Natural Language Processing and Information Systems: 14th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems , NLDB 2009, Saarbrücken, Germany, June 24-26, 2009. Revised Papers

Invited Papers.- Turning the Web into a Database: Extracting Data and Structure.- Analysis and Improvement of Minimally Supervised Machine Learning for Relation Extraction.- Information Retrieval.- Using Evidences Based on Natural Language to Drive the Process of Fusing Multimodal Sources.- An Experimental Comparison of Explicit Semantic Analysis Implementations for Cross-Language Retrieval.- Term Extraction.- CITOM: Incremental Construction of Topic Maps.- Schema-Matching with Data Dictionaries.- Requirements Analysis: Concept Extraction and Translation of Textual Specifications to Executable Models.- Information Extraction.- Score-Based Approach for Anaphora Resolution in Drug-Drug Interactions Documents.- Relation Extraction for Monitoring Economic Networks.- Classification of Text.- Real-Word Typo Detection.- The Impact of Semantic and Morphosyntactic Ambiguity on Automatic Humour Recognition.- Semantic Approaches to Fine and Coarse-Grained Feature-Based Opinion Mining.- Classification of Documents.- Analyzing Document Collections via Context-Aware Term Extraction.- AIR: A Semi-Automatic System for Archiving Institutional Repositories.- Protein-Protein Interactions Classification from Text via Local Learning with Class Priors.- Interfaces to Knowledge Bases.- Natural Language Interfaces: What Is the Problem? – A Data-Driven Quantitative Analysis.- Semantic Mapping between Natural Language Questions and SQLQueries via Syntactic Pairing.- Search Interface to a Mayan Glyph Database Based on Visual Characteristics.- Using Semantic Models of Natural Language.- Temporal Expression Identification Based on Semantic Roles.- Evaluation of Arabic Machine Translation System Based on the Universal Networking Language.- Quality Assessment of Knowledge Sources.- Quality of Subsumption Hierarchies in Ontologies.- Evaluating Semantic Relations by Exploring Ontologies on the Semantic Web.- On the Assessment of Text Corpora.- Poster Papers.- Improving Semantic Web Applications with Navigational Semantics.- Hybrid Algorithm for Word-Level Alignment of Parallel Texts.- A Hybrid Approach for Data Mart Schema Design from NL-OLAP Requirements.- Spreadsheet Information Retrieval through Natural Language.- Characterizing Weblog Corpora.- Improving Full Text Search with Text Mining Tools.- Cognos: A Natural Interaction Knowledge Management Toolkit.- Doctoral Symposium Papers.- Specialized Entailment Engines: Approaching Linguistic Aspects of Textual Entailment.- Natural Language Processing for Spreadsheet Information Retrieval.- Use Speech for User’s Group Identification.