Advances in Natural Language Processing

Enriching Thesauri with Hierarchical Relationships by Pattern Matching in Dictionaries.- Evaluation of Alignment Methods for HTML Parallel Text.- Experiments in Passage Selection and Answer Identification for Question Answering.- Extracting Idiomatic Hungarian Verb Frames.- Extracting Term Collocations for Directing Users to Informative Web Pages.- Feasibility of Enriching a Chinese Synonym Dictionary with a Synchronous Chinese Corpus.- Finding Spanish Syllabification Rules with Decision Trees.- Identifying Text Discourse Structure of the Narratives Describing Psychiatric Patients' Defense Mechanisms.- Implementing a Rule-Based Speech Synthesizer on a Mobile Platform.- Improving Phrase-Based Statistical Translation Through Combination of Word Alignments.- Improving Statistical Word Alignments with Morpho-syntactic Transformations.- Improving Term Extraction with Terminological Resources.- Improving Thai Spelling Recognition with Tone Features.- Incorporating External Information in Bayesian Classifiers Via Linear Feature Transformations.- Is a Morphologically Complex Language Really that Complex in Full-Text Retrieval?.- Language Independent Answer Prediction from the Web.- Language Model Mixtures for Contextual Ad Placement in Personal Blogs.- Local Constraints on Arabic Word Order.- MEDITE: A Unilingual Textual Aligner.- Maximum Likelihood Alignment of Translation Equivalents.- Measuring Intelligibility of Japanese Learner English.- Morphological Lexicon Extraction from Raw Text Data.- On the Use of Topic Models for Word Completion.- Ord i Dag: Mining Norwegian Daily Newswire.- Paraphrase Identification on the Basis of Supervised Machine Learning Techniques.- Passage Filtering for Open-Domain Question Answering.- Persian in MULTEXT-East Framework.- Prerequisites for a Comprehensive Dictionary of Serbian Compounds.- Regular Approximation of Link Grammar.- Segmental Duration in Utterance-Initial Environment: Evidence from Finnish Speech Corpora.- Selection Strategies for Multi-label Text Categorization.- Some Problems of Prepositional Phrases in Machine Translation.- Speech Confusion Index (Ø): A Recognition Rate Indicator for Dysarthric Speakers.- Statistical Machine Translation of German Compound Words.- Summarizing Documents in Context: Modeling the User's Information Need.- Supervised TextRank.- Tagging a Morphologically Complex Language Using Heuristics.- Terminology Structuring Through the Derivational Morphology.- Text Segmentation Criteria for Statistical Machine Translation.- The Classificatim Sense-Mining System.- The Role of Verb Sense Disambiguation in Semantic Role Labeling.- The Vowel Game: Continuous Real-Time Visualization for Pronunciation Learning with Vowel Charts.- Towards a Framework for Evaluating Syntactic Parsers.- Towards the Improvement of Statistical Translation Models Using Linguistic Features.- Treating Unknown Light Verb Construction in Korean-to-English Patent MT.- Trees as Contexts in Formal Language Generation.- Two String-Based Finite-State Models of the Semantics of Calendar Expressions.- Using Alignment Templates to Infer Shallow-Transfer Machine Translation Rules.