Natural language and information systems : 13th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2008, London, UK, June 24-27, 2008 : proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2008, held in London, UK, in June 2008. The 31 revised full papers and 14 revised poster papers presented together with 3 invited talks and 4 papers of the NLDB 2008 doctoral symposium were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on natural language processing and understanding, conceptual modelling and ontologies, information retrieval, querying and question answering, document processing and text mining, software (requirements) engineering and specification. Front Matter....Pages - Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Sentence and Text Comprehension: Evidence from Human Language Processing....Pages 3-3 Towards Semantic Search....Pages 4-11 From Databases to Natural Language: The Unusual Direction....Pages 12-16 Front Matter....Pages 17-17 Division of Spanish Words into Morphemes with a Genetic Algorithm....Pages 19-26 Abbreviation Disambiguation: Experiments with Various Variants of the One Sense per Discourse Hypothesis....Pages 27-39 The Acquisition of Common Sense Knowledge by Being Told: An Application of NLP to Itself....Pages 40-51 Front Matter....Pages 53-53 Interlingua for French and German Topological Prepositions....Pages 55-66 Ontological Profiles as Semantic Domain Representations....Pages 67-78 A Hybrid Approach to Ontology Relationship Learning....Pages 79-90 Automating the Generation of Semantic Annotation Tools Using a Clustering Technique....Pages 91-96 Front Matter....Pages 97-97 Exploiting Multiple Features with MEMMs for Focused Web Crawling....Pages 99-110 Ranked-Listed or Categorized Results in IR: 2 Is Better Than 1....Pages 111-123 Exploiting Morphological Query Structure Using Genetic Optimisation....Pages 124-135 Generation of Query-Biased Concepts Using Content and Structure for Query Reformulation....Pages 136-141 Comparing Several Textual Information Retrieval Systems for the Geographical Information Retrieval Task....Pages 142-147 Front Matter....Pages 149-149 Intensional Question Answering Using ILP: What Does an Answer Mean?....Pages 151-162 Augmenting Data Retrieval with Information Retrieval Techniques by Using Word Similarity....Pages 163-174 Combining Data Integration and IE Techniques to Support Partially Structured Data....Pages 175-186 Towards Building Robust Natural Language Interfaces to Databases....Pages 187-198 Towards a Bootstrapping NLIDB System....Pages 199-204 Front Matter....Pages 205-205 Real-Time News Event Extraction for Global Crisis Monitoring....Pages 207-218 Topics Identification Based on Event Sequence Using Co-occurrence Words....Pages 219-225 Topic Development Based Refinement of Audio-Segmented Television News....Pages 226-232 Text Entailment for Logical Segmentation and Summarization....Pages 233-244 Comparing Non-parametric Ensemble Methods for Document Clustering....Pages 245-256 A Language Modelling Approach to Linking Criminal Styles with Offender Characteristics....Pages 257-268 Front Matter....Pages 269-269 Towards Designing Operationalizable Models of Man-Machine Interaction Based on Concepts from Human Dialog Systems....Pages 271-286 Using Linguistic Knowledge to Classify Non-functional Requirements in SRS documents....Pages 287-298 A Preliminary Approach to the Automatic Extraction of Business Rules from Unrestricted Text in the Banking Industry....Pages 299-310 Paraphrasing OCL Expressions with SBVR....Pages 311-316 A General Architecture for Connecting NLP Frameworks and Desktop Clients Using Web Services....Pages 317-322 Front Matter....Pages 323-323 Conceptual Model Generation from Requirements Model: A Natural Language Processing Approach....Pages 325-326 Bivalent Verbs and Their Pragmatic Particularities....Pages 327-328 Using Ontologies and Relatedness Metrics for Semantic Document Analysis on the Web....Pages 329-330 Front Matter....Pages 331-331 The TSRM Approach in the Document Retrieval Application....Pages 333-334 Enhanced Services for Targeted Information Retrieval by Event Extraction and Data Mining....Pages 335-336 Front Matter....Pages 337-337 Improving Question Answering Tasks by Textual Entailment Recognition....Pages 339-340 Supporting Named Entity Recognition and Syntactic Analysis with Full-Text Queries....Pages 341-342 Front Matter....Pages 343-343 Multilingual Feature-Driven Opinion Extraction and Summarization from Customer Reviews....Pages 345-346 Lexical and Semantic Methods in Inner Text Topic Segmentation: A Comparison between C99 and Transeg....Pages 347-349 Front Matter....Pages 343-343 An Application of NLP and Audiovisual Content Analysis for Integration of Multimodal Databases of Current Events....Pages 350-351 Detecting Protein-Protein Interaction Sentences Using a Mixture Model....Pages 352-354 Using Semantic Features to Improve Task Identification in Email Messages....Pages 355-357 Text Pre-processing for Document Clustering....Pages 358-359 Front Matter....Pages 361-361 Trade Oriented Enterprise Content Management: A Semantic and Collaborative Prototype Dedicated to the “Quality, Hygiene, Safety and Environment” Domain....Pages 363-364 Front Matter....Pages 365-365 Mapping Natural Language into SQL in a NLIDB....Pages 367-371 Improving Data Integration through Disambiguation Techniques....Pages 372-375 An Ontology-Based Focused Crawler....Pages 376-379 Impact of Term-Indexing for Arabic Document Retrieval....Pages 380-383 Back Matter....Pages - Annotation This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2008, held in London, UK, in June 2008. The 31 revised full papers and 14 revised poster papers presented together with 3 invited talks and 4 papers of the NLDB 2008 doctoral symposium were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on natural language processing and understanding, conceptual modelling and ontologies, information retrieval, querying and question answering, document processing and text mining, software (requirements) engineering and specification