Natural Language Processing and Information Systems

1. Front Matter

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2. Invited Paper

   1. An Alternative Approach to Tagging

      • Max Silberztein

      Pages 1-11

3. Natural Language for Database Query Processing

   1. An Efficient Denotational Semantics for Natural Language Database Queries

      • Richard A. Frost, Randy J. Fortier

      Pages 12-24

4. Email Management

   1. An Approach to Hierarchical Email Categorization Based on ME

      • Peifeng Li, Jinhui Li, Qiaoming Zhu

      Pages 25-34

   2. Developing Methods and Heuristics with Low Time Complexities for Filtering Spam Messages

      • Tunga Güngör, Ali Çıltık

      Pages 35-47

5. Semantic Annotation

   1. Exploit Semantic Information for Category Annotation Recommendation in Wikipedia

      • Yang Wang, Haofen Wang, Haiping Zhu, Yong Yu

      Pages 48-60

   2. A Lightweight Approach to Semantic Annotation of Research Papers

      • Nicola Zeni, Nadzeya Kiyavitskaya, Luisa Mich, John Mylopoulos, James R. Cordy

      Pages 61-72

6. Text Clustering

   1. A New Text Clustering Method Using Hidden Markov Model

      • Yan Fu, Dongqing Yang, Shiwei Tang, Tengjiao Wang, Aiqiang Gao

      Pages 73-83

   2. Identifying Event Sequences Using Hidden Markov Model

      • Kei Wakabayashi, Takao Miura

      Pages 84-95

   3. The Dictionary-Based Quantified Conceptual Relations for Hard and Soft Chinese Text Clustering

      • Yi Hu, Ruzhan Lu, Yuquan Chen, Hui Liu, Dongyi Zhang

      Pages 96-106

   4. On-Line Single-Pass Clustering Based on Diffusion Maps

      • Fadoua Ataa Allah, William I. Grosky, Driss Aboutajdine

      Pages 107-118

   5. Selecting Labels for News Document Clusters

      • Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Trivikram Immaneni, Mastan Vali Shaik

      Pages 119-130

7. Ontology Engineering

   1. Generating Ontologies Via Language Components and Ontology Reuse

      • Yihong Ding, Deryle Lonsdale, David W. Embley, Martin Hepp, Li Xu

      Pages 131-142

   2. Experiences Using the ResearchCyc Upper Level Ontology

      • Jordi Conesa, Veda C. Storey, Vijayan Sugumaran

      Pages 143-155

   3. From OWL Class and Property Labels to Human Understandable Natural Language

      • Günther Fliedl, Christian Kop, Jürgen Vöhringer

      Pages 156-167

   4. Ontological Text Mining of Software Documents

      • René Witte, Qiangqiang Li, Yonggang Zhang, Juergen Rilling

      Pages 168-180

8. Natural Language for Information System Design

   1. Treatment of Passive Voice and Conjunctions in Use Case Documents

      • Leonid Kof

      Pages 181-192

   2. Natural Language Processing and the Conceptual Model Self-organizing Map

      • Ricardas Laukaitis, Algirdas Laukaitis

      Pages 193-203

   3. Automatic Issue Extraction from a Focused Dialogue

      • Koen V. Hindriks, Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, Catholijn M. Jonker, Dmytro Tykhonov

      Pages 204-216

9. Information Retrieval Systems

   1. Character N-Grams Translation in Cross-Language Information Retrieval

      • Jesús Vilares, Michael P. Oakes, Manuel Vilares

      Pages 217-228

The 12th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Infor- tion Systems (NLDB 2007) took place during June 27–29 in Paris (France). Since the first edition in 1995, the NLDB conference has been aiming at bringing together researchers, people working in industry and potential users interested in various - plications of natural language in the database and information system areas. Natural language and databases are core components in the development of inf- mation systems. NLP techniques may substantially enhance most phases of the information system lifecycle, starting with requirement analysis, specification and validation, and going up to conflict resolution, result processing and presentation. Furthermore, natural language-based query languages and user interfaces facilitate the access to information for all and allow for new paradigms in the usage of comput- ized services. Hot topics such as information retrieval and Semantic Web-based applications imply a complete fusion of databases and NLP techniques. Among an increasing number of submitted papers (110), the Program Committee selected 31 papers as full papers, thus coming up with an acceptance rate of 28%. These proceedings also include 12 short papers that were presented at the conference and two invited talks, one given by Andrew Basden and Heinz Klein and the other given by Max Silberztein.

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• Resolution
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• algorithms
• computational linguistics
• conceptual modeling
• database interfaces
• database management
• dialog processing
• feature selection
• information system
• knowledge-based information systems
• machine translation
• natural language
• ontology

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