Advances in Natural Language Processing: 4th International Conference, EsTAL 2004, Alicante, Spain, October 20-22, 2004. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3230)

Adaptive Selection of Base Classifiers in One-Against-All Learning for Large Multi-labeled Collections.- Automatic Acquisition of Transfer Rules from Translation Examples.- Automatic Assessment of Open Ended Questions with a Bleu-Inspired Algorithm and Shallow NLP.- Automatic Phonetic Alignment and Its Confidence Measures.- Automatic Spelling Correction in Galician.- Baseline Methods for Automatic Disambiguation of Abbreviations in Jewish Law Documents.- Bayes Decision Rules and Confidence Measures for Statistical Machine Translation.- Character Identification in Children Stories.- Comparison and Evaluation of Two Approaches of a Multilayered QA System Applied to Temporality.- The Contents and Structure of the Context Base, and Its Application.- Developing a Minimalist Parser for Free Word Order Languages with Discontinuous Constituency.- Developing Competitive HMM PoS Taggers Using Small Training Corpora.- Exploring the Use of Target-Language Information to Train the Part-of-Speech Tagger of Machine Translation Systems.- Expressive Power and Consistency Properties of State-of-the-Art Natural Language Parsers.- An Independent Domain Dialogue System Through a Service Manager.- Information Retrieval in Digital Theses Based on Natural Language Processing Tools.- Integrating Conceptual Density with WordNet Domains and CALD Glosses for Noun Sense Disambiguation.- Intertwining Deep Syntactic Processing and Named Entity Detection.- Language Understanding Using n-multigram Models.- Multi-label Text Classification Using Multinomial Models.- A Multi-use Incremental Syntax-Semantic Interface.- Multiword Expression Translation Using Generative Dependency Grammar.- Named Entity Recognition Through Corpus Transformation and System Combination.- One Size Fits All? A Simple Technique to Perform Several NLP Tasks.- Ontology-Based Feature Transformations: A Data-Driven Approach.- On the Quality of Lexical Resources for Word Sense Disambiguation.- Reuse of Free Online MT Engines to Develop a Meta-system of Multilingual Machine Translation.- Semantic-Aided Anaphora Resolution in Large Corpora Development.- SemRol: Recognition of Semantic Roles.- Significance of Syntactic Features for Word Sense Disambiguation.- SisHiTra : A Hybrid Machine Translation System from Spanish to Catalan.- Smoothing and Word Sense Disambiguation.- Spelling Correction for Search Engine Queries.- A Statistical Study of the WPT-03 Corpus.- A Study of Chunk-Based and Keyword-Based Approaches for Generating Headlines.- Suffixal and Prefixal Morpholexical Relationships of the Spanish.- SuPor: An Environment for AS of Texts in Brazilian Portuguese.- Systemic Analysis Applied to Problem Solving: The Case of the Past Participle in French.- The Merging Problem in Distributed Information Retrieval and the 2-Step RSV Merging Algorithm.- Unsupervised Training of a Finite-State Sliding-Window Part-of-Speech Tagger.- Using Seed Words to Learn to Categorize Chinese Text.- On Word Frequency Information and Negative Evidence in Naive Bayes Text Classification.