Natural Language Processing and Information Systems, 2007 12th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2007, Paris, France, June 27-29, 2007, Proceedings Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI Series

Invited Paper.- An Alternative Approach to Tagging.- Natural Language for Database Query Processing.- An Efficient Denotational Semantics for Natural Language Database Queries.- Email Management.- An Approach to Hierarchical Email Categorization Based on ME.- Developing Methods and Heuristics with Low Time Complexities for Filtering Spam Messages.- Semantic Annotation.- Exploit Semantic Information for Category Annotation Recommendation in Wikipedia.- A Lightweight Approach to Semantic Annotation of Research Papers.- Text Clustering.- A New Text Clustering Method Using Hidden Markov Model.- Identifying Event Sequences Using Hidden Markov Model.- The Dictionary-Based Quantified Conceptual Relations for Hard and Soft Chinese Text Clustering.- On-Line Single-Pass Clustering Based on Diffusion Maps.- Selecting Labels for News Document Clusters.- Ontology Engineering.- Generating Ontologies Via Language Components and Ontology Reuse.- Experiences Using the ResearchCyc Upper Level Ontology.- From OWL Class and Property Labels to Human Understandable Natural Language.- Ontological Text Mining of Software Documents.- Natural Language for Information System Design.- Treatment of Passive Voice and Conjunctions in Use Case Documents.- Natural Language Processing and the Conceptual Model Self-organizing Map.- Automatic Issue Extraction from a Focused Dialogue.- Information Retrieval Systems.- Character N-Grams Translation in Cross-Language Information Retrieval.- Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval by Feature Vectors.- Incomplete and Fuzzy Conceptual Graphs to Automatically Index Medical Reports.- Combining Vector Space Model and Multi Word Term Extraction for Semantic Query Expansion.- The Bootstrapping Based Recognition of Conceptual Relationship for Text Retrieval.- A Framework of NLP Based Information Tracking and Related Knowledge Organizing with Topic Maps.- Natural Language Processing Techniques.- DLSITE-1: Lexical Analysis for Solving Textual Entailment Recognition.- Text Segmentation Based on Document Understanding for Information Retrieval.- Named Entity Recognition for Arabic Using Syntactic Grammars.- Four Methods for Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation.- Enhancing Relation Extraction by Eliciting Selectional Constraint Features from Wikipedia.- A Computer Science Electronic Dictionary for NOOJ.- Applying Wikipedia’s Multilingual Knowledge to Cross–Lingual Question Answering.- Zero Anaphora Resolution in Chinese and Its Application in Chinese-English Machine Translation.- Short Papers.- Rule-Based Partial MT Using Enhanced Finite-State Grammars in NooJ.- Biomedical Named Entity Recognition: A Poor Knowledge HMM-Based Approach.- Unsupervised Language Independent Genetic Algorithm Approach to Trivial Dialogue Phrase Generation and Evaluation.- Large-Scale Knowledge Acquisition from Botanical Texts.- Lexical-Based Alignment for Reconstruction of Structure in Parallel Texts.- Electronic Dictionaries and Transducers for Automatic Processing of the Albanian Language.- Two Methods of Evaluation of Semantic Similarity of Nouns Based on Their Modifier Sets.- A Service Oriented Architecture for Adaptable Terminology Acquisition.- Domain Relevance on Term Weighting.- Flexible and Customizable NL Representation of Requirements for ETL processes.