Advances in Natural Language Processing

1. Front Matter

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2. Formal Semantics in the Real World

   • Johan Bos

   Pages 1-3

3. Speech Processing for Audio Indexing

   • Lori Lamel, Jean-Luc Gauvain

   Pages 4-15

4. Sorting Out Dependency Parsing

   • Joakim Nivre

   Pages 16-27

5. “I Know What You Feel”: Analyzing the Role of Conjunctions in Automatic Sentiment Analysis

   • Ritesh Agarwal, T. V. Prabhakar, Sugato Chakrabarty

   Pages 28-39

6. Automatic Annotation of Direct Reported Speech in Arabic and French, According to a Semantic Map of Enunciative Modalities

   • Motasem Alrahabi, Jean-Pierre Desclés

   Pages 40-51

7. Type-Theoretical Bulgarian Grammar

   • Krasimir Angelov

   Pages 52-64

8. A Compact Arabic Lexical Semantics Language Resource Based on the Theory of Semantic Fields

   • Mohamed Attia, Mohsen Rashwan, Ahmed Ragheb, Mohamed Al-Badrashiny, Husein Al-Basoumy, Sherif Abdou

   Pages 65-76

9. Automatically Extracting Personal Name Aliases from the Web

   • Danushka Bollegala, Taiki Honma, Yutaka Matsuo, Mitsuru Ishizuka

   Pages 77-88

10. An Efficient Statistical Approach for Automatic Organic Chemistry Summarization

    • Florian Boudin, Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno, Patricia Velázquez-Morales

    Pages 89-99

11. Augmenting Word Space Models for Word Sense Discrimination Using an Automatic Thesaurus

    • Hiram Calvo

    Pages 100-107

12. Plagiarism Detection Based on Singular Value Decomposition

    • Zdenek Ceska

    Pages 108-119

13. Networking Multiword Units

    • Matthieu Constant, Patrick Watrin

    Pages 120-125

14. Searching for Part of Speech Tags That Improve Parsing Models

    • Martín Ariel Domínguez, Gabriel Infante-Lopez

    Pages 126-137

15. A POS-Based Word Prediction System for the Persian Language

    • Masood Ghayoomi, Ehsan Daroodi

    Pages 138-147

16. A Graph Based Method for Building Multilingual Weakly Supervised Dependency Parsers

    • Jagadeesh Gorla, Anil Kumar Singh, Rajeev Sangal, Karthik Gali, Samar Husain, Sriram Venkatapathy

    Pages 148-159

17. A Web-Based Self-training Approach for Authorship Attribution

    • Rafael Guzmán-Cabrera, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Paolo Rosso, Luis Villaseñor-Pineda

    Pages 160-168

18. Parsing Discontinuous Phrase Structure with Grammatical Functions

    • Johan Hall, Joakim Nivre

    Pages 169-180

19. How Can the Term Compositionality Be Useful for Acquiring Elementary Semantic Relations?

    • Thierry Hamon, Natalia Grabar

    Pages 181-192

20. Training Statistical Language Models from Grammar-Generated Data: A Comparative Case-Study

    • Beth Ann Hockey, Manny Rayner, Gwen Christian

    Pages 193-204

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, GoTAL 2008, Gothenburg, Sweden, August 2008. The 44 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 107 submissions. The papers address all current issues in computational linguistics and monolingual and multilingual intelligent language processing - theory, methods and applications.

• Natural
• Processing
• TAL
• computational linguistics
• linguistics
• natural language
• natural language processing

• Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden

  Bengt Nordström, Aarne Ranta

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