Natural Language Processing and Information Systems [electronic resource] : 18th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2013, Salford, UK, June 19-21, 2013. Proceedings / edited by Elisabeth Métais, Farid Meziane, Mohamad Saraee, Vijayan Sugumaran, Sunil Vadera.

Full Papers -- Extraction of Statements in News for a Media Response Analysis -- Sentiment-Based Ranking of Blog Posts Using Rhetorical Structure Theory -- Automatic Detection of Ambiguous Terminology for Software Requirements -- An OpenCCG-Based Approach to Question Generation from Concepts -- A Hybrid Approach for Arabic Diacritization -- EDU-Based Similarity for Paraphrase Identification -- Exploiting Query Logs and Field-Based Models to Address Term Mismatch in an HIV/AIDS FAQ Retrieval System -- Exploring Domain-Sensitive Features for Extractive Summarization in the Medical Domain -- A Corpus-Based Approach for the Induction of Ontology Lexica -- SQUALL: A Controlled Natural Language as Expressive as SPARQL 1.1 -- Evaluating Syntactic Sentence Compression for Text Summarisation -- An Unsupervised Aspect Detection Model for Sentiment Analysis of Reviews -- Cross-Lingual Natural Language Querying over the Web of Data -- Extractive Text Summarization: Can We Use the Same Techniques for Any Text? -- Unsupervised Medical Subject Heading Assignment Using Output Label Co-occurrence Statistics and Semantic Predications -- Bayesian Model Averaging and Model Selection for Polarity Classification -- An Approach for Extracting and Disambiguating Arabic Persons' Names Using Clustered Dictionaries and Scored Patterns -- ANEAR: Automatic Named Entity Aliasing Resolution -- Improving Candidate Generation for Entity Linking -- Person Name Recognition Using the Hybrid Approach -- A Broadly Applicable and Flexible Conceptual Metagrammar as a Basic Tool for Developing a Multilingual Semantic Web -- Short Papers -- MOSAIC: A Cohesive Method for Orchestrating Discrete Analytics in a Distributed Model -- Ranking Search Intents Underlying a Query -- Linguistic Sentiment Features for Newspaper Opinion Mining -- Text Classification of Technical Papers Based on Text Segmentation -- Product Features Categorization Using Constrained Spectral Clustering -- A New Approach for Improving Cross-Document Knowledge Discovery Using Wikipedia -- Using Grammar-Profiles to Intrinsically Expose Plagiarism in Text Documents -- Feature Selection Methods in Persian Sentiment Analysis -- Towards the Refinement of the Arabic Soundex -- An RDF-Based Semantic Index -- Experiments in Producing Playful "Explanations" for Given Names (Anthroponyms) in Hebrew and English -- Collaborative Enrichment of Electronic Dictionaries Standardized-LMF -- Enhancing Machine Learning Results for Semantic Relation Extraction -- GenDesc: A Partial Generalization of Linguistic Features for Text Classification -- Entangled Semantics -- Poster Papers -- Phrase Table Combination Deficiency Analyses in Pivot-Based SMT -- Analysing Customers Sentiments: An Approach to Opinion Mining and Classification of Online Hotel Reviews -- An Improved Discriminative Category Matching in Relation Identification -- Extracting Fine-Grained Entities Based on Coordinate Graph -- NLP-Driven Event Semantic Ontology Modeling for Story -- The Development of an Ontology for Reminiscence -- Chinese Sentence Analysis Based on Linguistic Entity-Relationship Model -- A Dependency Graph Isomorphism for News Sentence Searching -- Unsupervised Gazette Creation Using Information Distance -- A Multi-purpose Online Toolset for NLP Applications -- A Test-Bed for Text-to-Speech-Based Pedestrian Navigation Systems -- Automatic Detection of Arabic Causal Relations -- A Framework for Employee Appraisals Based on Inductive Logic Programming and Data Mining Methods -- A Method for Improving Business Intelligence Interpretation through the Use of Semantic Technology -- Code Switch Point Detection in Arabic -- SurveyCoder: A System for Classification of Survey Responses -- Rhetorical Representation and Vector Representation in Summarizing Arabic Text.