Natural Language Processing and Information Systems : 11th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2006, Klagenfurt, Austria, May 31 - June 2, 2006, Proceedings

by Kop, Christian; Fliedl, Gunther; Mayr, Heinrich C.; Matais, Elisabeth

• ISBN13: 9783540346166
• ISBN10: 3540346163
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-15
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2006, held in Klagenfurt, Austria in May/June 2006 as part of UNISCON 2006.The 17 revised full papers and 5 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on concepts extraction and ontology, ontologies and task repository utilization, query processing, information retrieval and dialog processing, and NLP techniques.

Table of Contents

An automated multi-component approach to extracting entity relationships from database requirement specification documents	p. 1
Function point extraction method from goal and scenario based requirements text	p. 12
Unsupervised keyphrase extraction for search ontologies	p. 25
Studying evolution of a branch of knowledge by constructing and analyzing its ontology	p. 37
Document space adapted ontology : application in query enrichment	p. 46
The language of folksonomies : what tags reveal about user classification	p. 58
A task repository for ambient intelligence	p. 70
Formulating queries for assessing clinical trial eligibility	p. 82
Multi-lingual Web querying : a parametric linguistics based approach	p. 94
Using semantic knowledge to improve Web query processing	p. 106
Using semantic constraints to improve question answering	p. 118
An abstract model of man-machine interaction based on concepts from NL dialog processing	p. 129
The PHASAR search engine	p. 141
Language identification in multi-lingual Web-documents	p. 153
DILUCT : an open-source Spanish dependency parser based on rules, heuristics, and selectional preferences	p. 164
Fine tuning features and post-processing rules to improve named entity recognition	p. 176
The role and resolution of textual entailment in natural language processing applications	p. 186
An information retrieval approach based on discourse type	p. 197
Natural language updates to databases through dialogue	p. 203
Automatic construction of a Japanese onomatopoeic dictionary using data on the WWW	p. 209
Category-based audience metrics for Web site content improvement using ontologies and page classification	p. 216
Automatic Turkish text categorization in terms of author, genre and gender	p. 221
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