Natural Language Processing and Information Systems: 9th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2004, Salford, UK, June 23-25, 2004. Proceedings

Anastasia Karanastasi, Fotis G. Kazasis, Stavros Christodoulakis (auth.), Farid Meziane, Elisabeth Métais (eds.)3540225641, 9783540225645, 9783540277798

Welcome to NLDB04, the Ninth International Conference on the Application of Natural Language to Information Systems, held at the University of Salford, UK d- ing June 23-25, 2004. NLDB04 follows on the success of previous conferences held since 1995. Early conferences then known as Application of Natural Language to Databases, hence the acronym NLDB, were used as a forum to discuss and disse- nate research on the integration of natural language and databases and were mainly concerned with natural language based queries, database modelling and user int- faces that facilitate access to information. The conference has since moved to enc- pass all aspects of Information Systems and Software Engineering. Indeed, the use of natural language in systems modelling has greatly improved the development process and benefited both developers and users at all stages of the software development process. The latest developments in the field of natural language and the emergence of new technologies has seen a shift towards storage of large semantic electronic dictionaries, their exploitation and the advent of what is now known as the semantic web. Inf- mation extraction and retrieval, document and content management, ontology dev- opment and management and natural language conversational systems are becoming regular tracks in the last NLDB conferences. NLDB04 has seen a 50% increase in the number of submissions and has est- lished itself as one of the leading conferences in the area of applying natural language to information systems in its broader sense.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Effectiveness of Index Expressions….Pages 171-181
Concept Similarity Measures the Understanding Between Two Agents….Pages 182-194
Concept Indexing for Automated Text Categorization….Pages 195-206
Acquiring Selectional Preferences from Untagged Text for Prepositional Phrase Attachment Disambiguation….Pages 207-216
Semantic Enrichment for Ontology Mapping….Pages 217-228
Testing Word Similarity: Language Independent Approach with Examples from Romance….Pages 229-241
A Natural Language Model and a System for Managing TV-Anytime Information from Mobile Devices….Pages 1-12
State- and Object Oriented Specification of Interactive VoiceXML Information Services….Pages 13-25
Interpreting Semi-formal Utterances in Dialogs about Mathematical Proofs….Pages 26-38
Event Ordering Using TERSEO System….Pages 39-50
The Role of User Profiles in Context-Aware Query Processing for the Semantic Web….Pages 51-63
Deriving FrameNet Representations: Towards Meaning-Oriented Question Answering….Pages 64-75
Lightweight Natural Language Database Interfaces….Pages 76-88
Ontology-Driven Question Answering in AquaLog….Pages 89-102
Schema-Based Natural Language Semantic Mapping….Pages 103-113
Avaya Interactive Dashboard (AID): An Interactive Tool for Mining the Avaya Problem Ticket Database….Pages 114-122
Information Modeling: The Process and the Required Competencies of Its Participants….Pages 123-134
Experimenting with Linguistic Tools for Conceptual Modelling: Quality of the Models and Critical Features….Pages 135-146
Language Resources and Tools for Supporting the System Engineering Process….Pages 147-158
A Linguistics-Based Approach for Use Case Driven Analysis Using Goal and Scenario Authoring….Pages 159-170
Language Modeling for Effective Construction of Domain Specific Thesauri….Pages 242-253
Populating a Database from Parallel Texts Using Ontology-Based Information Extraction….Pages 254-264
A Generic Coordination Model for Pervasive Computing Based on Semantic Web Languages….Pages 265-275
Improving Web Searching Using Descriptive Graphs….Pages 276-287
An Unsupervised WSD Algorithm for a NLP System….Pages 288-298
Enhanced Email Classification Based on Feature Space Enriching….Pages 299-311
Synonymous Paraphrasing Using WordNet and Internet….Pages 312-323
Automatic Report Generation from Ontologies: The MIAKT Approach….Pages 324-335
A Flexible Workbench for Document Analysis and Text Mining….Pages 336-347
Towards Linguistic Foundations of Content Management….Pages 348-353
Constructing Natural Knowledge Ontologies to Implement Semantic Organizational Memory….Pages 354-361
Improving the Naming Process for Web Site Reverse Engineering….Pages 362-367
On Embedding Machine-Processable Semantics into Documents….Pages 368-373
Using IR Techniques to Improve Automated Text Classification….Pages 374-379
Architecture of a Medical Information Extraction System….Pages 380-387
Improving Information Retrieval in MEDLINE by Modulating MeSH Term Weights….Pages 388-394
Identification of Composite Named Entities in a Spanish Textual Database….Pages 395-400
ORAKEL: A Natural Language Interface to an F-Logic Knowledge Base….Pages 401-406
Accessing an Information System by Chatting….Pages 407-412
Ontology-Based Question Answering in a Federation of University Sites: The MOSES Case Study….Pages 413-420
Semantic Tagging and Chunk-Parsing in Dynamic Modeling….Pages 421-426
Semantic Filtering of Textual Requirements Descriptions….Pages 427-433
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