Natural Language and Information Systems: 13th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2008 London, UK, June 24-27, 2008 Proceedings

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Sentence and Text Comprehension: Evidence from Human Language Processing....Pages 3-3
Towards Semantic Search....Pages 4-11
From Databases to Natural Language: The Unusual Direction....Pages 12-16
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Division of Spanish Words into Morphemes with a Genetic Algorithm....Pages 19-26
Abbreviation Disambiguation: Experiments with Various Variants of the One Sense per Discourse Hypothesis....Pages 27-39
The Acquisition of Common Sense Knowledge by Being Told: An Application of NLP to Itself....Pages 40-51
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Interlingua for French and German Topological Prepositions....Pages 55-66
Ontological Profiles as Semantic Domain Representations....Pages 67-78
A Hybrid Approach to Ontology Relationship Learning....Pages 79-90
Automating the Generation of Semantic Annotation Tools Using a Clustering Technique....Pages 91-96
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Exploiting Multiple Features with MEMMs for Focused Web Crawling....Pages 99-110
Ranked-Listed or Categorized Results in IR: 2 Is Better Than 1....Pages 111-123
Exploiting Morphological Query Structure Using Genetic Optimisation....Pages 124-135
Generation of Query-Biased Concepts Using Content and Structure for Query Reformulation....Pages 136-141
Comparing Several Textual Information Retrieval Systems for the Geographical Information Retrieval Task....Pages 142-147
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Intensional Question Answering Using ILP: What Does an Answer Mean?....Pages 151-162
Augmenting Data Retrieval with Information Retrieval Techniques by Using Word Similarity....Pages 163-174
Combining Data Integration and IE Techniques to Support Partially Structured Data....Pages 175-186
Towards Building Robust Natural Language Interfaces to Databases....Pages 187-198
Towards a Bootstrapping NLIDB System....Pages 199-204
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Real-Time News Event Extraction for Global Crisis Monitoring....Pages 207-218
Topics Identification Based on Event Sequence Using Co-occurrence Words....Pages 219-225
Topic Development Based Refinement of Audio-Segmented Television News....Pages 226-232
Text Entailment for Logical Segmentation and Summarization....Pages 233-244
Comparing Non-parametric Ensemble Methods for Document Clustering....Pages 245-256
A Language Modelling Approach to Linking Criminal Styles with Offender Characteristics....Pages 257-268
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Towards Designing Operationalizable Models of Man-Machine Interaction Based on Concepts from Human Dialog Systems....Pages 271-286
Using Linguistic Knowledge to Classify Non-functional Requirements in SRS documents....Pages 287-298
A Preliminary Approach to the Automatic Extraction of Business Rules from Unrestricted Text in the Banking Industry....Pages 299-310
Paraphrasing OCL Expressions with SBVR....Pages 311-316
A General Architecture for Connecting NLP Frameworks and Desktop Clients Using Web Services....Pages 317-322
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Conceptual Model Generation from Requirements Model: A Natural Language Processing Approach....Pages 325-326
Bivalent Verbs and Their Pragmatic Particularities....Pages 327-328
Using Ontologies and Relatedness Metrics for Semantic Document Analysis on the Web....Pages 329-330
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The TSRM Approach in the Document Retrieval Application....Pages 333-334
Enhanced Services for Targeted Information Retrieval by Event Extraction and Data Mining....Pages 335-336
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Improving Question Answering Tasks by Textual Entailment Recognition....Pages 339-340
Supporting Named Entity Recognition and Syntactic Analysis with Full-Text Queries....Pages 341-342
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Multilingual Feature-Driven Opinion Extraction and Summarization from Customer Reviews....Pages 345-346
Lexical and Semantic Methods in Inner Text Topic Segmentation: A Comparison between C99 and Transeg....Pages 347-349
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An Application of NLP and Audiovisual Content Analysis for Integration of Multimodal Databases of Current Events....Pages 350-351
Detecting Protein-Protein Interaction Sentences Using a Mixture Model....Pages 352-354
Using Semantic Features to Improve Task Identification in Email Messages....Pages 355-357
Text Pre-processing for Document Clustering....Pages 358-359
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Trade Oriented Enterprise Content Management: A Semantic and Collaborative Prototype Dedicated to the “Quality, Hygiene, Safety and Environment” Domain....Pages 363-364
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Mapping Natural Language into SQL in a NLIDB....Pages 367-371
Improving Data Integration through Disambiguation Techniques....Pages 372-375
An Ontology-Based Focused Crawler....Pages 376-379
Impact of Term-Indexing for Arabic Document Retrieval....Pages 380-383
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