Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 6th International Conference, CICLing 2005, Mexico City, Mexico, February 13-19, 2005, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3406)

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• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 853
• Edition: 2005
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

CICLing 2005 (www.CICLing.org) was the 6th Annual Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics. It was intended to provide a balanced view of the cutting-edge developments in both the theoretical foundations of computational linguistics and the practice of natural-language text processing with its numerous applications. A feature of CICLing conferences is their wide scope that covers nearly all areas of computational linguistics and all aspects of natural language processing applications. This year we were honored by the presence of our keynote speakers Christian Boitet (CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble), Kevin Knight (ISI), Daniel Marcu (ISI), and Ellen Riloff (University of Utah), who delivered excellent extended lectures and organized vivid discussions and encouraging tutorials; their invited papers are published in this volume. Of 151 submissions received, 88 were selected for presentation; 53 as full papers and 35 as short papers, by exactly 200 authors from 26 countries: USA (15 papers); Mexico (12); China (9.5); Spain (7.5); South Korea (5.5); Singapore (5); Germany (4.8); Japan (4); UK (3.5); France (3.3); India (3); Italy (3); Czech Republic (2.5); Romania (2.3); Brazil, Canada, Greece, Ireland, Israel, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland (1 each); Hong Kong (0.5); and Russia (0.5) including the invited papers. Internationally co-authored papers are counted in equal fractions.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Computational Linguistics Research
Computational Linguistics Formalisms
Invited Paper
An Overview of Probabilistic Tree Transducers for Natural Language Processing
A Modular Account of Information Structure in Extensible Dependency Grammar
Modelling Grammatical and Lexical Knowledge: A Declarative Approach
Constructing a Parser for Latin
Parsing Korean Case Phenomena in a Type-Feature Structure Grammar
A Computational Model of the Spanish Clitic System
A Parallel Approach to Syllabification
Semantics and Discourse
Invited Paper
Towards Developing Probabilistic Generative Models for Reasoning with Natural Language Representations
Putting Pieces Together: Combining FrameNet, VerbNet and WordNet for Robust Semantic Parsing
Assigning Function Tags with a Simple Model
Finding Discourse Relations in Student Essays
Parsing and Syntactic Disambiguation
Regional Versus Global Finite-State Error Repair
Lexicalized Beam Thresholding Parsing with Prior and Boundary Estimates
Best Paper Award (2nd Place)
Unsupervised Evaluation of Parser Robustness
Mutual Information Independence Model Using Kernel Density Estimation for Segmenting and Labeling Sequential Data
Applying Conditional Random Fields to Chinese Shallow Parsing
Distributional Thesaurus Versus WordNet: A Comparison of Backoff Techniques for Unsupervised PP Attachment
Morphology
Automatic Recognition of Czech Derivational Prefixes
Korma 2003: Newly Improved Korean Morpheme Analysis Module for Reducing Terminological and Spacing Errors in Document Analysis
Word Extraction Based on Semantic Constraints in Chinese Word-Formation
Using Directed Graph Based BDMM Algorithm for Chinese Word Segmentation
Anaphora and Coreference
Entity-Based Noun Phrase Coreference Resolution
The Right Frontier Constraint as Conditional
Word Sense Disambiguation
Name Discrimination by Clustering Similar Contexts
Word Sense Disambiguation by Semi-supervised Learning
Crossing Parallel Corpora and Multilingual Lexical Databases for WSD
A Mapping Between Classifiers and Training Conditions for WSD
Multiwords and Word Sense Disambiguation
Context Expansion with Global Keywords for a Conceptual Density-Based WSD
Two Web-Based Approaches for Noun Sense Disambiguation
Lexical Resources
Best Paper Award (1st Place)
Finding Instance Names and Alternative Glosses on the Web: WordNet Reloaded
Automatic Synonym Acquisition Based on Matching of Definition Sentences in Multiple Dictionaries
Enriching WordNet with Derivational Subnets
Customisable Semantic Analysis of Texts
ITOLDU, a Web Service to Pool Technical Lexical Terms in a Learning Environment and Contribute to Multilingual Lexical Databases
Building a Situation-Based Language Knowledge Base
Unsupervised Learning of P NP P Word Combinations
Natural Language Generation
Evaluating Evaluation Methods for Generation in the Presence of Variation
Reconciling Parameterization, Configurability and Optimality in Natural Language Generation via Multiparadigm Programming
Machine Translation
Invited Paper
Message Automata for Messages with Variants, and Methods for Their Translation
The UNL Initiative: An Overview
Interactive Resolution of Intrinsic and Translational Ambiguity in a Machine Translation System
Chinese-Japanese Clause Alignment
Direct Combination of Spelling and Pronunciation Information for Robust Back-Transliteration
Speech and Natural Language Interfaces
A Prosodic Diphone Database for Korean Text-to-Speech Synthesis System
On a Pitch Detection Method Using Noise Reduction
Toward Acoustic Models for Languages with Limited Linguistic Resources
A Study on Pitch Detection in Time-Frequency Hybrid Domain
VoiceUNL: A Semantic Representation of Emotions Within Universal Networking Language Formalism Based on a Dialogue Corpus Analysis
Combining Multiple Statistical Classifiers to Improve the Accuracy of Task Classification
Language Documentation
A Finite State Network for Phonetic Text Processing
Language Documentation: The Nahuatl Grammar
Intelligent Text Processing Applications
Information Extraction
Invited Paper
Creating Subjective and Objective Sentence Classifiers from Unannotated Texts
Instance Pruning by Filtering Uninformative Words: An Information Extraction Case Study
Incremental Information Extraction Using Tree-Based Context Representations
Best Paper Award (3rd Place)
Learning Information Extraction Rules for Protein Annotation from Unannotated Corpora
Transformation-Based Information Extraction Using Learned Meta-rules
A Machine Learning Approach to Information Extraction
Automatic Time Expression Labeling for English and Chinese Text
Integrating Natural Language Techniques in OO-Method
Information Retrieval
Document Re-ordering Based on Key Terms in Top Retrieved Documents
Merging Case Relations into VSM to Improve Information Retrieval Precision
Evaluating Document-to-Document Relevance Based on Document Language Model: Modeling, Implementation and Performance Evaluation
Retrieval Efficiency of Normalized Query Expansion
Selecting Interesting Articles Using Their Similarity Based Only on Positive Examples
Question Answering
Question Classification in Spanish and Portuguese
Learning the Query Generation Patterns
Exploiting Question Concepts for Query Expansion
Experiment on Combining Sources of Evidence for Passage Retrieval
Summarization
Summarisation Through Discourse Structure
LexTrim: A Lexical Cohesion Based Approach to Parse-and-Trim Style Headline Generation
Generating Headline Summary from a Document Set
Extractive Summarization Based on Word Information and Sentence Position
Automatic Extraction and Learning of Keyphrases from Scientific Articles
Automatic Annotation of Corpora for Text Summarisation: A Comparative Study
Text Classification, Categorization, and Clustering
Techniques for Improving the Performance of Naive Bayes for Text Classification
Efficient Modeling of Analogy
A Supervised Clustering Method for Text Classification
Unsupervised Text Classification Using Kohonen’s Self Organizing Network
Enhancement of DTP Feature Selection Method for Text Categorization
FASiL Adaptive Email Categorization System
ESPClust: An Effective Skew Prevention Method for Model-Based Document Clustering
A Method of Rapid Prototyping of Evolving Ontologies
Named Entity Recognition
Resolution of Data Sparseness in Named Entity Recognition Using Hierarchical Features and Feature Relaxation Principle
Learning Named Entity Recognition in Portuguese from Spanish
A Simple Rule-Based Approach to Organization Name Recognition in Chinese Text
Language Identification
Disentangling from Babylonian Confusion – Unsupervised Language Identification
On the Syllabic Similarities of Romance Languages
Automatic Language Identification Using Multivariate Analysis
Spelling and Style Checking
Design and Development of a System for the Detection of Agreement Errors in Basque
An Experiment in Detection and Correction of Malapropisms Through the Web
A Paragraph Boundary Detection System
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