Advances in Natural Language Processing 6th International Conference, GoTAL 2008, Gothenburg, Sweden, August 25-27, 2008, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, GoTAL 2008, Gothenburg, Sweden, August 2008. The 44 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 107 submissions. The papers address all current issues in computational linguistics and monolingual and multilingual intelligent language processing - theory, methods and applications.

Formal Semantics in the Real World.- Speech Processing for Audio Indexing.- Sorting Out Dependency Parsing.- “I Know What You Feel”: Analyzing the Role of Conjunctions in Automatic Sentiment Analysis.- Automatic Annotation of Direct Reported Speech in Arabic and French, According to a Semantic Map of Enunciative Modalities.- Type-Theoretical Bulgarian Grammar.- A Compact Arabic Lexical Semantics Language Resource Based on the Theory of Semantic Fields.- Automatically Extracting Personal Name Aliases from the Web.- An Efficient Statistical Approach for Automatic Organic Chemistry Summarization.- Augmenting Word Space Models for Word Sense Discrimination Using an Automatic Thesaurus.- Plagiarism Detection Based on Singular Value Decomposition.- Networking Multiword Units.- Searching for Part of Speech Tags That Improve Parsing Models.- A POS-Based Word Prediction System for the Persian Language.- A Graph Based Method for Building Multilingual Weakly Supervised Dependency Parsers.- A Web-Based Self-training Approach for Authorship Attribution.- Parsing Discontinuous Phrase Structure with Grammatical Functions.- How Can the Term Compositionality Be Useful for Acquiring Elementary Semantic Relations?.- Training Statistical Language Models from Grammar-Generated Data: A Comparative Case-Study.- A Mixed Method Lemmatization Algorithm Using a Hierarchy of Linguistic Identities (HOLI).- Semantic Roles in Valency Lexicon of Czech Verbs: Verbs of Communication and Exchange.- Automatic Generation of Frequent Case Forms of Query Keywords in Text Retrieval.- Definition Extraction with Balanced Random Forests.- Reviewing and Evaluating Automatic Term Recognition Techniques.- Finding Text Boundaries and Finding Topic Boundaries: Two Different Tasks?.- Tamil Question ClassificationUsing Morpheme Features.- Analogical Translation of Medical Words in Different Languages.- Improving Chinese Pronominal Anaphora Resolution by Extensive Feature Representation and Confidence Estimation.- A Grammar Formalism for Specifying ISU-Based Dialogue Systems.- Word Sense Disambiguation of Farsi Homographs Using Thesaurus and Corpus.- Local Rephrasing Suggestions for Supporing the Work of Writers.- Interactive Multilingual Web Applications with Grammatical Framework.- Dependency Parsing by Transformation and Combination.- Using Constraints over Finite Sets of Integers for Range Concatenation Grammar Parsing.- Analyzing Argumentative Structures in Procedural Texts.- Natural Language Processing Across Time: An Empirical Investigation on Italian.- Statistical Surface Realisation of Portuguese Referring Expressions.- Classification-Based Filtering of Semantic Relatedness in Hypernymy Extraction.- Similarity of Names Across Scripts: Edit Distance Using Learned Costs of N-Grams.- Turkish Language Resources: Morphological Parser, Morphological Disambiguator and Web Corpus.- A Graph Partitioning Approach to Entity Disambiguation Using Uncertain Information.- Arabic Named Entity Recognition from Diverse Text Types.- A Noun-Predicate Bigram-Based Similarity Measure for Lexical Relations.- German Compounds in Factored Statistical Machine Translation.- A Reordering Model for Phrase-Based Machine Translation.- Interruption, Resumption and Domain Switching in In-Vehicle Dialogue.- Finite Matters.