Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing [electronic resource] : 8th International Conference, CICLing 2007, Mexico City, Mexico, February 18-24, 2007, Proceedings /

Computational Linguistics Research -- Integration of Linguistic Resources for Verb Classification: FrameNet Frame, WordNet Verb and Suggested Upper Merged Ontology -- French EuroWordNet Lexical Database Improvements -- Building a Large-Scale Commonsense Knowledge Base by Converting an Existing One in a Different Language -- Conquering Language: Using NLP on a Massive Scale to Build High Dimensional Language Models from the Web -- On Heads and Coordination in Valence Acquisition -- Chinese Terminology Extraction Using Window-Based Contextual Information -- Baby-Steps Towards Building a Spanglish Language Model -- Latent Variable Models for Causal Knowledge Acquisition -- Finite-State Technology as a Programming Environment -- Morphological Disambiguation of Turkish Text with Perceptron Algorithm -- Part-of-Speech Tagging Using Word Probability Based on Category Patterns -- Handling Conjunctions in Named Entities -- ANERsys: An Arabic Named Entity Recognition System Based on Maximum Entropy -- Applying Machine Learning to Chinese Entity Detection and Tracking -- Evaluation of an Automatic Extension of Temporal Expression Treatment to Catalan -- A Generalized Approach to Word Segmentation Using Maximum Length Descending Frequency and Entropy Rate -- Tagging Sentence Boundaries in Biomedical Literature -- Probabilistic Classifications with TBL -- The Non-associativity of Polarized Tree-Based Grammars -- Dependency Analysis of Clauses Using Parse Tree Kernels -- Unsupervised Method for Parsing Coordinated Base Noun Phrases -- Text Categorization for Improved Priors of Word Meaning -- Case-Sensitivity of Classifiers for WSD: Complex Systems Disambiguate Tough Words Better -- Word Clustering for Collocation-Based Word Sense Disambiguation -- Lexical Constellations and the Structure of Meaning: APrototype Application to WSD -- Rule-Based Protein Term Identification with Help from Automatic Species Tagging -- Unsupervised Discrimination of Person Names in Web Contexts -- Learning for Semantic Parsing -- The Usefulness of Conceptual Representation for the Identification of Semantic Variability Expressions -- Characterizing Humour: An Exploration of Features in Humorous Texts -- Representing Emotions with Linguistic Acuity -- Intelligent Text Processing Applications -- An Evaluation of UNL Usability for High Quality Multilingualization and Projections for a Future UNL++ Language -- Transfer-Based MT from Spanish into Basque: Reusability, Standardization and Open Source -- Dependency-Based Chinese-English Statistical Machine Translation -- Asymmetric Hybrid Machine Translation for Languages with Scarce Resources -- CL-Guided Korean-English MT System for Scientific Papers -- Comparing and Integrating Alignment Template and Standard Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation -- Dependency Analysis and CBR to Bridge the Generation Gap in Template-Based NLG -- Experiments on Generating Questions About Facts -- Expert vs. Non-expert Tutoring: Dialogue Moves, Interaction Patterns and Multi-utterance Turns -- A Competitive Term Selection Method for Information Retrieval -- Incorporating Passage Feature Within Language Model Framework for Information Retrieval -- Enhancing Cross-Language Question Answering by Combining Multiple Question Translations -- The Negative Effect of Machine Translation on Cross–Lingual Question Answering -- Using Clustering Approaches to Open-Domain Question Answering -- A Little Known Fact Is ... Answering Other Questions Using Interest-Markers -- Adapting the JIRS Passage Retrieval System to the Arabic Language -- Using Question-Answer Pairs in ExtractiveSummarization of Email Conversations -- NEO-CORTEX: A Performant User-Oriented Multi-Document Summarization System -- Event-Based Summarization Using Time Features -- NLP-Based Curation of Bacterial Regulatory Networks -- Exploiting Category Information and Document Information to Improve Term Weighting for Text Categorization -- On the Impact of Lexical and Linguistic Features in Genre- and Domain-Based Categorization -- Clustering Narrow-Domain Short Texts by Using the Kullback-Leibler Distance -- A Mixed Trigrams Approach for Context Sensitive Spell Checking -- Combining Methods for Detecting and Correcting Semantic Hidden Errors in Arabic Texts.