About the Book
This volume brings together revised versions of a selection of papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing” (RANLP) held in Borovets, Bulgaria, 27–29 September 2007. These papers cover a wide variety of Natural Language Processing (NLP) topics: ontologies, named entity extraction, translation and transliteration, morphology (derivational and inflectional), part-of-speech tagging, parsing (incremental processing, dependency parsing), semantic role labeling, word sense disambiguation, temporal representations, inference and metaphor, semantic similarity, coreference resolution, clustering (topic modeling, topic tracking), summarization, cross-lingual retrieval, lexical and syntactic resources, multi-modal processing. The aim of this volume is to present new results in NLP based on modern theories and methodologies, making it of interest to researchers in NLP and, more specifically, to those who work in Computational Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, and Machine Translation.
Table of Contents:
1. Editors' foreword, pvii-x; 2. Ontotherapy, or how to stop worrying about what there is (by Wilks, Yorick), p1-20; 3. Constraint-driven transliteration discovery (by Goldwasser, Dan), p21-40; 4. Towards radically incremental parsing of natural language (by Menzel, Wolfgang), p41-56; 5. Unsupervised graph-based word sense disambiguation (by Sinha, Ravi), p57-72; 6. Collaborative entity extraction and translation (by Ji, Heng), p73-84; 7. Generating models for temporal representations (by Blackburn, Patrick), p85-98; 8. The complexity of everyday language (by Ramsay, Allan), p99-112; 9. Detecting topic drift (by Knights, Dan), p113-130; 10. Feature construction for memory-based semantic role labeling of Catalan and Spanish (by Morante, Roser), p131-142; 11. A maximization-minimization approach for update summarization (by Boudin, Florian), p143-154; 12. Integrating derivational morphology into syntax (by Cetinoglu, Ozlem), p155-170; 13. Biomedical named entity recognition using discriminative training (by Jiampojamarn, Sittichai), p171-180; 14. Completing lists of entities (by Adafre, Sisay Fissaha), p181-192; 15. Character n-grams as text alignment unit: CLIR applications (by Vilares, Jesus), p193-204; 16. K-best, locally pruned, transition-based dependency parsing using robust risk minimization (by Choi, Jinho D.), p205-216; 17. Minimal sets of minimal speech acts (by Field, Debora), p217-226; 18. Semantic similarity of short texts (by Islam, Aminul), p227-236; 19. News from OPUS - A collection of multilingual parallel corpora with tools and interfaces (by Tiedemann, Jorg), p237-248; 20. Reusing contemporary language resources to PoS tag non-contemporary literary texts (by Navarretta, Costanza), p249-258; 21. Inference and domain independent mappings in metaphor understanding (by Agerri, Rodrigo), p259-268; 22. ConceptNet: A lexical resource for common sense knowledge (by Havasi, Catherine), p269-280; 23. Confidence measures and thresholding in coreference resolution (by Chen, John), p281-290; 24. The influence of pronominal anaphora resolution on term-based summarisation (by Orasan, Constantin), p291-300; 25. Morpheme-based language modeling for an inflectional language - Amharic (by Tachbelie, Martha Yifiru), p301-310; 26. Issues in realizing the overall message of a bar chart (by Demir, Seniz), p311-320; 27. The BulTreeBank: Parsing and conversion (by Chanev, Atanas), p321-330; 28. List and addresses of contributors, p331-334; 29. Index of subjects and terms, p335-338
