Invited Papers -- Sentence and Text Comprehension: Evidence from Human Language Processing -- Towards Semantic Search -- From Databases to Natural Language: The Unusual Direction -- Natural Language Processing and Understanding -- Division of Spanish Words into Morphemes with a Genetic Algorithm -- Abbreviation Disambiguation: Experiments with Various Variants of the One Sense per Discourse Hypothesis -- The Acquisition of Common Sense Knowledge by Being Told: An Application of NLP to Itself -- Natural Language Processing and Understanding -- Interlingua for French and German Topological Prepositions -- Ontological Profiles as Semantic Domain Representations -- A Hybrid Approach to Ontology Relationship Learning -- Automating the Generation of Semantic Annotation Tools Using a Clustering Technique -- Information Retrieval -- Exploiting Multiple Features with MEMMs for Focused Web Crawling -- Ranked-Listed or Categorized Results in IR: 2 Is Better Than 1 -- Exploiting Morphological Query Structure Using Genetic Optimisation -- Generation of Query-Biased Concepts Using Content and Structure for Query Reformulation -- Comparing Several Textual Information Retrieval Systems for the Geographical Information Retrieval Task -- Querying and Question Answering -- Intensional Question Answering Using ILP: What Does an Answer Mean? -- Augmenting Data Retrieval with Information Retrieval Techniques by Using Word Similarity -- Combining Data Integration and IE Techniques to Support Partially Structured Data -- Towards Building Robust Natural Language Interfaces to Databases -- Towards a Bootstrapping NLIDB System -- Document Processing and Text Mining -- Real-Time News Event Extraction for Global Crisis Monitoring -- Topics Identification Based on Event Sequence Using Co-occurrence Words -- Topic Development Based Refinement of Audio-Segmented Television News -- Text Entailment for Logical Segmentation and Summarization -- Comparing Non-parametric Ensemble Methods for Document Clustering -- A Language Modelling Approach to Linking Criminal Styles with Offender Characteristics -- Software (Requirements) Engineering and Specification -- Towards Designing Operationalizable Models of Man-Machine Interaction Based on Concepts from Human Dialog Systems -- Using Linguistic Knowledge to Classify Non-functional Requirements in SRS documents -- A Preliminary Approach to the Automatic Extraction of Business Rules from Unrestricted Text in the Banking Industry -- Paraphrasing OCL Expressions with SBVR -- A General Architecture for Connecting NLP Frameworks and Desktop Clients Using Web Services -- Conceptual Modelling and Ontologies Related Posters -- Conceptual Model Generation from Requirements Model: A Natural Language Processing Approach -- Bivalent Verbs and Their Pragmatic Particularities -- Using Ontologies and Relatedness Metrics for Semantic Document Analysis on the Web -- Information Retrieval Related Posters -- The TSRM Approach in the Document Retrieval Application -- Enhanced Services for Targeted Information Retrieval by Event Extraction and Data Mining -- Querying and Question Answering Related Posters -- Improving Question Answering Tasks by Textual Entailment Recognition -- Supporting Named Entity Recognition and Syntactic Analysis with Full-Text Queries -- Document Processing and Text Mining Related Posters -- Multilingual Feature-Driven Opinion Extraction and Summarization from Customer Reviews -- Lexical and Semantic Methods in Inner Text Topic Segmentation: A Comparison between C99 and Transeg -- An Application of NLP and Audiovisual Content Analysis for Integration of Multimodal Databases of Current Events -- Detecting Protein-Protein Interaction Sentences Using a Mixture Model -- Using Semantic Features to Improve Task Identification in Email Messages -- Text Pre-processing for Document Clustering -- Software (Requirements) Engineering and Specification Related Posters -- Trade Oriented Enterprise Content Management: A Semantic and Collaborative Prototype Dedicated to the "Quality, Hygiene, Safety and Environment" Domain -- Doctoral Symposium Papers -- Mapping Natural Language into SQL in a NLIDB -- Improving Data Integration through Disambiguation Techniques -- An Ontology-Based Focused Crawler -- Impact of Term-Indexing for Arabic Document Retrieval.