Human Language Technology. Challenges of the Information Society: Third Language and Technology Conference, LTC 2007, Poznan, Poland, October 5-7, 2007, Revised Selected Papers - Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2009 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: I. Speech Processing -- Exploring the Structure of Broadcast News for Topic Segmentation / Rui Amaral, Isabel Trancoso -- Application of Slope Filtering to Robust Spectral Envelope Extraction for Speech/Speaker Recognition / Szymon Drgas, Adam Dabrowski -- Spoken Language Interface for Mobile Devices / JoAo Freitas, AntOnio Calado, Maria JoAo Barros, Miguel Sales Dias -- A Study on Bilingual Speech Recognition Involving a Minority Language / MIriam LujAn-Mares, Carlos-D. MartInez-Hinarejos, Vicente Alabau -- Annotated Corpus of Polish Spoken Dialogues / Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Krzysztof Marasek, Ma&lslash;gorzata Marciniak, Joanna Rabiega-Wiśniewska, Ryszard Gubrynowicz -- Triphone Statistics for Polish Language / Bartosz ZiO&lslash;ko, Jakub Ga&lslash;ka, Suresh Manandhar, Richard C. Wilson, Mariusz ZiO&lslash;ko -- II. Computational Morphology -- ROG - A Paradigmatic Morphological Generator for Romanian / Elena Irimia -- Building a Morphosyntactic Lexicon and a Pre-syntactic Processing Chain for Polish / BenoIt Sagot -- A Relational Model of Polish Inflection in Grammatical Dictionary of Polish / Marcin Woliński -- III. Parsing and Generation -- Syntactic Spreadsheets: In Search for a Human-Readable Representation of Parse Tree Forests / Janusz S. Bień -- A Hybrid System for Named Entity Metonymy Resolution / Caroline Brun, Maud Ehrmann, Guillaume Jacquet -- Spejd: A Shallow Processing and Morphological Disambiguation Tool / Aleksander Buczyński, Adam PrzepiOrkowski -- Flexible Natural Language Generation in Multiple Contexts / Caroline Cullen, Ian O'Neill, Philip Hanna -- A Measure of the Number of True Analogies between Chunks in Japanese / Yves Lepage, Julien Migeot, Erwan Guillerm -- Shallow Parsing of Transcribed Speech of Estonian and Disfluency Detection / Kaili MUUrisep, Helen Nigo -- Mining Parsing Results for Lexical Correction: Toward a Complete Correction Process of Wide-Coverage Lexicons / Lionel Nicolas, BenoIt Sagot, Miguel A. Molinero, Jacques ForrE, Eric de La Clergeric -- Efficient Parsing Using Recursive Transition Networks with Output / Javier M. Sastre-MartInez, Mikel L. Forcada -- The Deep Parser for Polish / Nina Suszczańska, Przemys&lslash;aw Szmal, Krzysztof Simiński -- IV. Computational Semantics -- Automatically Determining Attitude Type and Force for Sentiment Analysis / Shlomo Argamon, Kenneth Bloom, Andrea Esuli, Fabrizio Sebastiani -- A Readability Checker Based on Deep Semantic Indicators / Tim vor der BrUck, Sven Hartrumpf -- The DANTE Temporal Expression Tagger / Pawe&lslash; Mazur, Robert Dale -- Hybrid Unsupervised Learning to Uncover Discourse Structure / Catherine Recanati, Nicoleta Rogovski, YounEs Bennani -- Pronoun Resolution in Turkish Using Decision Tree and Rule-Based Learning Algorithms / Savaş Yildvnm, Yilmaz KiliCaslan, Tugba Yildiz -- V. Digital Language Resources -- LMF-QL: A Graphical Tool to Query LMF Databases for NLP and Editorial Use / Mehdi Ben Abderrahmen, Bilel Gargouri, Mohamed Jmaiel -- Novelty Extraction from Special and Parallel Corpora / El&zbdot;bieta Dura, Barbara Gawronska -- Construction of Text Corpus of Polish Using the Internet / S&lslash;awomir KulikOw -- A Predicate Database for Assisting the Design of a Lexicon-Grammar of Predicative Nouns / Mohamed Mahdi Malik, Jean RoyautE -- A Standard Lexical-Terminological Resource for the Bio Domain / Valeria Quochi, Riccardo Del Gratia, Eva Sassolini, Roberto Bartolini, Monica Monachini, Nicoletta Calzolari -- Extracting Collocations in Contexts / Amalia Todirascu, Christopher Gledhill, Dan Stefanescu -- VI. WordNet -- Putting Semantics into WordNet's Morphosemantic Links / Christiane Fellbaum, Anne Osherson, Peter E. Clark -- Leveraging Parallel Corpora and Existing Wordnets for Automatic Construction of the Slovene Wordnet / Darja Fiser -- An Algorithm for Building Lexical Semantic Network and Its Application to PolNet - Polish WordNet Project / Zygmunt Vetulani, Justyna Walkowska, Tomasz Obr&ecedil;bski, Jacek Marciniak, Pawe&lslash; Konieczka, Przemyslaw Rzepecki -- VII. Information Retrieval/Extraction -- ECODE: A Definition Extraction System / Rodrigo AlarcOn, Gerardo Sierra, Carme Bach -- Using Graph-Based Indexing to Identify Subject-Shift in Topic Tracking / Fumiyo Fukumoto, Yoshimi Suzuki -- Result Aggregation for Knowledge-Intensive Multicultural Name Matching / Keith J. Miller, Mark Arehart -- Comparison of String Distance Metrics for Lemmatisation of Named Entities in Polish / Jakub Piskorski, Marcin Sydow, Karol Wieloch -- An Iterative Model for Discovering Person Conferences Using Name Frequency Estimates / Octavian Popescu, Bernardo Magnini -- VIII. Machine Translation -- Hapax Legomena: Their Contribution in Number and Efficiency to Word Alignment / Adrien Lardilleux, Yves Lepage -- Statistical Machine Translation from Slovenian to English Using Reduced Morphology / Miriam Sepesy Mau&cgrave;ec, Janez Brest -- Semi-automatic Creation of a Dictionary of Nominal Compounds / Tomasz St&ecedil;pień, Bartosz Podlejski -- Author Index. Publisher Marketing: Half a centuryago not manypeople had realizedthat a new epoch in the history of homo sapiens had just started. The term "Information Society Age" seems an appropriate name for this epoch. Communication was without a doubt a lever of the conquest of the human race over the rest of the animate world. There is little doubt that the human racebegan when our predecessorsstarted to communicate with each other using language. This highly abstractmeans of communicationwas probably one of the major factors contributing to the evolutionary success of the human race within the animal world. Physically weak and imperfect, humans started to dominate the rest of the world through the creation of communication-based societies where individuals communicated initially to satisfy immediate needs, and then to create, accumulate and process knowledge for future use. The crucial step in the history of humanity was the invention of writing. It is worth noting that writing is a human invention, not a phenomenon resulting from natural evolution. Humans invented writing as a technique for recording speech as well as for storing and facilitating the dissemination of knowledge across the world. Humans continue to be born illiterate, and therefore teaching and conscious supervised learning is necessary to maintain this basic social skill.