CICLing-2005

CICLing-2005: Accepted Papers

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ID	Title	Authors	Page

	Computational Linguistics Research

	Computational Linguistics Formalisms
K	Invited paper: An Overview of Probabilistic Tree Transducers for Natural Language Processing	Kevin Knight and Jonathan Graehl	1
155	A Modular Account of Information Structure in Extensible Dependency Grammar	Ralph Debusmann, Oana Postolache, and Maarika Traat	26
151	Modelling Grammatical and Lexical Knowledge: A Declarative Approach	Palmira Marrafa	38
133	Constructing a Parser for Latin	Cornelis H.A. Koster	49
127	Parsing Korean Case Phenomena in a Type-Feature Structure Grammar	Jong-Bok Kim and Jaehyung Yang	61
138	A Computational Model of the Spanish Clitic System	Luis A. Pineda, Ivan V. Meza	73
337	A Parallel Approach to Syllabification	Anca Dinu and Liviu P. Dinu	83

	Semantics and Discourse
M	Invited paper: Towards Developing Probabilistic Generative Models for Reasoning with Natural Language Representations	Daniel Marcu and Ana-Maria Popescu	87
153	Putting Pieces Together: Combining FrameNet, VerbNet and WordNet for Robust Semantic Parsing	Lei Shi and Rada Mihalcea	99
207	Assigning Function Tags with a Simple Model	Vasile Rus and Kirtan Desai	111
217	Finding Discourse Relations in Student Essays	Rohana Mahmud and Allan Ramsay	115

	Parsing and Syntactic Disambiguation
142	Regional vs. Global Finite-State Error Repair	Manuel Vilares, Juan Otero, and Jorge Graña	119
117	Lexicalized Beam Thresholding Parsing with Prior and Boundary Estimates	Deyi Xiong, Qun Liu, and Shouxun Lin	131
126	Unsupervised Evaluation of Parser Robustness	Johnny Bigert, Jonas Sjöbergh, Ola Knutsson, and Magnus Sahlgren	141
181	Mutual Information Independence Model using Kernel Density Estimation for Segmenting and Labeling Sequential Data	ZHOU GuoDong, YANG LingPeng, SU Jian, JI DongHong	153
175	Applying Conditional Random Fields to Chinese Shallow Parsing	Yongmei Tan, Tianshun Yao, Qing Chen and Jingbo Zhu	165
233	Distributional Thesaurus vs. WordNet: A Comparison of Backoff Techniques for Unsupervised PP Attachment	Hiram Calvo, Alexander Gelbukh , Adam Kilgarriff	172

	Morphology
110	Automatic Recognition of Czech Derivational Prefixes	Alfonso Medina Urrea and Jaroslava Hlaváčová	184
237	Korma 2003: Newly Improved Korean Morpheme Analysis Module for Reducing Terminological and Spacing Errors in Document Analysis	Ho-cheol Choi and Sang-yong Han	193
160	Word Extraction Based on Semantic Constraints in Chinese Word-formation	Maosong Sun, Shengfen Luo, and Benjamin K T’sou	197
395	Using Directed Graph based BDMM Algorithm for Chinese Word Segmentation	Yaodong Chen, Ting Wang, and Huowang Chen	209

	Anaphora and Coreference
227	Entity-Based Noun Phrase Coreference Resolution	Xiaofeng Yang, Jian Su, and Lingpeng Yang	213
216	The Right Frontier Constraint as Conditional	Claudia Sassen and Peter Kühnlein	217

	Word Sense Disambiguation
162	Name Discrimination by Clustering Similar Contexts	Ted Pedersen, Amruta Purandare, and Anagha Kulkarni	221
388	Word Sense Disambiguation by Semi-Supervised Learning	Zheng-Yu Niu, Dong-Hong Ji, Chew-Lim Tan, and Ling-Peng Yang	233
211	Crossing Parallel Corpora and Multilingual Lexical Databases for WSD	Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, Marcello Ranieri, and Carlo Strapparava	237
212	A Mapping between Classifiers and Training Conditions for WSD	Aarón Pancardo-Rodríguez, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñor-Pineda, Paolo Rosso	241
128	Multiwords and Word Sense Disambiguation	Victoria Arranz, Jordi Atserias and Mauro Castillo	245
206	Context Expansion with Global Keywords for a Conceptual Density-Based WSD	Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso, and Manuel Montes y Gómez	257
182	Two Web-based Approaches for Noun Sense Disambiguation	Paolo Rosso, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Davide Buscaldi, Aarón Pancardo-Rodríguez, and Luis Villaseñor Pineda	261

	Lexical Resources
198	Finding Instance Names and Alternative Glosses on the Web: WordNet Reloaded	Marius Paşca	273
145	Automatic Synonym Acquisition Based on Matching of Definition Sentences in Multiple Dictionaries	Masaki Murata, Toshiyuki Kanamaru, and Hitoshi Isahara	285
354	Enriching WordNet with Derivational Subnets	Karel Pala and Radek Sedláček	297
159	Customisable Semantic Analysis of Texts	Vivi Nastase and Stan Szpakowicz	304
190	ITOLDU, a Web Service to Pool Technical Lexical Terms in a Learning Environment and Contribute to Multilingual Lexical Databases	Valérie Bellynck, Christian Boitet, John Kenwright	316
352	Building a Situation-based Language Knowledge Base	Qiang ZHOU, Zushun CHEN	325
222	Unsupervised Learning of P NP P Word Combinations	Sofía N. Galicia-Haro, Alexander Gelbukh	329

	Natural Language Generation
111	Evaluating Evaluation Methods for Generation in the Presence of Variation	Amanda Stent, Matthew Marge, and Mohit Singhai	333
210	Reconciling Parameterization, Configurability and Optimality in Natural Language Generation via Multiparadigm Programming	Jorge Marques Pelizzoni, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes	344

	Machine Translation
B	Invited paper: Message Automata for Messages with Variants, and Methods for their Translation	Christian Boitet	349
123	The UNL Initiative: An Overview	Igor Boguslavsky; Jesús Cardeñosa; Carolina Gallardo; Luis Iraola	369
196	Interactive Resolution of Intrinsic and Translational Ambiguity in a Machine Translation System	Igor M. Boguslavsky, Leonid L. Iomdin, Alexander V. Lazursky, Leonid G. Mityushin, Victor G. Sizov, Leonid G. Kreydlin, Alexander S. Berdichevsky	380
166	Chinese-Japanese Clause Alignment	Xiaojie Wang, Fuji Ren	392
157	Direct Combination of Spelling and Pronunciation Information for Robust Back-Transliteration	Slaven Bilac and Hozumi Tanaka	403

	Speech and Natural Language Interfaces
213	A Prosodic Diphone Database for Korean Text-to-Speech Synthesis System	Kyuchul Yoon	415
205	On a Pitch Detection Method Using Noise Reduction	Jong Kuk Kim, Ki Young Lee, Myung Jin Bae	419
202	Toward Acoustic Models for Languages with Limited Linguistic Resources	Luis Villaseñor-Pineda, Viet Bac Le, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, and Manuel Pérez-Coutiño	423
201	A Study On Pitch Detection in Time-Frequency Hybrid Domain	Wangrae Jo, Jongkuk Kim, Myungjin Bae	427
192	VoiceUNL: a Semantic Representation of Emotions within Universal Networking Language Formalism Based on a Dialogue Corpus Analysis	Mutsuko Tomokiyo, Gérard Chollet	431
169	Combining Multiple Statistical Classifiers to Improve the Accuracy of Task Classification	Wei-Lin Wu, Ru-Zhan Lu, Feng Gao, Yan Yuan	442

	Language Documentation
119	A Finite State Network for Phonetic Text Processing	Edward John Garrett	453
144	Language Documentation: the Nahuatl Grammar	Mike Maxwell, Jonathan D. Amith	464

	Intelligent Text Processing Applications

	Information Extraction
R	Invited paper: Creating Subjective and Objective Sentence Classifiers from Unannotated Texts	Janyce Wiebe and Ellen Riloff	476
109	Instance Pruning by Filtering Uninformative Words: an Information Extraction Case Study	Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, Claudio Giuliano, and Raffaella Rinaldi	488
114	Incremental Information Extraction Using Tree-based Context Representations	Christian Siefkes	500
134	Learning Information Extraction Rules for Protein Annotation from Unannotated Corpora	Jee-Hyub Kim and Melanie Hilario	512
204	Transformation-Based Information Extraction Using Learned Meta-Rules	Un Yong Nahm	524
141	A Machine Learning Approach to Information Extraction	Alberto Téllez-Valero, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñor-Pineda	528
130	Automatic Time Expression Labeling for English and Chinese Text	Kadri Hacioglu, Ying Chen, Benjamin Douglas	537
185	Integrating Natural Language Techniques in OO-Method	Isabel Díaz, Lidia Moreno, Inmaculada Fuentes, and Oscar Pastor	549

	Information Retrieval
174	Document Re-ordering Based on Key Terms in Top Retrieved Documents	Yang Lingpeng, Ji Donghong, Nie Yu, Zhou Guodong	561
167	Merging Case Relations into VSM to Improve Information Retrieval Precision	Wang Hongtao, Sun Maosong, Liu Shaoming	573
171	Evaluating Document-to-document Relevance based on Document Language Model: Modeling, Implementation and Performance Evaluation	Ge Yu, Xiaoguang Li, Yubin Bao, Daling Wang	582
358	Retrieval Efficiency of Normalized Query Expansion	Sofia Stamou and Dimitris Christodoulakis	593
325	Selecting Interesting Articles Using Their Similarity Based Only on Positive Examples	Jiří Hroza and Jan Žižka	597

	Question Answering
163	Question Classification in Spanish and Portuguese	Thamar Solorio, Manuel Pérez-Coutiño, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñor-Pineda, and Aurelio López-López	601
218	Learning the Query Generation Patterns	Marcin Skowron and Kenji Araki	609
221	Exploiting Question Concepts for Query Expansion	Hae-Jung Kim, Ki-Dong Bu, Junghyun Kim and Sang-Jo Lee	613
238	Experiment on Combining Sources of Evidence for Passage Retrieval	Alexander Gelbukh, NamO Kang, SangYong Han	617

	Summarization
149	Summarisation through Discourse Structure	Dan Cristea, Oana Postolache, and Ionuţ Pistol	621
215	LexTrim: A Lexical Cohesion based Approach to Parse-and-Trim Style Headline Generation	Ruichao Wang, Nicola Stokes, William Doran, Eamonn Newman, John Dunnion, Joe Carthy	633
331	Generating Headline Summary from a Document Set	Kamal Sarkar, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay	637
209	Extractive Summarization Based on Word Information and Sentence Position	Carlos MÉNDEZ Cruz and Alfonso MEDINA Urrea	641
172	Automatic Extraction and Learning of Keyphrases from Scientific Articles	Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Zuriel Gross, Asaf Masa	645
183	Automatic Annotation of Corpora for Text Summarisation: A Comparative Study	Constantin Orăsan	658

	Text Classification, Categorization, and Clustering
132	Techniques for Improving the Performance of Naive Bayes for Text Classification	Karl-Michael Schneider	670
136	Efficient Modeling of Analogy	Lars G. Johnsen and Christer Johansson	682
187	A Supervised Clustering Method for Text Classification	Umarani Pappuswamy, Dumisizwe Bhembe, Pamela W. Jordan and Kurt VanLehn	692
348	Unsupervised Text Classification using Kohonen’s Self Organizing Network	Nirmalya Chowdhury and Diganta Saha	703
234	Enhancement of DTP Feature Selection Method for Text Categorization	Edgar Moyotl-Hernández, Héctor Jiménez-Salazar	707
176	FASiL Adaptive Email Categorization System	Yunqing Xia, Angelo Dalli, Yorick Wilks, Louise Guthrie	711
170	ESPClust: An Effective Skew Prevention Method for Model-based Document Clustering	Xiaoguang Li, Ge Yu, Daling Wang, Yubin Bao	723
226	A Method of Rapid Prototyping of Evolving Ontologies	Pavel Makagonov, Alejandro Ruiz Figueroa	735

	Named Entity Recognition
178	Resolution of Data Sparseness in Named Entity Recognition using Hierarchical Features and Feature Relaxation Principle	ZHOU GuoDong, SU Jian, YANG LingPeng	739
164	Learning Named Entity Recognition in Portuguese from Spanish	Thamar Solorio and Aurelio López López	751
223	A Simple Rule-based Approach to Organization Name Recognition in Chinese Text	Houfeng Wang and Wuguang Shi	758

	Language Identification
113	Disentangling from Babylonian Confusion – Unsupervised Language Identification	Chris Biemann, Sven Teresniak	762
203	On the Syllabic Similarities of Romance Languages	Anca Dinu and Liviu P. Dinu	774
214	Automatic Language Identification Using Multivariate Analysis	Vinosh Babu James J. and Baskaran Sankaran	778

	Spelling and Style Checking
140	Design and Development of a System for the Detection of Agreement Errors in Basque	Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza, Koldo Gojenola and Maite Oronoz	782
122	An Experiment in Detection and Correction of Malapropisms through the Web	Igor A. Bolshakov	792
118	A Paragraph Boundary Detection System	Dmitriy Genzel	805

A	Author Index		817