This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference PorTAL 2002 - Portugal for Natural Language Processing, held in Faro, Portugal, in June 2002.
The 23 reviewed regular papers and 11 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on pragmatics, discourse, semantics, and the lexicon; interpreting and generating spoken and written language; language-oriented information retrieval, question answering, summarization, and information extraction; language-oriented machine learning; multi-lingual processing, machine translation, and translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; tools and resources; and evaluation of systems.
Author(s): Richard Sproat (auth.), Elisabete Ranchhod, Nuno J. Mamede (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2389 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 280
Tags: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Information Storage and Retrieval; Document Preparation and Text Processing; Language Translation and Linguistics
WordsEye: A Text-to-Scene Conversion System....Pages 1-1
Automatic Anaphora Resolution: Limits, Impediments, and Ways Forward....Pages 3-3
Feature-Based WSD: Why We Are at a Dead-End....Pages 5-14
Improving Feature Selection for Maximum Entropy-Based Word Sense Disambiguation....Pages 15-23
Heuristics-Based Replenishment of Collocation Databases....Pages 25-32
On the Analysis of Locative Phrases with Graphs and Lexicon-Grammar: The Classifier/Proper Noun Pairing....Pages 33-42
The Role of Pause Occurrence and Pause Duration in the Signaling of Narrative Structure....Pages 43-51
A Grammar-Based System to Solve Temporal Expressions in Spanish Texts....Pages 53-61
Semantic Information in Anaphora Resolution....Pages 63-70
A Type of Transitive Inalienable Possession Construction in Korean....Pages 71-74
The Treatment of Numbers in Polish by Graphs....Pages 75-78
From Syntax to Semantics: Taking Advantages of 5P....Pages 79-82
Processing Discontinuity....Pages 83-86
Resolution of Demonstrative Anaphoric References in Portuguese Written Texts....Pages 87-90
Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Using Weighted Finite-State Transducers....Pages 91-99
Building Language Models for Continuous Speech Recognition Systems....Pages 101-110
Relevant Information Extraction Driven with Rhetorical Schemas to Summarize Scientific Papers....Pages 111-114
Mapping an Automated Survey Coding Task into a Probabilistic Text Categorization Framework....Pages 115-124
Combining Multiclass Maximum Entropy Text Classifiers with Neural Network Voting....Pages 125-131
Compound Temporal Adverbs in Portuguese and in Spanish....Pages 133-136
Description of a Multilingual Database of Proper Names....Pages 137-140
A Project of Speech Input and Output in an E-commerce Application....Pages 141-150
Ambiguity Reports for Flexible Dialog Management....Pages 151-160
A Natural Language Dialogue Manager for Accessing Databases....Pages 161-170
Helping the Composition of Help Contents....Pages 171-174
Meteo: A Telephone-Based Portuguese Conversation System in Weather Domain....Pages 175-178
Concluding Remarks on Multi-band and Multi-stream Research for Noise-Robust ASR....Pages 179-188
Groundwork for the Development of the Brazilian Portuguese Wordnet....Pages 189-196
Linguistic Processing of Biomedical Texts....Pages 197-207
DISPARA, a System for Distributing Parallel Corpora on the Web....Pages 209-218
Using Morphological, Syntactical, and Statistical Information for Automatic Term Acquisition....Pages 219-227
Complex Lexical Units and Automata....Pages 229-238
Constructing Empirical Formulas for Testing Word Similarity by the Inductive Method of Model Self-Organization....Pages 239-247
Multilingual Corpora Annotation for Processing Definite Descriptions....Pages 249-258
Relational Data Model in Document Hierarchical Indexing....Pages 259-262
DMSumm: Review and Assessment....Pages 263-273
