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

✍ Scribed by Thomas Scholz, Stefan Conrad (auth.), Elisabeth Métais, Farid Meziane, Mohamad Saraee, Vijayan Sugumaran, Sunil Vadera (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 439
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7934
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

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 -

✦ Subjects

Language Translation and Linguistics; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Information Storage and Retrieval; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Computer Science, general