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FOR PAPERS </STRONG></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=left><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 24pt; COLOR: #000081; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">The
First International Workshop on<U9:P></U9:P></SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 36pt; COLOR: #000081; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT
size=6>Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive
Science</FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 36pt; COLOR: #000081; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT
size=6>NLUCS - 2004</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 36pt; COLOR: #000081; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><U9:P></U9:P></SPAN></B><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="COLOR: #000081; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">April
13, 2004 – Porto, Portugal<U9:P></U9:P></SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">
<B>First Announcement and Call for Papers </B><U9:P></U9:P></SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P><FONT color=#1b3d6e><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">In conjunction with the
Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - ICEIS 2004
(<A class=unnamed1
href="http://www.iceis.org/">http://www.iceis.org/</A>)<U9:P></U9:P></SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P><A class=unnamed1 href="mailto:B.Sharp@staffs.ac.uk"></A></P>
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style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><U9:P></U9:P><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><SPAN>
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<P><SPAN><STRONG>Important Dates <O:P></O:P></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT
color=#0034a0><STRONG>Full paper submission: </STRONG><SPAN><FONT
color=#0000ff> </FONT><FONT color=#ff0000><STRONG>New submission
deadline</STRONG><SPAN class=368042612-18122003><FONT
color=#0000ff> <STRONG><FONT
color=#ff0000>:</FONT></STRONG> </FONT></SPAN><STRONG> J<SPAN
class=368042612-18122003>anuary </SPAN> </STRONG></FONT></SPAN><FONT
color=#ff0000><STRONG>15, 200</STRONG></FONT><SPAN
class=368042612-18122003><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
color=#ff0000><STRONG>4</STRONG></FONT> </FONT></SPAN> <BR><STRONG>Author
notification: January 30, 2004<BR>Camera-ready: February 15,
2004</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"></SPAN> </P>
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<P><STRONG>Workshop Background and Goals</STRONG> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">
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<P><FONT color=#0034a0>- Computer Model of Language Understanding<BR>-
Evolutionary Language Understanding<BR>- Cognitive and Psychological Models of
Language Understanding<BR>- Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding<BR>-
Speech Understanding<BR>- Computational Text Understanding<BR>- Message and
Narrative Understanding Systems<BR>- Text Summarization and Information
Extraction<BR>- Natural Language Interfaces and Dialogue Systems<BR>-
Multi-Lingual Processing and Understanding<BR>- Tools and Resources in Language
Understanding<BR>- Evaluation of Language Understanding Systems<BR>-
Ontologies<BR>- Text Mining<BR>- Electronic Dictionaries</FONT><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">
<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Format of the
Workshop</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">
<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT color=#0034a0>The
workshop will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations of previously
submitted papers that went through a double peer review process. The proceedings
of the workshop will be published in the form of a book.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Submission of
Papers</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">
<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT
color=#0034a0>Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for oral
presentation in any of the areas listed above. Only full papers in English will
be accepted, and the length of the paper should not exceed 10 pages (5000
words). Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex format) are
available at the I<A class=unnamed1
href="http://www.iceis.org/paper_template.htm">CEIS web site</A>. Postscript/RTF
versions of the manuscript should be submitted thru <A class=unnamed1
href="http://www.iceis.org/submission/paper_ins_introduction.htm">ICEIS
web-based paper submission procedure</A>.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT
color=#0034a0></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><B><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Workshop
Program Committee<O:P></O:P></SPAN></B>
<P></P>
<P><FONT color=#0034a0>Y. Wilks (UK)<BR>R. Mitkov (UK)<BR>A. Yeap (NZ)<BR>J.
Mothe (France)<BR>C. Soule Dupuy (France)<BR>C. Mota (Portugal)<BR>A. Monaghan
(Ireland)<BR>P. Rayson (UK)<BR>E. Ranchhod (Portugal)<BR>D. Tufis
(Romania)<BR>F. Sedes (France)<BR>M. Nunes (Brasil)<BR>C. Day (UK) <BR>M.
Tadic (Croatia)<BR>R. Schwitter (Australia)</FONT><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Conference
Location</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">
<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P><FONT color=#0034a0><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">The workshop will be held
at the Universidade Portucalense in Porto,
Portugal. <U9:P></U9:P></SPAN></FONT><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> <FONT
color=#0034a0></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Registration
Information</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">
<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P><FONT color=#0034a0><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">To attend the workshop you
need to register at <A class=unnamed1
href="http://www.iceis.org/">http://www.iceis.org</A><U9:P></U9:P></SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">
</SPAN></FONT><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Secretariat</SPAN></B><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">
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<P><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT
color=#0034a0>ICEIS 2004 Secretariat - The First International Workshop on
Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science<BR>Universidade
Portucalense<BR>Departamento de Informática<BR>Rua Dr. António Bernardino de
Almeida, 541-619<BR>4200 - 072 Porto - Portugal<BR>Tel: +351 22 557 2512<BR>Fax:
+351 22 557 2015 <O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><FONT color=#0034a0><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">E-mail: <A
class=unnamed1 href="mailto:workshops@iceis.org">workshops@iceis.org</A> <BR>Web
site: </SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A
class=unnamed1 href="http://www.iceis.org/"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">http://www.iceis.org</SPAN></A></SPAN><U9:P></U9:P></FONT><SPAN
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