Natural Language Processing and Information Systems: 15th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2010, Cardiff, UK, June 23-25, 2010, Proceedings / Edition 1

Information Retrieval

An Approach for Adding Noise-Tolerance to Restricted-Domain Information Retrieval Katia Vila Josval Díaz Antonio Fernández Antonio Ferrández 1

Measuring Tree Similarity for Natural Language Processing Based Information Retrieval Zhiwei Lin Hui Wang Sally McClean 13

Sense-Based Biomedical Indexing and Retrieval Duy Dinh Lynda Tamine 24

Natural Language Processing

Semantic Content Access Using Domain-Independent NLP Ontologies René Witte Ralf Krestel 36

Extracting Meronymy Relationships from Domain-Specific, Textual Corporate Databases Ashwin Ittoo Gosse Bouma Laura Maruster Hans Wortmann 48

Automatic Word Sense Disambiguation Using Cooccurrence and Hierarchical Information David Fernandez-Amoros Ruben Heradio Gil Jose Antonio Cerrada Somolinos Carlos Cerrada Somolinos 60

Software Engineering Applications

Automatic Quality Assessment of Source Code Comments: The JavadocMiner Ninus Khamis René Witte Juergen Rilling 68

Towards Approximating COSMIC Functional Size from User Requirements in Agile Development Processes Using Text Mining Ishrar Hussain Leila Kosseim Olga Ormandjieva 80

Semantic Enriching of Natural Language Texts with Automatic Thematic Role Annotation Sven J. Körner Mathias Landhäuβer 92

Classification

Adaptive Topic Modeling with Probabilistic Pseudo Feedback in Online Topic Detection Guoyu Tang Yunqing Xia 100

An Approach to Indexing and Clustering News Stories Using Continuous Language Models Richard Bache Fabio Crestani 109

Spoken Language Understanding via Supervised Learning and Linguistically Motivated Features Maria Georgescul Manny Rayner Pierrette Bouillon 117

Hidden Markov Models

Topology Estimation of Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models for Language Models Kei Wakabayashi Takao Miura 129

Speaker Independent Urdu Speech Recognition Using HMM Javed Ashraf Naveed Iqbal Naveed Sarfraz Khattak Ather Mohsin Zaidi 140

Second-Order HMM for Event Extraction from Short Message Huixing Jiang Xiaojie Wang Jilei Tian 149

Querying

Goal Detection from Natural Language Queries Yulan He 157

Parsing Natural Language into Content for Storage and Retrieval in a Content-Addressable Memory Roland Hausser 169

Natural Language Interfaces

Vague Relations in Spatial Databases Michael J. Minock 177

Conceptual Modeling of Online Entertainment Programming Guide for Natural Language Interface Harry Chang 188

Integration of Natural Language Dialogues into the Conceptual Model of Storyboard Design Markus Berg Antje Düsterhöft Bernhard Thalheim 196

Domain Modelling

Autonomous Malicious Activity Inspector-AMAI Umar Manzoor Samia Nefti Yacine Rezgui 204

Towards Geographic Databases Enrichment Khaoula Mahmoudi Sami Faïz 216

On-Demand Extraction of Domain Concepts and Relationships from Social Tagging Websites Vijayan Sugumaran Sandeep Purao Veda C. Storey Jordi Conesa 224

Information Extraction

Analysis of Definitions of Verbs in an Explanatory Dictionary for Automatic Extraction of Actants Based on Detection of Patterns Noé Alejandro Castro-Sánchez Grigori Sidorov 233

An Automatic Definition Extraction in Arabic Language Omar Trigui Lamia Hadrich Belguith Paolo Rosso 240

Automatic Term Extraction Using Log-Likelihood Based Comparison with General Reference Corpus Alexander Gelbukh Grigori Sidorov Eduardo Lavin-Villa Liliana Chanona-Hernandez 248

Weighted Vote Based Classifier Ensemble Selection Using Genetic Algorithm for Named Entity Recognition Asif Ekbal Sriparna Saha 256

Refactoring of Process Model Activity Labels Henrik Leopold Sergey Smirnov Jan Mendling 268

Unsupervised Ontology Acquisition from Plain Texts: The OntoGain System Euthymios Drymonas Kalliopi Zervanou Euripides G.M. Petrakis 277

Semantic Networks & Graphs

Identifying Writers' Background by Comparing Personal Sense Thesauri Polina Panicheva John Cardiff Paolo Rosso 288

Retrieval of Similar Electronic Health Records Using UMLS Concept Graphs Laura Plaza Alberto Díaz 296

Supporting the Abstraction of Clinical Practice Guidelines Using Information Extraction Katharina Kaiser Silvia Miksch 304

Author Index 313