Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing : 18th International Conference, CICLing 2017, Budapest, Hungary, April 17–23, 2017, Revised Selected Papers, Part II

The two-volume set LNCS 10761 + 10762 constitutes revised selected papers from the CICLing 2017 conference which took place in Budapest, Hungary, in April 2017. The total of 90 papers presented in the two volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. In addition, the proceedings contain 4 invited papers. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Part I: general; morphology and text segmentation; syntax and parsing; word sense disambiguation; reference and coreference resolution; named entity recognition; semantics and text similarity; information extraction; speech recognition; applications to linguistics and the humanities. Part II: sentiment analysis; opinion mining; author profiling and authorship attribution; social network analysis; machine translation; text summarization; information retrieval and text classification; practical applications. Front Matter ....Pages I-XIX Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 A Comparison Among Significance Tests and Other Feature Building Methods for Sentiment Analysis: A First Study (Raksha Sharma, Dibyendu Mondal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya)....Pages 3-19 BATframe: An Unsupervised Approach for Domain-Sensitive Affect Detection (Kokil Jaidka, Niyati Chhaya, Rahul Wadbude, Sanket Kedia, Manikanta Nallagatla)....Pages 20-34 Leveraging Target-Oriented Information for Stance Classification (Jiachen Du, Ruifeng Xu, Lin Gui, Xuan Wang)....Pages 35-45 Sentiment Polarity Classification of Figurative Language: Exploring the Role of Irony-Aware and Multifaceted Affect Features (Delia Irazú Hernández Farías, Cristina Bosco, Viviana Patti, Paolo Rosso)....Pages 46-57 Sarcasm Annotation and Detection in Tweets (Johan G. Cyrus M. Ræder, Björn Gambäck)....Pages 58-70 Modeling the Impact of Modifiers on Emotional Statements (Valentina Sintsova, Margarita Bolívar Jiménez, Pearl Pu)....Pages 71-89 CSenticNet: A Concept-Level Resource for Sentiment Analysis in Chinese Language (Haiyun Peng, Erik Cambria)....Pages 90-104 Emotional Tone Detection in Arabic Tweets (Amr Al-Khatib, Samhaa R. El-Beltagy)....Pages 105-114 Morphology Based Arabic Sentiment Analysis of Book Reviews (Omar El Ariss, Loai M. Alnemer)....Pages 115-128 Adaptation of Sentiment Analysis Techniques to Persian Language (Kia Dashtipour, Amir Hussain, Alexander Gelbukh)....Pages 129-140 Verb-Mediated Composition of Attitude Relations Comprising Reader and Writer Perspective (Manfred Klenner, Simon Clematide, Don Tuggener)....Pages 141-155 Customer Churn Prediction Using Sentiment Analysis and Text Classification of VOC (Yiou Wang, Koji Satake, Takeshi Onishi, Hiroshi Masuichi)....Pages 156-165 Benchmarking Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (Erik Cambria, Devamanyu Hazarika, Soujanya Poria, Amir Hussain, R. B. V. Subramanyam)....Pages 166-179 Machine Learning Approaches for Speech Emotion Recognition: Classic and Novel Advances (Panikos Heracleous, Akio Ishikawa, Keiji Yasuda, Hiroyuki Kawashima, Fumiaki Sugaya, Masayuki Hashimoto)....Pages 180-191 Front Matter ....Pages 193-193 Mining Aspect-Specific Opinions from Online Reviews Using a Latent Embedding Structured Topic Model (Mingyang Xu, Ruixin Yang, Paul Jones, Nagiza F. Samatova)....Pages 195-210 A Comparative Study of Target-Based and Entity-Based Opinion Extraction (Joseph Lark, Emmanuel Morin, Sebastián Peña Saldarriaga)....Pages 211-223 Supervised Domain Adaptation via Label Alignment for Opinion Expression Extraction (Yifan Zhang, Arjun Mukherjee, Fan Yang)....Pages 224-240 Comment Relevance Classification in Facebook (Chaya Liebeskind, Shmuel Liebeskind, Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner)....Pages 241-254 Detecting Sockpuppets in Deceptive Opinion Spam (Marjan Hosseinia, Arjun Mukherjee)....Pages 255-272 Front Matter ....Pages 273-273 Reading the Author and Speaker: Towards a Holistic and Deep Approach on Automatic Assessment of What is in One’s Words (Björn W. Schuller)....Pages 275-288 Improving Cross-Topic Authorship Attribution: The Role of Pre-Processing (Ilia Markov, Efstathios Stamatatos, Grigori Sidorov)....Pages 289-302 Author Identification Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (Hiram Calvo, Ángel Hernández-Castañeda, Jorge García-Flores)....Pages 303-312 Personality Recognition Using Convolutional Neural Networks (Maite Giménez, Roberto Paredes, Paolo Rosso)....Pages 313-323 Character-Level Dialect Identification in Arabic Using Long Short-Term Memory (Karim Sayadi, Mansour Hamidi, Marc Bui, Marcus Liwicki, Andreas Fischer)....Pages 324-337 A Text Semantic Similarity Approach for Arabic Paraphrase Detection (Adnen Mahmoud, Ahmed Zrigui, Mounir Zrigui)....Pages 338-349 Front Matter ....Pages 351-351 Curator: Enhancing Micro-Blogs Ranking by Exploiting User’s Context (Hicham G. Elmongui, Riham Mansour)....Pages 353-365 A Multi-view Clustering Model for Event Detection in Twitter (Di Shang, Xin-Yu Dai, Weiyi Ge, Shujiang Huang, Jiajun Chen)....Pages 366-378 Monitoring Geographical Entities with Temporal Awareness in Tweets (Koji Matsuda, Mizuki Sango, Naoaki Okazaki, Kentaro Inui)....Pages 379-390 Just the Facts: Winnowing Microblogs for Newsworthy Statements using Non-Lexical Features (Nigel Dewdney, Rachel Cotterill)....Pages 391-403 Impact of Content Features for Automatic Online Abuse Detection (Etienne Papegnies, Vincent Labatut, Richard Dufour, Georges Linarès)....Pages 404-419 Detecting Aggressive Behavior in Discussion Threads Using Text Mining (Filippos Karolos Ventirozos, Iraklis Varlamis, George Tsatsaronis)....Pages 420-431 Front Matter ....Pages 433-433 Combining Machine Translation Systems with Quality Estimation (László János Laki, Zijian Győző Yang)....Pages 435-444 Evaluation of Neural Machine Translation for Highly Inflected and Small Languages (Mārcis Pinnis, Rihards Krišlauks, Daiga Deksne, Toms Miks)....Pages 445-456 Towards Translating Mixed-Code Comments from Social Media (Thoudam Doren Singh, Thamar Solorio)....Pages 457-468 Multiple System Combination for PersoArabic-Latin Transliteration (Nima Hemmati, Heshaam Faili, Jalal Maleki)....Pages 469-481 Building a Location Dependent Dictionary for Speech Translation Systems (Keiji Yasuda, Panikos Heracleous, Akio Ishikawa, Masayuki Hashimoto, Kazunori Matsumoto, Fumiaki Sugaya)....Pages 482-491 Front Matter ....Pages 493-493 Gold Standard Online Debates Summaries and First Experiments Towards Automatic Summarization of Online Debate Data (Nattapong Sanchan, Ahmet Aker, Kalina Bontcheva)....Pages 495-505 Optimization in Extractive Summarization Processes Through Automatic Classification (Angel Luis Garrido, Carlos Bobed, Oscar Cardiel, Andrea Aleyxendri, Ruben Quilez)....Pages 506-521 Summarizing Weibo with Topics Compression (Marina Litvak, Natalia Vanetik, Lei Li)....Pages 522-534 Timeline Generation Based on a Two-Stage Event-Time Anchoring Model (Tomohiro Sakaguchi, Sadao Kurohashi)....Pages 535-545 Front Matter ....Pages 547-547 Efficient Semantic Search Over Structured Web Data: A GPU Approach (Ha-Nguyen Tran, Erik Cambria, Hoang Giang Do)....Pages 549-562 Efficient Association Rules Selecting for Automatic Query Expansion (Ahlem Bouziri, Chiraz Latiri, Eric Gaussier)....Pages 563-574 Text-to-Concept: A Semantic Indexing Framework for Arabic News Videos (Sadek Mansouri, Chahira Lhioui, Mbarek Charhad, Mounir Zrigui)....Pages 575-584 Approximating Multi-class Text Classification Via Automatic Generation of Training Examples (Filippo Geraci, Tiziano Papini)....Pages 585-601 Front Matter ....Pages 603-603 Generating Appealing Brand Names (Gaurush Hiranandani, Pranav Maneriker, Harsh Jhamtani)....Pages 605-616 Radiological Text Simplification Using a General Knowledge Base (Lionel Ramadier, Mathieu Lafourcade)....Pages 617-627 Mining Supervisor Evaluation and Peer Feedback in Performance Appraisals (Girish Keshav Palshikar, Sachin Pawar, Saheb Chourasia, Nitin Ramrakhiyani)....Pages 628-641 Automatic Detection of Uncertain Statements in the Financial Domain (Christoph Kilian Theil, Sanja Štajner, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Simone Paolo Ponzetto)....Pages 642-654 Automatic Question Generation From Passages (Karen Mazidi)....Pages 655-665 Back Matter ....Pages 667-670 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.