3. PorTAL 2002: Faro, Portugal

Invited Speakers

• Richard Sproat:
  WordsEye: A Text-to-Scene Conversion System. 1-2
  
• Ruslan Mitkov:
  Automatic Anaphora Resolution: Limits, Impediments, and Ways Forward. 3-4
  

Pragmatics, Discourse, Semantics, Syntax, and the Lexicon

• Alessandro Cucchiarelli, Paola Velardi:
  Feature-Based WSD: Why We Are at a Dead-End. 5-14
  
• Armando Suárez, Manuel Palomar:
  Improving Feature Selection for Maximum Entropy-Based Word Sense Disambiguation. 15-24
  
• Igor A. Bolshakov, Alexander F. Gelbukh:
  Heuristics-Based Replenishment of Collocation Databases. 25-32
  
• Matthieu Constant:
  On the Analysis of Locative Phrases with Graphs and Lexicon-Grammar: The Classifier/Proper Noun Pairing. 33-42
  
• Miguel Oliveira:
  The Role of Pause Occurrence and Pause Duration in the Signaling of Narrative Structure. 43-52
  
• Patricio Martínez-Barco, Estela Saquete, Rafael Muñoz:
  A Grammar-Based System to Solve Temporal Expressions in Spanish Texts. 53-62
  
• Rafael Muñoz, Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda, Andrés Montoyo:
  Semantic Information in Anaphora Resolution. 63-70
  
• Gohsran Chung:
  A Type of Transitive Inalienable Possession Construction in Korean. 71-74
  
• Krzysztof Bogacki:
  The Treatment of Numbers in Polish by Graphs. 75-78
  
• Luísa Coheur, Nuno J. Mamede:
  From Syntax to Semantics: Taking Advantages of 5P. 79-82
  
• Marcel Cori:
  Processing Discontinuity. 83-86
  
• Victor Sant'Anna, Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima:
  Resolution of Demonstrative Anaphoric References in Portuguese Written Texts. 87-90
  

Interpreting and Generating Spoken and Written Language

• Diamantino Caseiro, Isabel Trancoso:
  Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Using Weighted Finite-State Transducers. 91-100
  
• Nuno Souto, Hugo Meinedo, João Paulo Neto:
  Building Language Models for Continuous Speech Recognition Systems. 101-110
  

Language-Oriented Information Retrieval, Question Answering, Summarization, and Information Extraction

• Mariem Ellouze, Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou:
  Relevant Information Extraction Driven with Rhetorical Schemas to Summarize Scientific Papers. 111-114
  

Language-Oriented Machine Learning

• Daniela Giorgetti, Irina Prodanof, Fabrizio Sebastiani:
  Mapping an Automated Survey Coding Task into a Probabilistic Text Categorization Framework. 115-124
  
• Philipp Koehn:
  Combining Multiclass Maximum Entropy Text Classifiers with Neural Network Voting. 125-132
  

Multi-lingual Processing, Machine Translation, and Translation Aids

• Jorge Baptista, Dolors Català Guitart:
  Compound Temporal Adverbs in Portuguese and in Spanish. 133-136
  
• Thierry Grass, Denis Maurel, Odile Piton:
  Description of a Multilingual Database of Proper Names. 137-140
  

Natural Language Interfaces and Dialogue Systems

• Diamantino Freitas, António Moura, Daniela Braga, Helder Ferreira, João Paulo Teixeira, Maria João Barros, Paulo Gouveia, Vagner Latsch:
  A Project of Speech Input and Output in an E-commerce Application. 141-150
  
• Kerstin Bücher, Michael Knorr, Bernd Ludwig:
  Ambiguity Reports for Flexible Dialog Management. 151-160
  
• Salvador Abreu, Paulo Quaresma, Luis Quintano, Irene Pimenta Rodrigues:
  A Natural Language Dialogue Manager for Accessing Databases. 161-170
  
• Milene Selbach Silveira, Maria Carmelita Dias, Violeta Quental:
  Helping the Composition of Help Contents. 171-174
  
• Pedro Cardoso, Luis Flores, Thibault Langlois, João Paulo Neto:
  Meteo: A Telephone-Based Portuguese Conversation System in Weather Domain. 175-178
  

Tools and Resources

• Astrid Hagen:
  Concluding Remarks on Multi-band and Multi-stream Research for Noise-Robust ASR. 179-188
  
• Bento C. Dias-da-Silva, Mirna F. de Oliveira, Helio R. de Moraes:
  Groundwork for the Development of the Brazilian Portuguese Wordnet. 189-196
  
• Caroline Hagège, Ágnes Sándor, Anne Schiller:
  Linguistic Processing of Biomedical Texts. 197-208
  
• Diana Santos:
  DISPARA, a System for Distributing Parallel Corpora on the Web. 209-218
  
• Joana Lúcio Paulo, Margarita Correia, Nuno J. Mamede, Caroline Hagège:
  Using Morphological, Syntactical, and Statistical Information for Automatic Term Acquisition. 219-228
  
• Paula Carvalho, Cristina Mota, Elisabete Ranchhod:
  Complex Lexical Units and Automata. 229-238
  
• Pavel Makagonov, Mikhail Alexandrov:
  Constructing Empirical Formulas for Testing Word Similarity by the Inductive Method of Model Self-Organization. 239-248
  
• Renata Vieira, Susanne Salmon-Alt, Emmanuel Schang:
  Multilingual Corpora Annotation for Processing Definite Descriptions. 249-258
  
• Alexander F. Gelbukh, Grigori Sidorov, Adolfo Guzmán-Arenas:
  Relational Data Model in Document Hierarchical Indexing. 259-262
  

Evaluation of Systems

• Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo, Lucia Helena Machado Rino:
  DMSumm: Review and Assessment. 263-274