Computer Processing of Oriental Languages. Beyond the Orient : The Research Challenges Ahead ; 21st International Conference, ICCPOL 2006, Singapore, December 17-19, 2006, Proceedings

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, ICCPOL 2006.The papers are organized in topical sections on information retrieval, document classification, questions and answers, summarization, machine translation, word segmentation, chunking, abbreviation expansion, writing-system issues, parsing, semantics, and lexical resources.