Spoken Language Corpus and Linguistic Informatics

1. Message from the President (by Ikehata, Setsuho); 2. 1. The Second International Conference on Lilnguistic Informatics; 3. Introduction (by Kawaguchi, Yuji); 4. Foundations of Center of Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics (UBLI) (by Kawaguchi, Yuji); 5. Linguistic Analysis of Spoken Language -The Case of French Language - (by Blanche-Benveniste, Claire); 6. Challenges for English Corpus Linguistics in Second Language Acquisition Research (by Conrad, Susan); 7. C-ORAL-ROM -Prosodic Boundaries for Spontaneous Speech Analysis- (by Moneglia, Massimo); 8. Conclusion (by Zaima, Susumu); 9. 2. Workshop on Spoken Language Corpora - C-ORAL-ROM and UBLI; 10. Introduction (by Takagaki, Toshihiro); 11. 2.1. C-ORAL-ROM; 12. Some Comparisons between UBLI and C-ORAL-ROM (by Cresti, Emanuela); 13. Units of Analysis of Spontaneous Speech and Speech Variation in a Cross-linguistic Perspective (by Moneglia, Massimo); 14. C-ORAL-ROM - French Corpus- (by Deulofeu, Jose); 15. Morpho-syntactic Tagging of the Spanish C-ORAL-ROM Corpus: Methodology, Tools and Evaluation (by Moreno-Sandoval, Antonio); 16. The Role of Spoken Corpora in Teaching/Learning Portuguese as a Foreign Language: The Case of Adjectives Intensification (by Bacelar do Nascimento, Maria Fernanda); 17. Typologies of MultiWord Expressions Revisited: A Corpus-driven Approach (by Bacelar do Nascimento, Maria Fernanda); 18. 2.2. UBLI; 19. Usage-Based Approach to Linguistic Variation: Evidence from French and Turkish (by Kawaguchi, Yuji); 20. Viewpoint and Postrheme in Spoken Turkish (by Yilmaz, Selim); 21. Nonreferential Use of Demonstrative Pronouns in Colloquial Malay (by Shoho, Isamu); 22. 3. Linguistic Informatics; 23. Introduction (by Kawaguchi, Yuji); 24. German Language Research Methodology Based on Language Use: Language Use, Application and Evaluation (by Zaima, Susumu); 25. Developing Grammatical Modules Based on Linguistic Typology (by Minegishi, Makoto); 26. Introducing a Task Activity for Less Proficient Learners: Enhancing the Relationship among Form, Meaning and Use (by Takashima, Hide); 27. The Relationship between VOT in Initial Voiced Plosives and the Phenomenon of Word-Medial Plosives in Nigata and Shikoku (by Takada, Mieko); 28. On the Semantic Structure of English Spatial Particles Involving Metaphors (by Ishii, Yasutake); 29. Language Policy and Language Choice: A Case Study at Canadian Government Institutions (by Yazu, Norie); 30. Index of Proper Nouns; 31. Index of Subjects; 32. Contributors