Natural Language Processing ? Ijcnlp 2004: First International Joint Conference, Hainan Island, China, March 22-24, 2004, Revised Selected Papers

IJCNLP 2004 heralded a new era for computational linguistics and natural l- guage processing in Asia, as it coincided with the launching of the Asian F- eration of NLP Associations (AFNLP) in Sanya, Hainan, China. This was a timely development for the most populous and linguistically diversi?ed region in the world, and there is little wonder that this conference managed to draw over 200 participants. Following an enthusiastic response to the call for papers from 19regionsand the vigorousand rigorouse?ortsof the ProgramCommittee Co-chairs, the sizable collection of papers presented at this conference enabled AFNLP to be compared with related organizations such as COLING and ACL, which have been in existence for more than 40 years. Theorganizersrecognizedthatitisimportantforseriousattemptstobemade to increaseandimprovee?ortsinthis areaallacrossAsia.Towardsthisend,and to contribute to a better awarenessof topical issues, IJCNLP 2004 included two panels of special interest: (1) Panel on Emerging Asian Language Processing E?orts, and (2) Panel on Multilingual NLP for Public Information Services, which was devoted to the NLP requirements envisioned by the organizers of the 2008 Olympics. There were also two thematic sessions on (a) Natural Language TechnologyinMobileInformationRetrievalandTextProcessingUserInterfaces, and(b)TextMininginBiomedicine.Theo?eringsofthisconferencewerefurther enriched by tutorials and workshops as well as an Asian Symposium on Natural Language Processing to Overcome Language Barriers, organized as a satellite eventbytheInstitute ofElectronics,InformationandCommunicationEngineers (IEICE) and the Communications Research Laboratory (CRL) of Japan.

Dialogue and Discourse.- Fast Reinforcement Learning of Dialogue Policies Using Stable Function Approximation.- Zero Pronoun Resolution Based on Automatically Constructed Case Frames and Structural Preference of Antecedents.- Improving Noun Phrase Coreference Resolution by Matching Strings.- Combining Labeled and Unlabeled Data for Learning Cross-Document Structural Relationships.- FSA, Parsing Algorithms.- Parsing Mixed Constructions in a Type Feature Structure Grammar.- Iterative CKY Parsing for Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars.- Information Extraction and Question Answering.- Causal Relation Extraction Using Cue Phrase and Lexical Pair Probabilities.- A Re-examination of IR Techniques in QA System.- A Novel Pattern Learning Method for Open Domain Question Answering.- Chinese Named Entity Recognition Based on Multilevel Linguistic Features.- Information Retrieval.- Information Flow Analysis with Chinese Text.- Phoneme-Based Transliteration of Foreign Names for OOV Problem.- Window-Based Method for Information Retrieval.- Improving Relevance Feedback in Language Modeling Approach: Maximum a Posteriori Probability Criterion and Three-Component Mixture Model.- BBS Based Hot Topic Retrieval Using Back-Propagation Neural Network.- How Effective Is Query Expansion for Finding Novel Information?.- Lexical Semantics, Ontology and Linguistic Resources.- The Hinoki Treebank A Treebank for Text Understanding.- Building a Parallel Bilingual Syntactically Annotated Corpus.- Acquiring Bilingual Named Entity Translations from Content-Aligned Corpora.- Visual Semantics and Ontology of Eventive Verbs.- A Persistent Feature-Object Database for Intelligent Text Archive Systems.- Machine Translation and Multilinguality.- Example-Based Machine Translation Without Saying Inferable Predicate.- Improving Back-Transliteration by Combining Information Sources.- Bilingual Sentence Alignment Based on Punctuation Statistics and Lexicon.- Automatic Learning of Parallel Dependency Treelet Pairs.- Practical Translation Pattern Acquisition from Combined Language Resources.- An English-Hindi Statistical Machine Translation System.- NLP Software and Application.- Robust Speaker Identification System Based on Wavelet Transform and Gaussian Mixture Model.- Selecting Prosody Parameters for Unit Selection Based Chinese TTS.- Natural Language Database Access Using Semi-automatically Constructed Translation Knowledge.- Korean Stochastic Word-Spacing with Dynamic Expansion of Candidate Words List.- You Don’t Have to Think Twice if You Carefully Tokenize.- Automatic Genre Detection of Web Documents.- Statistical Substring Reduction in Linear Time.- Detecting Sentence Boundaries in Japanese Speech Transcriptions Using a Morphological Analyzer.- Specification Retrieval – How to Find Attribute-Value Information on the Web.- Semantic Disambiguation.- Conceptual Information-Based Sense Disambiguation.- Influence of WSD on Cross-Language Information Retrieval.- Resolution of Modifier-Head Relation Gaps Using Automatically Extracted Metonymic Expressions.- Word Sense Disambiguation Using Heterogeneous Language Resources.- Improving Word Sense Disambiguation by Pseudo-samples.- Statistical Models and Machine Learning for NLP.- Long Distance Dependency in Language Modeling: An Empirical Study.- Word Folding: Taking the Snapshot of Words Instead of the Whole.- Bilingual Chunk Alignment Based on Interactional Matching and Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing.- Learning to Filter Junk E-Mail from Positive and Unlabeled Examples.- A Collaborative Ability Measurement for Co-training.- Flexible Margin Selection for Reranking with Full Pairwise Samples.- A Comparative Study on the Use of Labeled and Unlabeled Data for Large Margin Classifiers.- Comparing Entropies within the Chinese Language.- NTPC: N-fold Templated Piped Correction.- A Three Level Cache-Based Adaptive Chinese Language Model.- Taggers, Chunkers, Shallow Parsers.- Using a Smoothing Maximum Entropy Model for Chinese Nominal Entity Tagging.- Deterministic Dependency Structure Analyzer for Chinese.- High Speed Unknown Word Prediction Using Support Vector Machine for Chinese Text-to-Speech Systems.- Syntactic Analysis of Long Sentences Based on S-Clauses.- Chinese Chunk Identification Using SVMs Plus Sigmoid.- Tagging Complex NEs with MaxEnt Models: Layered Structures Versus Extended Tagset.- A Nearest-Neighbor Method for Resolving PP-Attachment Ambiguity.- Text and Sentence Generation.- Detection of Incorrect Case Assignments in Paraphrase Generation.- Building a Pronominalization Model by Feature Selection and Machine Learning.- Text Mining.- Categorizing Unknown Text Segments for Information Extraction Using a Search Result Mining Approach.- Mining Table Information on the Internet.- Collecting Evaluative Expressions for Opinion Extraction.- A Study of Semi-discrete Matrix Decomposition for LSI in Automated Text Categorization.- Systematic Construction of Hierarchical Classifier in SVM-Based Text Categorization.- Theories and Formalisms for Morphology, Syntax and Semantics.- Implementing the Syntax of Japanese Numeral Classifiers.- A Graph Grammar Approach to Map Between Dependency Trees and Topological Models.- The Automatic Acquisition of Verb Subcategorisations and Their Impact on the Performance of an HPSG Parser.- Chinese Treebanks and Grammar Extraction.- FML-Based SCF Predefinition Learning for Chinese Verbs.- Deep Analysis of Modern Greek.- Corpus-Oriented Grammar Development for Acquiring a Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar from the Penn Treebank.- Word Segmentation.- Unsupervised Segmentation of Chinese Corpus Using Accessor Variety.- Chinese Unknown Word Identification Using Class-Based LM.- An Example-Based Study on Chinese Word Segmentation Using Critical Fragments.- The Use of SVM for Chinese New Word Identification.- Chinese New Word Finding Using Character-Based Parsing Model.- Thematic Session: Natural Language Technology in Mobile Information Retrieval and Text Processing User Interfaces.- Thematic Session: Natural Language Technology in Mobile Information Retrieval and Text Processing User Interfaces.- Spoken Versus Written Queries for Mobile Information Access: An Experiment on Mandarin Chinese.- An Interactive Proofreading System for Inappropriately Selected Words on Using Predictive Text Entry.- Dit4dah: Predictive Pruning for Morse Code Text Entry.- Thematic Session: Text Mining in Biomedicine.- Thematic Session: Text Mining in Biomedicine.- Unsupervised Event Extraction from Biomedical Literature Using Co-occurrence Information and Basic Patterns.- Annotation of Gene Products in the Literature with Gene Ontology Terms Using Syntactic Dependencies.- Mining Biomedical Abstracts: What’s in a Term?.- SVM-Based Biological Named Entity Recognition Using Minimum Edit-Distance Feature Boosted by Virtual Examples.