Natural Language and Information Systems: 13th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2008 London, [Paperback]

Invited Papers.- Sentence and Text Comprehension: Evidence from Human Language Processing.- Towards Semantic Search.- From Databases to Natural Language: The Unusual Direction.- Natural Language Processing and Understanding.- Division of Spanish Words into Morphemes with a Genetic Algorithm.- Abbreviation Disambiguation: Experiments with Various Variants of the One Sense per Discourse Hypothesis.- The Acquisition of Common Sense Knowledge by Being Told: An Application of NLP to Itself.- Natural Language Processing and Understanding.- Interlingua for French and German Topological Prepositions.- Ontological Profiles as Semantic Domain Representations.- A Hybrid Approach to Ontology Relationship Learning.- Automating the Generation of Semantic Annotation Tools Using a Clustering Technique.- Information Retrieval.- Exploiting Multiple Features with MEMMs for Focused Web Crawling.- Ranked-Listed or Categorized Results in IR: 2 Is Better Than 1.- Exploiting Morphological Query Structure Using Genetic Optimisation.- Generation of Query-Biased Concepts Using Content and Structure for Query Reformulation.- Comparing Several Textual Information Retrieval Systems for the Geographical Information Retrieval Task.- Querying and Question Answering.- Intensional Question Answering Using ILP: What Does an Answer Mean?.- Augmenting Data Retrieval with Information Retrieval Techniques by Using Word Similarity.- Combining Data Integration and IE Techniques to Support Partially Structured Data.- Towards Building Robust Natural Language Interfaces to Databases.- Towards a Bootstrapping NLIDB System.- Document Processing and Text Mining.- Real-Time News Event Extraction for Global Crisis Monitoring.- Topics Identification Based on Event Sequence Using Co-occurrence Words.- Topic Development Based Refinement of Audio-Segmented Television News.- Text Entailment for Logical Segmentation and Summarization.- Comparing Non-parametric Ensemble Methods for Document Clustering.- A Language Modellilc*