Natural Language Processing and Information Systems: 6th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2002 Stockholm, Sweden, June 27–28, 2002 Revised Papers

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by  Vijayan Sugumaran

Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2553
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Preface
The workshop on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems
(NLDB)hassince1995providedaforumforacademicandindustrialresearchers
and practitioners to discuss the application of natural language to both the
development and use of software applications.
Theuseofnaturallanguageinrelationtosoftwarehascontributedtoimprov-
ing the development of software from the viewpoints of both the developers and
the users. Developers benefit from improvements in conceptual modeling, soft-
warevalidation,naturallanguageprogramspecifications,andmanyotherareas.
Users benefit from increased usability of applications through natural language
query interfaces, semantic webs, text summarizations, etc.
The integration of natural language and information systems has been a re-
search objective for a long time now. Today, the goal of good integration seems
notsofar-fetched.Thisisduemainlytotherapidprogressofresearchinnatural
language and to the development of new and powerful technologies. The inte-
gration of natural language and information systems has become a convergent
point towards which many researchers from several research areas are focussing.
NLDB 2002 was hosted by the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm,
Sweden during 27–28 June and 42 papers were submitted to the workshop. The
papers were distributed to the members of the program committee for review-
ing. Each paper was reviewed by a minimum of three referees. The reviews were
collected and evaluated resulting in a number of papers that were clearly to be
accepted, clearly to be rejected, and some needing additional reviewing. The
additionalreviewingwasdonebymembersoftheprogramcommitteenotprevi-
ouslyacquaintedwiththepaper.Tosupporttheprogramcommitteechairinhis
final decision some papers were reviewed and discussed by up to five reviewers.
Most of this process was done through e-mail.
Duetothelargenumberofhigh-qualitysubmissionsitwasdecidedtoaccept
17 full papers and 7 short papers for presentation at the conference. Each paper
was classified as belonging to one of the following presentation themes:
– Linguistic aspects of modeling,
– Information retrieval,
– Natural language text understanding,
– Knowledge bases,
– Recognition of information in natural language descriptions,
– Natural language conversational systems,
– Short papers.
We wish to thank all members of the program committee for their refereeing
work and sharing of valuable insights.
VI Preface
We also would like to thank the conference keynote speaker, Prof. Dieter
Fensel, for his speech on the emerging Semantic Web. This is certainly one area
where the research results of applications of natural language to information
systems are and will continue to be applicable.
Stockholm, August 2002 Birger Andersson
Maria Bergholtz
Paul Johannesson
Organization
Conference Chair
Reind van der Riet Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
Program Chair
Paul Johannesson Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Program Committee
Alfs T. Berztiss University of Pittsburgh, USA
Mokrane Bouzegoub Universit´e de Versailles, France
Fabio Ciravegna University of Sheffield, UK
Gary Coen Boeing Company, USA
Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau Universit´e de Cergy, France
Walling Cyre Virginia Tech, USA
Gu¨nther Fliedl Universita¨t Klagenfurt, Austria
Norbert Fuchs University of Zurich, Switzerland
Nicola Guarino CNR, Italy
Jon Atle Gulla Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, Norway
Zoubida Kedad Universit´e de Versailles, France
Christian Kop Universita¨t Klagenfurt, Austria
Marta Lopez Fernandez FraunhoferInstituteforExperimentalSoftware
Engineering (IESE), Germany
Heinrich C. Mayr Universita¨t Klagenfurt, Austria
Paul McFetridge Simon Fraser University, Canada
Elisabeth M´etais Conservatoire National des Artes et M´etiers de
Paris (CNAM), France
Luisa Mich University of Trento, Italy
Ana M. Moreno Universidad Polit´ecnica de Madrid, Spain
Veda C. Storey Georgia State University, USA
Vijayan Sugumaran Oakland University, USA
Bernhard Thalheim University of Cottbus, Germany
Babis Theodoulidis University of Science and Technology, UK
Felisa Verdejo National Distance Education University, Spain
Roland Wagner Universita¨t Linz, Austria
Werner Winiwarter EC3, Austria
VIII Organization
Additional Reviewers
Birger Andersson Maria Bergholtz Julio Gonzalo
Anselmo Pen˜as Luc Schneider
Local Organizing Committee
Birger Andersson Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Maria Bergholtz Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Table of Contents
Linguistic Aspects of Modelling
An Ontology-Based Framework for Generating
and Improving Database Design ..................................... 1
Vijayan Sugumaran and Veda C. Storey
A Web Information Extraction System to DB Prototyping .............. 13
P. Moreda, R. Mun˜oz, P. Mart´ınez-Barco, C. Cachero,
and M. Palomar
Automatic Help for Building and Maintaining Ontologies ............... 27
Nadira Lammari and Elisabeth M´etais
Information Retrieval
Semi-automatic Content Extraction from Specifications ................. 40
Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Aaron Berkovich, and Dan Sokol
Integrating Retrieval Functionality in Web Sites
Based on Storyboard Design and Word Fields ......................... 52
Antje Du¨sterho¨ft and Bernhard Thalheim
Vulcain – An Ontology-Based Information Extraction System............ 64
Amalia Todirascu, Laurent Romary, and Dalila Bekhouche
Natural Language Text Understanding
Automatic Identification of European Languages ...................... 76
Anna V. Zhdanova
A Method for Maintaining Document Consistency
Based on Similarity Contents........................................ 85
Farid Meziane and Yacine Rezgui
Evaluation and Construction of Training Corpuses for Text Classification:
A Preliminary Study ............................................... 97
Shuigeng Zhou and Jihong Guan
Knowledge Bases
Replicating Quantified Noun Phrases in Database Semantics ............ 109
Roland Hausser
Ontological Extraction of Content for Text Querying ................... 123
Troels Andreasen, Per Anker Jensen, Jørgen Fischer Nilsson,
Patrizia Paggio, Bolette Sandford Pedersen,
and Hanne Erdman Thomsen
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Ontology-Based Data Cleaning ...................................... 137
Zoubida Kedad and Elisabeth M´etais
Recognition of Information
in Natural Language Descriptions
Retrieving NASA Problem Reports with Natural Language.............. 150
Sebastian van Delden and Fernando Gomez
Access to Multimedia Information through Multisource
and Multilanguage Information Extraction ............................ 160
Horacio Saggion, Hamish Cunningham, Kalina Bontcheva,
Diana Maynard, Cris Ursu, Oana Hamza, and Yorick Wilks
On Semantic Classification of Modifiers ............................... 172
Igor A. Bolshakov and Alexander Gelbukh
Natural Language Conversational Systems
Evaluating a Spelling Support in a Search Engine ...................... 183
Hercules Dalianis
Opening Statistical Translation Engines to Terminological Resources ..... 191
Philippe Langlais
Short Papers
User-Centred Ontology Learning for Knowledge Management............ 203
Christopher Brewster, Fabio Ciravegna, and Yorick Wilks
A Multilevel Text Processing Model of Newsgroup Dynamics ............ 208
G. Sampath and Miroslav Martinovic
Best Feature Selection for Maximum Entropy-Based Word Sense
Disambiguation.................................................... 213
Armando Su´arez and Manuel Palomar
Linguistics in Large-Scale Web Search ................................ 218
Jon Atle Gulla, Per Gunnar Auran, and Knut Magne Risvik
Similarity Model and Term Association for Document Categorization..... 223
Huaizhong Kou and Georges Gardarin
Omnibase: Uniform Access to Heterogeneous Data
for Question Answering............................................. 230
Boris Katz, Sue Felshin, Deniz Yuret, Ali Ibrahim, Jimmy Lin,
Gregory Marton, Alton Jerome McFarland, and Baris Temelkuran
Automated Question Answering Using Question Templates
That Cover the Conceptual Model of the Database..................... 235
Eriks Sneiders
Author Index ................................................. 241