Human Language Technology Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVI

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2. Speech

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Improved Syllable-Based Text to Speech Synthesis for Tone Language Systems

      • Moses Ekpenyong, EmemObong Udoh, Escor Udosen, Eno-Abasi Urua

      Pages 3-15

   3. Slovak Automatic Dictation System for Judicial Domain

      • Milan Rusko, Jozef Juhár, Marián Trnka, Ján Staš, Sakhia Darjaa, Daniel Hládek et al.

      Pages 16-27

   4. The Intonation of Backchannel Tokens in Italian Collaborative Dialogues

      • Michelina Savino

      Pages 28-39

3. Parsing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41

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   2. Improved Parsing for Arabic by Combining Diverse Dependency Parsers

      • Maytham Alabbas, Allan Ramsay

      Pages 43-54

   3. Parsing Coordination Extragrammatically

      • Valmi Dufour-Lussier, Bruno Guillaume, Guy Perrier

      Pages 55-66

   4. Lexical Disambiguation in LTAG Using Left Context

      • Claire Gardent, Yannick Parmentier, Guy Perrier, Sylvain Schmitz

      Pages 67-79

4. Computational Semantics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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   2. Resolving Anaphors in Sanskrit

      • Madhav Gopal, Girish Nath Jha

      Pages 83-92

   3. Unsupervised Coreference Resolution Using a Graph Labeling Approach

      • Nafise Sadat Moosavi, GholamReza GhassemSani

      Pages 93-103

   4. The XCDC Relations as a Spatio-Temporal Ontology

      • Jędrzej Osiński

      Pages 104-115

   5. Normalization of Term Weighting Scheme for Sentiment Analysis

      • Alexander Pak, Patrick Paroubek, Amel Fraisse, Gil Francopoulo

      Pages 116-128

   6. Thel, a Language for Utterance Generation in the Thetos System

      • Julia Romaniuk, Nina Suszczańska, Przemysław Szmal

      Pages 129-140

   7. An Algorithm for Inconsistency Management in Spatial Knowledge Integration

      • Marcin Walas, Krzysztof Jassem

      Pages 141-152

5. Text Analysis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. Information Extraction for Czech Based on Syntactic Analysis

      • Vít Baisa, Vojtěch Kovář

      Pages 155-165

   3. Applying Rule-Based Normalization to Different Types of Historical Texts—An Evaluation

      • Marcel Bollmann, Florian Petran, Stefanie Dipper

      Pages 166-177

   4. A Rule Based Method for the Identification of TAM Features in a PoS Tagged Corpus

      • Narayan Choudhary, Pramod Pandey, Girish Nath Jha

      Pages 178-188

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Language and Technology Conference: Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics, LTC 2011, held in Poznan, Poland, in November 2011. The 44 revised and in many cases substantially extended papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 111 submissions. The focus of the papers is on the following topics: speech, parsing, computational semantics, text analysis, text annotation, language resources: general issues, language resources: ontologies and Wordnets and machine translation.

• NLP
• Wordnet
• computational semantics
• dialogue
• grammar
• language engineering
• language resources
• language technologies
• machine translation
• morphology
• named entity recognition
• natural language processing
• ontology
• parsing
• speech
• syntax and semantics
• text analysis
• text annotation

• Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

  Zygmunt Vetulani

• IMMI-CNRS, Orsay, France

  Joseph Mariani

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