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     Formal Semantics in the Real World                                           1
        Johan Bos

     Speech Processing for Audio Indexing                                         4
        Lori Lamel and Jean-Luc Gauvain

     Sorting Out Dependency Parsing                                              16
        Joakim Nivre

     "I Know What You Feel": Analyzing t he Role of Conjunctions in
     Automatic Sentiment Analysis                                                28
        Ritesh Agarwal, T. V. Prabhakar, and Sugato Chakrabarty

     Automatic Annotation of Direct Reported Speech in Arabic a nd
     French, According t o a Semantic Map of Enunciative Modalities              40
        Motasem Alrahabi and Jean-Pierre Descles
     Type-Theoretical Bulgarian Grammar                                          52
        Krasimir Angelov

     A Compact Arabic Lexical Semantics Language Resource Based on the
     Theory of Semantic Fields                                                   65
        Mohamed Attia, Mohsen Rashwan,
        Ahmed Ragheb, Mohamed Al-Badrashiny,
        Husein Al-Basoumy, and Sherif Abdou

     Automatically Extracting Personal Name Aliases from the Web                 77
       Danushka Bollegala, Taiki Honma, Yutaka Matsuo, and
        Mitsuru Ishizuka
     An Efficient Statistical Approach for A utomatic Organic Chemistry
     Summarization                                                               89
       Florian Boudin, Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno, and
       Patricia Veläzquez-Morales

      Augmenting Word Space Models for Word Sense Discrimination Using
      an Automatic Thesaurus                                                     100
         Hiram Calvo
      Plagiarism Detection Based on Singular Value Decomposition                 108
         Zdenek Ceska

      Networking Multiword Units                                                 120
         Matthieu Constant and Patrick Watrin



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Searching for Part of Speech Tags That Improve Parsing Models                      126
   Martin Ariel Domniguez and Gabriel Infante-Lopez
A POS-Based Word Prediction System for the Persian Language                        138
    Masood Ghayoomi and Ehsan Daroodi

A Graph Based Method for Building Multilingual Weakly Supervised
Dependency Parsers                                                                 148
  Jagadeesh Gorla, Anil Kumar Singh, Rajeev Sangal, Karthik Gali,
  Samar Husain, and Sriram Venkatapathy
A Web-Based Self-training Approach for Authorship Attribution                      160
  Rafael Guzmän-Cabrera, Manuel Montes-y-G6mez,
  Paolo Rosso, and Luis Villasenor-Pineda
Parsing Discontinuous Phrase Structure with Grammatical Functions . . .            169
   Johan Hall and Joakim Nivre
How Can the Term Compositionality be Useful for Acquiring
Elementary Semantic Relations?                                                     181
   Thierry Hamon and Natalia Grabar
Training Statistical Language Models from Grammar-Generated Data:
A Comparative Case-Study                                                           193
   Beth Ann Hockey, Manny Rayner, and Gwen Christian
A Mixed Method Lemmatization Algorithm Using a Hierarchy of
Linguistic Identities (HOLI)                                                       205
   Anton Karl Ingason, Sigrün Helgadöttir, Hrafn Loftsson, and
   Eirikur Rögnvaldsson
Semantic Roles in Valency Lexicon of Czech Verbs: Verbs of
Communication and Exchange                                                         217
   Vdclava Kettnerovd, Marketa Lopatkovä, and Klara Hrstkovd
Automatic Generation of Frequent Case Forms of Query Keywords in
Text Retrieval                                                                     222
   Kimmo Kettunen
Definition Extraction with Balanced Random Forests                                 237
    Lukasz Kobyliriski and Adam Przepiörkowski

Reviewing a n d Evaluating A u t o m a t i c Term Recognition Techniques . . . .   248
    Ioannis Korkontzelos, Ioannis P. Klapaftis, and Suresh Manandhar
Finding Text Boundaries and Finding Topic Boundaries: Two Different
Tasks?                                                                             260
    Alexandre Labadie and Violaine Prince
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Tamil Question Classification Using Morpheme Features                                                        272
  S. Lakshmana Pandian and T. V. Geetha

Analogical Translation of Medical Words in Different Languages                                               284
  Philippe Langlais, Francois Yvon, and Pierre Zweigenbaum

Improving Chinese Pronominal Anaphora Resolution by Extensive
Feature Representation and Confidence Estimation                                                             296
   Tyne Liang and Dian-Song Wu

A G r a m m a r F o r m a l i s m f or S pecifying I S U - B a s e d D i a l o g u e S y s t e m s . . . .   303
   Peter Ljunglöf and Staffan Larsson

Word Sense Disambiguation of Farsi Homographs Using Thesaurus and
Corpus                                                                                                       315
   Raheleh Makki and Mohammad Mehdi Homayounpour

Local Rephrasing Suggestions for Supporing the Work of Writers                                               324
   Aurelien Max

Interactive Multilingual Web Applications with Grammatical
Framework                                                                                                    336
    Moises Salvador Meza Moreno and Björn Bringert

Dependency Parsing by Transformation and Combination                                                         348
  Jens Nilsson and Joakim Nivre

Using Constraints over Finite Sets of Integers for Range Concatenation
Grammar Parsing                                                                                              360
   Yannick Parmentier and Wolfgang Maier

Analyzing Argumentative Structures in Procedural Texts                                                       366
  Lionel Fontan and Patrick Saint-Dizier

Natural Language Processing Across Time: An Empirical Investigation
on Italian                                                                                                   371
   Marco Pennacchiotti and Fabio Massimo Zanzotto

Statistical Surface Realisation of Portuguese Referring Expressions                                          383
   Daniel Bastos Pereira and Ivandre Paraboni

Classification-Based Filtering of Semantic Relatedness in Hypernymy
Extraction                                                                                                   393
   Maciej Piasecki, Stanislaw Szpakowicz, Michal Marcinczuk, and
   Bartosz Broda

Similarity of Names Across Scripts: Edit Distance Using Learned Costs
of N-Grams                                                                                                   405
   Bruno Pouliquen
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Turkish Language Resources: Morphological Parser, Morphological
Disambiguator and Web Corpus                                        417
   Hasim Sak, Tunga Güngör, and Murat Saraclar

A Graph Partitioning Approach to Entity Disambiguation Using
Uncertain Information                                               428
  Emili Sapena, Lluis Padrö, and Jordi Turmo

Arabic Named Entity Recognition from Diverse Text Types             440
   Khaled Shaalan and Hafsa Raza

A Noun-Predicate Bigram-Based Similarity Measure for Lexical
Relations                                                           452
   Hyopil Shin and Insik Cho

German Compounds in Factored Statistical Machine Translation        464
   Sara Stymne

A Reordering Model for Phrase-Based Machine Translation             476
   Vinh Van Nguyen, Thai Phuong Nguyen, Akira Shimazu, and
   Minh Le Nguyen

Interruption, Resumption and Domain Switching in In-Vehicle
Dialogue                                                            488
    Jessica Villing, Cecilia Holtelius, Staffan Larsson,
   Anders Lmdström, Alexander Seward, and Nina Aberg

Finite Matters: Verbal Features in Data-Driven Parsing of Swedish   500
   Lilja Ovrelid

Author Index                                                        511