Natural language processing and information systems : 18th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2013, Salford, UK, June 19-21, 2013 : proceedings

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. The papers cover the following topics: requirements engineering, question answering systems, named entity recognition, sentiment analysis and mining, forensic computing, semantic web, and information search. Front Matter....Pages - Extraction of Statements in News for a Media Response Analysis....Pages 1-12 Sentiment-Based Ranking of Blog Posts Using Rhetorical Structure Theory....Pages 13-24 Automatic Detection of Ambiguous Terminology for Software Requirements....Pages 25-37 An OpenCCG-Based Approach to Question Generation from Concepts....Pages 38-52 A Hybrid Approach for Arabic Diacritization....Pages 53-64 EDU-Based Similarity for Paraphrase Identification....Pages 65-76 Exploiting Query Logs and Field-Based Models to Address Term Mismatch in an HIV/AIDS FAQ Retrieval System....Pages 77-89 Exploring Domain-Sensitive Features for Extractive Summarization in the Medical Domain....Pages 90-101 A Corpus-Based Approach for the Induction of Ontology Lexica....Pages 102-113 SQUALL: A Controlled Natural Language as Expressive as SPARQL 1.1....Pages 114-125 Evaluating Syntactic Sentence Compression for Text Summarisation....Pages 126-139 An Unsupervised Aspect Detection Model for Sentiment Analysis of Reviews....Pages 140-151 Cross-Lingual Natural Language Querying over the Web of Data....Pages 152-163 Extractive Text Summarization: Can We Use the Same Techniques for Any Text?....Pages 164-175 Unsupervised Medical Subject Heading Assignment Using Output Label Co-occurrence Statistics and Semantic Predications....Pages 176-188 Bayesian Model Averaging and Model Selection for Polarity Classification....Pages 189-200 An Approach for Extracting and Disambiguating Arabic Persons’ Names Using Clustered Dictionaries and Scored Patterns....Pages 201-212 ANEAR: Automatic Named Entity Aliasing Resolution....Pages 213-224 Improving Candidate Generation for Entity Linking....Pages 225-236 Person Name Recognition Using the Hybrid Approach....Pages 237-248 A Broadly Applicable and Flexible Conceptual Metagrammar as a Basic Tool for Developing a Multilingual Semantic Web....Pages 249-259 MOSAIC: A Cohesive Method for Orchestrating Discrete Analytics in a Distributed Model....Pages 260-265 Ranking Search Intents Underlying a Query....Pages 266-271 Linguistic Sentiment Features for Newspaper Opinion Mining....Pages 272-277 Text Classification of Technical Papers Based on Text Segmentation....Pages 278-284 Product Features Categorization Using Constrained Spectral Clustering....Pages 285-290 A New Approach for Improving Cross-Document Knowledge Discovery Using Wikipedia....Pages 291-296 Using Grammar-Profiles to Intrinsically Expose Plagiarism in Text Documents....Pages 297-302 Feature Selection Methods in Persian Sentiment Analysis....Pages 303-308 Towards the Refinement of the Arabic Soundex....Pages 309-314 An RDF-Based Semantic Index....Pages 315-320 Experiments in Producing Playful “Explanations” for Given Names (Anthroponyms) in Hebrew and English....Pages 321-327 Collaborative Enrichment of Electronic Dictionaries Standardized-LMF....Pages 328-336 Enhancing Machine Learning Results for Semantic Relation Extraction....Pages 337-342 GenDesc : A Partial Generalization of Linguistic Features for Text Classification....Pages 343-348 Entangled Semantics....Pages 349-354 Phrase Table Combination Deficiency Analyses in Pivot-Based SMT....Pages 355-358 Analysing Customers Sentiments: An Approach to Opinion Mining and Classification of Online Hotel Reviews....Pages 359-362 An Improved Discriminative Category Matching in Relation Identification....Pages 363-366 Extracting Fine-Grained Entities Based on Coordinate Graph....Pages 367-371 NLP-Driven Event Semantic Ontology Modeling for Story....Pages 372-375 The Development of an Ontology for Reminiscence....Pages 376-379 Chinese Sentence Analysis Based on Linguistic Entity-Relationship Model....Pages 380-383 A Dependency Graph Isomorphism for News Sentence Searching....Pages 384-387 Unsupervised Gazette Creation Using Information Distance....Pages 388-391 A Multi-purpose Online Toolset for NLP Applications....Pages 392-395 A Test-Bed for Text-to-Speech-Based Pedestrian Navigation Systems....Pages 396-399 Automatic Detection of Arabic Causal Relations....Pages 400-403 A Framework for Employee Appraisals Based on Inductive Logic Programming and Data Mining Methods....Pages 404-407 A Method for Improving Business Intelligence Interpretation through the Use of Semantic Technology....Pages 408-411 Code Switch Point Detection in Arabic....Pages 412-416 SurveyCoder: A System for Classification of Survey Responses....Pages 417-420 Rhetorical Representation and Vector Representation in Summarizing Arabic Text....Pages 421-424 Back Matter....Pages - Full Papers Extraction of Statements in News for a Media Response Analysis Sentiment-Based Ranking of Blog Posts Using Rhetorical Structure Theory Automatic Detection of Ambiguous Terminology for Software Requirements An OpenCCG-Based Approach to Question Generation from Concepts A Hybrid Approach for Arabic Diacritization EDU-Based Similarity for Paraphrase Identification Exploiting Query Logs and Field-Based Models to Address Term Mismatch in an HIV/AIDS FAQ Retrieval System Exploring Domain-Sensitive Features for Extractive Summarization in the Medical Domain A Corpus-Based Approach for the Induction of Ontology Lexica SQUALL: A Controlled Natural Language as Expressive as SPARQL 1.1 Evaluating Syntactic Sentence Compression for Text Summarisation An Unsupervised Aspect Detection Model for Sentiment Analysis of Reviews Cross-Lingual Natural Language Querying over the Web of Data ^ Extractive Text Summarization: Can We Use the Same Techniques for Any Text? Unsupervised Medical Subject Heading Assignment Using Output Label Co-occurrence Statistics and Semantic Predications Bayesian Model Averaging and Model Selection for Polarity Classification An Approach for Extracting and Disambiguating Arabic Persons’ Names Using Clustered Dictionaries and Scored Patterns ANEAR: Automatic Named Entity Aliasing Resolution Improving Candidate Generation for Entity Linking Person Name Recognition Using the Hybrid Approach A Broadly Applicable and Flexible Conceptual Metagrammar as a Basic Tool for Developing a Multilingual Semantic Web Short Papers MOSAIC: A Cohesive Method for Orchestrating Discrete Analytics in a Distributed Model Ranking Search Intents Underlying a Query Linguistic Sentiment Features for Newspaper Opinion Mining Text Classification of Technical Papers Based on Text Segmentation ^ ^^ Product Features Categorization Using Constrained Spectral Clustering A New Approach for Improving Cross-Document Knowledge Discovery Using Wikipedia Using Grammar-Profiles to Intrinsically Expose Plagiarism in Text Documents Feature Selection Methods in Persian Sentiment Analysis Towards the Refinement of the Arabic Soundex An RDF-Based Semantic Index Experiments in Producing Playful “Explanations” for Given Names (Anthroponyms) in Hebrew and English Collaborative Enrichment of Electronic Dictionaries Standardized-LMF Enhancing Machine Learning Results for Semantic Relation Extraction GenDesc: A Partial Generalization of Linguistic Features for Text Classification Entangled Semantics Poster Papers Phrase Table Combination Deficiency Analyses in Pivot-Based SMT Analysing Customers Sentiments: An Approach to Opinion Mining and Classification of Online Hotel Reviews An Improved Discriminative Category Matching in Relation Identification ^ ^^ Extracting Fine-Grained Entities Based on Coordinate Graph NLP-Driven Event Semantic Ontology Modeling for Story The Development of an Ontology for Reminiscence Chinese Sentence Analysis Based on Linguistic Entity-Relationship Model A Dependency Graph Isomorphism for News Sentence Searching Unsupervised Gazette Creation Using Information Distance A Multi-purpose Online Toolset for NLP Applications A Test-Bed for Text-to-Speech-Based Pedestrian Navigation Systems Automatic Detection of Arabic Causal Relations A Framework for Employee Appraisals Based on Inductive Logic Programming and Data Mining Methods A Method for Improving Business Intelligence Interpretation through the Use of Semantic Technology Code Switch Point Detection in Arabic SurveyCoder: A System for Classification of Survey Responses Rhetorical Representation and Vector Representation in Summarizing Arabic Text. ^^