Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 2007 8th International Conference, CICLing 2007, Mexico City, Mexico, February 18-24, 2007, Proceedings Coll. Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues

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.