Program
Room 101, Humanities Building
The final program, including plenary talks, will be updated soon.
| Time | Session | Titles/Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| 08:55–09:00 | Opening Remarks | Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung Hee University) |
| 09:00–10:00 | Session I Moderator: Okgi Kim (Gyeongkuk National University) |
Pedagogical Language Modeling and English Collocation Profile for Non-Native Learners of English Jason S. Chang1, Grace Li1, Miwa Morishita2, Yasunari Harada3 (National Tsing Hua University1, Kobe Gakuin University2, Waseda University3) Practical Constraints in Korean News Sentiment Analysis: Context Compression and Grouping Strategies Seonghyun Lee1, Jaehoon Ryu2, Youngsool Moon2, Charmgil Hong1 (Handong Global University1, Otto Monitor, Ltd.2) |
| 10:00–10:10 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:10–11:10 | Session II Moderator: Jungsoo Kim (Incheon National University) |
An Empirical Evaluation of Prompting Strategies for Korean Metaphor Extraction in Restaurant Reviews Yunseong Choi1, Seulkee Park2, Jong-Bok Kim2, Charmgil Hong1 (Handong Global University1, Kyung Hee University1) Beyond Human Authorship? Keyword-Guided LLMs as Pragmatic Scaffolds for Text Development Jiana Lin (City University of Hong Kong) |
| 11:10–11:20 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:20–12:00 | Plenary Talk I Moderator: TBA |
Data-Driven Syntax: How English Works around Its Left-Branching Constraint Brett Reynolds (Humber Polytechnic) |
| 12:00–13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00–14:00 | Session III Moderator: Charmgil Hong (Handong Global University) |
How Do Language Models Handle Emotional Content in Video Game Localization? A Computational Linguistics Approach Xiaojing Zhao, Emmanuele Chersoni, Chu-Ren Huang, Winnie Zeng, Han Xu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Human Neural Networks Are the Most Efficient Large Language Models Arash Dehdari1,2, Steven Moran1,2, Valeriia Vyshnevetska1,2 (University of Neuchâtel1, University of Zurich2) |
| 14:00–14:10 | Coffee Break | |
| 14:10–15:10 | Session IV Moderator: Sumi Han (Hallym University) |
Blinded by Semantic Continuity: Why Semantic Proximity Masks Implicature Failures in Large Language Models Jisoo Choi, Yunju Nam (Hanyang University) Probability versus Prompting: Language Model Performance on Languages beyond English Soo-Hwan Lee1, Shaonan Wang2 (Gyeongsang National University1, Hong Kong Polytechnic University2) |
| 15:10–15:20 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:20–16:20 | Lightning Talk Session Moderator: Soo-Hwan Lee (Gyeongsang National University) |
To Model Human Linguistic Prediction, Make LLMs Less Superhuman Byung-Doh Oh1, Tal Linzen2 (Nanyang Technological University Singapore1, New York University2) Scope Interpretation in Mandarin Doubly Quantified Sentences: Evidence from Humans and LLMs Yixin Cui, Yimei Shao, Lavinia Salicchi, Yu-Yin Hsu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Good Arguments Against the People Pleasers: How Reasoning Mitigates (Yet Masks) LLM Sycophancy Zhaoxin Feng1, Zheng Chen2, Jianfei Ma1, Yip Tin Po2, Emmanuele Chersoni1, Bo Li2 (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University1, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology2) Is the Latent Space of Large Language Models a Mirror of the Mind? Topological Evidence from “Small-World” Semantic Networks Huacheng Song, Zhaoxin Feng, Emmanuele Chersoni, Chu-Ren Huang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) |
| 16:20–16:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:30–17:10 | Plenary Talk II Moderator: Emmanuele Chersoni (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) |
The Multidimensional Nature of Semantic Transparency in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective: A Study Based on Both Human Intuitions and LLM-Driven Estimates Chu-Ren Huang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) |
| 17:10–17:15 | Closing Remarks | Chu-Ren Huang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) |