Advances in Natural Language Processing: 6th International Conference, Gotal 2008, Gothenburg, Sweden, August 25-27, 2008, Proceedings

ISBN-13: 9783540852865 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 516 str.

Aarne Ranta

Opis

This volume contains the papers presented at GoTAL 2008, the 6th Inter- tional Conference on NaturalLanguageProcessing, held on August 25-27,2008, at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. GoTAL was the sixth conference in the TAL series, preceded by FracTAL 1997 (Universitede Franche-Comt e, Besan, con, France), VexTAL 1999 (Universita Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Venice, Italy), PorTAL 2002 (Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Por- gal), EsTAL 2004 (Universitat d'Alacant, Alicante, Spain), and FinTAL 2006 (University of Turku, Turku, Finland). The conference received 107 submissions. Each submission was reviewed by three programme committee members or external reviewers. The committee- nally accepted 44 papers to be presented at the conference and included in the proceedings. The conference programme also included three invited talks, which are the ?rst three papers in this volume. We are grateful to the programme committee members and the external - viewers for their careful and punctual work. The sta? in the local organization team at Chalmers helped in a very professional way. The sponsors contributed, in particular, to the social programme planned for the conference. The invited speakers - Johan Bos, Lori Lamel, and Joakim Nivre - gave the scienti?c p- gramme the broad, yet focused, pro?le that we wanted to achieve. And ?nally, it is essentially the authors of the submissions that created the substance of the conference and this volume, with all their good papers and their cooperative attitude.

Spis treści

Formal Semantics in the Real World.- Speech Processing for Audio Indexing.- Sorting Out Dependency Parsing.- “I Know What You Feel”: Analyzing the Role of Conjunctions in Automatic Sentiment Analysis.- Automatic Annotation of Direct Reported Speech in Arabic and French, According to a Semantic Map of Enunciative Modalities.- Type-Theoretical Bulgarian Grammar.- A Compact Arabic Lexical Semantics Language Resource Based on the Theory of Semantic Fields.- Automatically Extracting Personal Name Aliases from the Web.- An Efficient Statistical Approach for Automatic Organic Chemistry Summarization.- Augmenting Word Space Models for Word Sense Discrimination Using an Automatic Thesaurus.- Plagiarism Detection Based on Singular Value Decomposition.- Networking Multiword Units.- Searching for Part of Speech Tags That Improve Parsing Models.- A POS-Based Word Prediction System for the Persian Language.- A Graph Based Method for Building Multilingual Weakly Supervised Dependency Parsers.- A Web-Based Self-training Approach for Authorship Attribution.- Parsing Discontinuous Phrase Structure with Grammatical Functions.- How Can the Term Compositionality Be Useful for Acquiring Elementary Semantic Relations?.- Training Statistical Language Models from Grammar-Generated Data: A Comparative Case-Study.- A Mixed Method Lemmatization Algorithm Using a Hierarchy of Linguistic Identities (HOLI).- Semantic Roles in Valency Lexicon of Czech Verbs: Verbs of Communication and Exchange.- Automatic Generation of Frequent Case Forms of Query Keywords in Text Retrieval.- Definition Extraction with Balanced Random Forests.- Reviewing and Evaluating Automatic Term Recognition Techniques.- Finding Text Boundaries and Finding Topic Boundaries: Two Different Tasks?.- Tamil Question Classification Using Morpheme Features.- Analogical Translation of Medical Words in Different Languages.- Improving Chinese Pronominal Anaphora Resolution by Extensive Feature Representation and Confidence Estimation.- A Grammar Formalism for Specifying ISU-Based Dialogue Systems.- Word Sense Disambiguation of Farsi Homographs Using Thesaurus and Corpus.- Local Rephrasing Suggestions for Supporing the Work of Writers.- Interactive Multilingual Web Applications with Grammatical Framework.- Dependency Parsing by Transformation and Combination.- Using Constraints over Finite Sets of Integers for Range Concatenation Grammar Parsing.- Analyzing Argumentative Structures in Procedural Texts.- Natural Language Processing Across Time: An Empirical Investigation on Italian.- Statistical Surface Realisation of Portuguese Referring Expressions.- Classification-Based Filtering of Semantic Relatedness in Hypernymy Extraction.- Similarity of Names Across Scripts: Edit Distance Using Learned Costs of N-Grams.- Turkish Language Resources: Morphological Parser, Morphological Disambiguator and Web Corpus.- A Graph Partitioning Approach to Entity Disambiguation Using Uncertain Information.- Arabic Named Entity Recognition from Diverse Text Types.- A Noun-Predicate Bigram-Based Similarity Measure for Lexical Relations.- German Compounds in Factored Statistical Machine Translation.- A Reordering Model for Phrase-Based Machine Translation.- Interruption, Resumption and Domain Switching in In-Vehicle Dialogue.- Finite Matters.

Blurb

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, GoTAL 2008, Gothenburg, Sweden, August 2008.

The 44 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 107 submissions. The papers address all current issues in computational linguistics and monolingual and multilingual intelligent language processing - theory, methods and applications.