Natural Language Processing and Information Systems
16th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2011, Alicante, Spain, June 28-30, 2011, Proceedings
Published on 16. June 2011
XV, 350 pages
978-3-642-22327-3 (ISBN)
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, held in Alicante, Spain, in June 2011.
The 11 revised full papers and 11 revised short papers presented together with 23 poster papers, 1 invited talk and 6 papers of the NLDB 2011 doctoral symposium were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. The papers address all aspects of Natural Language Processing related areas and present current research on topics such as natural language in conceptual modeling, NL interfaces for data base querying/retrieval, NL-based integration of systems, large-scale online linguistic resources, applications of computational linguistics in information systems, management of textual databases NL on data warehouses and data mining, NLP applications, as well as NL and ubiquitous computing.
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Rafael Munoz | Andres Montoyo | Elisabeth Metais
Natural Language Processing and Information Systems
16th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2011, Alicante, Spain, June 28-30, 2011, Proceedings
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06/2011
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Content
- Title
- Preface
- Organization
- Table of Contents
- Invited Talks
- Easy Access to Textual Information: The Role of Natural Language Processing
- Sentiment Strength Detection in the Social Web: From YouTube Arguments to Twitter Praise
- Full Papers
- COMPENDIUM: A Text Summarization System for Generating Abstracts of Research Papers
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Description of the Data Set: Research Papers
- Analysis of the Model Summaries
- Text Summarization Approach: COMPENDIUM
- COMPENDIUM_E: Extractive Summarization
- COMPENDIUM_E-A: Abstractive-Oriented Summarization
- Results and Discussion
- Comparison with Human Abstracts
- Topic Identification
- User Satisfaction Study
- Conclusion and Future Work
- References
- Automatic Generation of Semantic Features and Lexical Relations Using OWL Ontologies
- Introduction
- Semantic Feature Analysis
- OWL Ontologies
- From OWL Axioms to Semantic Features
- Formula Extraction
- Computing Lexical Relations
- Testing and Evaluation
- Results and Discussion
- Conclusion and Future Work
- References
- EmotiNet: A Knowledge Base for Emotion Detection in Text Built on the Appraisal Theories
- Introduction
- State of the Art
- Motivation and Contribution
- Building a Knowledge Base of Action Chains: EmotiNet
- ISEAR - Self-reported Affect
- Modelling Situations with Semantic Roles
- Models of Emotion
- Designing the EmotiNet Ontology
- Extending and Populating EmotiNet with Real Examples
- Expanding EmotiNet with Existing NLP Resources
- Experiments and Evaluation
- Experimental Setup
- Empirical Results
- Discussion
- Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- Querying Linked Data Using Semantic Relatedness: A Vocabulary Independent Approach
- Introduction
- Query Approach
- Introduction
- Description of the Approach
- Entity Recognition and Entity Search
- Query Parsing
- Semantic Relatedness
- The Semantic Relatedness Spreading Activation Algorithm
- Evaluation
- Related Work
- Conclusion and Future Work
- References
- Extracting Explicit and Implicit Causal Relations from Sparse, Domain-Specific Texts
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Methodology for Extracting Causal Relations
- Pattern Acquisition
- Causal Pattern Extraction
- Causal Relation Extraction
- Experimental Evaluation
- Pattern Acquisition
- Causal Pattern Extraction
- Causal Relation Extraction
- Conclusion
- References
- Topics Inference by Weighted Mutual Information Measures Computed from Structured Corpus
- Introduction
- Domain of Interests
- Methodology
- TF-IDF Encoding with Domain-Based Weights
- Topic Clustering with Mutual Information Measures
- Topic Inference Procedure
- Evaluations and Results
- Training Corpus
- Testing Data
- Performance Evaluation of Topic Inference Engine and Results
- Discussions and Future Work
- Conclusions
- References
- Improving Subtree-Based Question Classification Classifiers with Word-Cluster Models
- Introduction
- Subtree Mining for Question classification
- Tree Classification
- Subtree Features Selection with Boosting
- Structured SVMs with Subtree Features
- Word-Cluster Model for Question Classification
- The Brown Algorithm
- Word-Cluster Based Features
- Experimental Results
- Conclusions
- References
- Data-Driven Approach Based on Semantic Roles for Recognizing Temporal Expressions and Events in Chinese
- Introduction
- Background
- Temporal Expressions and Events
- Related Work
- Semantic Roles
- Our Proposal: TIRSemZH
- Learning Features
- Machine Learning Technique: CRF
- Evaluation: TempEval-2 Test
- Evaluation Framework
- TIRSemZH Results
- Conclusions and FutureWork
- References
- Information Retrieval Techniques for Corpus Filtering Applied to External Plagiarism Detection
- Introduction
- State of the Art
- Methods
- Full-Text Search Engine
- Document Similarity Measure
- Experimentation and Results
- Full-Text Search Engine
- Document Similarity Measure
- Technique Comparison
- Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- Word Sense Disambiguation: A Graph-Based Approach Using N-Cliques Partitioning Technique
- Introduction and Motivation
- Models, Technique and Resources
- Cliques
- N-Cliques
- Clique Partitioning Algorithm
- ISR-WN Resource
- Reuters Vector
- Method Structure
- Creating an Initial Semantic Graph
- Applying N-Cliques Partitioning Technique
- Selecting the Correct Senses
- Evaluation
- Analysis of the Behaviour of the Accuracies of Grammatical Categories
- Analysis of Correct Senses According to Different N-Cliques
- Comparison with Previous WSD Approaches Graph-Based
- Conclusions and Further Works
- References
- OntoFIS as a NLP Resource in the Drug-Therapy Domain: Design Issues and Solutions Applied
- Introduction
- OntoFIS: Characteristics and Design Process
- Design Process
- Design Issues and Solutions Applied
- Issues during the Representation Process
- Issues during the Formalisation Process
- Discussion
- Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- Short Papers
- Exploiting Unlabeled Data for Question Classification
- Introduction
- Kernels for Question Classification
- Semantic Kernels
- Composite Kernels
- Experiments
- Description of the Data Set
- Experimental Setup
- Experimental Results
- Related Work
- Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- A System for Adaptive Information Extraction from Highly Informal Text
- Introduction and Motivation
- Architecture of the System
- Normalization
- Semantic Tagging
- Integration in a Knowledge Base
- An Annotated Corpus of Classified Advertisements
- Evaluation
- Evaluation Metrics
- Configuration of the System
- Analysis of Results
- Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- Pythia: Compositional Meaning Construction for Ontology-Based Question Answering on the Semantic Web
- Introduction
- Approach
- Evaluation
- Dataset and Grammar Generation
- Evaluation Results and Discussion
- Conclusion and Future Work
- References
- 'twazn me!!!
- (' Automatic Authorship Analysis of Micro-Blogging Messages
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Method Description and Stylistic Features
- Experimental Setup
- Results and Analysis
- Conclusions
- References
- Opinion Classification Techniques Applied to a Spanish Corpus
- Introduction
- Opinion Mining in other Languages
- Muchocine Corpus
- Classification Methods
- SVM
- Naïve Bayes
- BBR
- KNN
- C4.5
- Experiment Results
- Conclusion and Further Work
- References
- Prosody Analysis of Thai Emotion Utterances
- Introduction
- Emotional Speech Classification and Prosodic Parameters
- Related Works
- In Thai Language
- Other Languages
- Experiment and Results
- Comparison with other Languages
- F0 Analysis
- Intensity Analysis
- Duration Analysis
- Conclusion and Discussion
- References
- Repurposing Social Tagging Data for Extraction of Domain-Level Concepts
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Identifying Domain-Level Constructs
- Phase 1: Data Cleansing
- An Application
- Conclusions
- References
- Ontology-Guided Approach to Feature-Based Opinion Mining
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Ontology Based Opinion Mining
- NLP Module
- Ontology-Based Feature Identification Module
- Polarity Identification Module
- Opinion Mining Module
- Use Case Scenario. Movie Reviews
- Discussion and Conclusion
- References
- A Natural Language Interface for Data Warehouse Question Answering
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Architecture
- Question Translation
- Thesaurus
- Minimal Thesaurus
- Learning Approach
- Query Reformulation
- Evaluation
- Conclusion and Future Work
- References
- Graph-Based Bilingual Sentence Alignment from Large Scale Web Pages
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Extracting Bilingual Aligned Sentences from Web Pages
- Feature Extraction
- Graph-Based Sentence Alignment
- Experiments
- Data Collection and Training Details
- Sentence Alignment Using Different Features
- Performance Comparison under Different Methods
- Evaluation on the Large Scale Web Page Collection
- Conclusion
- References
- Posters
- On Specifying Requirements Using a Semantically Controlled Representation
- Introduction
- NL to SBVR Approach
- Processing NL Text
- Generating SBVR Rule
- A Case Study
- Conclusion
- References
- An Unsupervised Method to Improve Spanish Stemmer
- Introduction
- Grouping MFs Using Extended Edit Distance
- Experiments
- Conclusions and Future Works
- References
- Using Semantic Classes as Document Keywords
- Introduction
- Using Semantic Classes as Keyphrases: Evaluation
- Results
- Conclusions
- References
- Automatic Term Identification by User Profile for Document Categorisation in Medline
- Introduction
- Document Categorisation by User Profile
- Evaluation
- Conclusions
- References
- AZOM: A Persian Structured Text Summarizer
- Introduction
- Proposed Summarization Approach
- Preprocessing
- Interpretation
- Statistical Weighting
- Summary Generation
- Evaluation
- References
- POS Tagging in Amazighe Using Support Vector Machines and Conditional Random Fields
- Introduction
- Related Work on POS Tagging
- Amazighe Language
- Experiments and Error Analysis
- Conclusions and Further Work
- References
- Towards Ontology-Driven End-User Composition of Personalized Mobile Services
- Introduction
- The City-Guide Scenario and the Ontology
- Methodology and Tools
- Conclusion and Future Work
- References
- Style Analysis of Academic Writing
- Motivation
- Related Work
- Features for Style Analysis of Academic Writing
- Implementation and Reports
- Evaluation
- Conclusion
- References
- Towards the Detection of Cross-Language Source Code Reuse
- Introduction
- Model
- Experiments
- Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- Effectively Mining Wikipedia for Clustering Multilingual Documents
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Proposed Approach
- Experimental Evaluation and Discussion
- Conclusion and Future Work
- References
- A Comparative Study of Classifier Combination Methods Applied to NLP Tasks
- Introduction
- Combination and NLP
- Comparative Study
- References
- TOES: A Taxonomy-Based Opinion Extraction System
- Introduction
- Our Approach
- Feature Taxonomy
- Domain-Specific Resources
- System Architecture
- Experimentation
- References
- Combining Textual Content and Hyperlinks in Web Spam Detection
- Introduction
- Combining Links and Contents
- Evaluation
- Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- Map-Based Filters for Fuzzy Entities in Geographical Information Retrieval
- Introduction
- Description of the System
- Experiments and Evaluation
- Related Work
- Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- DDIExtractor: A Web-Based Java Tool for Extracting Drug-Drug Interactions from Biomedical Texts
- Background
- DDIExtractor: A Web Tool to Detect Drugs and DDI
- Search Engine
- Extractor
- On-Going and Future Work
- References
- Geo-Textual Relevance Ranking to Improve a Text-Based Retrieval for Geographic Queries
- Introduction
- GIR System Overview
- Experiments and Results
- Conclusions and Further Work
- References
- BioOntoVerb Framework: Integrating Top Level Ontologies and Semantic Roles to Populate Biomedical Ontologies
- Introduction
- BioOntoVerb Framework
- Evaluation
- References
- Treo: Best-Effort Natural Language Queries over Linked Data
- Introduction
- Description of the Approach
- Query Example
- References
- Evaluating EmotiBlog Robustness for Sentiment Analysis Tasks
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Training Corpora
- Machine Learning Experiments and Discussion
- References
- Syntax-Motivated Context Windows of Morpho-Lexical Features for Recognizing Time and Event Expressions in Natural Language
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Proposal: Analyzing Morpho-Lexical Features
- Evaluation: TempEval-2 Test
- Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- Tourist Face: A Contents System Based on Concepts of Freebase for Access to the Cultural-Tourist Information
- Introduction
- System Architecture and Information Extraction from Freebase
- Tourist and Cultural Information Processing and User Interface
- Conclusion
- References
- Person Name Discrimination in the Dossier-GPLSI at the University of Alicante
- Introduction
- Dossier-GPLSI Architecture
- NE Discrimination Approaches in Dossier-GPLSI
- Result Analysis
- Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- MarUja: Virtual Assistant Prototype for the Computing Service Catalogue of the University of Jaén
- Introduction
- ProjectReasons
- Components
- Architecture
- Conclusion
- References
- Doctoral Symposium
- Processing Amazighe Language
- Introduction
- Motivation
- Corpus
- POS Tagging Amazighe
- Current Research and Future Work
- References
- How to Extract Arabic Definitions from the Web? Arabic Definition Question Answering System
- Introduction
- Motivations
- Related Works
- Current Work
- Approach Proposed
- The DefArabicQA System
- Experiment
- Future Work
- Conclusion
- References
- Answer Validation through Textual Entailment
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Answer Validation System
- Answer Pattern Generation Module
- Hypothesis Generation Module
- NER Module
- Lexical Textual Entailment (TE) Module
- Syntactic Textual Entailment (TE) Module
- Chunk Module
- Question Answer Type Analysis Module
- Answer Validation - Voting Technique
- Experiment Results
- Discussion
- References
- Analyzing Text Data for Opinion Mining
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Entity-Related Opinion Detection
- Sentiment Analysis
- Proposed Research Work
- Conclusion
- References
- On the Improvement of Passage Retrieval in Arabic Question/Answering (Q/A) Systems
- Introduction
- State of the Art
- Objective and Method
- Conclusions
- References
- Author Index
