Natural Language Processing and Information Systems: 15th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2010, Cardiff, UK, June 23-25, 2010. Proceedings

✍ Scribed by Katia Vila, Josval Díaz, Antonio Fernández, Antonio Ferrández (auth.), Christina J. Hopfe, Yacine Rezgui, Elisabeth Métais, Alun Preece, Haijiang Li (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 324
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6177 : Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

th The 15 International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2010) took place during June 23–25 in Cardiff (UK). Since the first edition in 1995, the NLDB conference has been aiming at bringing together resear- ers, people working in industry and potential users interested in various applications of natural language in the database and information system area. However, in order to reflect the growing importance of accessing information from a diverse collection of sources (Web, Databases, Sensors, Cloud) in an equally wide range of contexts (- cluding mobile and tethered), the theme of the 15th International Conference on - plications of Natural Language to Information Systems 2010 was "Communicating with Anything, Anywhere in Natural Language. " Natural languages and databases are core components in the development of inf- mation systems. Natural language processing (NLP) techniques may substantially enhance most phases of the information system lifecycle, starting with requirement analysis, specification and validation, and going up to conflict resolution, result pr- essing and presentation. Furthermore, natural language-based query languages and user interfaces facilitate the access to information for all and allow for new paradigms in the usage of computerized services. Hot topics such as information retrieval (IR), software engineering applications, hidden Markov models, natural language interfaces and semantic networks and graphs imply a complete fusion of databases, IR and NLP techniques.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
An Approach for Adding Noise-Tolerance to Restricted-Domain Information Retrieval....Pages 1-12
Measuring Tree Similarity for Natural Language Processing Based Information Retrieval....Pages 13-23
Sense-Based Biomedical Indexing and Retrieval....Pages 24-35
Semantic Content Access Using Domain-Independent NLP Ontologies....Pages 36-47
Extracting Meronymy Relationships from Domain-Specific, Textual Corporate Databases....Pages 48-59
Automatic Word Sense Disambiguation Using Cooccurrence and Hierarchical Information....Pages 60-67
Automatic Quality Assessment of Source Code Comments: The JavadocMiner....Pages 68-79
Towards Approximating COSMIC Functional Size from User Requirements in Agile Development Processes Using Text Mining....Pages 80-91
Semantic Enriching of Natural Language Texts with Automatic Thematic Role Annotation....Pages 92-99
Adaptive Topic Modeling with Probabilistic Pseudo Feedback in Online Topic Detection....Pages 100-108
An Approach to Indexing and Clustering News Stories Using Continuous Language Models....Pages 109-116
Spoken Language Understanding via Supervised Learning and Linguistically Motivated Features....Pages 117-128
Topology Estimation of Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models for Language Models....Pages 129-139
Speaker Independent Urdu Speech Recognition Using HMM....Pages 140-148
Second-Order HMM for Event Extraction from Short Message....Pages 149-156
Goal Detection from Natural Language Queries....Pages 157-168
Parsing Natural Language into Content for Storage and Retrieval in a Content-Addressable Memory....Pages 169-176
Vague Relations in Spatial Databases....Pages 177-187
Conceptual Modeling of Online Entertainment Programming Guide for Natural Language Interface....Pages 188-195
Integration of Natural Language Dialogues into the Conceptual Model of Storyboard Design....Pages 196-203
Autonomous Malicious Activity Inspector – AMAI....Pages 204-215
Towards Geographic Databases Enrichment....Pages 216-223
On-Demand Extraction of Domain Concepts and Relationships from Social Tagging Websites....Pages 224-232
Analysis of Definitions of Verbs in an Explanatory Dictionary for Automatic Extraction of Actants Based on Detection of Patterns....Pages 233-239
An Automatic Definition Extraction in Arabic Language....Pages 240-247
Automatic Term Extraction Using Log-Likelihood Based Comparison with General Reference Corpus....Pages 248-255
Weighted Vote Based Classifier Ensemble Selection Using Genetic Algorithm for Named Entity Recognition....Pages 256-267
Refactoring of Process Model Activity Labels....Pages 268-276
Unsupervised Ontology Acquisition from Plain Texts: The OntoGain System....Pages 277-287
Identifying Writers’ Background by Comparing Personal Sense Thesauri....Pages 288-295
Retrieval of Similar Electronic Health Records Using UMLS Concept Graphs....Pages 296-303
Supporting the Abstraction of Clinical Practice Guidelines Using Information Extraction....Pages 304-311
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✦ Subjects

Language Translation and Linguistics; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Information Storage and Retrieval; Pattern Recognition; Computers and Society