Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing

th CICLing 2009 markedthe 10 anniversary of the Annual Conference on Intel- gent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics. The CICLing conferences provide a wide-scope forum for the discussion of the art and craft of natural language processing research as well as the best practices in its applications. This volume contains ?ve invited papers and the regular papers accepted for oral presentation at the conference. The papers accepted for poster presentation were published in a special issue of another journal (see the website for more information). Since 2001, the proceedings of CICLing conferences have been published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, as volumes 2004, 2276, 2588, 2945, 3406, 3878, 4394, and 4919. This volume has been structured into 12 sections: Trends and Opportunities Linguistic Knowledge Representation Formalisms Corpus Analysis and Lexical Resources Extraction of Lexical Knowledge Morphology and Parsing Semantics Word Sense Disambiguation Machine Translation and Multilinguism Information Extraction and Text Mining Information Retrieval and Text Comparison Text Summarization Applications to the Humanities A total of 167 papers by 392 authors from 40 countries were submitted for evaluation by the International Program Committee, see Tables 1 and 2. This volume contains revised versions of 44 papers, by 120 authors, selected for oral presentation; the acceptance rate was 26. 3%.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, CICLing 2009, held in Mexico City, Mexico in March 2009.

The 44 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover all current issues in computational linguistics research and present intelligent text processing applications.

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Trends and Opportunities.- Has Computational Linguistics Become More Applied?.- Opportunities for Natural Language Processing Research in Education.- Linguistic Knowledge Representation Formalisms.- Information Structure in a Formal Framework.- A Karaka Based Annotation Scheme for English.- Corpus Analysis and Lexical Resources.- Substring Statistics.- Evaluation of the Syntactic Annotation in EPEC, the Reference Corpus for the Processing of Basque.- Reducing Noise in Labels and Features for a Real World Dataset: Application of NLP Corpus Annotation Methods.- Unsupervised Classification of Verb Noun Multi-Word Expression Tokens.- Extraction of Lexical Knowledge.- Semantic Mapping for Related Term Identification.- An Improved Automatic Term Recognition Method for Spanish.- Bootstrapping a Verb Lexicon for Biomedical Information Extraction.- TermeX: A Tool for Collocation Extraction.- Morphology and Parsing.- Guessers for Finite-State Transducer Lexicons.- Combining Language Modeling and Discriminative Classification for Word Segmentation.- Formal Grammar for Hispanic Named Entities Analysis.- Automatic Extraction of Clause Relationships from a Treebank.- A General Method for Transforming Standard Parsers into Error-Repair Parsers.- Semantics.- Topic-Focus Articulation from the Semantic Point of View.- The Value of Weights in Automatically Generated Text Structures.- AORTE for Recognizing Textual Entailment.- Word Sense Disambiguation.- Semi-supervised Word Sense Disambiguation Using the Web as Corpus.- Semi-supervised Clustering for Word Instances and Its Effect on Word Sense Disambiguation.- Alleviating the Problem of Wrong Coreferences in Web Person Search.- Improved Unsupervised Name Discrimination with Very Wide Bigrams and Automatic Cluster Stopping.- Machine Translation and Multilinguism.- Enriching Statistical Translation Models Using a Domain-Independent Multilingual Lexical Knowledge Base.- Exploiting Parallel Treebanks to Improve Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation.- Cross-Language Frame Semantics Transfer in Bilingual Corpora.- A Parallel Corpus Labeled Using Open and Restricted Domain Ontologies.- Language Identification on the Web: Extending the Dictionary Method.- Information Extraction and Text Mining.- Business Specific Online Information Extraction from German Websites.- Low-Cost Supervision for Multiple-Source Attribute Extraction.- An Integrated Architecture for Processing Business Documents in Turkish.- Detecting Protein-Protein Interactions in Biomedical Texts Using a Parser and Linguistic Resources.- Learning to Learn Biological Relations from a Small Training Set.- Using a Bigram Event Model to Predict Causal Potential.- Semantic-Based Temporal Text-Rule Mining.- Generating Executable Scenarios from Natural Language.- Determining the Polarity and Source of Opinions Expressed in Political Debates.- Information Retrieval and Text Comparison.- Query Translation and Expansion for Searching Normal and OCR-Degraded Arabic Text.- NLP for Shallow Question Answering of Legal Documents Using Graphs.- Semantic Clustering for a Functional Text Classification Task.- Reducing the Plagiarism Detection Search Space on the Basis of the Kullback-Leibler Distance.- Empirical Paraphrasing of Modern Greek Text in Two Phases: An Application to Steganography.- BorderFlow: A Local Graph Clustering Algorithm for Natural Language Processing.- Generalized Mongue-Elkan Method for Approximate Text String Comparison.- Text Summarization.- Estimating Risk of Picking a Sentence for Document Summarization.- The Decomposition ofHuman-Written Book Summaries.- Applications to the Humanities.- Linguistic Ethnography: Identifying Dominant Word Classes in Text.