fifth international symposium * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * call for participation and registration the national language research institute fifth international symposium language study and thesaurus in the world and session 1 : language study and thesaurus 27th - 29th august 1997 tokyo , japan * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * place the national olympics memorial youth center international conference room 3 - 1 yoyogi kamizonocho , shibuya - ku , tokyo 151 odakyu - line sangubashi station by foot 5 min . language presentations and discussions by japanese and english with mutual simultaneous interpretation ( 29th ) with no interpretation ( 27-28 th ) registration please send the following information to the contact address below by mail or e - mail ( 1 ) name : _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ( 2 ) postal address : _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ( 3 ) affiliation : _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ( 4 ) phone and fax : _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ( 5 ) e - mail address : _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ( 6 ) please check ones you wish to attend [ ] session 1 27th august [ ] the reception for session 1 27th ( 6 : 00 - 8 : 00p . m . fee : 3 , 000yen ) [ ] session 1 28th [ ] symposium 29th [ ] the reception for symposium 29th ( 6 : 00 - 8 : 00p . m . ) no registration fee please apply by august 10 . there are cases where application may not be accepted for reasons of capacity . accomodation : sorry we can not reserve hotels . contact address secretariat of the 5th international symposium the national language research institute 3 - 9-14 nisigaoka kita - ku , tokyo 115 japan tel + 81 - 3-5993 - 7620 , 7621 fax : + 81 - 3-3906 - 3530 e - mail : yamazaki @ kokken . go . jp - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - the national language research institute fifth international symposium session 1 language study and thesaurus 27th - 28th august 1997 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - program committee tetsuya ishikawa ( university of library and information science , tsukuba ) jun ' ichi iwata ( kyoto university of education , kyoto ) tokihisa kurasawa ( taisho university , sanseido , tokyo ) makoto takada ( university of tsukuba , tsukuba ) jun - ichi tsujii ( university of tokyo , tokyo ) hiroshi nakano ( the national language research institute , tokyo ) tooru hishinuma ( soka university , tokyo ) program information wednesday , 27 august registration 9 : 00am - opening ceremony 9 : 30am - language study and thesaurus , lexicograpy 9 : 45am - 12 : 00 0 . the interdisciplinary and international study on the thesaurus hiroshi nakano ( the national language research institute , japan ) 1 . a study of loanwords using oed2 on cd-rom : a critical consideration of the way oed2 reflects the process of naturalization of japanese loanwords . makimi kimura ( osaka university , japan ) 2 . english lexicography in the fifteenth century reiko takeda ( university of cambridge , u . k . ) 3 . needs for more linguistic descriptions and conceptional universals studies as a basic for compiling thesauruses linju ogasawara ( waseda university , japan ) 4 . aspects of polysemous words on thesaurus : a trial with " bunruigoihyou edition " misa otsuka ( nihon university , japan ) lunch 12 : 00 - 1 : 00pm invited lecture an outline of the study of the modern chinese vocabulary in the last twenty years zhou jian ( nankai university , china ) 1 : 00pm - 2 : 00pm contrastive study on vocabulary 2 : 00pm - 3 : 30pm 5 . a report on several polysemous words in chinese textbooks shinichi yamada ( takaoka national college , japan ) 6 . study of japanese korean bilingual thesaurus construction and vocabulary contrast song young bin ( hankuk university of foreign studies , republic of korea ) 7 . lexical contrastive study of japanese and arabic language warid farouk ibrahim ( gakushuin university , japan ) coffee break 3 : 30pm - 4 : 00pm second language education 4 : 00pm - 6 : 00pm 8 . the proposal of the lexeme code in the comparative study of vocabulary : comparison of the " bunrui goihyou " code with lexeme code . eishi hirose ( graduated school of literature , nagoya university , japan ) 9 . reconsidering the fundamental vocabulary for japanese language teaching : a preliminary study yasuko sasaki ( ochanomizu university , japan ) 10 . for understanding and using " chiiki - seikatsu go ( geographical varieties of japanese ) " : from the viewpoint of second language learning yuki mori ( mie university , japan ) 11 . words , related words , and thesauruses : some elt considerations andrew taylor ( city university of hong kong ) thursday , 28 august library science , natural language processing 9 : 30am - 12 : 00am 12 . unfolding thesaurus on a mutual reference retrieval system for japan / china - marc-db futoshi kawate , tetsuya ishikawa ( university of library and information science , japan ) 13 . menu systems for information retrieval using taxonomy of thesaurus : the use of japanese thesaurus " bunrui goihyo " yasuko senda ( communication and information research laboratory , central research institute of electric power industry , japan ) 14 . a clustering method for japanese signs based on similarity between manual motion features hisahiro adachi ( utsunomiya university , japan ) 15 . video retrieval based on the sentence similarity ichiro yamada , yeun - bae kim , masahiro shibata ( nhk science and technical research laboratories , japan ) 16 . a thesaurus for japanese - to - english machine translation kentaro ogura , hiromi nakaiwa , akio yokoo , satoshi shirai , ( ntt communication science lab . , japan ) masahiro miyazaki ( niigata university , japan ) satoru ikehara ( tottori university , japan ) lunch 12 : 00am - 1 : 00pm invited lecture 1 : 00pm - 2 : 00pm the semantic attribute system for machine translations masahiro miyazaki ( faculty of engineering , niigata university , japan ) meaning 2 : 00pm - 3 : 30pm 17 . the edr concept classification dictionary takano ogino , masanori kobayashi ( japan electronic dictionary research institute , ltd . , japan ) 18 . dynamic constructive thesaurus norihiro ogata ( research fellow of the japan society for the promotion of science , japan ) 19 . post - thesaurus classification of japanese words on inner japanese logic susumu yamada ( university of the sacred heart , japan ) coffee break 3 : 30pm - 4 : 00pm construction of thesaurus , terminology 4 : 00pm - 6 : 30pm 20 . a computational rule - driven thesaurus for japanese declinable words chieko nakabasami , shizuo shimada ( saitama university , japan ) 21 . identifying a web - based approach concerned with a lexical combination thesaurus isabelle meynard ( universite de montreal , canada ) 22 . a quantitative method for term recognition oueslati rochdi ( eric ( equipe de recherche en ingenierie des connaissances ) - ensais , france ) 23 . compound nouns as class nouns : examples from english and japanese megumi yui ( ph . d course at the university of tokyo , japan ) 24 . semantic classification of elements of japanese scientific terms by general semantic principles masahiko ishii ( the national language research institute ) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - the national language research institute 5th international symposium language study and thesaurus of the world friday , august 29 , 1997 international conference room national olympics memorial youth center tokyo , japan - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - language : japanese and english ( simultaneous interpretation provided ) admission free registration 9 : 00 opening address 9 : 30 - 9 : 40 part 1 lectures 9 : 30-12 : 00 " bunrui goihyo " and study of japanese 9 : 40-10 : 00 hiroshi nakano ( the national language research institute ) semantics and the thesaurus 10 : 00-10 : 40 r . r . k . hartmann ( university of exeter ) concepts and the surface vocabulary 10 : 40-11 : 20 yorick wilks ( university of sheffield ) the history of chinese dictionaries 11 : 20-12 : 00 li xingjian ( dept . of applied linguistis of graduate school , chinese academy of social science ) lunch break 12 : 00-13 : 20 part2 thesaurus in the world 13 : 20-15 : 50 thesaurus in english 13 : 20-14 : 00 tom mcarthur ( editor , " english today " , cambridge university press ) thesaurus in hindi 14 : 00-14 : 30 arvind kumar ( free journalist ) thesauru in chinese 14 : 30-15 : 00 chen qinghuang ( beijing foreign studies university ) coffee break 15 : 00-15 : 20 thesaurus in japanese 15 : 20-15 : 50 tsunao ogino ( tokyo metropolitan university ) part3 discussion 15 : 50-17 : 10 some opinion 15 : 50-16 : 10 tatsuo miyajima ( kyoto tachibana women 's university ) discussion 16 : 10-17 : 10 comments 17 : 10-17 : 30 ooki hayashi ( the national language research institute ) closing 17 : 30 welcoming buffet party 18 : 00-20 : 00 reception hall * some titles may change without notice . participants : the plenary session : researchers and interested audience of about 200 . we will also hold the session on the thesaurus and language study . secretariat of the international symposium the national language research institite 3 - 9-14 nishigaoka , kita - ku , tokyo 115 fax : + 81 - 3-3906 - 3530 , e - mail : nakano @ kokken . go . jp inquiries to fax : + 81 - 3-3906 - 3530 , e - mail yamazaki @ kokken . go . jp http : / / www . kokken . go . jp the national language research institute home page