Advances in Natural Language Processing: 5th International Conference on NLP, FinTAL 2006 Turku, Finland, August 23-25, 2006 Proceedings

Fred Karlsson (auth.), Tapio Salakoski, Filip Ginter, Sampo Pyysalo, Tapio Pahikkala (eds.)3540373349, 9783540373346

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, FinTAL 2006, held in Turku, Finland in August 2006.

The 72 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited talk and the extended abstracts of 2 invited keynote addresses were carefully reviewed and selected from 150 submissions. The papers address all current issues in computational linguistics and monolingual and multilingual intelligent language processing – theory, methods and applications.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Recursion in Natural Languages….Pages 1-1
The Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionary as the Key Tool in Machine Translation….Pages 2-3
A Finite-State Approximation of Optimality Theory: The Case of Finnish Prosody….Pages 4-15
A Bilingual Corpus of Novels Aligned at Paragraph Level….Pages 16-23
A Computational Implementation of Internally Headed Relative Clause Constructions….Pages 24-31
A Corpus-Based Empirical Account of Adverbial Clauses Across Speech and Writing in Contemporary British English….Pages 32-43
A Korean Syntactic Parser Customized for Korean-English Patent MT System….Pages 44-55
A Scalable and Distributed NLP Architecture for Web Document Annotation….Pages 56-67
A Straightforward Method for Automatic Identification of Marginalized Languages….Pages 68-75
A Text Mining Approach for Definition Question Answering….Pages 76-86
Accommodating Multiword Expressions in an Arabic LFG Grammar….Pages 87-98
Analysis of EU Languages Through Text Compression….Pages 99-109
Applying Latent Dirichlet Allocation to Automatic Essay Grading….Pages 110-120
Automatic Acquisition of Semantic Relationships from Morphological Relatedness….Pages 121-132
Automatic Feature Extraction for Question Classification Based on Dissimilarity of Probability Distributions….Pages 133-140
Cat3LB and Cast3LB: From Constituents to Dependencies….Pages 141-152
Classification of News Web Documents Based on Structural Features….Pages 153-160
Cognition and Physio-acoustic Correlates — Audio and Audio-visual Effects of a Short English Emotional Statement: On JL2, FL2 and EL1….Pages 161-173
Compiling Generalized Two-Level Rules and Grammars….Pages 174-185
Computer Analysis of the Turkmen Language Morphology….Pages 186-193
Coordination Structures in a Typed Feature Structure Grammar: Formalization and Implementation….Pages 194-205
Cue-Based Interpretation of Customer’s Requests: Analysis of Estonian Dialogue Corpus….Pages 206-213
Czech-English Phrase-Based Machine Translation….Pages 214-224
Deep vs. Shallow Semantic Analysis Applied to Textual Entailment Recognition….Pages 225-236
Dictionary-Free Morphological Classifier of Russian Nouns….Pages 237-244
Discourse Segmentation of German Written Texts….Pages 245-256
Document Clustering Based on Maximal Frequent Sequences….Pages 257-267
Enriching Thesauri with Hierarchical Relationships by Pattern Matching in Dictionaries….Pages 268-279
Evaluation of Alignment Methods for HTML Parallel Text….Pages 280-290
Experiments in Passage Selection and Answer Identification for Question Answering….Pages 291-302
Extracting Idiomatic Hungarian Verb Frames….Pages 303-309
Extracting Term Collocations for Directing Users to Informative Web Pages….Pages 310-321
Feasibility of Enriching a Chinese Synonym Dictionary with a Synchronous Chinese Corpus….Pages 322-332
Finding Spanish Syllabification Rules with Decision Trees….Pages 333-340
Identifying Text Discourse Structure of the Narratives Describing Psychiatric Patients’ Defense Mechanisms….Pages 341-348
Implementing a Rule-Based Speech Synthesizer on a Mobile Platform….Pages 349-355
Improving Phrase-Based Statistical Translation Through Combination of Word Alignments….Pages 356-367
Improving Statistical Word Alignments with Morpho-syntactic Transformations….Pages 368-379
Improving Term Extraction with Terminological Resources….Pages 380-387
Improving Thai Spelling Recognition with Tone Features….Pages 388-398
Incorporating External Information in Bayesian Classifiers Via Linear Feature Transformations….Pages 399-410
Is a Morphologically Complex Language Really that Complex in Full-Text Retrieval?….Pages 411-422
Language Independent Answer Prediction from the Web….Pages 423-434
Language Model Mixtures for Contextual Ad Placement in Personal Blogs….Pages 435-446
Local Constraints on Arabic Word Order….Pages 447-457
MEDITE: A Unilingual Textual Aligner….Pages 458-469
Maximum Likelihood Alignment of Translation Equivalents….Pages 470-475
Measuring Intelligibility of Japanese Learner English….Pages 476-487
Morphological Lexicon Extraction from Raw Text Data….Pages 488-499
On the Use of Topic Models for Word Completion….Pages 500-511
Ord i Dag: Mining Norwegian Daily Newswire….Pages 512-523
Paraphrase Identification on the Basis of Supervised Machine Learning Techniques….Pages 524-533
Passage Filtering for Open-Domain Question Answering….Pages 534-540
Persian in MULTEXT-East Framework….Pages 541-551
Prerequisites for a Comprehensive Dictionary of Serbian Compounds….Pages 552-563
Regular Approximation of Link Grammar….Pages 564-575
Segmental Duration in Utterance-Initial Environment: Evidence from Finnish Speech Corpora….Pages 576-584
Selection Strategies for Multi-label Text Categorization….Pages 585-592
Some Problems of Prepositional Phrases in Machine Translation….Pages 593-603
Speech Confusion Index (Ø): A Recognition Rate Indicator for Dysarthric Speakers….Pages 604-615
Statistical Machine Translation of German Compound Words….Pages 616-624
Summarizing Documents in Context: Modeling the User’s Information Need….Pages 625-631
Supervised TextRank….Pages 632-639
Tagging a Morphologically Complex Language Using Heuristics….Pages 640-651
Terminology Structuring Through the Derivational Morphology….Pages 652-663
Text Segmentation Criteria for Statistical Machine Translation….Pages 664-673
The Classificatim Sense-Mining System….Pages 674-683
The Role of Verb Sense Disambiguation in Semantic Role Labeling….Pages 684-695
The Vowel Game: Continuous Real-Time Visualization for Pronunciation Learning with Vowel Charts….Pages 696-703
Towards a Framework for Evaluating Syntactic Parsers….Pages 704-715
Towards the Improvement of Statistical Translation Models Using Linguistic Features….Pages 716-725
Treating Unknown Light Verb Construction in Korean-to-English Patent MT….Pages 726-737
Trees as Contexts in Formal Language Generation….Pages 738-747
Two String-Based Finite-State Models of the Semantics of Calendar Expressions….Pages 748-755
Using Alignment Templates to Infer Shallow-Transfer Machine Translation Rules….Pages 756-767
Back Matter….Pages –