Advances in Natural Language Processing: 5th International Conference on NLP, FinTAL 2006 Turku, Finland, August 23-25, 2006 Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Recursion in Natural Languages....Pages 1-1
The Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionary as the Key Tool in Machine Translation....Pages 2-3
A Finite-State Approximation of Optimality Theory: The Case of Finnish Prosody....Pages 4-15
A Bilingual Corpus of Novels Aligned at Paragraph Level....Pages 16-23
A Computational Implementation of Internally Headed Relative Clause Constructions....Pages 24-31
A Corpus-Based Empirical Account of Adverbial Clauses Across Speech and Writing in Contemporary British English....Pages 32-43
A Korean Syntactic Parser Customized for Korean-English Patent MT System....Pages 44-55
A Scalable and Distributed NLP Architecture for Web Document Annotation....Pages 56-67
A Straightforward Method for Automatic Identification of Marginalized Languages....Pages 68-75
A Text Mining Approach for Definition Question Answering....Pages 76-86
Accommodating Multiword Expressions in an Arabic LFG Grammar....Pages 87-98
Analysis of EU Languages Through Text Compression....Pages 99-109
Applying Latent Dirichlet Allocation to Automatic Essay Grading....Pages 110-120
Automatic Acquisition of Semantic Relationships from Morphological Relatedness....Pages 121-132
Automatic Feature Extraction for Question Classification Based on Dissimilarity of Probability Distributions....Pages 133-140
Cat3LB and Cast3LB: From Constituents to Dependencies....Pages 141-152
Classification of News Web Documents Based on Structural Features....Pages 153-160
Cognition and Physio-acoustic Correlates — Audio and Audio-visual Effects of a Short English Emotional Statement: On JL2, FL2 and EL1....Pages 161-173
Compiling Generalized Two-Level Rules and Grammars....Pages 174-185
Computer Analysis of the Turkmen Language Morphology....Pages 186-193
Coordination Structures in a Typed Feature Structure Grammar: Formalization and Implementation....Pages 194-205
Cue-Based Interpretation of Customer’s Requests: Analysis of Estonian Dialogue Corpus....Pages 206-213
Czech-English Phrase-Based Machine Translation....Pages 214-224
Deep vs. Shallow Semantic Analysis Applied to Textual Entailment Recognition....Pages 225-236
Dictionary-Free Morphological Classifier of Russian Nouns....Pages 237-244
Discourse Segmentation of German Written Texts....Pages 245-256
Document Clustering Based on Maximal Frequent Sequences....Pages 257-267
Enriching Thesauri with Hierarchical Relationships by Pattern Matching in Dictionaries....Pages 268-279
Evaluation of Alignment Methods for HTML Parallel Text....Pages 280-290
Experiments in Passage Selection and Answer Identification for Question Answering....Pages 291-302
Extracting Idiomatic Hungarian Verb Frames....Pages 303-309
Extracting Term Collocations for Directing Users to Informative Web Pages....Pages 310-321
Feasibility of Enriching a Chinese Synonym Dictionary with a Synchronous Chinese Corpus....Pages 322-332
Finding Spanish Syllabification Rules with Decision Trees....Pages 333-340
Identifying Text Discourse Structure of the Narratives Describing Psychiatric Patients’ Defense Mechanisms....Pages 341-348
Implementing a Rule-Based Speech Synthesizer on a Mobile Platform....Pages 349-355
Improving Phrase-Based Statistical Translation Through Combination of Word Alignments....Pages 356-367
Improving Statistical Word Alignments with Morpho-syntactic Transformations....Pages 368-379
Improving Term Extraction with Terminological Resources....Pages 380-387
Improving Thai Spelling Recognition with Tone Features....Pages 388-398
Incorporating External Information in Bayesian Classifiers Via Linear Feature Transformations....Pages 399-410
Is a Morphologically Complex Language Really that Complex in Full-Text Retrieval?....Pages 411-422
Language Independent Answer Prediction from the Web....Pages 423-434
Language Model Mixtures for Contextual Ad Placement in Personal Blogs....Pages 435-446
Local Constraints on Arabic Word Order....Pages 447-457
MEDITE: A Unilingual Textual Aligner....Pages 458-469
Maximum Likelihood Alignment of Translation Equivalents....Pages 470-475
Measuring Intelligibility of Japanese Learner English....Pages 476-487
Morphological Lexicon Extraction from Raw Text Data....Pages 488-499
On the Use of Topic Models for Word Completion....Pages 500-511
Ord i Dag: Mining Norwegian Daily Newswire....Pages 512-523
Paraphrase Identification on the Basis of Supervised Machine Learning Techniques....Pages 524-533
Passage Filtering for Open-Domain Question Answering....Pages 534-540
Persian in MULTEXT-East Framework....Pages 541-551
Prerequisites for a Comprehensive Dictionary of Serbian Compounds....Pages 552-563
Regular Approximation of Link Grammar....Pages 564-575
Segmental Duration in Utterance-Initial Environment: Evidence from Finnish Speech Corpora....Pages 576-584
Selection Strategies for Multi-label Text Categorization....Pages 585-592
Some Problems of Prepositional Phrases in Machine Translation....Pages 593-603
Speech Confusion Index (Ø): A Recognition Rate Indicator for Dysarthric Speakers....Pages 604-615
Statistical Machine Translation of German Compound Words....Pages 616-624
Summarizing Documents in Context: Modeling the User’s Information Need....Pages 625-631
Supervised TextRank....Pages 632-639
Tagging a Morphologically Complex Language Using Heuristics....Pages 640-651
Terminology Structuring Through the Derivational Morphology....Pages 652-663
Text Segmentation Criteria for Statistical Machine Translation....Pages 664-673
The Classificatim Sense-Mining System....Pages 674-683
The Role of Verb Sense Disambiguation in Semantic Role Labeling....Pages 684-695
The Vowel Game: Continuous Real-Time Visualization for Pronunciation Learning with Vowel Charts....Pages 696-703
Towards a Framework for Evaluating Syntactic Parsers....Pages 704-715
Towards the Improvement of Statistical Translation Models Using Linguistic Features....Pages 716-725
Treating Unknown Light Verb Construction in Korean-to-English Patent MT....Pages 726-737
Trees as Contexts in Formal Language Generation....Pages 738-747
Two String-Based Finite-State Models of the Semantics of Calendar Expressions....Pages 748-755
Using Alignment Templates to Infer Shallow-Transfer Machine Translation Rules....Pages 756-767
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