ISBN: 3-540-67605-8
TITLE: Natural Language Processing - NLP 2000
AUTHOR: Christodoulakis, Dimitris N. (Ed.)
TOC:

Tokenization, Morphological Analysis
Parsing Asymmetries 1
A.-M. Di Sciullo (Universit du Qubec  Montral), Invited Talk
Universal Segmentation of Text with the Sumo Formalism 16
J. Quint (Universit Joseph Fourier)
Functional Decomposition and Lazy Word-Parsing in Modern Greek 27
E. Papakitsos (University of Athens), M. Gregoriadou (University of Athens), A. Ralli (University of Patras)
Recognition and Acquisition of Compound Names from Corpora 38
G. Nenadic (University of Belgrade), I. Spasic (University of Belgrade)
Lexical Knowledge Representation
Use of a Morphosyntactic Lexicon as the Basis of the Implementation of the Greek WordNet 49
A. Ntoulas (University of Patras), S. Stamou (University of Patras), I. Tsakou (University of Patras), Ch. Tsalidis (University of Patras), M. Tzagarakis (University of Patras), A. Vagelatos (University of Patras & Computer Technology Institute)
On Verb Selectional Restrictions: Advantages and Limitations 57
F. Gayral (Universit Paris Nord), N. Pernelle (Universit Paris Nord), P. Saint-Dizier (IRIT-CNRS)
Some Principles for Implementing Underspecification in NLP Systems 69
A. Mari (EHESS), P. Saint-Dizier (IRIT-CNRS)
HYPERTAGS: Beyond POS Tagging 81
A. Kinyon (TALANA)
Parsing
A Theory of Stochastic Grammars 92
C. Samuelsson (Xerox Research Centre Europe)
Monte-Carlo Sampling for NP-Hard Maximization Problems in the Framework of Weighted Parsing 106
J.-C. Chappelier (DI-LIA-EPFL), M. Rajman (DI-LIA-EPFL)
Preprocessing for Unification Parsing of Spoken Language 118
M.-J. Nederhof (DFKI)
A Semantic Based Approach for Spontaneous Spoken Dialogue Understanding 130
M.Z. Kurdi (Groupe d'Etude pour l'Oral et le Dialogue, Laboratoire CLIPS-IMAG)
Parsing, Discourse Analysis
A Practical Chunker for Unrestricted Text 139
E. Stamatatos (University of Patras), N. Fakotakis (University of Patras), G. Kokkinakis (University of Patras)
A Distributed Approach for a Robust and Evolving NLP System 151
J. Balsa (Dep. Informtica, Fac. Cincias de Lisboa), G. Lopes (Dep. Informtica, Fac. Cincias e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
An Incremental Discourse Parser Architecture 162
D. Cristea ("Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi)
A Spatio-temporal Model for the Representation of Situations Described in Narrative Texts 176
S. Gerard (LIMSI-CNRS), J.P. Sansonnet (LIMSI-CNRS)
Anaphora Resolution
Enhancing Preference-Based Anaphora Resolution with Genetic Algorithms 185
C. Orasan (University of Wolverhampton), R. Evans (University of Wolverhampton), R. Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)
Anaphora Resolution through Dialogue Adjacency Pairs and Topics 196
M. Palomar (Universidad de Alicante), P. Martnez-Barco (Universidad de Alicante)
Semantic Knowledge-Driven Method to Solve Pronominal Anaphora in Spanish Texts 204
M. Saiz-Noeda (Universidad de Alicante), M. Palomar (Universidad de Alicante)
Processing of Spanish Definite Descriptions with the Same Head 212
R. Muoz (Universidad de Alicante), M. Palomar (Universidad de Alicante)
Anaphora Resolution, Machine Translation
Constraints, Linguistic Theories and Natural Language Processing 221
P. Blache (Universit de Provence), Invited Talk
A Comparison of Rule-Based and Machine Learning Methods for Identifying Non-nominal It 233
R. Evans (University of Wolverhampton)
Constitution and Exploitation of Annotation System of Electronic Corpora: Toward Automatic Generation of Understandable Pronouns in French Language 242
C. Clouzot (Universit Stendhal), G. Antoniadis (Universit Stendhal), A. Tutin (Universit Stendhal)
Generation of Spanish Zero-Pronouns into English 252
J. Peral (Universidad de Alicante), A. Ferrndez (Universidad de Alicante)
Combining Different Translation Sources 261
U. Kssner (Technische Universitt Berlin), D. Tidhar (Technische Universitt Berlin)
Machine Translation, Language Generation
Parsing and Collocations 272
E. Wehrli (University of Geneva), Invited Talk
Contextual Reasoning in Speech-to-Speech Translation 283
S. Koch (Technische Universitt Berlin), U. Kssner (Technische Universitt Berlin), M. Stede (Technische Universitat Berlin), D. Tidhar (Technische Universitt Berlin)
Improving the Accuracy of Speech Recognition Systems for Professional Translators 293
Y. Ludovik (New Mexico State University), R. Zacharski (New Mexico State University)
Generic Parsing and Hybrid Transfer in Automatic Translation 304
C. Laenzlinger (Dpartement de Linguistique), S. L'haire (Dpartement de Linguistique), J. Mengon (Dpartement de Linguistique)
Two Applications for a Non-context French Generator 315
L. Balicco (ICM- Universit Stendhal), S. Ben-Ali (ICM- Universit Stendhal), C.Ponton (ICM- Universit Stendhal), S. Pouchot (ICM- Universit Stendhal)
Man-Machine Interaction, Word Sense Recognition/Disambiguation
From Language to Motion, and Back: Generating and Using Route Descriptions 328
G. Ligozat (LIMSI/CNRS & Universit Paris-Sud), Invited Talk
Corpus-Based Methodology in the Study and Design of Systems with Emulated Linguistic Competence 346
Z. Vetulani (Adam Mickiewicz University), J. Marciniak (Adam Mickiewicz University)
Dialogues for Embodied Agents in Virtual Environments 358
R. op den Akker (University of Twente), A. Nijholt (University of Twente)
Concordancing Revised or How to Aid the Recognition of New Senses in Very Large Corpora 370
D. Kokkinakis (Gteborg University)
Learning Rules for Large - Vocabulary Word Sense Disambiguation: A Comparison of Various Classifiers 383
G. Paliouras (NCSR "Demokritos"), V. Karkaletsis (NCSR "Demokritos"), I. Androutsopoulos (NCSR "Demokritos"), C. Spyropoulos (NCSR "Demokritos")
Information Extraction
Greek Verb Semantic Processing for Stock Market Text Mining 395
J. Kontos (Athens University of Economics and Business), I. Malagardi (Athens University of Economics and Business), C. Alexandris (National and Capodistrian University of Athens), M. Bouligaraki (Athens University of Economics and Business)
Extracting Semi-structured Data - Lessons Learnt 406
U. Kruschwitz (University of Essex), A. de Roeck (University of Essex), P. Scott (University of Essex), S. Steel (University of Essex), R. Turner (University of Essex), N. Webb (University of Essex)
A Term-Based Methodology for Template Creation in Information Extraction 418
K. Zervanou (University of Manchester), J. McNaught (University of Manchester)
A System for Recognition of Named Entities in Greek 424
S. Boutsis (Institute for Language and Speech Processing & National Technical University of Athens), I. Demiros (Institute for Language and Speech Processing), V. Giouli (Institute for Language and Speech Processing), M. Liakata (Cambridge University), H. Papageorgiou (Institute for Language and Speech Processing), S. Piperidis (Institute for Language and Speech Processing & National Technical University of Athens)
Author Index 437
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