Natural Language Processing — NLP 2000: Second International Conference Patras, Greece, June 2–4, 2000 Proceedings

✍ Scribed by Anna Maria Di Sciullo (auth.), Dimitris N. Christodoulakis (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 443
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1835 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume contains the papers prepared for the 2nd International Conference on Natural Language Processing, held 2-4 June in Patras, Greece. The conference program features invited talks and submitted papers, c- ering a wide range of NLP areas: text segmentation, morphological analysis, lexical knowledge acquisition and representation, grammar formalism and s- tacticparsing,discourse analysis,languagegeneration,man-machineinteraction, machine translation, word sense disambiguation, and information extraction. The program committee received 71 abstracts, of which unfortunately no more than 50% could be accepted. Every paper was reviewed by at least two reviewers. The fairness of the reviewing process is demonstrated by the broad spread of institutions and countries represented in the accepted papers. So many have contributed to the success of the conference. The primary credit, ofcourse, goes to theauthors andto the invitedspeakers. By theirpapers and their inspired talks they established the quality of the conference. Secondly, thanks should go to the referees and to the program committee members who did a thorough and conscientious job. It was not easy to select the papers to be presented. Last, but not least, my special thanks to the organizing committee for making this conference happen.

✦ Table of Contents

Parsing Asymmetries....Pages 1-15
Universal Segmentation of Text with the Sumo Formalism....Pages 16-26
Functional Decomposition and Lazy Word-Parsing in Modern Greek....Pages 27-36
Recognition and Acquisition of Compound Names from Corpora....Pages 38-48
Use of a Morphosyntactic Lexicon as the Basis for the Implementation of the Greek Wordnet....Pages 49-56
On Verb Selectional Restrictions: Advantages and Limitations....Pages 57-68
Some Principles for Implementing Underspecification in NLP Systems....Pages 69-80
HYPERTAGS: Beyond POS Tagging....Pages 81-90
A Theory of Stochastic Grammars....Pages 92-105
Monte-Carlo Sampling for NP-Hard Maximization Problems in the Framework of Weighted Parsing....Pages 106-117
Preprocessing for Unification Parsing of Spoken Language....Pages 118-129
A Semantic Based Approach for Spontaneous Spoken Dialogue Understanding....Pages 130-138
A Practical Chunker for Unrestricted Text....Pages 139-150
A Distributed Approach for a Robust and Evolving NLP System....Pages 151-161
An Incremental Discourse Parser Architecture....Pages 162-174
A Spatio-temporal Model for the Representation of Situations Described in Narrative Texts....Pages 176-184
Enhancing Preference-Based Anaphora Resolution with Genetic Algorithms....Pages 185-195
Anaphora Resolution through Dialogue Adjacency Pairs and Topics....Pages 196-203
Semantic Knowledge-Driven Method to Solve Pronominal Anaphora in Spanish Texts....Pages 204-211
Processing of Spanish Definite Descriptions with the Same Head....Pages 212-220
Constraints, Linguistic Theories, and Natural Language Processing....Pages 221-232
A Comparison of Rule-Based and Machine Learning Methods for Identifying Non-nominal It ....Pages 233-240
Constitution and exploitation of an annotation system of electronic corpora: Toward automatic generation of understandable pronouns in French language....Pages 242-251
Generation of Spanish Zero-Pronouns into English....Pages 252-260
Combining Different Translation Sources....Pages 261-271
Parsing and Collocations....Pages 272-282
Contextual Reasoning in Speech-to-Speech Translation....Pages 283-292
Improving the Accuracy of Speech Recognition Systems for Professional Translators....Pages 293-303
Generic Parsing and Hybrid Transfer in Automatic Translation....Pages 304-314
Two Applications for a Non-context French Generator....Pages 315-327
From Language to Motion, and Back: Generating and Using Route Descriptions....Pages 328-345
Corpus Based Methodology in the Study and Design of Systems with Emulated Linguistic Competence....Pages 346-357
Dialogues for Embodied Agents in Virtual Environments....Pages 358-369
Concordancing Revised or How to Aid the Recognition of New Senses in Very Large Corpora....Pages 370-381
Learning Rules for Large-Vocabulary Word Sense Disambiguation: A Comparison of Various Classifiers....Pages 383-394
Greek Verb Semantic Processing for Stock Market Text Mining....Pages 395-405
Extracting Semistructured Data - Lessons Learnt....Pages 406-417
A Term-Based Methodology for Template Creation in Information Extraction....Pages 418-423
A System for Recognition of Named Entities in Greek....Pages 424-435

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Language Translation and Linguistics