaluz, Jean Malolos, Mico Magtira, Ramon Rodriguez, Joseph Marvin Imperial, Mideth Abisado
pp. 777-784
An Investigation of Sentiment Polarity in Chinese VO Idioms Based on NLP Models
Xueyi Wen, Hongzhi Xu, Lili Yang
pp. 785-795
Domain Adaptation for Multi-document Summarisation: A Case Study in the Medical Research Domain
Kushan Hewapathirana, Nisansa de Silva C.D. Athuraliya, Piumi Kandanaarachchi
pp. 796-807
Speaking to the Inner Child: A Discourse Analysis of Healing Narratives in Digital Therapeutic Culture
Romeo Jr. E. Tejada, Jose Marie E. Ocdenaria, Kenneth C. Lisbo
pp. 808-817
Dual-mode N-gram Similarity Detection for Forensic Authorship Analysis
John Blake, Kazuma Tamura, Krzysztof Kredens
pp. 818-825
A Social Listening System for Beauty Products Using Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
Thanh-Nhi Nguyen, Trong-Hop Do
pp. 826-834
Balancing Heat and Clarity: Alcohol, Tea, and the Body in Premodern Chinese Texts
Clio Luo
pp. 835
From Tea to Symbol: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of HeyTea's Branding Discourses
Tian Gao
pp. 836
Foodies also Need Their Own GPTs: Evaluating Language Models in Visual Question Answering on the WorldCuisines Dataset
Genta Indra Winata, Emmanuele Chersoni
pp. 837
Conceptual Metaphors in Food Reviews: LLM-Based Implications for Korean Discourse
Charmgil Hong, Jong-Bok Kim, Seulkee Park, Yunseong Choe
pp. 838-840
Landscapes of Matcha: Cultural Semiotics in Japan and Taiwan
Miwa Morishita, Yasunari Harada
pp. 841
Toward the Development of a Japanese Food Culture QA
Waka Ito, Manaka Odagaki, Haruka Tsuchida, Yuha Nishigata, Yui Obara, Kimio Kuramitsu
pp. 842