Advances in Natural Language Processing

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.