Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing : 14th International Conference, CICLing 2013, Karlovasi, Samos, Greece, March 24-30, 2013, Proceedings, Part II

This two-volume set, consisting of LNCS 7816 and LNCS 7817, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computer Linguistics and Intelligent Processing, CICLING 2013, held on Samos, Greece, in March 2013. The total of 91 contributions presented was carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the proceedings. The papers are organized in topical sections named: general techniques; lexical resources; morphology and tokenization; syntax and named entity recognition; word sense disambiguation and coreference resolution; semantics and discourse; sentiment, polarity, subjectivity, and opinion; machine translation and multilingualism; text mining, information extraction, and information retrieval; text summarization; stylometry and text simplification; and applications. Front Matter....Pages - Damping Sentiment Analysis in Online Communication: Discussions, Monologs and Dialogs....Pages 1-12 Optimal Feature Selection for Sentiment Analysis....Pages 13-24 Measuring the Effect of Discourse Structure on Sentiment Analysis....Pages 25-37 Lost in Translation: Viability of Machine Translation for Cross Language Sentiment Analysis....Pages 38-49 An Enhanced Semantic Tree Kernel for Sentiment Polarity Classification....Pages 50-62 Combining Supervised and Unsupervised Polarity Classification for non-English Reviews....Pages 63-74 Word Polarity Detection Using a Multilingual Approach....Pages 75-82 Mining Automatic Speech Transcripts for the Retrieval of Problematic Calls....Pages 83-95 Cross-Lingual Projections vs. Corpora Extracted Subjectivity Lexicons for Less-Resourced Languages....Pages 96-108 Predicting Subjectivity Orientation of Online Forum Threads....Pages 109-120 Distant Supervision for Emotion Classification with Discrete Binary Values....Pages 121-136 Using Google n-Grams to Expand Word-Emotion Association Lexicon....Pages 137-148 A Joint Prediction Model for Multiple Emotions Analysis in Sentences....Pages 149-160 Evaluating the Impact of Syntax and Semantics on Emotion Recognition from Text....Pages 161-173 Chinese Emotion Lexicon Developing via Multi-lingual Lexical Resources Integration....Pages 174-182 N-Gram-Based Recognition of Threatening Tweets....Pages 183-196 Distinguishing the Popularity between Topics: A System for Up-to-Date Opinion Retrieval and Mining in the Web....Pages 197-209 No Free Lunch in Factored Phrase-Based Machine Translation....Pages 210-223 Domain Adaptation in Statistical Machine Translation Using Comparable Corpora: Case Study for English Latvian IT Localisation....Pages 224-235 Assessing the Accuracy of Discourse Connective Translations: Validation of an Automatic Metric....Pages 236-247 An Empirical Study on Word Segmentation for Chinese Machine Translation....Pages 248-263 Class-Based Language Models for Chinese-English Parallel Corpus....Pages 264-275 Building a Bilingual Dictionary from a Japanese-Chinese Patent Corpus....Pages 276-284 A Diagnostic Evaluation Approach for English to Hindi MT Using Linguistic Checkpoints and Error Rates....Pages 285-296 Leveraging Arabic-English Bilingual Corpora with Crowd Sourcing-Based Annotation for Arabic-Hebrew SMT....Pages 297-310 Automatic and Human Evaluation on English-Croatian Legislative Test Set....Pages 311-317 Enhancing Search: Events and Their Discourse Context....Pages 318-334 Distributional Term Representations for Short-Text Categorization....Pages 335-346 Learning Bayesian Network Using Parse Trees for Extraction of Protein-Protein Interaction....Pages 347-358 A Model for Information Extraction in Portuguese Based on Text Patterns....Pages 359-368 A Study on Query Expansion Based on Topic Distributions of Retrieved Documents....Pages 369-379 Link Analysis for Representing and Retrieving Legal Information....Pages 380-393 Discursive Sentence Compression....Pages 394-407 A Knowledge Induced Graph-Theoretical Model for Extract and Abstract Single Document Summarization....Pages 408-423 Hierarchical Clustering in Improving Microblog Stream Summarization....Pages 424-435 Summary Evaluation: Together We Stand NPowER-ed....Pages 436-450 Explanation in Computational Stylometry....Pages 451-462 The Use of Orthogonal Similarity Relations in the Prediction of Authorship....Pages 463-475 ERNESTA: A Sentence Simplification Tool for Children’s Stories in Italian....Pages 476-487 Automatic Text Simplification in Spanish: A Comparative Evaluation of Complementing Modules....Pages 488-500 The Impact of Lexical Simplification by Verbal Paraphrases for People with and without Dyslexia....Pages 501-512 Detecting Apposition for Text Simplification in Basque....Pages 513-524 Automation of Linguistic Creativ itas for Ads logia ....Pages 525-536 Allongos: Longitudinal Alignment for the Genetic Study of Writers’ Drafts....Pages 537-548 A Combined Method Based on Stochastic and Linguistic Paradigm for the Understanding of Arabic Spontaneous Utterances....Pages 549-558 Evidence in Automatic Error Correction Improves Learners’ English Skill....Pages 559-571 Back Matter....Pages - Sentiment, Polarity, Emotion, Subjectivity, and Opinion Damping Sentiment Analysis in Online Communication: Discussions, Monologs and Dialogs (Invited paper) Optimal Feature Selection for Sentiment Analysis Measuring the Effect of Discourse Structure on Sentiment Analysis Lost in Translation: Viability of Machine Translation for Cross Language Sentiment Analysis An Enhanced Semantic Tree Kernel for Sentiment Polarity Classification Combining Supervised and Unsupervised Polarity Classification for non-English Reviews Word Polarity Detection Using a Multilingual Approach Mining Automatic Speech Transcripts for the Retrieval of Problematic Calls Cross-Lingual Projections vs. Corpora Extracted Subjectivity Lexicons for Less-Resourced Languages Predicting Subjectivity Orientation of Online Forum Threads Distant Supervision for Emotion Classification with Discrete Binary Values Using Google n-grams to Expand Word-Emotion Association Lexicon ^ A Joint Prediction Model for Multiple Emotions Analysis in Sentences Evaluating the Impact of Syntax and Semantics on Emotion Recognition from Text Chinese Emotion Lexicon Developing via Multi-lingual Lexical Resources Integration N-Gram-Based Recognition of Threatening Tweets Distinguishing the Popularity between Topics: A System for Up-to-Date Opinion Retrieval and Mining in the Web Machine Translation and Multilingualism No Free Lunch in Factored Phrase-Based Machine Translation Domain Adaptation in Statistical Machine Translation Using Comparable Corpora: Case Study for English Latvian IT Localisation (Best Student Paper Award) Assessing the Accuracy of Discourse Connective Translations: Validation of an Automatic Metric An Empirical Study on Word Segmentation for Chinese Machine Translation Class-Based Language Models for Chinese-English Parallel Corpus Building a Bilingual Dictionary from a Japanese-Chinese Patent Corpus ^ ^^ A Diagnostic Evaluation Approach for English to Hindi MT Using Linguistic Checkpoints and Error Rates Leveraging Arabic-English Bilingual Corpora with Crowd Sourcing-Based Annotation for Arabic-Hebrew SMT Automatic and Human Evaluation on English-Croatian Legislative Test Set Text Mining, Information Extraction, and Information Retrieval Enhancing Search: Events and Their Discourse Context (Invited paper) Distributional Term Representations for Short-Text Categorization Learning Bayesian Network Using Parse Trees for Extraction of Protein-Protein Interaction A Model for Information Extraction in Portuguese Based on Text Patterns A Study on Query Expansion Based on Topic Distributions of Retrieved Documents Link Analysis for Representing and Retrieving Legal Information Text Summarization Discursive Sentence Compression A Knowledge Induced Graph-Theoretical Model for Extract and Abstract Single Document Summarization ^ ^^ Hierarchical Clustering in Improving Microblog Stream Summarization Summary Evaluation: Together We Stand NPowER-ed Stylometry and Text Simplification Explanation in Computational Stylometry (Invited paper) The Use of Orthogonal Similarity Relations in the Prediction of Authorship ERNESTA: A Sentence Simplification Tool for Children’s Stories in Italian Automatic Text Simplification in Spanish: A Comparative Evaluation of Complementing Modules The Impact of Lexical Simplification by Verbal Paraphrases for People with and without Dyslexia Detecting Apposition for Text Simplification in Basque Applications Automation of Linguistic Creativitas for Adslogia Allongos: Longitudinal Alignment for the Genetic Study of Writers’ Drafts A Combined Method Based on Stochastic and Linguistic Paradigm for the Understanding of Arabic Spontaneous Utterances Evidence in Automatic Error Correction Improves Learners’ English Skill. ^^