- From: Elisabeth Metais <metais@cnam.fr>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 20:53:15 +0100
- To: "Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles" <Nathalie.Aussenac-Gilles@irit.fr>, <seweb-list@cs.vu.nl>, <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>, <kaw@swi.psy.uva.nl>, <dl@dl.kr.org>, <community@mlnet.org>, <elsnet-list@elsnet.org>, "Alexander Maedche" <maedche@fzi.de>
9th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems June 23-25 2004, Salford, Manchester, UK. www.nldb.org Call for papers Since 1995, the NLDB conference aims at bringing together researcher, industrials and potential users interested in various application of Natural Language in the Database and Information Systems fields. The integration of databases and natural language has been an utopia for many years. However, progress has been made and this is now an established field thanks to developments in Natural Language and technologies that made the storage and manipulation of large electronic dictionaries possible. As Information Systems are now evolving into the communication area, the term databases should be considered in the broader sense of information and communication systems The use of Natural Language in Software Engineering has contributed to both improving the development process from the viewpoints of developers (improve the process of conceptual modelling, validation, etc) and the usability of applications by users (natural language query interfaces, semantic webs, etc). Important Dates: § Full paper submission, extended deadline: February 29, 2004 § Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2004 § Camera-ready papers: April 20, 2004 Proceedings Publication: § The proceedings of NLDB04 will be published by Springer in their LNCS series § The best 5 papers will be selected for publication in a special issue of the Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal Topics: § Natural Language for Web Services (Semantic information retrieval, Semantic Web, Semi-structured models and associated languages, Web usage, content and structure mining for discovering semantics, Concept taxonomies and web mining, Learning taxonomies and ontologies from the web, Information extraction with machine learning, Document classification and indexation) § Natural Language in Conceptual Modelling (Analysis of natural language descriptions, Requirement engineering, Terminological ontologies, Paraphrasing, Dynamic modelling, Verification, consistency checking, Metadata harvesting) § Natural Language Interfaces for Data Base Querying/Retrieval (Natural languages interfaces for database querying, Verification of database queries by paraphrasing, Semantic analysis for information retrieval, NL interaction with databases) § Natural Language-Based Integration of Systems (Linguistic aspects of view integration, Linguistic aspects of data warehouses, Natural language queries to multi-databases systems, Data integration and data cleansing, Ontology driven integration, Ontology management) § Large Scale on-line Resources (Electronic dictionaries, Question-answer corpora, Informal ontologies, Linguistic databases, Digital libraries) § Application of Computational Linguistics in Information Systems (Multilingual information systems, NLP in requirements engineering, NLP in knowledge management, Ontology-driven NLP, Semiotics and fundamentals) § Management of Textual Databases (Text classification, Information extraction and detection, Text mining for creating metadata, Document management, Hypertext and Hyperbases) Conference Organisation Conference Chair Elisabeth Métais, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers de Paris, France. Program Committee Chair Farid Meziane, University of Salford, UK. Program Committee Diego Mollá Aliod, Macquarie University, Australia Kenji Araki, Hokkaido University, Japan Mokrane Bouzeghoub, PRiSM, Université de Versailles, France Fabio Ciravegna, University of Sheffield, UK Gary A Coen, Boeing, USA Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, CEDRIC/CNAM, France Antje Düsterhöft, University of Wismar, Germany Günther Fliedl, Universität Klagenfurt, Austria Alexander Gelbukh, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico Nicola Guarino, CNR, Italy Rafael Muñoz Guillena, Universidad de Alicante, Spain Jon Atle Gulla, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Mohammed Harmain, United Arab Emirates University, UAE Helmut Horacek, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden Zoubida Kedad, PRiSM, Université de Versailles, France Leila Kosseim, Concordia University, Canada. Nadira Lammari, CEDRIC/CNAM, France Winfried Lenders, Universität Bonn, Germany Jana Lewerenz, sd&m Düsseldorf, Germany Robert Luk, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Heinrich C. Mayr, Universität Klagenfurt, Austria Paul McFetridge, Simon Frazer University, Canada Elisabeth Metais, CEDRIC/CNAM , France Farid Meziane, Salford University, UK Luisa Mich, University of Trento, Italy. Ana Maria Moreno, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Jian-Yun Nie, Université de Montréal, Canada Manual Palomar, Universidad de Alicante, Spain Odile Piton, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Reind van de Riet, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Hae-Chang Rim, Korea University, Korea Tim Ritchings, University of Salford, UK Hongchi Shi, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA Niculae Stratica, Concordia University, Canada Vijay Sugumaran, Oakland University Rochester, USA Veda Storey, Georgia State University, USA Lua Km Teng, National University of Singapore, Singapore Bernhard Thalheim, University of Cottbus, Germany Babis Theodoulidis, UMIST, UK Sunil Vadera, University of Salford, UK Ronald Wagner, University of Linz, Austria Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Werner Winiwarter, University of Vienna, Austria Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland
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