Title: Advances in natural language processing : 4th international conference, EsTAL 2004, Alicante, Spain, October 20-22, 2004 : proceedings /
Authors: Vicedo, José Luis.
Publisher: Springer,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Natural language processing (Computer science) Congresses.; Computer science; Information storage and retrieval systems; Artificial intelligence; Text processing (Computer science.
Abstract: EsTAL – Espana ˜ for Natural Language Processing – continued on from the three previous conferences: FracTAL, held at the Universit´ e de Franch-Comt´ e, Besan¸ con (France) in December 1997, VexTAL, held at Venice International University, Ca ´ Foscari (Italy), in November 1999, and PorTAL, held at the U- versidade do Algarve, Faro (Portugal), in June 2002. The main goals of these conferences have been: (i) to bring together the international NLP community; (ii) to strengthen the position of local NLP research in the international NLP community; and (iii) to provide a forum for discussion of new research and - plications. EsTAL contributed to achieving these goals and increasing the already high international standing of these conferences, largely due to its Program Comm- tee,composedofrenownedresearchersinthe?eldofnaturallanguageprocessing and its applications. This clearly contributed to the signi?cant number of papers submitted (72) by researchers from (18) di?erent countries. The scope of the conference was structured around the following main topics: (i)computational linguistics research (spoken and written language analysis and generation; pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and morphology; lexical - sources; word sense disambiguation; linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language; knowledge acquisition and representation; corpus-based and statistical language modelling; machine translation and translation aids; com- tationallexicography),and(ii)monolingualandmultilingualintelligentlanguage processing and applications (information retrieval, extraction and question - swering; automatic summarization; document categorization; natural language interfaces; dialogue systems and evaluation of systems).
Contents: Adaptive selection of base classifiers in one-against-all learning for large multi-labeled collections / Arturo Montejo Raez [and others] -- Automatic acquisition of transfer rules from translation examples / Werner Winiwarter -- Automatic assessment of open ended questions with a BLEU-inspired algorithm and shallow NLP / Enrique Alfonseca, Diana Perez -- Automatic phonetic alignment and its confidence measures / Sergio Paulo, Luis C. Oliveira -- Automatic spelling correction in Galician / M. Vilares [and others] -- Baseline methods for automatic disambiguation of abbreviations in Jewish law documents / Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Ariel Kass, Ariel Peretz -- Bayes decision rules and confidence measures for statistical machine translation / Nicola Ueffing, Hermann Ney -- Character identification in children stories / Nuno Mamede, Pedro Chaleira -- Comparison and evaluation of two approaches of a multilayered QA system applied to temporality / E. Saquete [and others] --^