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Natural Language Processing and Information Systems

20th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2015, Passau, Germany, June 17-19, 2015, Proceedings

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Table of contents (46 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
  2. Information Extraction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Improving Supervised Classification Using Information Extraction

      • Mian Du, Matthew Pierce, Lidia Pivovarova, Roman Yangarber
      Pages 3-18
    3. Supervised Machine Learning Techniques to Detect TimeML Events in French and English

      • Béatrice Arnulphy, Vincent Claveau, Xavier Tannier, Anne Vilnat
      Pages 19-32
  3. Distributional Semantics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
    2. In Defense of Word Embedding for Generic Text Representation

      • Guy Lev, Benjamin Klein, Lior Wolf
      Pages 35-50
    3. Combining Pattern-Based and Distributional Similarity for Graph-Based Noun Categorization

      • Michael Wiegand, Benjamin Roth, Dietrich Klakow
      Pages 64-72
    4. Acquiring a Large Scale Polarity Lexicon Through Unsupervised Distributional Methods

      • Giuseppe Castellucci, Danilo Croce, Roberto Basili
      Pages 73-86
  4. Querying and Question Answering Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
    2. Applying Semantic Parsing to Question Answering Over Linked Data: Addressing the Lexical Gap

      • Sherzod Hakimov, Christina Unger, Sebastian Walter, Philipp Cimiano
      Pages 103-109
    3. Pragmatic Query Answering: Results from a Quantitative Evaluation

      • Jon Scott Stevens, Anton Benz, Sebastian Reuße, Ralf Klabunde, Lisa Raithel
      Pages 110-123
    4. What was the Query? Generating Queries for Document Sets with Applications in Cluster Labeling

      • Matthias Hagen, Maximilian Michel, Benno Stein
      Pages 124-133
  5. Context-Aware NLP

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
    2. Using Context-Aware and Semantic Similarity Based Model to Enrich Ontology Concepts

      • Zenun Kastrati, Sule Yildirim Yayilgan, Ali Shariq Imran
      Pages 137-143
  6. Cognitive and Semantic Computing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
    2. How to Talk to a Cognitive Computer

      • Csaba Veres
      Pages 153-159

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2015, held in Passau, Germany, in June 2015.

The 18 full papers, 15 short papers, 14 poster and demonstration papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 100 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: information extraction, distributional semantics, querying and question answering systems, context-aware NLP, cognitive and semantic computing, sentiment and opinion analysis, information extraction and social media, NLP and usability, text classification and extraction, and posters and demonstrations.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Chris Biemann

  • Universität Passau, Passau, Germany

    Siegfried Handschuh, André Freitas

  • University of Salford, Salford, United Kingdom

    Farid Meziane

  • Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France

    Elisabeth Métais

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