Advances in Natural Language Processing: 7th International Conference on NLP, IceTAL 2010, Reykjavik, Iceland, August 16-18, 2010, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6233)

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Natural Language Processing held in Reykjavik, Iceland, in August 2010. Front Matter....Pages - Reliving the History: The Beginnings of Statistical Machine Translation and Languages with Rich Morphology....Pages 1-1 Harmonizing WordNet and FrameNet....Pages 2-2 A Morphosyntactic Brill Tagger for Inflectional Languages....Pages 3-14 Hybrid Syntactic-Semantic Reranking for Parsing Results of ECAs Interactions Using CRFs....Pages 15-26 Automatic Distractor Generation for Domain Specific Texts....Pages 27-38 Summarization as Feature Selection for Document Categorization on Small Datasets....Pages 39-44 A Formal Ontology for a Computational Approach of Time and Aspect....Pages 45-56 A Non-linear Semantic Mapping Technique for Cross-Language Sentence Matching....Pages 57-66 Comparison of Paraphrase Acquisition Techniques on Sentential Paraphrases....Pages 67-78 Digital Learning for Summarizing Arabic Documents....Pages 79-84 Concept Based Representations for Ranking in Geographic Information Retrieval....Pages 85-96 Using Machine Translation Systems to Expand a Corpus in Textual Entailment....Pages 97-102 Frames in Formal Semantics....Pages 103-114 Clustering E-Mails for the Swedish Social Insurance Agency – What Part of the E-Mail Thread Gives the Best Quality?....Pages 115-120 OpenMaTrEx : A Free/Open-Source Marker-Driven Example-Based Machine Translation System....Pages 121-126 Head Finders Inspection: An Unsupervised Optimization Approach....Pages 127-137 Estimating the Birth and Death Years of Authors of Undated Documents Using Undated Citations....Pages 138-149 Using Temporal Cues for Segmenting Texts into Events....Pages 150-161 Enriching the Adjective Domain in the Japanese WordNet....Pages 162-166 Comparing SMT Methods for Automatic Generation of Pronunciation Variants....Pages 167-178 Automatic Learning of Discourse Relations in Swedish Using Cue Phrases....Pages 179-184 The Representation of Diatheses in the Valency Lexicon of Czech Verbs....Pages 185-196 Symbolic Classification Methods for Patient Discharge Summaries Encoding into ICD....Pages 197-208 User-Tailored Document Planning – A Game-Theoretic Approach....Pages 209-214 Anaphora Resolution with Real Preprocessing....Pages 215-225 Automatic Construction of a Morphological Dictionary of Multi-Word Units....Pages 226-237 Collocation Extraction in Turkish Texts Using Statistical Methods....Pages 238-249 Towards the Design and Evaluation of ROILA: A Speech Recognition Friendly Artificial Language....Pages 250-256 Time Expressions Ontology for Information Seeking Dialogues in the Public Transport Domain....Pages 257-262 Reliability of the Manual Segmentation of Pauses in Natural Speech....Pages 263-268 Large-Scale Language Modeling with Random Forests for Mandarin Chinese Speech-to-Text....Pages 269-280 Design and Evaluation of an Agreement Error Detection System: Testing the Effect of Ambiguity, Parser and Corpus Type....Pages 281-292 TectoMT: Modular NLP Framework....Pages 293-304 Using Information from the Target Language to Improve Crosslingual Text Classification....Pages 305-313 Event Detection Using Lexical Chain....Pages 314-319 Using Comparable Corpora to Improve the Effectiveness of Cross-Language Information Retrieval....Pages 320-331 Semi-automatic Endogenous Enrichment of Collaboratively Constructed Lexical Resources: Piggybacking onto Wiktionary....Pages 332-344 Portable Extraction of Partially Structured Facts from the Web....Pages 345-356 Passage Retrieval in Log Files: An Approach Based on Query Enrichment....Pages 357-368 Part-of-Speech Tagging Using Parallel Weighted Finite-State Transducers....Pages 369-380 Automated Email Answering by Text Pattern Matching....Pages 381-392 A System to Control Language for Oral Communication....Pages 393-400 Robust Semi-supervised and Ensemble-Based Methods in Word Sense Disambiguation....Pages 401-405 The Effect of Semi-supervised Learning on Parsing Long Distance Dependencies in German and Swedish....Pages 406-417 Shooting at Flies in the Dark: Rule-Based Lexical Selection for a Minority Language Pair....Pages 418-429 Back Matter....Pages - This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Natural Language Processing, JapTAL 2012, Kanazawa, Japan, in October 2012.The 27 revised full papers and 5 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions.