Human language technology : challenges for computer science and linguistics : 4th Language and Technology Conference, LTC 2009, Poznan, Poland, November 6-8, 2009 : revised selected papers

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4 th Language and Technology Conference: Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics, LTC 2009, held in Poznan, Poland, in November 2009. The 52 revised and in many cases substantially extended papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions. The contributions are organized in topical sections on speech processing, computational morphology/lexicography, parsing, computational semantics, dialogue modeling and processing, digital language resources, WordNet, document processing, information processing, and machine translation. Front Matter....Pages - Data-Driven Approaches to Objective Evaluation of Phoneme Alignment Systems....Pages 1-11 Phonetically Transcribed Speech Corpus Designed for Context Based European Portuguese TTS....Pages 12-23 Robust Speech Recognition in the Car Environment....Pages 24-34 Corpus Design for a Unit Selection TtS System with Application to Bulgarian....Pages 35-46 Automatic Identification of Phonetic Similarity Based on Underspecification....Pages 47-58 Error Detection in Broadcast News ASR Using Markov Chains....Pages 59-69 Pronunciation and Writing Variants in an Under-Resourced Language: The Case of Luxembourgish Mobile N-Deletion....Pages 70-81 Morpheme-Based and Factored Language Modeling for Amharic Speech Recognition....Pages 82-93 The Corpus Analysis Toolkit - Analysing Multilevel Annotations....Pages 94-104 Time Durations of Phonemes in Polish Language for Speech and Speaker Recognition....Pages 105-114 Polysemous Verb Classification Using Subcategorization Acquisition and Graph-Based Clustering....Pages 115-126 Estimating the Proximity between Languages by Their Commonality in Vocabulary Structures....Pages 127-138 Toposław – A Lexicographic Framework for Multi-word Units....Pages 139-150 Parsing CFGs and PCFGs with a Chomsky-Schützenberger Representation....Pages 151-160 Syntactic Analysis Using Finite Patterns: A New Parsing System for Czech....Pages 161-171 Using SRX Standard for Sentence Segmentation....Pages 172-182 Using Lexicon-Grammar Tables for French Verbs in a Large-Coverage Parser....Pages 183-191 Effect of Overt Pronoun Resolution in Topic Tracking....Pages 192-202 Sentiment Intensity: Is It a Good Summary Indicator?....Pages 203-212 Syntactic Tree Kernels for Event-Time Temporal Relation Learning....Pages 213-223 The WSD Development Environment....Pages 224-233 Semantic Analyzer in the Thetos-3 System....Pages 234-244 Unsupervised and Open Ontology-Based Semantic Analysis....Pages 245-256 Non Compositional Semantics Using Rewriting....Pages 257-267 Defining Specialized Entailment Engines Using Natural Logic Relations....Pages 268-279 Czech Senior COMPANION: Wizard of Oz Data Collection and Expressive Speech Corpus Recording and Annotation....Pages 280-290 Abstractive Summarization of Voice Communications....Pages 291-302 Natural Language Based Communication between Human Users and the Emergency Center: POLINT-112-SMS....Pages 303-314 Dialogue Organization in Polint-112-SMS....Pages 315-326 Valuable Language Resources and Applications Supporting the Use of Basque....Pages 327-338 Clues to Compare Languages for Morphosyntactic Analysis: A Study Run on Parallel Corpora and Morphosyntactic Lexicons....Pages 339-350 Corpus Clouds - Facilitating Text Analysis by Means of Visualizations....Pages 351-360 Acquiring Bilingual Lexica from Keyword Listings....Pages 361-370 Annotating Sanskrit Corpus: Adapting IL-POSTS....Pages 371-379 Effective Authoring Procedure for E-learning Courses’ Development in Philological Curriculum Based on LOs Ideology....Pages 380-387 Acquisition of Spatial Relations from an Experimental Corpus....Pages 388-399 Which XML Standards for Multilevel Corpus Annotation?....Pages 400-411 Corpus Academicum Lithuanicum: Design Criteria, Methodology, Application....Pages 412-422 The EM-Based Wordnet Synsets Annotation of NP/PP Heads....Pages 423-434 Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation with Lexical Chains and Graph-Based Context Formalization....Pages 435-443 An Access Layer to PolNet – Polish WordNet....Pages 444-455 OTTO: A Tool for Diplomatic Transcription of Historical Texts....Pages 456-467 Automatic Author Attribution for Short Text Documents....Pages 468-477 BioExcom: Detection and Categorization of Speculative Sentences in Biomedical Literature....Pages 478-489 Experimenting with Automatic Text Summarisation for Arabic....Pages 490-499 Enhancing Opinion Extraction by Automatically Annotated Lexical Resources....Pages 500-511 Technical Trend Analysis by Analyzing Research Papers’ Titles....Pages 512-521 Extracting and Visualizing Quotations from News Wires....Pages 522-532 Using Wikipedia to Improve Precision of Contextual Advertising....Pages 533-543 Unsupervised Extraction of Keywords from News Archives....Pages 544-555 Automatic Evaluation of Texts by Using Paraphrases....Pages 556-566 Packing It All Up in Search for a Language Independent MT Quality Measure Tool – Part Two....Pages 567-576 Back Matter....Pages - Annotation This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Language and Technology Conference: Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics, LTC 2009, held in Poznan, Poland, in November 2009. The 52 revised and in many cases substantially extended papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions. The contributions are organized in topical sections on speech processing, computational morphology/lexicography, parsing, computational semantics, dialogue modeling and processing, digital language resources, WordNet, document processing, information processing, and machine translation