Natural Language Processing - NLP 2000

Tokenization, Morphological Analysis.- Parsing Asymmetries.- Universal Segmentation of Text with the Sumo Formalism.- Functional Decomposition and Lazy Word-Parsing in Modern Greek.- Recognition and Acquisition of Compound Names from Corpora.- Lexical Knowledge Representation.- Use of a Morphosyntactic Lexicon as the Basis for the Implementation of the Greek Wordnet.- On Verb Selectional Restrictions: Advantages and Limitations.- Some Principles for Implementing Underspecification in NLP Systems.- HYPERTAGS: Beyond POS Tagging.- Parsing.- A Theory of Stochastic Grammars.- Monte-Carlo Sampling for NP-Hard Maximization Problems in the Framework of Weighted Parsing.- Preprocessing for Unification Parsing of Spoken Language.- A Semantic Based Approach for Spontaneous Spoken Dialogue Understanding.- Parsing, Discourse Analysis.- A Practical Chunker for Unrestricted Text.- A Distributed Approach for a Robust and Evolving NLP System.- An Incremental Discourse Parser Architecture.- A Spatio-temporal Model for the Representation of Situations Described in Narrative Texts.- Anaphora Resolution.- Enhancing Preference-Based Anaphora Resolution with Genetic Algorithms.- Anaphora Resolution through Dialogue Adjacency Pairs and Topics.- Semantic Knowledge-Driven Method to Solve Pronominal Anaphora in Spanish Texts.- Processing of Spanish Definite Descriptions with the Same Head.- Anaphora Resolution, Machine Translation.- Constraints, Linguistic Theories, and Natural Language Processing.- A Comparison of Rule-Based and Machine Learning Methods for Identifying Non-nominal It.- Constitution and exploitation of an annotation system of electronic corpora: Toward automatic generation of understandable pronouns in French language.- Generation of Spanish Zero-Pronouns into English.- Combining Different Translation Sources.- Machine Translation, Language Generation.- Parsing and Collocations.- Contextual Reasoning in Speech-to-Speech Translation.- Improving the Accuracy of Speech