This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Natural Language Processing held in Reykjavik, Iceland, in August 2010.
Invited Talks
Reliving the History: The Beginnings of Statistical Machine Translation and Languages with Rich Morphology Jan Hajic 1
Harmonizing WordNet and FrameNet Christiane D. Fellbaum 2
Research Papers
A Morphosyntactic Brill Tagger for Inflectional Languages Szymon Acedanski 3
Hybrid Syntactic-Semantic Reranking for Parsing Results of ECAs Interactions Using CRFs Enzo Acerbi Guillermo Pérez Fabio Stella 15
Automatic Distractor Generation for Domain Specific Texts Itziar Aldabe Montse Maritxalar 27
Summarization as Feature Selection for Document Categorization on Small Datasets Emmanuel Anguiano-Hernández Luis Villaseñor-Pineda Manuel Montes-y-Gómez Paolo Rosso 39
A Formal Ontology for a Computational Approach of Time and Aspect Aurélien Arena Jean-Pierre Desclés 45
A Non-linear Semantic Mapping Technique for Cross-Language Sentence Matching Rafael E. Banchs Marta R. Costa-jussà 57
Comparison of Paraphrase Acquisition Techniques on Sentential Paraphrases Houda Bouamor Aurélien Max Anne Vilnat 67
Digital Learning for Summarizing Arabic Documents Mohamed Mahdi Boudabous Mohamed Hédi Maaloul Lamia Hadrich Belguith 79
Concept Based Representations for Ranking in Geographic Information Retrieval Maya Carrillo Esaú Villatoro-Tello Aurelio López-López Chris Eliasmith Luis Villaseñor-Pineda Manuel Montes-y-Gómez 85
Using Machine Translation Systems to Expand a Corpus in Textual Entailment Julio J. Castillo 97
Frames in Formal Semantics Robin Cooper 103
Clustering E-Mails for the Swedish Social Insurance Agency - What Part of the E-Mail Thread Gives the Best Quality" Hercules Dalianis Magnus Rosell Eriks Sneiders 115
OpenMaTrEx: A Free/Open-Source Market-Driven Example-Based Machine Translation System Sandipan Dandapat Mikel L. Forcada Declan Groves Sergio Penkale John Tinsley Andy Way 121
Head Finders Inspection: An Unsupervised Optimization Approach Martín A. Domínguez Gabriel Infante-Lopez 127
Estimating the Birth and Death Years of Authors of Undated Documents Using Undated Citations Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner Dror Mughaz 138
Using Temporal Cues for Segmenting Texts into Events Ludovic Jean-Louis Romaric Besançon Olivier Ferret 150
Enriching the Adjective Domain in the Japanese WordNet Kyoko Kanzaki Francis Bond Takayuki Kuribayashi Hitoshi Isahara 162
Comparing SMT Methods for Automatic Generation of Pronunciation Variants Panagiota Karanasou Lori Lamel 167
Automatic Learning of Discourse Relations in Swedish Using Cue Phrases Stefan Karlsson Pierre Nugues 179
The Representation of Diatheses in the Valency Lexicon of Czech Verbs Václava Kettnerová Markéta Lopatková 185
Symbolic Classification Methods for Patient Discharge Summaries Encoding into ICD Laurent Kevers Julia Medori 197
User-Tailored Document Planning - A Game-Theoretic Approach Ralf Klabunde Alexander Kornrumpf 209
Anaphora Resolution with Real Preprocessing Manfred Klenner Don Tuggener Angela Fahrni Rico Sennrich 215
Automatic Construction of a Morphological Dictionary of Multi-Word Units Cvetana Krstev Ranka Stankovic Ivan Obradovic
Collocation Extraction in Turkish Texts Using Statistical Methods Senem Kumova Metin Bahar Karaoglan 238
Towards the Design and Evaluation of ROILA: A Speech Recognition Friendly Artificial Language Omar Mubin Christoph Bartneck Loe Feijs 250
Time Expressions Ontology for Information Seeking Dialogues in the Public Transport Domain Agnieszka Mykowiecka 257
Reliability of the Manual Segmentation of Pauses in Natural Speech Raoul Oehmen Kim Kirsner Nicolas Fay 263
Large-Scale Language Modeling with Random Forests for Mandarin Chinese Speech-to-Text Ilya Oparin Lori Lamel Jean-Luc Gauvain 269
Design and Evaluation of an Agreement Error Detection System: Testing the Effect of Ambiguity, Parser and Corpus Type Maite Oronoz Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza Koldo Gojenola 281
TectoMT: Modular NLP Framework Martin Popel Zdenek Zabokrtský 293
Using Information From the Target Language to Improve Crosslingual Text Classification Gabriela Ramírez-de-la-Rosa Manuel Montes-y-Gómez Luis Villaseñor-Pineda David Pinto-Avendañor Thamar Solorio 305
Event Detection Using Lexical Chain Sangeetha S. R.S. Thakur Michael Arock 314
Using Comparable Corpora to Improve the Effectiveness of Cross-Language Information Retrieval Fatiha Sadat 320
Semi-automatic Endogenous Enrichment of Collaboratively Constructed Lexical Resources: Piggybacking onto Wiktionary Franck Sajous Emmanuel Navarro Bruno Gaume Laurent Prévot Yannick Chudy 332
Portable Extraction of Partially Structured Facts from the Web Andrew Salway Liadh Kelly Inguna Skadina Gareth J.F. Jones 345
Passage Retrieval in Log Files: An Approach Based on Query Enrichment Hassan Saneifar Stéphane Bonniol Anne Laurent Pascal Poncelet Mathieu Roche 357
Part-of-Speech Tagging Using Parallel Weighted Finite-State Transducers Miikka Silfverberg Krister Lindén 369
Automated Email Answering by Text Pattern Matching Eriks Sneiders 381
A System to Control Language for Oral Communication Laurent Spaggiari Sylviane Cardey 393
Robust Semi-supervised and Ensemble-Based Methods in Word Sense Disambiguation Anders Søgaard Anders Johannsen 401
The Effect of Semi-supervised Learning on Parsing Long Distance Dependencies in German and Swedish Anders Søgaard Christian Rishøj 406
Shooting at Flies in the Dark: Rule-Based Lexical Selection for a Minority Language Pair Linda Wiechetek Francis M. Tyers Thomas Omma 418
Author Index 431
Overview
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Natural Language Processing held in Reykjavik, Iceland, in August 2010.