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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference PorTAL 2002 - Portugal for Natural Language Processing, held in Faro, Portugal, in June 2002. The 23 reviewed regular papers and 11 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on pragmatics, discourse, semantics, and the lexicon; interpreting and generating spoken and written language; language-oriented information retrieval, question answering, summarization, and information extraction; language-oriented machine learning; multi-lingual processing, machine translation, and translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; tools and resources; and evaluation of systems.

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Author:   Elisabete Ranchod ,  Nuno J. Mamede
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   2002 ed.
Volume:   2389
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.910kg
ISBN:  

9783540438298

ISBN 10:   3540438297
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   17 June 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Invited Speakers.- WordsEye: A Text-to-Scene Conversion System.- Automatic Anaphora Resolution: Limits, Impediments, and Ways Forward.- Pragmatics, Discourse, Semantics, Syntax, and the Lexicon.- Feature-Based WSD: Why We Are at a Dead-End.- Improving Feature Selection for Maximum Entropy-Based Word Sense Disambiguation.- Heuristics-Based Replenishment of Collocation Databases.- On the Analysis of Locative Phrases with Graphs and Lexicon-Grammar: The Classifier/Proper Noun Pairing.- The Role of Pause Occurrence and Pause Duration in the Signaling of Narrative Structure.- A Grammar-Based System to Solve Temporal Expressions in Spanish Texts.- Semantic Information in Anaphora Resolution.- A Type of Transitive Inalienable Possession Construction in Korean.- The Treatment of Numbers in Polish by Graphs.- From Syntax to Semantics: Taking Advantages of 5P.- Processing Discontinuity.- Resolution of Demonstrative Anaphoric References in Portuguese Written Texts.- Interpreting and Generating Spoken and Written Language.- Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Using Weighted Finite-State Transducers.- Building Language Models for Continuous Speech Recognition Systems.- Language-Oriented Information Retrieval, Question Answering, Summarization, and Information Extraction.- Relevant Information Extraction Driven with Rhetorical Schemas to Summarize Scientific Papers.- Language-Oriented Machine Learning.- Mapping an Automated Survey Coding Task into a Probabilistic Text Categorization Framework.- Combining Multiclass Maximum Entropy Text Classifiers with Neural Network Voting.- Multi-lingual Processing, Machine Translation, and Translation Aids.- Compound Temporal Adverbs in Portuguese and in Spanish.- Description of a Multilingual Database of Proper Names.- Natural LanguageInterfaces and Dialogue Systems.- A Project of Speech Input and Output in an E-commerce Application.- Ambiguity Reports for Flexible Dialog Management.- A Natural Language Dialogue Manager for Accessing Databases.- Helping the Composition of Help Contents.- Meteo: A Telephone-Based Portuguese Conversation System in Weather Domain.- Tools and Resources.- Concluding Remarks on Multi-band and Multi-stream Research for Noise-Robust ASR.- Groundwork for the Development of the Brazilian Portuguese Wordnet.- Linguistic Processing of Biomedical Texts.- DISPARA, a System for Distributing Parallel Corpora on the Web.- Using Morphological, Syntactical, and Statistical Information for Automatic Term Acquisition.- Complex Lexical Units and Automata.- Constructing Empirical Formulas for Testing Word Similarity by the Inductive Method of Model Self-Organization.- Multilingual Corpora Annotation for Processing Definite Descriptions.- Relational Data Model in Document Hierarchical Indexing.- Evaluation of Systems.- DMSumm: Review and Assessment.

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