Natural Language Processing and Information Systems

1. Front Matter

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2. Information Retrieval

   1. An Approach for Adding Noise-Tolerance to Restricted-Domain Information Retrieval

      • Katia Vila, Josval Díaz, Antonio Fernández, Antonio Ferrández

      Pages 1-12

   2. Measuring Tree Similarity for Natural Language Processing Based Information Retrieval

      • Zhiwei Lin, Hui Wang, Sally McClean

      Pages 13-23

   3. Sense-Based Biomedical Indexing and Retrieval

      • Duy Dinh, Lynda Tamine

      Pages 24-35

3. Natural Language Processing

   1. Semantic Content Access Using Domain-Independent NLP Ontologies

      • René Witte, Ralf Krestel

      Pages 36-47

   2. Extracting Meronymy Relationships from Domain-Specific, Textual Corporate Databases

      • Ashwin Ittoo, Gosse Bouma, Laura Maruster, Hans Wortmann

      Pages 48-59

   3. Automatic Word Sense Disambiguation Using Cooccurrence and Hierarchical Information

      • David Fernandez-Amoros, Ruben Heradio Gil, Jose Antonio Cerrada Somolinos, Carlos Cerrada Somolinos

      Pages 60-67

4. Software Engineering Applications

   1. Automatic Quality Assessment of Source Code Comments: The JavadocMiner

      • Ninus Khamis, René Witte, Juergen Rilling

      Pages 68-79

   2. Towards Approximating COSMIC Functional Size from User Requirements in Agile Development Processes Using Text Mining

      • Ishrar Hussain, Leila Kosseim, Olga Ormandjieva

      Pages 80-91

   3. Semantic Enriching of Natural Language Texts with Automatic Thematic Role Annotation

      • Sven J. Körner, Mathias Landhäußer

      Pages 92-99

5. Classification

   1. Adaptive Topic Modeling with Probabilistic Pseudo Feedback in Online Topic Detection

      • Guoyu Tang, Yunqing Xia

      Pages 100-108

   2. An Approach to Indexing and Clustering News Stories Using Continuous Language Models

      • Richard Bache, Fabio Crestani

      Pages 109-116

   3. Spoken Language Understanding via Supervised Learning and Linguistically Motivated Features

      • Maria Georgescul, Manny Rayner, Pierrette Bouillon

      Pages 117-128

6. Hidden Markov Models

   1. Topology Estimation of Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models for Language Models

      • Kei Wakabayashi, Takao Miura

      Pages 129-139

   2. Speaker Independent Urdu Speech Recognition Using HMM

      • Javed Ashraf, Naveed Iqbal, Naveed Sarfraz Khattak, Ather Mohsin Zaidi

      Pages 140-148

   3. Second-Order HMM for Event Extraction from Short Message

      • Huixing Jiang, Xiaojie Wang, Jilei Tian

      Pages 149-156

7. Querying

   1. Goal Detection from Natural Language Queries

      • Yulan He

      Pages 157-168

   2. Parsing Natural Language into Content for Storage and Retrieval in a Content-Addressable Memory

      • Roland Hausser

      Pages 169-176

8. Natural Language Interfaces

   1. Vague Relations in Spatial Databases

      • Michael J. Minock

      Pages 177-187

   2. Conceptual Modeling of Online Entertainment Programming Guide for Natural Language Interface

      • Harry Chang

      Pages 188-195

th The 15 International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2010) took place during June 23–25 in Cardiff (UK). Since the first edition in 1995, the NLDB conference has been aiming at bringing together resear- ers, people working in industry and potential users interested in various applications of natural language in the database and information system area. However, in order to reflect the growing importance of accessing information from a diverse collection of sources (Web, Databases, Sensors, Cloud) in an equally wide range of contexts (- cluding mobile and tethered), the theme of the 15th International Conference on - plications of Natural Language to Information Systems 2010 was "Communicating with Anything, Anywhere in Natural Language. " Natural languages and databases are core components in the development of inf- mation systems. Natural language processing (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 pr- essing 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 computerized services. Hot topics such as information retrieval (IR), software engineering applications, hidden Markov models, natural language interfaces and semantic networks and graphs imply a complete fusion of databases, IR and NLP techniques.

• Clustering
• Design
• Hidden Markov Model
• Markov Model
• Text Mining
• agile programming
• algorithms
• biomedical retrieval
• classification
• computational linguistics
• database lexicography
• dictionary
• natural language
• speech recognition

• School of Engineering, Cardiff University, UK

  Christina J. Hopfe, Haijiang Li

• Informatics Research Institute, University of Salford, UK

  Yacine Rezgui

• Centre National des Arts et Métiers,  

  Elisabeth Métais

• School of Computer Science, Cardiff University, UK

  Alun Preece

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