Advances in Natural Language Processing [electronic resource] : 8th International Conference on NLP, JapTAL 2012, Kanazawa, Japan, October 22-24, 2012. Proceedings / edited by Hitoshi Isahara, Kyoko Kanzaki.

The Impact of Crowdsourcing Post-editing with the Collaborative Translation Framework -- Translation of Quantifiers in Japanese-Chinese Machine Translation -- Toward Practical Use of Machine Translation -- Phrase-Level Pattern-Based Machine Translation Based on Analogical Mapping Method -- Parallel Texts Extraction from Multimodal Comparable Corpora -- A Reliable Communication System to Maximize the Communication Quality -- DAnIEL: Language Independent Character-Based News Surveillance -- OOV Term Translation, Context Information and Definition Extraction Based on OOV Term Type Prediction -- Exploiting a Web-Based Encyclopedia as a Knowledge Base for the Extraction of Multilingual Terminology -- Segmenting Long Sentence Pairs to Improve Word Alignment in English-Hindi Parallel Corpora -- Shallow Syntactic Preprocessing for Statistical Machine Translation -- Linguistic Rules Based Approach for Automatic Restoration of Accents on French Texts -- Word Clustering for Persian Statistical Parsing -- Building a Lexically and Semantically-Rich Resource for Paraphrase Processing -- Tagset Conversion with Decision Trees -- Fitting a Round Peg in a Square Hole: Japanese Resource Grammar in GF -- Arabic Language Analyzer with Lemma Extraction and Rich Tagset -- Tracking Researcher Mobility on the Web Using Snippet Semantic Analysis -- Semantic Role Labelling without Deep Syntactic Parsing -- Temporal Information Extraction with Cross-Language Projected Data -- Word Sense Disambiguation Based on Example Sentences in Dictionary and Automatically Acquired from Parallel Corpus -- A Study on Hierarchical Table of Indexes for Multi-documents -- Finding Good Initial Cluster Center by Using Maximum Average Distance -- Applying a Burst Model to Detect Bursty Topics in a Topic Model -- UDRST: A Novel System for Unlabeled Discourse Parsing in the RST Framework -- Long-Term Goal Discovery in the Twitter Posts through the Word-Pair LDA Model -- Finding Social Relationships by Extracting Polite Language in Micro-blog Exchanges -- Twitter Sentiment Analysis Based on Writing Style -- Extraction of User Opinions by Adjective-Context Co-clustering for Game Review Texts -- Automatic Phone Alignment: A Comparison between Speaker- Independent Models and Models Trained on the Corpus to Align -- A Story Generation System Based on Propp Theory: As a Mechanism in an Integrated Narrative Generation System -- Automatic Utterance Generation by Keeping Track of the Conversation's Focus within the Utterance Window.