8. CICLing 2007: Mexico-City, Mexico
Alexander F. Gelbukh (Ed.): Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 8th International Conference, CICLing 2007, Mexico City, Mexico, February 18-24, 2007. Springer 2007 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 3-540-70938-X
Computational Linguistics Research
Lexical Resources
Ian C. Chow, Jonathan J. Webster: Integration of Linguistic Resources for Verb Classification: FrameNet Frame, WordNet Verb and Suggested Upper Merged Ontology. 1-11
Christine Jacquin, Emmanuel Desmontils, Laura Monceaux: French EuroWordNet Lexical Database Improvements. 12-22
Yuchul Jung, Joo-Young Lee, Youngho Kim, Jaehyun Park, Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Hae-Chang Rim: Building a Large-Scale Commonsense Knowledge Base by Converting an Existing One in a Different Language. 23-34
Corpus-Based Knowledge Acquisition
Gregory Grefenstette: Conquering Language: Using NLP on a Massive Scale to Build High Dimensional Language Models from the Web. 35-49
Adam Przepiórkowski: On Heads and Coordination in Valence Acquisition. 50-61
Luning Ji, Mantai Sum, Qin Lu, Wenjie Li, Yi-Rong Chen: Chinese Terminology Extraction Using Window-Based Contextual Information. 62-74
Takashi Inui, Hiroya Takamura, Manabu Okumura: Latent Variable Models for Causal Knowledge Acquisition. 85-96
Morphology and Part-of-Speech Tagging
Shuly Wintner: Finite-State Technology as a Programming Environment. 97-106
Hasim Sak, Tunga Güngör, Murat Saraclar: Morphological Disambiguation of Turkish Text with Perceptron Algorithm. 107-118
Mi-young Kang, Sung-Won Jung, Kyung-soon Park, Hyuk-Chul Kwon: Part-of-Speech Tagging Using Word Probability Based on Category Patterns. 119-130
Named Entity Recognition and Temporal Expression Treatment

Yassine Benajiba, Paolo Rosso, José-Miguel Benedí: ANERsys: An Arabic Named Entity Recognition System Based on Maximum Entropy. 143-153
Donglei Qian, Wenjie Li, Chunfa Yuan, Qin Lu, Mingli Wu: Applying Machine Learning to Chinese Entity Detection and Tracking. 154-165
Estela Saquete, Patricio Martínez-Barco, Rafael Muñoz: Evaluation of an Automatic Extension of Temporal Expression Treatment to Catalan. 166-174
Word Segmentation, Sentence Splitting, and Chunking
Aminul Islam, Diana Zaiu Inkpen, Iluju Kiringa: A Generalized Approach to Word Segmentation Using Maximum Length Descending Frequency and Entropy Rate. 175-185
Weijian Xuan, Stanley J. Watson, Fan Meng: Tagging Sentence Boundaries in Biomedical Literature. 186-195
Grammar Formalisms and Syntax

Sang-Soo Kim, Seong-Bae Park, Sang-Jo Lee: Dependency Analysis of Clauses Using Parse Tree Kernels. 218-228
Vasile Rus, Sireesha Ravi, Mihai C. Lintean, Philip M. McCarthy: Unsupervised Method for Parsing Coordinated Base Noun Phrases. 229-240
Word Sense Disambiguation and Discrimination
Rob Koeling, Diana McCarthy, John Carroll: Text Categorization for Improved Priors of Word Meaning. 241-252
Harri M. T. Saarikoski, Steve Legrand, Alexander F. Gelbukh: Case-Sensitivity of Classifiers for WSD: Complex Systems Disambiguate Tough Words Better. 253-266
Peng Jin, Xu Sun, Yunfang Wu, Shiwen Yu: Word Clustering for Collocation-Based Word Sense Disambiguation. 267-274
Aquilino Sánchez, Pascual Cantos, Moisés Almela: Lexical Constellations and the Structure of Meaning: A Prototype Application to WSD. 275-287
Xinglong Wang: Rule-Based Protein Term Identification with Help from Automatic Species Tagging. 288-298
Semantics
Raymond J. Mooney: Learning for Semantic Parsing. 311-324
Zornitsa Kozareva, Sonia Vázquez, Andrés Montoyo: The Usefulness of Conceptual Representation for the Identification of Semantic Variability Expressions. 325-336
Humor and Emotion Analysis
Rada Mihalcea, Stephen G. Pulman: Characterizing Humour: An Exploration of Features in Humorous Texts. 337-347
Intelligent Text Processing Applications
Machine Translation
Christian Boitet, Igor M. Boguslavskij, Jesús Cardeñosa: An Evaluation of UNL Usability for High Quality Multilingualization and Projections for a Future UNL++ Language. 361-373
Iñaki Alegria, Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza Sánchez, Gorka Labaka, Mikel Lersundi, Aingeru Mayor, Kepa Sarasola: Transfer-Based MT from Spanish into Basque: Reusability, Standardization and Open Source. 374-384
Xiaodong Shi, Yidong Chen, Jianfeng Jia: Dependency-Based Chinese-English Statistical Machine Translation. 385-396
Algirdas Laukaitis, Olegas Vasilecas: Asymmetric Hybrid Machine Translation for Languages with Scarce Resources. 397-408
Young Kil Kim, Munpyo Hong, Sang-Kyu Park: CL-Guided Korean-English MT System for Scientific Papers. 409-419
Lin Xu, Xiaoguang Cao, Bufeng Zhang, Mu Li: Comparing and Integrating Alignment Template and Standard Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation. 420-431
Natural Language Generation and Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Virginia Francisco, Raquel Hervás, Pablo Gervás: Dependency Analysis and CBR to Bridge the Generation Gap in Template-Based NLG. 432-443
Vasile Rus, Zhiqiang Cai, Arthur C. Graesser: Experiments on Generating Questions About Facts. 444-455
Xin Lu, Barbara Di Eugenio, Trina C. Kershaw, Stellan Ohlsson, Andrew Corrigan-Halpern: Expert vs. Non-expert Tutoring: Dialogue Moves, Interaction Patterns and Multi-utterance Turns. 456-467
Information Retrieval
Franco Rojas López, Héctor Jiménez-Salazar, David Pinto: A Competitive Term Selection Method for Information Retrieval. 468-475
Ke Dang, Tiejun Zhao, Haoliang Qi, Dequan Zheng: Incorporating Passage Feature Within Language Model Framework for Information Retrieval. 476-484
Question Answering
Rita M. Aceves-Pérez, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñor Pineda: Enhancing Cross-Language Question Answering by Combining Multiple Question Translations. 485-493
Sergio Ferrández, Antonio Ferrández: The Negative Effect of Machine Translation on Cross-Lingual Question Answering. 494-505
Youzheng Wu, Hideki Kashioka, Jun Zhao: Using Clustering Approaches to Open-Domain Question Answering. 506-517
Majid Razmara, Leila Kosseim: A Little Known Fact Is ... Answering Other Questions Using Interest-Markers. 518-529
Yassine Benajiba, Paolo Rosso, José Manuel Gómez Soriano: Adapting the JIRS Passage Retrieval System to the Arabic Language. 530-541
Text Summarization and Information Extraction
Kathleen McKeown, Lokesh Shrestha, Owen Rambow: Using Question-Answer Pairs in Extractive Summarization of Email Conversations. 542-550
Florian Boudin, Juan Manuel Torres Moreno: NEO-CORTEX: A Performant User-Oriented Multi-Document Summarization System. 551-562
Carlos Rodríguez Penagos, Heladia Salgado, Irma Martínez-Flores, Julio Collado-Vides: NLP-Based Curation of Bacterial Regulatory Networks. 575-586
Text Categorization and Clustering
Jingyang Li, Maosong Sun: Exploiting Category Information and Document Information to Improve Term Weighting for Text Categorization. 587-598
Guillaume Cleuziou, Céline Poudat: On the Impact of Lexical and Linguistic Features in Genre- and Domain-Based Categorization. 599-610
David Pinto, José-Miguel Benedí, Paolo Rosso: Clustering Narrow-Domain Short Texts by Using the Kullback-Leibler Distance. 611-622
Spell-Checking
Davide Fossati, Barbara Di Eugenio: A Mixed Trigrams Approach for Context Sensitive Spell Checking. 623-633
Chiraz Ben Othmane Zribi, Hanene Mejri, Mohamed Ben Ahmed: Combining Methods for Detecting and Correcting Semantic Hidden Errors in Arabic Texts. 634-645



