Information Retrieval -- An Approach for Adding Noise-Tolerance to Restricted-Domain Information Retrieval -- Measuring Tree Similarity for Natural Language Processing Based Information Retrieval -- Sense-Based Biomedical Indexing and Retrieval -- Natural Language Processing -- Semantic Content Access Using Domain-Independent NLP Ontologies -- Extracting Meronymy Relationships from Domain-Specific, Textual Corporate Databases -- Automatic Word Sense Disambiguation Using Cooccurrence and Hierarchical Information -- Software Engineering Applications -- Automatic Quality Assessment of Source Code Comments: The JavadocMiner -- Towards Approximating COSMIC Functional Size from User Requirements in Agile Development Processes Using Text Mining -- Semantic Enriching of Natural Language Texts with Automatic Thematic Role Annotation -- Classification -- Adaptive Topic Modeling with Probabilistic Pseudo Feedback in Online Topic Detection -- An Approach to Indexing and Clustering News Stories Using Continuous Language Models -- Spoken Language Understanding via Supervised Learning and Linguistically Motivated Features -- Hidden Markov Models -- Topology Estimation of Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models for Language Models -- Speaker Independent Urdu Speech Recognition Using HMM -- Second-Order HMM for Event Extraction from Short Message -- Querying -- Goal Detection from Natural Language Queries -- Parsing Natural Language into Content for Storage and Retrieval in a Content-Addressable Memory -- Natural Language Interfaces -- Vague Relations in Spatial Databases -- Conceptual Modeling of Online Entertainment Programming Guide for Natural Language Interface -- Integration of Natural Language Dialogues into the Conceptual Model of Storyboard Design -- Domain Modelling -- Autonomous Malicious Activity Inspector - AMAI -- Towards Geographic Databases Enrichment -- On-Demand Extraction of Domain Concepts and Relationships from Social Tagging Websites -- Information Extraction -- Analysis of Definitions of Verbs in an Explanatory Dictionary for Automatic Extraction of Actants Based on Detection of Patterns -- An Automatic Definition Extraction in Arabic Language -- Automatic Term Extraction Using Log-Likelihood Based Comparison with General Reference Corpus -- Weighted Vote Based Classifier Ensemble Selection Using Genetic Algorithm for Named Entity Recognition -- Refactoring of Process Model Activity Labels -- Unsupervised Ontology Acquisition from Plain Texts: The OntoGain System -- Semantic Networks & Graphs -- Identifying Writers' Background by Comparing Personal Sense Thesauri -- Retrieval of Similar Electronic Health Records Using UMLS Concept Graphs -- Supporting the Abstraction of Clinical Practice Guidelines Using Information Extraction.