The 12th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Infor- tion Systems (NLDB 2007) took place during June 27–29 in Paris (France). Since the first edition in 1995, the NLDB conference has been aiming at bringing together researchers, people working in industry and potential users interested in various - plications of natural language in the database and information system areas. Natural language and databases are core components in the development of inf- mation systems. NLP techniques may substantially enhance most phases of the information system lifecycle, starting with requirement analysis, specification and validation, and going up to conflict resolution, result processing and presentation. Furthermore, natural language-based query languages and user interfaces facilitate the access to information for all and allow for new paradigms in the usage of comput- ized services. Hot topics such as information retrieval and Semantic Web-based applications imply a complete fusion of databases and NLP techniques. Among an increasing number of submitted papers (110), the Program Committee selected 31 papers as full papers, thus coming up with an acceptance rate of 28%. These proceedings also include 12 short papers that were presented at the conference and two invited talks, one given by Andrew Basden and Heinz Klein and the other given by Max Silberztein.
Author(s): Max Silberztein (auth.), Zoubida Kedad, Nadira Lammari, Elisabeth Métais, Farid Meziane, Yacine Rezgui (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4592 : Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 450
Tags: Database Management; Computer Communication Networks; Logics and Meanings of Programs; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Information Storage and Retrieval; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
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An Alternative Approach to Tagging....Pages 1-11
An Efficient Denotational Semantics for Natural Language Database Queries....Pages 12-24
An Approach to Hierarchical Email Categorization Based on ME....Pages 25-34
Developing Methods and Heuristics with Low Time Complexities for Filtering Spam Messages....Pages 35-47
Exploit Semantic Information for Category Annotation Recommendation in Wikipedia....Pages 48-60
A Lightweight Approach to Semantic Annotation of Research Papers....Pages 61-72
A New Text Clustering Method Using Hidden Markov Model....Pages 73-83
Identifying Event Sequences Using Hidden Markov Model....Pages 84-95
The Dictionary-Based Quantified Conceptual Relations for Hard and Soft Chinese Text Clustering....Pages 96-106
On-Line Single-Pass Clustering Based on Diffusion Maps....Pages 107-118
Selecting Labels for News Document Clusters....Pages 119-130
Generating Ontologies Via Language Components and Ontology Reuse....Pages 131-142
Experiences Using the ResearchCyc Upper Level Ontology....Pages 143-155
From OWL Class and Property Labels to Human Understandable Natural Language....Pages 156-167
Ontological Text Mining of Software Documents....Pages 168-180
Treatment of Passive Voice and Conjunctions in Use Case Documents....Pages 181-192
Natural Language Processing and the Conceptual Model Self-organizing Map....Pages 193-203
Automatic Issue Extraction from a Focused Dialogue....Pages 204-216
Character N -Grams Translation in Cross-Language Information Retrieval....Pages 217-228
Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval by Feature Vectors....Pages 229-239
Incomplete and Fuzzy Conceptual Graphs to Automatically Index Medical Reports....Pages 240-251
Combining Vector Space Model and Multi Word Term Extraction for Semantic Query Expansion....Pages 252-263
The Bootstrapping Based Recognition of Conceptual Relationship for Text Retrieval....Pages 264-271
A Framework of NLP Based Information Tracking and Related Knowledge Organizing with Topic Maps....Pages 272-283
DLSITE-1: Lexical Analysis for Solving Textual Entailment Recognition....Pages 284-294
Text Segmentation Based on Document Understanding for Information Retrieval....Pages 295-304
Named Entity Recognition for Arabic Using Syntactic Grammars....Pages 305-316
Four Methods for Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation....Pages 317-328
Enhancing Relation Extraction by Eliciting Selectional Constraint Features from Wikipedia....Pages 329-340
A Computer Science Electronic Dictionary for NOOJ....Pages 341-351
Applying Wikipedia’s Multilingual Knowledge to Cross–Lingual Question Answering....Pages 352-363
Zero Anaphora Resolution in Chinese and Its Application in Chinese-English Machine Translation....Pages 364-375
Rule-Based Partial MT Using Enhanced Finite-State Grammars in NooJ....Pages 376-381
Biomedical Named Entity Recognition: A Poor Knowledge HMM-Based Approach....Pages 382-387
Unsupervised Language Independent Genetic Algorithm Approach to Trivial Dialogue Phrase Generation and Evaluation....Pages 388-394
Large-Scale Knowledge Acquisition from Botanical Texts....Pages 395-400
Lexical-Based Alignment for Reconstruction of Structure in Parallel Texts....Pages 401-406
Electronic Dictionaries and Transducers for Automatic Processing of the Albanian Language....Pages 407-413
Two Methods of Evaluation of Semantic Similarity of Nouns Based on Their Modifier Sets....Pages 414-419
A Service Oriented Architecture for Adaptable Terminology Acquisition....Pages 420-426
Domain Relevance on Term Weighting....Pages 427-432
Flexible and Customizable NL Representation of Requirements for ETL processes....Pages 433-439
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