This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, CICLing 2008, held in Haifa, Israel, in February 2008.
The 52 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover all current issues in computational linguistics research and present intelligent text processing applications. The papers are organized in topical sections on language resources, morphology and syntax, semantics and discourse, word sense disambiguation and named entity recognition, anaphora and co-reference, machine translation and parallel corpora, natural language generation, speech recognition, information retrieval and question answering, text classification, text summarization, as well as spell checking and authoring aid.
CICLing 2008 (www. CICLing. org) was the 9th Annual Conference on Intel- gent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics. The CICLing conferences are intended to provide a wide-scope forum for the discussion of both the art and craft of natural language processing research and the best practices in its applications. This volume contains the papers accepted for oral presentation at the c- ference, as well as several of the best papers accepted for poster presentation. Other papers accepted for poster presentationwerepublished in specialissues of other journals(seethe informationonthe website). Since 2001the CICLing p- ceedings have been published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, as volumes 2004, 2276, 2588, 2945, 3406, 3878, and 4394. The book consists of 12 sections, representative of the main tasks and app- cations of Natural Language Processing: - Language resources - Morphology and syntax - Semantics and discourse - Word sense disambiguation and namedentity recognition - Anaphora and co-reference - Machine translation and parallel corpora - Natural language generation - Speech recognition - Information retrieval and question answering - Text classi?cation - Text summarization - Spell checking and authoring aid A total of 204 papers by 438 authors from 39 countries were submitted for evaluation (see Tables 1 and 2). Each submission was reviewed by at least two independent Program Committee members. This volume contains revised v- sions of 52 papers by 129 authors from 24 countries selected for inclusion in the conference program (the acceptance rate was 25. 5%).
The 52 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover all current issues in computational linguistics research and present intelligent text processing applications. The papers are organized in topical sections on language resources, morphology and syntax, semantics and discourse, word sense disambiguation and named entity recognition, anaphora and co-reference, machine translation and parallel corpora, natural language generation, speech recognition, information retrieval and question answering, text classification, text summarization, as well as spell checking and authoring aid.
CICLing 2008 (www. CICLing. org) was the 9th Annual Conference on Intel- gent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics. The CICLing conferences are intended to provide a wide-scope forum for the discussion of both the art and craft of natural language processing research and the best practices in its applications. This volume contains the papers accepted for oral presentation at the c- ference, as well as several of the best papers accepted for poster presentation. Other papers accepted for poster presentationwerepublished in specialissues of other journals(seethe informationonthe website). Since 2001the CICLing p- ceedings have been published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, as volumes 2004, 2276, 2588, 2945, 3406, 3878, and 4394. The book consists of 12 sections, representative of the main tasks and app- cations of Natural Language Processing: - Language resources - Morphology and syntax - Semantics and discourse - Word sense disambiguation and namedentity recognition - Anaphora and co-reference - Machine translation and parallel corpora - Natural language generation - Speech recognition - Information retrieval and question answering - Text classi?cation - Text summarization - Spell checking and authoring aid A total of 204 papers by 438 authors from 39 countries were submitted for evaluation (see Tables 1 and 2). Each submission was reviewed by at least two independent Program Committee members. This volume contains revised v- sions of 52 papers by 129 authors from 24 countries selected for inclusion in the conference program (the acceptance rate was 25. 5%).