Advances in Natural Language Processing

Invited Talks.- Reliving the History: The Beginnings of Statistical Machine Translation and Languages with Rich Morphology.- Harmonizing WordNet and FrameNet.- Research Papers.- A Morphosyntactic Brill Tagger for Inflectional Languages.- Hybrid Syntactic-Semantic Reranking for Parsing Results of ECAs Interactions Using CRFs.- Automatic Distractor Generation for Domain Specific Texts.- Summarization as Feature Selection for Document Categorization on Small Datasets.- A Formal Ontology for a Computational Approach of Time and Aspect.- A Non-linear Semantic Mapping Technique for Cross-Language Sentence Matching.- Comparison of Paraphrase Acquisition Techniques on Sentential Paraphrases.- Digital Learning for Summarizing Arabic Documents.- Concept Based Representations for Ranking in Geographic Information Retrieval.- Using Machine Translation Systems to Expand a Corpus in Textual Entailment.- Frames in Formal Semantics.- Clustering E-Mails for the Swedish Social Insurance Agency – What Part of the E-Mail Thread Gives the Best Quality?.- OpenMaTrEx: A Free/Open-Source Marker-Driven Example-Based Machine Translation System.- Head Finders Inspection: An Unsupervised Optimization Approach.- Estimating the Birth and Death Years of Authors of Undated Documents Using Undated Citations.- Using Temporal Cues for Segmenting Texts into Events.- Enriching the Adjective Domain in the Japanese WordNet.- Comparing SMT Methods for Automatic Generation of Pronunciation Variants.- Automatic Learning of Discourse Relations in Swedish Using Cue Phrases.- The Representation of Diatheses in the Valency Lexicon of Czech Verbs.- Symbolic Classification Methods for Patient Discharge Summaries Encoding into ICD.- User-Tailored Document Planning – A Game-Theoretic Approach.- Anaphora Resolution with Real Preprocessing.- Automatic Construction of a Morphological Dictionary of Multi-Word Units.- Collocation Extraction in Turkish Texts Using Statistical Methods.- Towards the Design and Evaluation of ROILA: A Speech Recognition Friendly Artificial Language.- Time Expressions Ontology for Information Seeking Dialogues in the Public Transport Domain.- Reliability of the Manual Segmentation of Pauses in Natural Speech.- Large-Scale Language Modeling with Random Forests for Mandarin Chinese Speech-to-Text.- Design and Evaluation of an Agreement Error Detection System: Testing the Effect of Ambiguity, Parser and Corpus Type.- TectoMT: Modular NLP Framework.- Using Information from the Target Language to Improve Crosslingual Text Classification.- Event Detection Using Lexical Chain.- Using Comparable Corpora to Improve the Effectiveness of Cross-Language Information Retrieval.- Semi-automatic Endogenous Enrichment of Collaboratively Constructed Lexical Resources: Piggybacking onto Wiktionary.- Portable Extraction of Partially Structured Facts from the Web.- Passage Retrieval in Log Files: An Approach Based on Query Enrichment.- Part-of-Speech Tagging Using Parallel Weighted Finite-State Transducers.- Automated Email Answering by Text Pattern Matching.- A System to Control Language for Oral Communication.- Robust Semi-supervised and Ensemble-Based Methods in Word Sense Disambiguation.- The Effect of Semi-supervised Learning on Parsing Long Distance Dependencies in German and Swedish.- Shooting at Flies in the Dark: Rule-Based Lexical Selection for a Minority Language Pair.