13. NLDB 2008: London, UK

Epaminondas Kapetanios, Vijayan Sugumaran, Myra Spiliopoulou (Eds.): Natural Language and Information Systems, 13th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2008, London, UK, June 24-27, 2008, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5039 Springer 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-69857-9

Invited Papers

Edward Gibson:
Sentence and Text Comprehension: Evidence from Human Language Processing. 3
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Peter Mika, Hugo Zaragoza:
Towards Semantic Search. 4-11
Yannis E. Ioannidis:
From Databases to Natural Language: The Unusual Direction. 12-16

Alexander F. Gelbukh, Grigori Sidorov, Diego Lara-Reyes, Liliana Chanona-Hernández:
Division of Spanish Words into Morphemes with a Genetic Algorithm. 19-26
Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Ariel Kass, Ariel Peretz:
Abbreviation Disambiguation: Experiments with Various Variants of the One Sense per Discourse Hypothesis. 27-39
Fernando Gomez:
The Acquisition of Common Sense Knowledge by Being Told: An Application of NLP to Itself. 40-51

Djelloul Aroui, Mustapha Kamel Rahmouni:
Interlingua for French and German Topological Prepositions. 55-66
Geir Solskinnsbakk, Jon Atle Gulla:
Ontological Profiles as Semantic Domain Representations. 67-78
Jon Atle Gulla, Terje Brasethvik:
A Hybrid Approach to Ontology Relationship Learning. 79-90
Vítor Estêvão Silva Souza, Nicola Zeni, Nadzeya Kiyavitskaya, Periklis Andritsos, Luisa Mich, John Mylopoulos:
Automating the Generation of Semantic Annotation Tools Using a Clustering Technique. 91-96

Hongyu Liu, Evangelos E. Milios, Larry Korba:
Exploiting Multiple Features with MEMMs for Focused Web Crawling. 99-110
Zheng Zhu, Ingemar J. Cox, Mark Levene:
Ranked-Listed or Categorized Results in IR: 2 Is Better Than 1. 111-123
José R. Pérez-Agüera, Hugo Zaragoza, Lourdes Araujo:
Exploiting Morphological Query Structure Using Genetic Optimisation. 124-135
Youjin Chang, Jun Wang, Mounia Lalmas:
Generation of Query-Biased Concepts Using Content and Structure for Query Reformulation. 136-141
José M. Perea-Ortega, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, Manuel García Vega, Luis Alfonso Ureña López:
Comparing Several Textual Information Retrieval Systems for the Geographical Information Retrieval Task. 142-147

Philipp Cimiano, Helena Hartfiel, Sebastian Rudolph:
Intensional Question Answering Using ILP: What Does an Answer Mean?. 151-162
Nathaniel Gustafson, Yiu-Kai Ng:
Augmenting Data Retrieval with Information Retrieval Techniques by Using Word Similarity. 163-174
Dean Williams, Alexandra Poulovassilis:
Combining Data Integration and IE Techniques to Support Partially Structured Data. 175-186
Michael Minock, Peter Olofsson, Alexander Näslund:
Towards Building Robust Natural Language Interfaces to Databases. 187-198
Catalina Hallett, David Hardcastle:
Towards a Bootstrapping NLIDB System. 199-204

Hristo Tanev, Jakub Piskorski, Martin Atkinson:
Real-Time News Event Extraction for Global Crisis Monitoring. 207-218
Kei Wakabayashi, Takao Miura:
Topics Identification Based on Event Sequence Using Co-occurrence Words. 219-225
Alfredo Favenza, Mario Cataldi, Maria Luisa Sapino, Alberto Messina:
Topic Development Based Refinement of Audio-Segmented Television News. 226-232
Doina Tatar, Andreea Diana Mihis, Dana Lupsa:
Text Entailment for Logical Segmentation and Summarization. 233-244
Edgar González, Jordi Turmo:
Comparing Non-parametric Ensemble Methods for Document Clustering. 245-256
Richard Bache, Fabio Crestani, David Canter, Donna Youngs:
A Language Modelling Approach to Linking Criminal Styles with Offender Characteristics. 257-268

Helmut Horacek:
Towards Designing Operationalizable Models of Man-Machine Interaction Based on Concepts from Human Dialog Systems. 271-286
Ishrar Hussain, Leila Kosseim, Olga Ormandjieva:
Using Linguistic Knowledge to Classify Non-functional Requirements in SRS documents. 287-298
José Luis Martínez-Fernández, José Carlos González, Julio Villena, Paloma Martínez:
A Preliminary Approach to the Automatic Extraction of Business Rules from Unrestricted Text in the Banking Industry. 299-310
Raquel Pau, Jordi Cabot:
Paraphrasing OCL Expressions with SBVR. 311-316
René Witte, Thomas Gitzinger:
A General Architecture for Connecting NLP Frameworks and Desktop Clients Using Web Services. 317-322

Azucena Montes, Hasdai Pacheco, Hugo Estrada, Oscar Pastor:
Conceptual Model Generation from Requirements Model: A Natural Language Processing Approach. 325-326
Bogdan Patrut, Iulian Marius Furdu, Monica Patrut:
Bivalent Verbs and Their Pragmatic Particularities. 327-328
Antonio Picariello, Antonio Maria Rinaldi:
Using Ontologies and Relatedness Metrics for Semantic Document Analysis on the Web. 329-330

Efthymios Drymonas, Kalliopi Zervanou, Euripides G. M. Petrakis:
The TSRMApproach in the Document Retrieval Application. 333-334
Felix Jungermann, Katharina Morik:
Enhanced Services for Targeted Information Retrieval by Event Extraction and Data Mining. 335-336

Óscar Ferrández, Rafael Muñoz, Manuel Palomar:
Improving Question Answering Tasks by Textual Entailment Recognition. 339-340
Luísa Coheur, Ana Guimarães, Nuno J. Mamede:
Supporting Named Entity Recognition and Syntactic Analysis with Full-Text Queries. 341-342

Alexandra Balahur, Andrés Montoyo:
Multilingual Feature-Driven Opinion Extraction and Summarization from Customer Reviews. 345-346
Alexandre Labadié, Violaine Prince:
Lexical and Semantic Methods in Inner Text Topic Segmentation: A Comparison between C99 and Transeg. 347-349
Alberto Messina:
An Application of NLP and Audiovisual Content Analysis for Integration of Multimodal Databases of Current Events. 350-351
Yun Niu, Igor Jurisica:
Detecting Protein-Protein Interaction Sentences Using a Mixture Model. 352-354
Shinjae Yoo, Donna Gates, Lori S. Levin, Simon Fung, Sachin Agarwal, Michael Freed:
Using Semantic Features to Improve Task Identification in Email Messages. 355-357
Seemab Latif, Mary McGee Wood:
Text Pre-processing for Document Clustering. 358-359

Christophe Thovex, Francky Trichet:
Trade Oriented Enterprise Content Management: A Semantic and Collaborative Prototype Dedicated to the "Quality, Hygiene, Safety and Environment" Domain. 363-364

Alessandra Giordani:
Mapping Natural Language into SQL in a NLIDB. 367-371
Laura Po:
Improving Data Integration through Disambiguation Techniques. 372-375
Lefteris Kozanidis:
An Ontology-Based Focused Crawler. 376-379
Siham Boulaknadel:
Impact of Term-Indexing for Arabic Document Retrieval. 380-383