Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing : 15th International Conference, CICLing 2014, Kathmandu, Nepal, April 6-12, 2014, Proceedings, Part II

This two-volume set, consisting of LNCS 8403 and LNCS 8404, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, CICLing 2014, held in Kathmandu, Nepal, in April 2014. The 85 revised papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 300 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: lexical resources; document representation; morphology, POS-tagging, and named entity recognition; syntax and parsing; anaphora resolution; recognizing textual entailment; semantics and discourse; natural language generation; sentiment analysis and emotion recognition; opinion mining and social networks; machine translation and multilingualism; information retrieval; text classification and clustering; text summarization; plagiarism detection; style and spelling checking; speech processing; and applications. Front Matter....Pages - Sentence-Level Sentiment Analysis in the Presence of Modalities....Pages 1-16 Word-Level Emotion Recognition Using High-Level Features....Pages 17-31 Constructing Context-Aware Sentiment Lexicons with an Asynchronous Game with a Purpose....Pages 32-44 Acknowledging Discourse Function for Sentiment Analysis....Pages 45-52 A Method of Polarity Computation of Chinese Sentiment Words Based on Gaussian Distribution....Pages 53-61 A Sentence Vector Based Over-Sampling Method for Imbalanced Emotion Classification....Pages 62-72 Reader Emotion Prediction Using Concept and Concept Sequence Features in News Headlines....Pages 73-84 Identifying the Targets of the Emotions Expressed in Health Forums....Pages 85-97 Investigating the Role of Emotion-Based Features in Author Gender Classification of Text....Pages 98-114 A Review Corpus for Argumentation Analysis....Pages 115-127 Looking for Opinion in Land-Use Planning Corpora....Pages 128-140 Cross-Lingual Product Recommendation Using Collaborative Filtering with Translation Pairs....Pages 141-152 Identifying a Demand Towards a Company in Consumer-Generated Media....Pages 153-163 Standardizing Tweets with Character-Level Machine Translation....Pages 164-175 #impressme: The Language of Motivation in User Generated Content....Pages 176-187 Mining the Personal Interests of Microbloggers via Exploiting Wikipedia Knowledge....Pages 188-200 Website Community Mining from Query Logs with Two-Phase Clustering....Pages 201-212 Extracting Social Events Based on Timeline and User Reliability Analysis on Twitter....Pages 213-223 Beam-Width Adaptation for Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation....Pages 224-232 Training Phrase-Based SMT without Explicit Word Alignment....Pages 233-241 Role of Paraphrases in PB-SMT....Pages 242-253 Inferring Paraphrases for a Highly Inflected Language from a Monolingual Corpus....Pages 254-270 Improving Egyptian-to-English SMT by Mapping Egyptian into MSA....Pages 271-282 Bilingually Learning Word Senses for Translation....Pages 283-295 Iterative Bilingual Lexicon Extraction from Comparable Corpora with Topical and Contextual Knowledge....Pages 296-309 Improving Bilingual Lexicon Extraction from Comparable Corpora Using Window-Based and Syntax-Based Models....Pages 310-323 An IR-Based Strategy for Supporting Chinese-Portuguese Translation Services in Off-line Mode....Pages 324-330 Cross Lingual Snippet Generation Using Snippet Translation System....Pages 331-342 A Novel Machine Translation Method for Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language....Pages 343-354 A New Relevance Feedback Algorithm Based on Vector Space Basis Change....Pages 355-366 How Complementary Are Different Information Retrieval Techniques? A Study in Biomedicine Domain....Pages 367-380 Performance of Turkish Information Retrieval: Evaluating the Impact of Linguistic Parameters and Compound Nouns....Pages 381-391 How Document Properties Affect Document Relatedness Measures....Pages 392-403 Multi-attribute Classification of Text Documents as a Tool for Ranking and Categorization of Educational Innovation Projects....Pages 404-416 Named Entities as New Features for Czech Document Classification....Pages 417-427 A Knowledge-Poor Approach to Turkish Text Categorization....Pages 428-440 Credible or Incredible? Dissecting Urban Legends....Pages 441-453 Intelligent Clustering Scheme for Log Data Streams....Pages 454-465 Graph Ranking on Maximal Frequent Sequences for Single Extractive Text Summarization....Pages 466-480 A Graph Based Automatic Plagiarism Detection Technique to Handle Artificial Word Reordering and Paraphrasing....Pages 481-494 Identification of Plagiarism Using Syntactic and Semantic Filters....Pages 495-506 Readability Classification of Bangla Texts....Pages 507-518 State-of-the-Art in Weighted Finite-State Spell-Checking....Pages 519-532 Spelling Correction for Kazakh....Pages 533-541 A Preliminary Study on the VOT Patterns of the Assamese Language and Its Nalbaria Variety....Pages 542-552 Evaluation of Sentence Compression Techniques against Human Performance....Pages 553-565 Automatically Assessing Children’s Writing Skills Based on Age-Supervised Datasets....Pages 566-577 Back Matter....Pages - 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.