Natural Language Processing - NLP 2000

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Tokenization, Morphological Analysis

   1. Parsing Asymmetries

      • Anna Maria Di Sciullo

      Pages 1-15

   2. Universal Segmentation of Text with the Sumo Formalism

      • Julien Quint

      Pages 16-26

   3. Functional Decomposition and Lazy Word-Parsing in Modern Greek

      • Evangelos Papakitsos, Maria Gregoriadou, Angella Ralli

      Pages 27-36

   4. Recognition and Acquisition of Compound Names from Corpora

      • Goran Nenadić, Irena Spasić

      Pages 38-48

3. Lexical Knowledge Representation

   1. Use of a Morphosyntactic Lexicon as the Basis for the Implementation of the Greek Wordnet

      • A. Ntoulas, S. Stamou, I. Tsakou, Ch. Tsalidis, M. Tzagarakis, A. Vagelatos

      Pages 49-56

   2. On Verb Selectional Restrictions: Advantages and Limitations

      • Françoise Gayral, Nathalie Pernelle, Patrick Saint-Dizier

      Pages 57-68

   3. Some Principles for Implementing Underspecification in NLP Systems

      • Alda Mari, Patrick Saint-Dizier

      Pages 69-80

   4. HYPERTAGS: Beyond POS Tagging

      • Alexandra Kinyon

      Pages 81-90

4. Parsing

   1. A Theory of Stochastic Grammars

      • Christer Samuelsson

      Pages 92-105

   2. Monte-Carlo Sampling for NP-Hard Maximization Problems in the Framework of Weighted Parsing

      • Jean-Cédric Chappelier, Martin Rajman

      Pages 106-117

   3. Preprocessing for Unification Parsing of Spoken Language

      • Mark-Jan Nederhof

      Pages 118-129

   4. A Semantic Based Approach for Spontaneous Spoken Dialogue Understanding

      • Mohamed Zakaria Kurdi

      Pages 130-138

5. Parsing, Discourse Analysis

   1. A Practical Chunker for Unrestricted Text

      • E. Stamatatos, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis

      Pages 139-150

   2. A Distributed Approach for a Robust and Evolving NLP System

      • João Balsa, Gabriel Lopes

      Pages 151-161

   3. An Incremental Discourse Parser Architecture

      • Dan Cristea

      Pages 162-174

   4. A Spatio-temporal Model for the Representation of Situations Described in Narrative Texts

      • S. Gerard, J. P. Sansonnet

      Pages 176-184

6. Anaphora Resolution

   1. Enhancing Preference-Based Anaphora Resolution with Genetic Algorithms

      • Constantin OrĂsan, Richard Evans, Ruslan Mitkov

      Pages 185-195

   2. Anaphora Resolution through Dialogue Adjacency Pairs and Topics

      • M. Palomar, P. Martínez-Barco

      Pages 196-203

   3. Semantic Knowledge-Driven Method to Solve Pronominal Anaphora in Spanish Texts

      • Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda, Manuel Palomar

      Pages 204-211

This volume contains the papers prepared for the 2nd International Conference on Natural Language Processing, held 2-4 June in Patras, Greece. The conference program features invited talks and submitted papers, c- ering a wide range of NLP areas: text segmentation, morphological analysis, lexical knowledge acquisition and representation, grammar formalism and s- tacticparsing,discourse analysis,languagegeneration,man-machineinteraction, machine translation, word sense disambiguation, and information extraction. The program committee received 71 abstracts, of which unfortunately no more than 50% could be accepted. Every paper was reviewed by at least two reviewers. The fairness of the reviewing process is demonstrated by the broad spread of institutions and countries represented in the accepted papers. So many have contributed to the success of the conference. The primary credit, ofcourse, goes to theauthors andto the invitedspeakers. By theirpapers and their inspired talks they established the quality of the conference. Secondly, thanks should go to the referees and to the program committee members who did a thorough and conscientious job. It was not easy to select the papers to be presented. Last, but not least, my special thanks to the organizing committee for making this conference happen.

• Discourse Analsysis
• Information Extraction
• Lexical Knowledge Acquisition
• Resolution
• Text Segmentation
• knowledge representation
• machine translation
• natural language
• natural language processing
• translation

• Computer Engineering Department and Computer Technology Institute, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

  Dimitris N. Christodoulakis

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