Human Language Technology Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics : 5th Language and Technology Conference, LTC 2011, Poznań, Poland, November 25--27, 2011, Revised Selected Papers

This Book Constitutes The Refereed Proceedings Of The 5th Language And Technology Conference: Challenges For Computer Science And Linguistics, Ltc 2011, Held In Poznan, Poland, In November 2011. The 44 Revised And In Many Cases Substantially Extended Papers Presented In This Volume Were Carefully Reviewed And Selected From 111 Submissions. The Focus Of The Papers Is On The Following Topics: Speech, Parsing, Computational Semantics, Text Analysis, Text Annotation, Language Resources: General Issues, Language Resources: Ontologies And Wordnets, And Machine Translation. Active Learning To Speed-up The Training Process For Dialogue Act Labelling -- Direct And Word Graph-based Confidence Measures In Dialogue Annotation With N-gram Transducers -- Orwell’s 1984 — From Simple To Multi-word Units -- Application Of Audio And Video Processing Methods For Language Research And Documentation. The Ava Tech Project -- Language Resources: General Issues -- Crowdsourcing For Language Resource Development: Criticisms About Amazon Mechanical Turk Overpowering Use -- Extending A Tool Resource Framework With U-compare -- Language Resources: Ontologies And Wordnets -- Aligning Germanet Senses With Wiktionary Sense Definitions -- A Tool For Transforming Word Net-like Databases -- Kaba Subject Heading Language As The Main Resource Subject Organization Tool In A Semantic Knowledge Base -- Enhancing Tagging Systems By Word Net Based Ontologies -- Natural Language Ontology Of Action. A Gap With Huge Consequences For Natural Language Understanding And Machine Translation -- Classification-based Extension Of Word Nets From Heterogeneous Resources -- Pol Net – Polish Word Net -- Machine Translation -- Improving The Distribution Of N-grams In Phrase Tables Obtained By The Sampling-based Method -- Marker-based Chunking In Eleven European Languages For Analogy-based Translation -- Comparing Cbmt Approaches For German-romanian -- Text Genre- An Unexplored Parameter In Statistical Machine Translation -- Problems Concerning Less Resourced Languages Detecting Gaps In Language Resources And Tools In The Project Cesar -- A First Lvcsr System For Luxembourgish, A Low-resourced European Language -- Developing Lrs For Non-scheduled Indian Languages A Case Of Magahi -- Quizzes On Tap: Exporting A Test Generation System From One Less-resourced Language To Another -- A Multilingual Text Normalization Approach -- Creating Multilingual Parallel Corpora In Indian Languages -- Inducing Grammars From Igt. Edited By Zygmunt Vetulani, Joseph Mariani. Front Matter....Pages I-XVI Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Improved Syllable-Based Text to Speech Synthesis for Tone Language Systems....Pages 3-15 Slovak Automatic Dictation System for Judicial Domain....Pages 16-27 The Intonation of Backchannel Tokens in Italian Collaborative Dialogues....Pages 28-39 Front Matter....Pages 41-41 Improved Parsing for Arabic by Combining Diverse Dependency Parsers....Pages 43-54 Parsing Coordination Extragrammatically....Pages 55-66 Lexical Disambiguation in LTAG Using Left Context....Pages 67-79 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 Resolving Anaphors in Sanskrit....Pages 83-92 Unsupervised Coreference Resolution Using a Graph Labeling Approach....Pages 93-103 The XCDC Relations as a Spatio-Temporal Ontology....Pages 104-115 Normalization of Term Weighting Scheme for Sentiment Analysis....Pages 116-128 Thel, a Language for Utterance Generation in the Thetos System....Pages 129-140 An Algorithm for Inconsistency Management in Spatial Knowledge Integration....Pages 141-152 Front Matter....Pages 153-153 Information Extraction for Czech Based on Syntactic Analysis....Pages 155-165 Applying Rule-Based Normalization to Different Types of Historical Texts—An Evaluation....Pages 166-177 A Rule Based Method for the Identification of TAM Features in a PoS Tagged Corpus....Pages 178-188 Digging for Names in the Mountains: Combined Person Name Recognition and Reference Resolution for German Alpine Texts....Pages 189-200 Enhancing Labeled Data Using Unlabeled Data for Topic Tracking....Pages 201-212 Temporal Expression Recognition Using Dependency Trees....Pages 213-225 Pattern Mining for Named Entity Recognition....Pages 226-237 Lexical Bundles in Swedish Secondary School Textbooks....Pages 238-249 Front Matter....Pages 251-251 Active Learning to Speed-Up the Training Process for Dialogue Act Labelling....Pages 253-263 Direct and Wordgraph-Based Confidence Measures in Dialogue Annotation with N-Gram Transducers....Pages 264-275 Orwell’s 1984 —From Simple to Multi-word Units....Pages 276-287 Application of Audio and Video Processing Methods for Language Research and Documentation: The AVATecH Project....Pages 288-299 Front Matter....Pages 301-301 Crowdsourcing for Language Resource Development: Criticisms About Amazon Mechanical Turk Overpowering Use....Pages 303-314 Extending a Tool Resource Framework with U-Compare....Pages 315-326 Front Matter....Pages 327-327 Aligning GermaNet Senses with Wiktionary Sense Definitions....Pages 329-342 A Tool for Transforming WordNet-Like Databases....Pages 343-355 KABA Subject Heading Language as the Main Resource Subject Organization Tool in a Semantic Knowledge Base....Pages 356-366 Enhancing Tagging Systems by Wordnet Based Ontologies....Pages 367-378 Natural Language Ontology of Action: A Gap with Huge Consequences for Natural Language Understanding and Machine Translation....Pages 379-395 Classification-Based Extension of Wordnets from Heterogeneous Resources....Pages 396-407 PolNet – Polish WordNet....Pages 408-416 Front Matter....Pages 417-417 Improving the Distribution of N-Grams in Phrase Tables Obtained by the Sampling-Based Method....Pages 419-431 Marker-Based Chunking in Eleven European Languages for Analogy-Based Translation....Pages 432-444 Comparing CBMT Approaches for German-Romanian....Pages 445-455 Text Genre – An Unexplored Parameter in Statistical Machine Translation....Pages 456-467 Front Matter....Pages 469-469 Detecting Gaps in Language Resources and Tools in the Project CESAR....Pages 471-478 A First LVCSR System for Luxembourgish, a Low-Resourced European Language....Pages 479-490 Developing LRs for Non-scheduled Indian Languages....Pages 491-501 Front Matter....Pages 469-469 Quizzes on Tap: Exporting a Test Generation System from One Less-Resourced Language to Another....Pages 502-514 A Multilingual Text Normalization Approach....Pages 515-526 Creating Multilingual Parallel Corpora in Indian Languages....Pages 527-537 Inducing Grammars from IGT....Pages 538-547 Back Matter....Pages 549-550