Future and Emerging Trends in Language Technology. Machine Learning and Big Data : Second International Workshop, FETLT 2016, Seville, Spain, November 30 –December 2, 2016, Revised Selected Papers

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the Second International Workshop on Future and Emerging Trends in Language Technology, FETLT 2016, which took place in Seville, Spain, in November 2016. The 10 full papers and 5 position papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. In 2016 the conference focused on Machine Learning and Big Data. Front Matter ....Pages I-XII Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 With or Without Meaning? Hype Cycles in Language Technology and What We Can Learn from Them (António Branco)....Pages 3-19 Observatory for Language Resources and Machine Translation in Europe – LT_Observatory (Bente Maegaard, Claus Povlsen, Sussi Olsen, Lina Henriksen, Margaretha Mazura, Vesna Lusicky et al.)....Pages 20-37 The Rise of the Conversational Interface: A New Kid on the Block? (Michael F. McTear)....Pages 38-49 Spanish Language Technologies Plan (David Pérez Fernandez, Doaa Samy, Juan de Dios Llorens Gonzalez)....Pages 50-60 Improving Collaboration Between the European Language Technology Industry and Research: A New Framework for Supply and Demand (Philippe Wacker, Andrew Joscelyne)....Pages 61-69 Front Matter ....Pages 71-71 LifeLine Dialogues with Roberta (Asier López, Ahmed Ratni, Trung Ngo Trong, Javier Mikel Olaso, Seth Montenegro, Minha Lee et al.)....Pages 73-85 An Affective Utility Model of User Motivation for Counselling Dialogue Systems (Zoraida Callejas, David Griol)....Pages 86-97 Exploring Flexibility in Natural Language Generation Through Discursive Analysis of New Textual Genres (Marta Vicente, Elena Lloret)....Pages 98-109 Bootstrapping Technique + Embeddings = Emotional Corpus Annotated Automatically (Lea Canales, Carlo Strapparava, Ester Boldrini, Patricio Matínez-Barco)....Pages 110-121 Rapid Construction of a Web-Enabled Medical Speech to Sign Language Translator Using Recorded Video (Farhia Ahmed, Pierrette Bouillon, Chelle Destefano, Johanna Gerlach, Angela Hooper, Manny Rayner et al.)....Pages 122-134 Incorporating Syllable Phonotactics to Improve Grapheme to Phoneme Translation (Stephen Ash, David Lin)....Pages 135-147 Hybrid Conceptual and Statistical Measure for Semantic Textual Similarity Evaluation (Alejandro Tarafa Guzmán, Ademar Ferreira)....Pages 148-157 General Representation Model for Text Similarity (Fernando Giner, Enrique Amigó)....Pages 158-169 Extending Feature Decay Algorithms Using Alignment Entropy (Alberto Poncelas, Andy Way, Antonio Toral)....Pages 170-182 Towards a Topic Discovery and Tracking System with Application to News Items (Daniel Brüggermann, Yannik Hermey, Carsten Orth, Darius Schneider, Stefan Selzer, Gerasimos Spanakis)....Pages 183-197 Back Matter ....Pages 199-199