Acquiring (and Using) Linguistic (and World) Knowledge for Information Access
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	   Theory for systems; application for theories
		 AAAI Stanford Spring Symposium 1
			       2002

Contents


Foreword and Challenge
Jussi Karlgren, Björn Gambäck, and Pentti Kanerva

On what Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA/LSI) does and doesn't do
Thomas Landauer

Using Proper Names to Cluster Documents 
Dan Winchester and Mark Lee

Document Content Analysis through Inverted Generation 
Aurélien Max and Marc Dymetman

Towards a Flexible Model of Word Meaning 
Magnus Sahlgren

Current Issues in Markup-Based Knowledge Extraction 
Udo Kruschwitz

OntoQuery: Ontology-based Querying of Texts 
Troels Andreasen, Per Anker Jensen, Jørgen Fischer Nilsson, Patrizia Paggio, Bolette Sandford Pedersen and Hanne Erdman Thomsen

Construction of Thematic Representations of Texts Based on Domain-Specific Thesaurus 
Natalia V. Loukachevitch and Boris V. Dobrov

Foreground and Background Text in Retrieval 
Jussi Karlgren and Timo Järvinen

Underspecified Semantic Interpretation in an E-Mail Speech Interface
Björn Gambäck and Maria Cheadle

The Public Acquisition of Commonsense Knowledge 
Push Singh

Representing Textual Content in a Generic Extraction Model
Nancy McCracken

Symposium Summary
Jussi Karlgren