Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing

1. Editors' foreword; 2. 1. Morphology and syntax; 3. Some linguistic, computational and statistical implications of lexical grammars (by Joshi, Aravind K.); 4. Case and word order in English and German (by Ramsey, Allan); 5. An optimised algorithm for data oriented parsing (by Sima'an, Khalil); 6. Parsing repairs (by Cori, Marcel); 7. Parsing for targeted errors in controlled languages (by Hurst, Matthew F.); 8. Applicative and combinatiry categorical grammar (from syntax to functional semantics) (by Biskri, Ismail); 9. ParseTalk about textual ellipsis (by Hahn, Udo); 10. Improving a robust morphological analyser using lexical transducers (by Alegria, Inaki); 11. 2. Semantics disambiguation; 12. Context-sensitive word distance by adaptive scaling of a semantic space (by Kozima, Hideki); 13. Towards a sublanguage-based semantic clustering algorithm (by Arranz, M. Victoria); 14. Contexts and categories: Tuning a general purpose verb classification to sublanguages (by Basili, Roberto); 15. Concept-driven search algotithm incorporating semantic interpretation and speech recognition (by Nagai, Akito); 16. A proposal for word sense disambiguation using conceptual distance (by Agirre, Eneko); 17. A episodic memory for understanding and learning (by Ferret, Olivier); 18. Ambiguities and ambiguity labelling: Towards ambiguity data bases (by Boitet, Christian); 19. 3. Discourse; 20. Incorporating discourse aspects in English - Polish MT (by Stys, Malgorzata E.); 21. Two engines are better than one: Generating more power and confidence in the search for the antecedent (by Mitkov, Ruslan); 22. Effects of grammatical annotation on a topic identification task (by Nomoto, Tadashi); 23. Discourse constraints on theme selection (by Ramm, Wiebke); 24. Discerning relevant information in discoursing using TFA (by Kruijff, Geert-Jan M.); 25. 4. Generation; 26. Approximate chart generation from non-hierarchical representations (by Nicolov, Nicolas); 27. Example-based optimisation of surface-generation tables (by Samuelsson, Christer); 28. Semtence generation by pattern matching: The problem of syntactic choice (by Zock, Michael); 29. An empirical study on the generation of descriptions for nominal anaphors in Chinese (by Yeh, Ching-Long); 30. Generation of multilingual explanations from conceptual graphs (by Bontcheva, Kalina); 31. 5. Corpus processing and applications; 32. Machine translation: productivity and conventionality of language (by Tsujii, Junichi); 33. Connectionist F-structure transfer (by Wang, Ye-Yi); 34. Acquisition of translation rules from parallel corpora (by Matsumoto, Yuji); 35. Clause recognition in the framework of alignment (by Papageorgiou, Harris V.); 36. Bilingual vocabulary estimation from noisy parallel corpora using variable bag estimation (by Jones, Daniel B.); 37. A HMM part-of-speech tagger for Korean with wordphrasal relations (by Shin, Jung Ho); 38. A multimodal environment for telecommunication specifications (by Bretan, Ivan); 39. List and addresses of contributors; 40. Index of subjects and terms