Natural Language Processing and Information Systems : 23rd International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2018, Paris, France, June 13-15, 2018, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2018, held in Paris, France, in June 2018. The 18 full papers, 26 short papers, and 9 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 99 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis in Social Media; Semantics-Based Models and Applications; Neural Networks Based Approaches; Ontology Engineering; NLP; Text Similarities and Plagiarism Detection; Text Classification; Information Mining; Recommendation Systems; Translation and Foreign Language Querying; Software Requirement and Checking. Front Matter ....Pages I-XV Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 A Proposal for Book Oriented Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis: Comparison over Domains (Tamara Álvarez-López, Milagros Fernández-Gavilanes, Enrique Costa-Montenegro, Patrice Bellot)....Pages 3-14 Stance Evolution and Twitter Interactions in an Italian Political Debate (Mirko Lai, Viviana Patti, Giancarlo Ruffo, Paolo Rosso)....Pages 15-27 Identifying and Classifying Influencers in Twitter only with Textual Information (Victoria Nebot, Francisco Rangel, Rafael Berlanga, Paolo Rosso)....Pages 28-39 Twitter Sentiment Analysis Experiments Using Word Embeddings on Datasets of Various Scales (Yusuf Arslan, Dilek Küçük, Aysenur Birturk)....Pages 40-47 A Deep Learning Approach for Sentiment Analysis Applied to Hotel’s Reviews (Joana Gabriela Ribeiro de Souza, Alcione de Paiva Oliveira, Guidson Coelho de Andrade, Alexandra Moreira)....Pages 48-56 Automatic Identification and Classification of Misogynistic Language on Twitter (Maria Anzovino, Elisabetta Fersini, Paolo Rosso)....Pages 57-64 Assessing the Effectiveness of Affective Lexicons for Depression Classification (Noor Fazilla Abd Yusof, Chenghua Lin, Frank Guerin)....Pages 65-69 Front Matter ....Pages 71-71 Toward Human-Like Robot Learning (Sergei Nirenburg, Marjorie McShane, Stephen Beale, Peter Wood, Brian Scassellati, Olivier Magnin et al.)....Pages 73-82 Identifying Argumentative Paragraphs: Towards Automatic Assessment of Argumentation in Theses (Jesús Miguel García-Gorrostieta, Aurelio López-López)....Pages 83-90 Semantic Mapping of Security Events to Known Attack Patterns (Xiao Ma, Elnaz Davoodi, Leila Kosseim, Nicandro Scarabeo)....Pages 91-98 Front Matter ....Pages 99-99 Accommodating Phonetic Word Variations Through Generated Confusion Pairs for Hinglish Handwritten Text Recognition (Soumyajit Mitra, Vikrant Singh, Pragya Paramita Sahu, Viswanath Veera, Shankar M. Venkatesan)....Pages 101-112 Arabic Question Classification Using Support Vector Machines and Convolutional Neural Networks (Asma Aouichat, Mohamed Seghir Hadj Ameur, Ahmed Geussoum)....Pages 113-125 A Supervised Learning Approach for ICU Mortality Prediction Based on Unstructured Electrocardiogram Text Reports (Gokul S. Krishnan, S. Sowmya Kamath)....Pages 126-134 Multimodal Language Independent App Classification Using Images and Text (Kushal Singla, Niloy Mukherjee, Joy Bose)....Pages 135-142 T2S: An Encoder-Decoder Model for Topic-Based Natural Language Generation (Wenjie Ou, Chaotao Chen, Jiangtao Ren)....Pages 143-151 Front Matter ....Pages 153-153 Ontology Development Through Concept Map and Text Analytics: The Case of Automotive Safety Ontology (Zirun Qi, Vijayan Sugumaran)....Pages 155-166 A Fuzzy-Based Approach for Representing and Reasoning on Imprecise Time Intervals in Fuzzy-OWL 2 Ontology (Fatma Ghorbel, Fayçal Hamdi, Elisabeth Métais, Nebrasse Ellouze, Faiez Gargouri)....Pages 167-178 Assessing the Impact of Single and Pairwise Slot Constraints in a Factor Graph Model for Template-Based Information Extraction (Hendrik ter Horst, Matthias Hartung, Roman Klinger, Nicole Brazda, Hans Werner Müller, Philipp Cimiano)....Pages 179-190 Front Matter ....Pages 191-191 Processing Medical Binary Questions in Standard Arabic Using NooJ (Essia Bessaies, Slim Mesfar, Henda Ben Ghzela)....Pages 193-204 Verbal Multi-Word Expressions in Yiddish (Chaya Liebeskind, Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner)....Pages 205-216 Stochastic Approach to Aspect Tracking (Maoto Inoue, Takao Miura)....Pages 217-229 Transducer Cascade to Parse Arabic Corpora (Nadia Ghezaiel Hammouda, Roua Torjmen, Kais Haddar)....Pages 230-237 Multi-Word Expressions Annotations Effect in Document Classification Task (Dhekra Najar, Slim Mesfar, Henda Ben Ghezela)....Pages 238-246 RDST: A Rule-Based Decision Support Tool (Sondes Dardour, Héla Fehri)....Pages 247-255 Mention Clustering to Improve Portuguese Semantic Coreference Resolution (Evandro Fonseca, Aline Vanin, Renata Vieira)....Pages 256-263 Resource Creation for Training and Testing of Normalisation Systems for Konkani-English Code-Mixed Social Media Text (Akshata Phadte)....Pages 264-271 A TF-IDF and Co-occurrence Based Approach for Events Extraction from Arabic News Corpus (Amina Chouigui, Oussama Ben Khiroun, Bilel Elayeb)....Pages 272-280 English Text Parsing by Means of Error Correcting Automaton (Oleksandr Marchenko, Anatoly Anisimov, Igor Zavadskyi, Egor Melnikov)....Pages 281-289 Annotating Relations Between Named Entities with Crowdsourcing (Sandra Collovini, Bolivar Pereira, Henrique D. P. dos Santos, Renata Vieira)....Pages 290-297 Automatic Detection of Negated Findings with NooJ: First Results (Walter Koza, Mirian Muñoz, Natalia Rivas, Ninoska Godoy, Darío Filippo, Viviana Cotik et al.)....Pages 298-302 Part-of-Speech Tagger for Konkani-English Code-Mixed Social Media Text (Akshata Phadte, Radhiya Arsekar)....Pages 303-307 Word2vec for Arabic Word Sense Disambiguation (Rim Laatar, Chafik Aloulou, Lamia Hadrich Belghuith)....Pages 308-311 Front Matter ....Pages 313-313 HYPLAG: Hybrid Arabic Text Plagiarism Detection System (Bilal Ghanem, Labib Arafeh, Paolo Rosso, Fernando Sánchez-Vega)....Pages 315-323 On the Semantic Similarity of Disease Mentions in \(\textsc {medline}^{\circledR } \) and Twitter (Camilo Thorne, Roman Klinger)....Pages 324-332 Gemedoc: A Text Similarity Annotation Platform (Jacques Fize, Mathieu Roche, Maguelonne Teisseire)....Pages 333-336 Front Matter ....Pages 337-337 Addressing Unseen Word Problem in Text Classification (Promod Yenigalla, Sibsambhu Kar, Chirag Singh, Ajay Nagar, Gaurav Mathur)....Pages 339-351 United We Stand: Using Multiple Strategies for Topic Labeling (Antoine Gourru, Julien Velcin, Mathieu Roche, Christophe Gravier, Pascal Poncelet)....Pages 352-363 Evaluating Thesaurus-Based Topic Models (Natalia Loukachevitch, Kirill Ivanov)....Pages 364-376 Classifying Companies by Industry Using Word Embeddings (Martin Lamby, Daniel Isemann)....Pages 377-388 Towards Ontology-Based Training-Less Multi-label Text Classification (Wael Alkhatib, Saba Sabrin, Svenja Neitzel, Christoph Rensing)....Pages 389-396 Overview of Uni-modal and Multi-modal Representations for Classification Tasks (Aryeh Wiesen, Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner)....Pages 397-404 Front Matter ....Pages 405-405 Classification of Intangible Social Innovation Concepts (Nikola Milosevic, Abdullah Gok, Goran Nenadic)....Pages 407-418 An Unsupervised Approach for Cause-Effect Relation Extraction from Biomedical Text (Raksha Sharma, Girish Palshikar, Sachin Pawar)....Pages 419-427 A Supervised Learning to Rank Approach for Dependency Based Concept Extraction and Repository Based Boosting for Domain Text Indexing (U. K. Naadan, T. V. Geetha, U. Kanimozhi, D. Manjula, R. Viswapriya, C. Karthik)....Pages 428-436 [Demo] Integration of Text- and Web-Mining Results in EpidVis (Samiha Fadloun, Arnaud Sallaberry, Alizé Mercier, Elena Arsevska, Pascal Poncelet, Mathieu Roche)....Pages 437-440 Front Matter ....Pages 441-441 Silent Day Detection on Microblog Data (Kuang Lu, Hui Fang)....Pages 443-455 Smart Entertainment - A Critiquing Based Dialog System for Eliciting User Preferences and Making Recommendations (Roshni R. Ramnani, Shubhashis Sengupta, Tirupal Rao Ravilla, Sumitraj Ganapat Patil)....Pages 456-463 Front Matter ....Pages 465-465 Cross-Language Text Summarization Using Sentence and Multi-Sentence Compression (Elvys Linhares Pontes, Stéphane Huet, Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno, Andréa Carneiro Linhares)....Pages 467-479 Arabic Readability Assessment for Foreign Language Learners (Naoual Nassiri, Abdelhak Lakhouaja, Violetta Cavalli-Sforza)....Pages 480-488 String Kernels for Polarity Classification: A Study Across Different Languages (Rosa M. Giménez-Pérez, Marc Franco-Salvador, Paolo Rosso)....Pages 489-493 Integration of Neural Machine Translation Systems for Formatting-Rich Document Translation (Mārcis Pinnis, Raivis Skadiņš, Valters Šics, Toms Miks)....Pages 494-497 Front Matter ....Pages 499-499 Using k-Means for Redundancy and Inconsistency Detection: Application to Industrial Requirements (Manel Mezghani, Juyeon Kang, Florence Sèdes)....Pages 501-508 How to Deal with Inaccurate Service Descriptions in On-The-Fly Computing: Open Challenges (Frederik S. Bäumer, Michaela Geierhos)....Pages 509-513 Back Matter ....Pages 515-517 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.