Natural Language and Information Systems: 13th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2008 London, UK, June 24-27, 2008, Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, cartea 5039

Invited Papers.- Sentence and Text Comprehension: Evidence from Human Language Processing.- Towards Semantic Search.- From Databases to Natural Language: The Unusual Direction.- Natural Language Processing and Understanding.- Division of Spanish Words into Morphemes with a Genetic Algorithm.- Abbreviation Disambiguation: Experiments with Various Variants of the One Sense per Discourse Hypothesis.- The Acquisition of Common Sense Knowledge by Being Told: An Application of NLP to Itself.- Natural Language Processing and Understanding.- Interlingua for French and German Topological Prepositions.- Ontological Profiles as Semantic Domain Representations.- A Hybrid Approach to Ontology Relationship Learning.- Automating the Generation of Semantic Annotation Tools Using a Clustering Technique.- Information Retrieval.- Exploiting Multiple Features with MEMMs for Focused Web Crawling.- Ranked-Listed or Categorized Results in IR: 2 Is Better Than 1.- Exploiting Morphological Query Structure Using Genetic Optimisation.- Generation of Query-Biased Concepts Using Content and Structure for Query Reformulation.- Comparing Several Textual Information Retrieval Systems for the Geographical Information Retrieval Task.- Querying and Question Answering.- Intensional Question Answering Using ILP: What Does an Answer Mean?.- Augmenting Data Retrieval with Information Retrieval Techniques by Using Word Similarity.- Combining Data Integration and IE Techniques to Support Partially Structured Data.- Towards Building Robust Natural Language Interfaces to Databases.- Towards a Bootstrapping NLIDB System.- Document Processing and Text Mining.- Real-Time News Event Extraction for Global Crisis Monitoring.- Topics Identification Based on Event Sequence Using Co-occurrence Words.- Topic Development Based Refinement of Audio-Segmented Television News.- Text Entailment for Logical Segmentation and Summarization.- Comparing Non-parametric Ensemble Methods for Document Clustering.- A Language Modelling Approach to Linking Criminal Styles with Offender Characteristics.- Software (Requirements) Engineering and Specification.- Towards Designing Operationalizable Models of Man-Machine Interaction Based on Concepts from Human Dialog Systems.- Using Linguistic Knowledge to Classify Non-functional Requirements in SRS documents.- A Preliminary Approach to the Automatic Extraction of Business Rules from Unrestricted Text in the Banking Industry.- Paraphrasing OCL Expressions with SBVR.- A General Architecture for Connecting NLP Frameworks and Desktop Clients Using Web Services.- Conceptual Modelling and Ontologies Related Posters.- Conceptual Model Generation from Requirements Model: A Natural Language Processing Approach.- Bivalent Verbs and Their Pragmatic Particularities.- Using Ontologies and Relatedness Metrics for Semantic Document Analysis on the Web.- Information Retrieval Related Posters.- The TSRM Approach in the Document Retrieval Application.- Enhanced Services for Targeted Information Retrieval by Event Extraction and Data Mining.- Querying and Question Answering Related Posters.- Improving Question Answering Tasks by Textual Entailment Recognition.- Supporting Named Entity Recognition and Syntactic Analysis with Full-Text Queries.- Document Processing and Text Mining Related Posters.- Multilingual Feature-Driven Opinion Extraction and Summarization from Customer Reviews.- Lexical and Semantic Methods in Inner Text Topic Segmentation: A Comparison between C99 and Transeg.- An Application of NLP and Audiovisual Content Analysis for Integration of Multimodal Databases of Current Events.- Detecting Protein-Protein Interaction Sentences Using a Mixture Model.- Using Semantic Features to Improve Task Identification in Email Messages.- Text Pre-processing for Document Clustering.- Software (Requirements) Engineering and Specification Related Posters.- Trade Oriented Enterprise Content Management: A Semantic and Collaborative Prototype Dedicated to the “Quality, Hygiene, Safety and Environment” Domain.- Doctoral Symposium Papers.- Mapping Natural Language into SQL in a NLIDB.- Improving Data Integration through Disambiguation Techniques.- An Ontology-Based Focused Crawler.- Impact of Term-Indexing for Arabic Document Retrieval.