Natural Language Processing and Information Systems : 17th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2012, Groningen, The Netherlands, June 26-28, 2012. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, held in Groningen, The Netherlands, in June 2012. The 12 full papers, 24 short papers and 16 poster papers presented in this volume together with a full-paper length invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. The rapidly evolving state-of-the-art in NLP and the shifting interest to appcliations targeting document and data collections available on the Web, including an increasing amount of user generated content, is reflected in the contributions to this book. Topics covered are information retrieval, text classification and clustering, summarization, normalization of user generated content, "forensic" NLP, ontologies and natural language, sentiment analysis, question answering and information extraction, terminology and named entity recognition, and NLP tools development. Front Matter....Pages - Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Conceptual Modelling....Pages 1-10 Multi-dimensional Analysis of Political Documents....Pages 11-22 Fake Reviews: The Malicious Perspective....Pages 23-34 Polarity Preference of Verbs: What Could Verbs Reveal about the Polarity of Their Objects?....Pages 35-46 Labeling Queries for a People Search Engine....Pages 47-57 Litmus: Generation of Test Cases from Functional Requirements in Natural Language....Pages 58-69 Extracting Multi-document Summaries with a Double Clustering Approach....Pages 70-81 Developing Multilingual Text Mining Workflows in UIMA and U-Compare....Pages 82-93 Geographic Expansion of Queries to Improve the Geographic Information Retrieval Task....Pages 94-103 Learning Good Decompositions of Complex Questions....Pages 104-115 A Semi Supervised Learning Model for Mapping Sentences to Logical form with Ambiguous Supervision....Pages 116-127 On the Effect of Stopword Removal for SMS-Based FAQ Retrieval....Pages 128-139 Wikimantic: Disambiguation for Short Queries....Pages 140-151 Polish Language Processing Chains for Multilingual Information Systems....Pages 152-157 GPU-Accelerated Non-negative Matrix Factorization for Text Mining....Pages 158-163 Generating SQL Queries Using Natural Language Syntactic Dependencies and Metadata....Pages 164-170 Two-Stage Named-Entity Recognition Using Averaged Perceptrons....Pages 171-176 Using Natural Language Processing to Improve Document Categorization with Associative Networks....Pages 177-182 MLICC: A Multi-Label and Incremental Centroid-Based Classification of Web Pages by Genre....Pages 183-190 Classifying Image Galleries into a Taxonomy Using Metadata and Wikipedia....Pages 191-196 Supervised HDP Using Prior Knowledge....Pages 197-202 User-Driven Automatic Resource Retrieval Based on Natural Language Request....Pages 203-209 Integrating Lexical-Semantic Knowledge to Build a Public Lexical Ontology for Portuguese....Pages 210-215 From Ontology to NL: Generation of Multilingual User-Oriented Environmental Reports....Pages 216-221 Web-Based Relation Extraction for the Food Domain....Pages 222-227 Blog Distillation via Sentiment-Sensitive Link Analysis....Pages 228-233 Performing Groupization in Data Warehouses: Which Discriminating Criterion to Select?....Pages 234-240 The Study of Informality as a Framework for Evaluating the Normalisation of Web 2.0 Texts....Pages 241-246 Modeling Math Word Problems with Augmented Semantic Networks....Pages 247-252 Improving Document-Level Sentiment Classification Using Contextual Valence Shifters....Pages 253-258 Comparing Different Methods for Opinion Mining in Newspaper Articles....Pages 259-264 Extracting Social Events Based on Timeline and Sentiment Analysis in Twitter Corpus....Pages 265-270 Can Text Summaries Help Predict Ratings? A Case Study of Movie Reviews....Pages 271-276 Towards User Modelling in the Combat against Cyberbullying....Pages 277-283 Plag-Inn: Intrinsic Plagiarism Detection Using Grammar Trees....Pages 284-289 On the Application of Spell Correction to Improve Plagiarism Detection....Pages 290-295 PIRPO: An Algorithm to Deal with Polarity in Portuguese Online Reviews from the Accommodation Sector....Pages 296-301 Towards Interrogative Types in Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems....Pages 302-307 Teaching Business Systems to Agree....Pages 308-313 Improving Chinese Event Construction Extraction with Lexical Relation Pairs....Pages 314-319 A Classifier Based Approach to Emotion Lexicon Construction....Pages 320-326 Technical Term Recognition with Semi-supervised Learning Using Hierarchical Bayesian Language Models....Pages 327-332 An Experience Developing a Semantic Annotation System in a Media Group....Pages 333-338 From Requirements to Code: Syntax-Based Requirements Analysis for Data-Driven Application Development....Pages 339-344 Structuring Political Documents for Importance Ranking....Pages 345-350 Author Disambiguation Using Wikipedia-Based Explicit Semantic Analysis....Pages 351-354 Automatic Population of Korean Information in Linking Open Data....Pages 355-359 Initial Results from a Study on Personal Semantics of Conceptual Modeling Languages....Pages 360-365 Lexical Knowledge Acquisition Using Spontaneous Descriptions in Texts....Pages 366-371 Interacting with Data Warehouse by Using a Natural Language Interface....Pages 372-377 Processing Semantic Keyword Queries for Scientific Literature....Pages 378-384 Arabic Rhetorical Relations Extraction for Answering "Why" and "How to" Questions....Pages 385-390 Facets of a Discourse Analysis of Safety Requirements....Pages 391-396 Back Matter....Pages - This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, held in Salford, UK, in June 2013. The 21 long papers, 15 short papers and 17 poster papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions.