Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing

Language Resources A Distributed Database System for Developing Ontological and Lexical Resources in Harmony    . . 1 Aleˇs Hor´ak, Piek Vossen, and Adam Rambousek Verb Class Discovery from Rich SyntacTIc Data  . . . . 16 Lin Sun, Anna Korhonen and Yuval Krymolowski Growing TreeLex     28 Anna Kup´s´c and Anne Abeill´e AcquisiTIon of Elementary Synonym RelaTIons from Biological Structured Terminology    . 40 Thierry Hamon and Natalia Grabar A Comparison of Co-occurrence and Similarity Measures as SimulaTIons of Context     52 Stefan Bordag Various Criteria of Collocation Cohesion in Internet: Comparison of Resolving Power     . 64 Igor A. Bolshakov, Elena I. Bolshakova, Alexey P. Kotlyarov, and Alexander Gelbukh Why Don’t Romanians Have a Five O’clock Tea, Nor Halloween, But Have a Kind of Valentines Day?   . . . . . 73 Corina For˘ascu Best Student Paper Award SIGNUM: A Graph Algorithm for Terminology Extraction  85 Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo Morphology and Syntax Arabic Morphology Parsing Revisited   . 96 Suhel Jaber and Rodolfo Delmonte A Probabilistic Model for Guessing Base Forms of New Words by Analogy     . . 106 Krister Lind´en XIV Table of Contents Unsupervised and Knowledge-Free Learning of Compound Splits and Periphrases     . . . . . 117 Florian Holz and Chris Biemann German Decompounding in a Difficult Corpus  . . . . . 128 Enrique Alfonseca, Slaven Bilac, and Stefan Pharies Clause Boundary Identification Using Conditional Random Fields 140 R. Vijay Sundar Ram and Sobha Lalitha Devi Semantics and Discourse Invited Paper Natural Language as the Basis for Meaning Representation and Inference     . . 151 Ido Dagan, Roy Bar-Haim, Idan Szpektor, Iddo Greental, and Eyal Shnarch Layer Structures and Conceptual Hierarchies in Semantic Representations for NLP    171 Hermann Helbig, Ingo Gl¨ockner, and Rainer Osswald Deep Lexical Semantics    . 183 Jerry R. Hobbs On Ontology Based Abduction for Text Interpretation  . . . 194 Irma Sofia Espinosa Peraldi, Atila Kaya, Sylvia Melzer, and Ralf M¨oller Analysis of Joint Inference Strategies for the Semantic Role Labeling of Spanish and Catalan    . . . 206 Mihai Surdeanu, Roser Morante, and Llu´ıs M`arquez A Preliminary Study on the Robustness and Generalization of Role Sets for Semantic Role Labeling   . . . . . 219 Be˜nat Zapirain, Eneko Agirre, and Llu´ıs M`arquez XTM: A Robust Temporal Text Processor   . . 231 Caroline Hag`ege and Xavier Tannier Invited Paper What We Are Talking about and What We Are Saying about It . 241 Eva Hajiˇcov´a Trusting Politicians’ Words (for Persuasive NLP)  . . 263 Marco Guerini, Carlo Strapparava, and Oliviero Stock Table of Contents XV Sense Annotation in the Penn Discourse Treebank  . 275 Eleni Miltsakaki, Livio Robaldo, Alan Lee, and Aravind Joshi Word Sense Disambiguation and Named Entity Recognition A Semantics-Enhanced Language Model for Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation     . . 287 Shou-de Lin and Karin Verspoor Best Paper Award, 1st Place Discovering Word Senses from Text Using Random Indexing . . . . 299 Niladri Chatterjee and Shiwali Mohan Domain Information for Fine-Grained Person Name Categorization . . . . . 311 Zornitsa Kozareva, Sonia Vazquez, and Andres Montoyo Language Independent First and Last Name Identification in Person Names     . . . . 322 Octavian Popescu and Bernardo Magnini Mixing Statistical and Symbolic Approaches for Chemical Names Recognition     . . . . . 334 Florian Boudin, Juan Manuel Torres-Moreno, and Marc El-B`eze Anaphora and Co-reference Portuguese Pronoun Resolution: Resources and Evaluation  344 Ramon R´e Moya Cuevas, Willian Yukio Honda, Diego Jesus de Lucena, Ivandr´e Paraboni, and Patr´ıcia Rufino Oliveira Semantic and Syntactic Features for Dutch Coreference Resolution . . . . . 351 Iris Hendrickx, Veronique Hoste, and Walter Daelemans Machine Translation and Parallel Corpora Invited Paper Stat-XFER: A General Search-Based Syntax-Driven Framework for Machine Translation   . . . . 362 Alon Lavie XVI Table of Contents Invited Paper Statistical Machine Translation into a Morphologically Complex Language     . 376 Kemal Oflazer Translation Paraphrases in Phrase-Based Machine Translation . . . 388 Francisco Guzm´an and Leonardo Garrido n-Best Reranking for the Efficient Integration of Word Sense Disambiguation and Statistical Machine Translation  399 Lucia Specia, Baskaran Sankaran, and Maria das Gra¸cas Volpe Nunes Learning Finite State Transducers Using Bilingual Phrases  411 Jorge Gonz´alez, Germ´an Sanchis, and Francisco Casacuberta Learning Spanish-Galician Translation Equivalents Using a Comparable Corpus and a Bilingual Dictionary   . . . 423 Pablo Gamallo Otero and Jos´e Ramom Pichel Campos Context-Based Sentence Alignment in Parallel Corpora  . . 434 Ergun Bi¸cici Bilingual Segmentation for Alignment and Translation  . . . . 445 Chung-Chi Huang, Wei-Teh Chen, and Jason S. Chang Dynamic Translation Memory: Using Statistical Machine Translation to Improve Translation Memory Fuzzy Matches  . . . . 454 Ergun Bi¸cici and Marc Dymetman Identification of Transliterated Foreign Words in Hebrew Script . . 466 Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad Natural Language Generation Innovative Approach for Engineering NLG Systems: The Content Determination Case Study    . . . . 478 Marco Fonseca, Leonardo Junior, Alexandre Melo, and Hendrik Macedo Speech Recognition Comparison of Different Modeling Units for Language Model Adaptation for Inflected Languages  . . . 488 Tanel Alum¨ae Table of Contents XVII Information Retrieval and Question Answering Word Distribution Analysis for Relevance Ranking and Query Expansion     500 Patricio Galeas and Bernd Freisleben Hybrid Method for Personalized Search in Scientific Digital Libraries . . . 512 Thanh-Trung Van and Michel Beigbeder Alignment-Based Expansion of Textual Database Fields . . . 522 Piroska Lendvai Detecting Expected Answer Relations through Textual Entailment . . . . . 532 Matteo Negri, Milen Kouylekov, and Bernardo Magnini Improving Question Answering by Combining Multiple Systems Via Answer Validation    . . . . . 544 Alberto T´ellez-Valero, Manuel Montes-y-G´omez, Luis Villase˜nor-Pineda, and Anselmo Pe˜nas Text Classification Evaluation of Internal Validity Measures in Short-Text Corpora . . 555 Diego Ingaramo, David Pinto, Paolo Rosso, and Marcelo Errecalde Text Summarization Arabic/English Multi-document Summarization with CLASSY—The Past and the Future    . . . . 568 Judith D. Schlesinger, Dianne P. O’Leary, and John M. Conroy Best Paper Award, 3rd Place Lexical Cohesion Based Topic Modeling for Summarization  582 Gonenc Ercan and Ilyas Cicekli Terms Derived from Frequent Sequences for Extractive Text Summarization     . . 593 Yulia Ledeneva, Alexander Gelbukh, and Ren´e Arnulfo Garc´ıa-Hern´andez Spell Checking and Authoring Aid Real-Word Spelling Correction with Trigrams: A Reconsideration of the Mays, Damerau, and Mercer Model   . . . . . 605 Amber Wilcox-O’Hearn, Graeme Hirst, and Alexander Budanitsky XVIII Table of Contents Best Paper Award, 2nd Place Non-interactive OCR Post-correction for Giga-Scale Digitization Projects     . . 617 Martin Reynaert Linguistic Support for Revising and Editing   . 631 Cerstin Mahlow and Michael Piotrowski The Role of PP Attachment in Preposition Generation  . . . 643 John Lee and Ola Knutsson EFL Learner Reading Time Model for Evaluating Reading Proficiency     655 Katsunori Kotani, Takehiko Yoshimi, Takeshi Kutsumi, Ichiko Sata, and Hitoshi Isahara Author Index     . . 665