Advances in Natural Language Processing, 2004 4th International Conference, EsTAL 2004, Alicante, Spain, October 20-22, 2004. Proceedings Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference, EsTAL 2004, held in Alicante, Spain in October 2004.The 42 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The papers address current issues in computational linguistics and monolingual and multilingual intelligent language processing and applications, in particular written language analysis and generation, pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and morphology, lexical resources, word sense disambiguation, linguistic, mathematical, and morphology, lexical resources, word sense disambiguation, linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language, knowledge acquisition and representation, corpus-based and statistical language modeling, machine translation and translation tools, and computational lexicography, information retrieval, extraction and question answering, automatic summarization, document categorization, natural language interfaces, and dialogue systems and evaluation of systems.

Adaptive Selection of Base Classifiers in One-Against-All Learning for Large Multi-labeled Collections.- Automatic Acquisition of Transfer Rules from Translation Examples.- Automatic Assessment of Open Ended Questions with a Bleu-Inspired Algorithm and Shallow NLP.- Automatic Phonetic Alignment and Its Confidence Measures.- Automatic Spelling Correction in Galician.- Baseline Methods for Automatic Disambiguation of Abbreviations in Jewish Law Documents.- Bayes Decision Rules and Confidence Measures for Statistical Machine Translation.- Character Identification in Children Stories.- Comparison and Evaluation of Two Approaches of a Multilayered QA System Applied to Temporality.- The Contents and Structure of the Context Base, and Its Application.- Developing a Minimalist Parser for Free Word Order Languages with Discontinuous Constituency.- Developing Competitive HMM PoS Taggers Using Small Training Corpora.- Exploring the Use of Target-Language Information to Train the Part-of-Speech Tagger of Machine Translation Systems.- Expressive Power and Consistency Properties of State-of-the-Art Natural Language Parsers.- An Independent Domain Dialogue System Through a Service Manager.- Information Retrieval in Digital Theses Based on Natural Language Processing Tools.- Integrating Conceptual Density with WordNet Domains and CALD Glosses for Noun Sense Disambiguation.- Intertwining Deep Syntactic Processing and Named Entity Detection.- Language Understanding Using n-multigram Models.- Multi-label Text Classification Using Multinomial Models.- A Multi-use Incremental Syntax-Semantic Interface.- Multiword Expression Translation Using Generative Dependency Grammar.- Named Entity Recognition Through Corpus Transformation and System Combination.- One Size Fits All? A Simple Technique to Perform Several NLP Tasks.- Ontology-Based Feature Transformations: A Data-Driven Approach.- On the Quality of Lexical Resources for Word Sense Disambiguation.- Reuse of Free Online MT Engines to Develop a Meta-system of Multilingual Machine Translation.- Semantic-Aided Anaphora Resolution in Large Corpora Development.- SemRol: Recognition of Semantic Roles.- Significance of Syntactic Features for Word Sense Disambiguation.- SisHiTra : A Hybrid Machine Translation System from Spanish to Catalan.- Smoothing and Word Sense Disambiguation.- Spelling Correction for Search Engine Queries.- A Statistical Study of the WPT-03 Corpus.- A Study of Chunk-Based and Keyword-Based Approaches for Generating Headlines.- Suffixal and Prefixal Morpholexical Relationships of the Spanish.- SuPor: An Environment for AS of Texts in Brazilian Portuguese.- Systemic Analysis Applied to Problem Solving: The Case of the Past Participle in French.- The Merging Problem in Distributed Information Retrieval and the 2-Step RSV Merging Algorithm.- Unsupervised Training of a Finite-State Sliding-Window Part-of-Speech Tagger.- Using Seed Words to Learn to Categorize Chinese Text.- On Word Frequency Information and Negative Evidence in Naive Bayes Text Classification.