CLIN 20 was the 20th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands, held in Utrecht at 5 February 2010. We invited the presenters of talks, posters and demos to submit a paper addressing the topic of their presentation for the proceedings of CLIN 20. After peer-reviewing the submitted papers, eleven papers have been accepted for inclusion in the proceedings.

The accepted papers

1. Cagri Coltekin. Improving Successor Variety for Morphological Segmentation.
2. Bart Desmet and Véronique Hoste. Dutch Named Entity Recognition using Classifier Ensembles.
3. Maarten van Gompel, Antal van den Bosch, and Peter Berck. Extending Memory-Based Machine Translation to Phrases.
4. Sophia Katrenko and Pieter Adriaans. Finding Constraints for Semantic Relations via Clustering.
5. Daniël de Kok and Gertjan van Noord. A Sentence Generator for Dutch.
6. Roser Morante, Vincent Van Asch, and Walter Daelemans. Extraction of Biomedical Events.
7. Peter Nabende. Comparison of applying Pair HMMs and DBN models in Transliteration Identification.
8. Barbara Plank and Gertjan van Noord. Dutch Dependency Parser Performance Across Domains.
9. Daphne Theijssen, Hans van Halteren, Tip Boonpiyapat, Anna Lohfink, Bas Ruiter, and Hans Westerbeek. To ish or not to ish?
10. Frederik Vaassen and Walter Daelemans. Emotion Classification in a Serious Game for Training Communication Skills.
11. Sander Wubben, Antal van den Bosch, and Emiel Krahmer. Paraphrasing Headlines by Machine Translation.

Contact

If you need additional information about the CLIN 20 proceedings, please contact the editors Thomas Markus, Paola Monachesi and Eline Westerhout at info@clin.nl