Advances in Natural Language Processing: 6th International Conference, GoTAL 2008, Gothenburg, Sweden, August 25-27, 2008, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (5221))

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. Front Matter....Pages - Formal Semantics in the Real World....Pages 1-3 Speech Processing for Audio Indexing....Pages 4-15 Sorting Out Dependency Parsing....Pages 16-27 “I Know What You Feel”: Analyzing the Role of Conjunctions in Automatic Sentiment Analysis....Pages 28-39 Automatic Annotation of Direct Reported Speech in Arabic and French, According to a Semantic Map of Enunciative Modalities....Pages 40-51 Type-Theoretical Bulgarian Grammar....Pages 52-64 A Compact Arabic Lexical Semantics Language Resource Based on the Theory of Semantic Fields....Pages 65-76 Automatically Extracting Personal Name Aliases from the Web....Pages 77-88 An Efficient Statistical Approach for Automatic Organic Chemistry Summarization....Pages 89-99 Augmenting Word Space Models for Word Sense Discrimination Using an Automatic Thesaurus....Pages 100-107 Plagiarism Detection Based on Singular Value Decomposition....Pages 108-119 Networking Multiword Units....Pages 120-125 Searching for Part of Speech Tags That Improve Parsing Models....Pages 126-137 A POS-Based Word Prediction System for the Persian Language....Pages 138-147 A Graph Based Method for Building Multilingual Weakly Supervised Dependency Parsers....Pages 148-159 A Web-Based Self-training Approach for Authorship Attribution....Pages 160-168 Parsing Discontinuous Phrase Structure with Grammatical Functions....Pages 169-180 How Can the Term Compositionality Be Useful for Acquiring Elementary Semantic Relations?....Pages 181-192 Training Statistical Language Models from Grammar-Generated Data: A Comparative Case-Study....Pages 193-204 A Mixed Method Lemmatization Algorithm Using a Hierarchy of Linguistic Identities (HOLI)....Pages 205-216 Semantic Roles in Valency Lexicon of Czech Verbs: Verbs of Communication and Exchange....Pages 217-221 Automatic Generation of Frequent Case Forms of Query Keywords in Text Retrieval....Pages 222-236 Definition Extraction with Balanced Random Forests....Pages 237-247 Reviewing and Evaluating Automatic Term Recognition Techniques....Pages 248-259 Finding Text Boundaries and Finding Topic Boundaries: Two Different Tasks?....Pages 260-271 Tamil Question Classification Using Morpheme Features....Pages 272-283 Analogical Translation of Medical Words in Different Languages....Pages 284-295 Improving Chinese Pronominal Anaphora Resolution by Extensive Feature Representation and Confidence Estimation....Pages 296-302 A Grammar Formalism for Specifying ISU-Based Dialogue Systems....Pages 303-314 Word Sense Disambiguation of Farsi Homographs Using Thesaurus and Corpus....Pages 315-323 Local Rephrasing Suggestions for Supporing the Work of Writers....Pages 324-335 Interactive Multilingual Web Applications with Grammatical Framework....Pages 336-347 Dependency Parsing by Transformation and Combination....Pages 348-359 Using Constraints over Finite Sets of Integers for Range Concatenation Grammar Parsing....Pages 360-365 Analyzing Argumentative Structures in Procedural Texts....Pages 366-370 Natural Language Processing Across Time: An Empirical Investigation on Italian....Pages 371-382 Statistical Surface Realisation of Portuguese Referring Expressions....Pages 383-392 Classification-Based Filtering of Semantic Relatedness in Hypernymy Extraction....Pages 393-404 Similarity of Names Across Scripts: Edit Distance Using Learned Costs of N-Grams....Pages 405-416 Turkish Language Resources: Morphological Parser, Morphological Disambiguator and Web Corpus....Pages 417-427 A Graph Partitioning Approach to Entity Disambiguation Using Uncertain Information....Pages 428-439 Arabic Named Entity Recognition from Diverse Text Types....Pages 440-451 A Noun-Predicate Bigram-Based Similarity Measure for Lexical Relations....Pages 452-463 German Compounds in Factored Statistical Machine Translation....Pages 464-475 A Reordering Model for Phrase-Based Machine Translation....Pages 476-487 Interruption, Resumption and Domain Switching in In-Vehicle Dialogue....Pages 488-499 Finite Matters....Pages 500-509 Back Matter....Pages - Annotation 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