Natural Language Processing and Information Systems: 10th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2005, Alicante, Spain, June 15-17, Proceedings

Regular Papers.- Extracting Semantic Taxonomies of Nouns from a Korean MRD Using a Small Bootstrapping Thesaurus and a Machine Learning Approach.- On the Transformation of Sentences with Genitive Relations to SQL Queries.- Binary Lexical Relations for Text Representation in Information Retrieval.- Application of Text Categorization to Astronomy Field.- Towards an XML Representation of Proper Names and Their Relationships.- Empirical Textual Mining to Protein Entities Recognition from PubMed Corpus.- Automatic Extraction of Semantic Relationships for WordNet by Means of Pattern Learning from Wikipedia.- Combining Data-Driven Systems for Improving Named Entity Recognition.- Natural Language Processing: Mature Enough for Requirements Documents Analysis?.- Improving Text Categorization Using Domain Knowledge.- A Process and Tool Support for Managing Activity and Resource Conflicts Based on Requirements Classification.- Web-Assisted Detection and Correction of Joint and Disjoint Malapropos Word Combinations.- Web Directory Construction Using Lexical Chains.- Email Categorization with Tournament Methods.- Knowledge-Based Information Extraction: A Case Study of Recognizing Emails of Nigerian Frauds.- Extended Tagging and Interpretation Tools for Mapping Requirements Texts to Conceptual (Predesign) Models.- Improving Question Answering Using Named Entity Recognition.- Using Semantic Roles in Information Retrieval Systems.- Text Categorization Based on Subtopic Clusters.- Interpretation of Implicit Parallel Structures. A Case Study with “vice-versa”.- Text2Onto.- Interaction Transformation Patterns Based on Semantic Roles.- Query Refinement Through Lexical Clustering of Scientific Textual Databases.- Automatic Filtering of Bilingual Corpora for Statistical Machine Translation.- An Approach to Clustering Abstracts.- Named Entity Recognition for Web Content Filtering.- The Role of Word Sense Disambiguation in Automated Text Categorization.- Combining Biological Databases and Text Mining to Support New Bioinformatics Applications.- A Semi-automatic Approach to Extracting Common Sense Knowledge from Knowledge Sources.- A Phrasal Approach to Natural Language Interfaces over Databases.- Information Extraction for User’s Utterance Processing on Ubiquitous Robot Companion.- Investigating the Best Configuration of HMM Spanish PoS Tagger when Minimum Amount of Training Data Is Available.- An Approach to Automatic Construction of Lexical Relations Between Chinese Nouns from Machine Readable Dictionary.- Automatic Acquisition of Adjacent Information and Its Effectiveness in Extraction of Bilingual Word Pairs from Parallel Corpora.- Text Mining from Categorized Stem Cell Documents to Infer Developmental Stage-Specific Expression and Regulation Patterns of Stem Cells.- Simple But Useful Algorithms for Identifying Noun Phrase Complements of Embedded Clauses in a Partial Parse.- An Add-On to Rule-Based Sifters for Multi-recipient Spam Emails.- Semantic Annotation of a Natural Language Corpus for Knowledge Extraction.- mySENSEVAL: Explaining WSD System Performance Using Target Word Features.- Information Extraction from Email Announcements.- An Application of NLP Rules to Spoken Document Segmentation Task.- A Generalised Similarity Measure for Question Answering.- Multi-lingual Database Querying and the Atoms of Language.- Extracting Information from Short Messages.- Automatic Transition of Natural Language Software Requirements Specification into Formal Presentation.- Automatic Description of Static Images in Natural Language.- On Some Optimization Heuristics for Lesk-Like WSD Algorithms.