Organization

Standing Members (in alphabetic order of surnames):

• Chu-Ren Huang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
• Jong-Bok Kim, Kyung Hee University, Seoul
• Yasunari Harada, Waseda University, Tokyo
• Rachel Edita O. Roxas, National University, Manila

Ex Officio Members:

• Shirley Dita, De La Salle University, Manila
• Ryo Otoguro, Waseda University, Tokyo
• Huyen Thi Minh Nguyen, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam

Former Ex Officio Members (in chronological order of appointments):

• Donghong Ji, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore (PACLIC 17 Program Committee Chair) [since January, 2003 until December 8th, 2004]
• Yasunari Harada, Waseda University, Tokyo (PACLIC 18 Organizing Committee Chair) [since October 2nd, 2003 until December 2nd, 2005]
• Jhing-fa Wang, National Cheng-kung University, Tainan (PACLIC 19 Program Committee Chair) [since December 8th, 2004 until November 1st, 2006]
• He Tingting, Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan (PACLIC 20 Local Organizing Committee Co-chair) [since December 2nd, 2005 until November 2nd, 2007]
• Hee-Rahk Chae, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul (PACLIC 21 Program Committee Chair) [since November 1st, 2006 until November 20th, 2008]
• Rachel Edita O. Roxas, De La Salle University, Manila (PACLIC 22 Program Committee Chair) [since November 2nd, 2007 until December 3rd, 2009]
• Olivia Kwong, Hong Kong (PACLIC 23 Program Committee Chair Chair) [since November 20th, 2008 until November 5th, 2010]
• Kei Yoshimoto, Tohoku University, Sendai (PACLIC 24 Local Organizer) [since December 3rd, 2009 until December 17th, 2011]
• Francis Bond, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (PACLIC 25 Local Organizer) [since November 5th, 2010 until November 8th, 2012]
• Ruli Manurung, University of Indonesia, Depok (PACLIC 26 Local Organizer) [since December 17th, 2011 until PACLIC 27]
• Huei-Ling Lai, National Chengchi University, Taipei (PACLIC 27 Local Organizer) [since December 17th, 2011 until PACLIC 28]
• Wirote Aroonmanakun, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok (PACLIC 28 Local Organizer) [since November 23rd, 2013 until PACLIC 29]
• Hai Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai (in charge of PACLIC 29, 2015) [since November 23rd, 2013 until PACLIC 30]
• Jong-Bok Kim, Kyung Hee University, Seoul (in charge of PACLIC 30, 2016) [since December 13th, 2014 until PACLIC 31 (2017)]
• Rachel Edita O. Roxas, National University, Manila (in charge of PACLIC 31, 2017) [since October 29th, 2015 until PACLIC 32 (2018)]
• Yu-Yin Hsu, Hong Kong Polytechinic University, Hong Kong (in charge of PACLIC 32, 2018) [since November 16th, 2017 until PACLIC 33 (2019)]
• Yao Yao, Hong Kong Polytechinic University, Hong Kong (in charge of PACLIC 32, 2018) [since November 16th, 2017 until PACLIC 33 (2019)]
• Ryo Otoguro, Waseda University, Tokyo (in charge of PACLIC 33, 2019) [since December 1st, 2018 until PACLIC 34 (2020)]
• Yasuhiro Katagiri, Future University Hakodate, Hakodate (in charge of PACLIC 33, 2019) [since December 1st, 2018 until PACLIC 34 (2020)]
• Nguyen Thi Minh Huyen, Hanoi University of Science, Hanoi (in charge of PACLIC 34, 2020) [since September 13th, 2019 until PACLIC 35 (2021)]
• Hu Kaibao, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai [since November 8th until PACLIC 36 (2021)]

Mission Statement

[This version is under consideration. Not all members have agreed to the content and/or wording of the passage below.]

The long tradition of PACLIC conferences emphasizes the synergy of theoretical analysis and processing of language – from theoretical frameworks to cognitive accounts, from lexical processing to language understanding, and from computational modelling to multi-lingual applications.

The most important purpose of PACLIC conferences is to provide a forum where researchers in different fields of language study in different areas in the Pacific-Asia region working on issues pertaining to different languages can come together and talk, get to know each other, learn old wisdom, be enlightened by new insights and generally get entertained intellectually, and come home ready to initiate a new research program with new research partners in a new state of mind.

We are well aware that around the world and within the Pacific-Asia region, there are more linguistics conferences and workshops than one can care to attend and more NLP meetings than one can submit abstracts to. On the other hand, if you are working on the border of two or more fields, like contrasting Japanese and Korean reciprocals, or working on trilingual corpus of Chinese, English and Russian, sometimes it’s hard to get the right kind of audience.

Thus, PACLIC aims to be a series of ‘cross-cultural’ events. We value hybrid talks on linguistic principles and implementation details, massive data collection and extraction of abstract rules, automated proficiency evaluation and philosophical contemplation on language learning, although pure theory and pure technology will also be appreciated. We welcome bi-lingual or multi-lingual research, while due respects will be paid to mono-lingual research.