Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 7th International Conference, CICLing 2006, Mexico City, Mexico, February 19-25, 2006, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3878)

CICLing 2006 (www.CICLing.org) was the 7th Annual Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics. The CICLing conferences are intended to provide a wide-scope forum for discussion of the internal art and craft of natural language processing research and the best practices in its applications. This volume contains the papers included in the main conference program (full papers) and selected papers from the poster session (short papers). Other poster session papers were included in a special issue of the journal Research on Computing Science; see informationonthisissue onthe website. Theprevious CICLing conferences since 2001 were also published in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, vol. 2004, 2276, 2588, 2945, and 3406. The number of submissions to CICLing 2006 was higher than that of the previous conferences: 141 full papers and 35 short papers by 480 authors from 37 countries were submitted for evaluation, see Tables 1 and 2. Each submission was reviewed by at least two independent Program Committee members. This book contains revised versions of 43 full papers (presented orally at the conference) and 16 short papers (presented as posters) by 177 authors from 24 countries selected for inclusion in the conference program. The acceptance rate was 30.4% for full papers and 45.7% for short papers. Front Matter....Pages - Integrating Semantic Frames from Multiple Sources....Pages 1-12 Making Senses: Bootstrapping Sense-Tagged Lists of Semantically-Related Words....Pages 13-27 Enriching Wordnets with New Relations and with Event and Argument Structures....Pages 28-40 Experiments in Cross-Language Morphological Annotation Transfer....Pages 41-50 Sentence Segmentation Model to Improve Tree Annotation Tool....Pages 51-54 Markov Cluster Shortest Path Founded Upon the Alibi-Breaking Algorithm....Pages 55-58 Unsupervised Learning of Verb Argument Structures....Pages 59-70 A Methodology for Extracting Ontological Knowledge from Spanish Documents....Pages 71-80 Automatically Determining Allowable Combinations of a Class of Flexible Multiword Expressions....Pages 81-92 Web-Based Measurements of Intra-collocational Cohesion in Oxford Collocations Dictionary....Pages 93-96 Probabilistic Neural Network Based English-Arabic Sentence Alignment....Pages 97-100 Towards the Automatic Lemmatization of 16th Century Mexican Spanish: A Stemming Scheme for the CHEM....Pages 101-104 Word Frequency Approximation for Chinese Without Using Manually-Annotated Corpus....Pages 105-116 Abbreviation Recognition with MaxEnt Model....Pages 117-120 An Efficient Multi-agent System Combining POS-Taggers for Arabic Texts....Pages 121-131 A Comparative Evaluation of a New Unsupervised Sentence Boundary Detection Approach on Documents in English and Portuguese....Pages 132-143 A General and Multi-lingual Phrase Chunking Model Based on Masking Method....Pages 144-155 UCSG Shallow Parser....Pages 156-167 Evaluating the Performance of the Survey Parser with the NIST Scheme....Pages 168-179 Sequences of Part of Speech Tags vs. Sequences of Phrase Labels: How Do They Help in Parsing?....Pages 180-191 Verb Sense Disambiguation Using Support Vector Machines: Impact of WordNet-Extracted Features....Pages 192-195 Preposition Senses: Generalized Disambiguation Model....Pages 196-207 An Unsupervised Language Independent Method of Name Discrimination Using Second Order Co-occurrence Features....Pages 208-222 Extracting Key Phrases to Disambiguate Personal Names on the Web....Pages 223-234 Chinese Noun Phrase Metaphor Recognition with Maximum Entropy Approach....Pages 235-244 Zero Anaphora Resolution in Chinese Discourse....Pages 245-248 Random Walks on Text Structures....Pages 249-262 Shallow Case Role Annotation Using Two-Stage Feature-Enhanced String Matching....Pages 263-274 SPARTE, a Test Suite for Recognising Textual Entailment in Spanish....Pages 275-286 Analysis of a Textual Entailer....Pages 287-298 Referring Via Document Parts....Pages 299-310 Generation of Natural Language Explanations of Rules in an Expert System....Pages 311-314 Generating a Set of Rules to Determine Honorific Expression Using Decision Tree Learning....Pages 315-318 NLP (Natural Language Processing) for NLP (Natural Language Programming)....Pages 319-330 Balancing Transactions in Practical Dialogues....Pages 331-342 Finite State Grammar Transduction from Distributed Collected Knowledge....Pages 343-354 Predicting Dialogue Acts from Prosodic Information....Pages 355-365 Disambiguation Based on Wordnet for Transliteration of Arabic Numerals for Korean TTS....Pages 366-377 MFCRank : A Web Ranking Algorithm Based on Correlation of Multiple Features....Pages 378-388 On Text Ranking for Information Retrieval Based on Degree of Preference....Pages 389-393 Application of Semi-supervised Learning to Evaluative Expression Classification....Pages 502-513 A New Algorithm for Fast Discovery of Maximal Sequential Patterns in a Document Collection....Pages 514-523 A Machine Learning Based Approach for Separating Head from Body in Web-Tables....Pages 524-535 Multi-document Summarization Based on BE-Vector Clustering....Pages 470-479 Deriving Event Relevance from the Ontology Constructed with Formal Concept Analysis....Pages 480-489 A Sentence Compression Module for Machine-Assisted Subtitling....Pages 490-501 Lexical Normalization and Relationship Alternatives for a Term Dependence Model in Information Retrieval....Pages 394-405 Web Search Model for Dynamic and Fuzzy Directory Search....Pages 406-409 Information Retrieval from Spoken Documents....Pages 410-416 Automatic Image Annotation Based on WordNet and Hierarchical Ensembles....Pages 417-428 Creating a Testbed for the Evaluation of Automatically Generated Back-of-the-Book Indexes....Pages 429-440 Clustering Abstracts of Scientific Texts Using the Transition Point Technique....Pages 536-546 Sense Cluster Based Categorization and Clustering of Abstracts....Pages 547-550 Analysing Part-of-Speech for Portuguese Text Classification....Pages 551-562 Improving kNN Text Categorization by Removing Outliers from Training Set....Pages 563-566 Automatic Acquisition of Semantic-Based Question Reformulations for Question Answering....Pages 441-452 Using N-Gram Models to Combine Query Translations in Cross-Language Question Answering....Pages 453-457 A Question Answering System on Special Domain and the Implementation of Speech Interface....Pages 458-469 Writing for Language-Impaired Readers....Pages 567-570 Document Copy Detection System Based on Plagiarism Patterns....Pages 571-574 Regional vs. Global Robust Spelling Correction....Pages 575-585 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.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, held in February 2006. The 43 revised full papers and 16 revised short papers presented together with three invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 176 submissions. The papers are structured into two parts and organized in topical sections on computational linguistics research.