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<br><font size=4 face="Century Schoolbook"><b>9th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems</b></font></div>
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<br><font size=4 face="Century Schoolbook">June 23-25 2004, Salford, Manchester, UK.</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Century Schoolbook"><b>Call for papers</b></font></div>
<p><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">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. </font>
<p><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">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</font>
<p><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">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).</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><b>Important Dates:</b></font>
<br><font size=2 face="Wingdings">§ </font><font size=2 face="Times New Roman">Full paper submission: February 29, 2004</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Wingdings">§ </font><font size=2 face="Times New Roman">Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2004</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Wingdings">§ </font><font size=2 face="Times New Roman">Camera-ready papers: April 20, 2004</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><b>Proceedings Publication</b></font>
<br><font size=2 face="Wingdings">§ </font><font size=2 face="Times New Roman">The proceedings of NLDB04 will be published by Springer in their LNCS series</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Wingdings">§ </font><font size=2 face="Times New Roman">The best 5 papers will be selected for publication in a special issue of the Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><b>Topics:</b></font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Wingdings">§ </font><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><b><i>Natural Language for Web Services</i></b></font>
<p><font size=1 face="Times New Roman">(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)</font>
<p><font size=2 face="Wingdings">§ </font><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><b><i>Natural Language in Conceptual Modelling </i></b></font>
<p><font size=1 face="Times New Roman">(Analysis of natural language descriptions, Requirement engineering, Terminological ontologies, Paraphrasing, Dynamic modelling, Verification, consistency checking, Metadata harvesting)</font>
<p><font size=2 face="Wingdings">§ </font><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><b><i>Natural Language Interfaces for Data Base Querying/Retrieval</i></b></font>
<p><font size=1 face="Times New Roman">(Natural languages interfaces for database querying, Verification of database queries by paraphrasing, Semantic analysis for information retrieval, NL interaction with databases)</font>
<p><font size=2 face="Wingdings">§ </font><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><b><i>Natural Language-Based Integration of Systems</i></b></font>
<p><font size=1 face="Times New Roman">(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)</font>
<p><font size=2 face="Wingdings">§ </font><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><b><i>Large Scale on-line Resources</i></b></font>
<p><font size=1 face="Times New Roman">(Electronic dictionaries, Question-answer corpora, Informal ontologies, Linguistic databases, Digital libraries)</font>
<p><font size=2 face="Wingdings">§ </font><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><b><i>Application of Computational Linguistics in Information Systems</i></b></font>
<p><font size=1 face="Times New Roman">(Multilingual information systems, NLP in requirements engineering, NLP in knowledge management, Ontology-driven NLP, Semiotics and fundamentals)</font>
<p><font size=2 face="Wingdings">§ </font><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><b><i>Management of Textual Databases</i></b></font>
<p><font size=1 face="Times New Roman">(Text classification, Information extraction and detection, Text mining for creating metadata, Document management, Hypertext and Hyperbases)</font>
<p><font size=4 face="Century Schoolbook"><b>Conference Organisation</b></font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Century Schoolbook"><b>Conference Chair</b></font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Elisabeth Métais, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers de Paris, France. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Century Schoolbook"><b>Program Committee Chair </b></font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Farid Meziane, University of Salford, UK. </font>
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<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook"><b>Program Committee </b></font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Diego Mollá Aliod, Macquarie University, Australia</font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Kenji Araki, Hokkaido University, Japan</font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Mokrane Bouzeghoub, PRiSM, Université de Versailles, France </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Fabio Ciravegna, University of Sheffield, UK </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Gary A Coen, Boeing, USA </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, CEDRIC/CNAM, France </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Antje Düsterhöft, University of Wismar, Germany </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Günther Fliedl, Universität Klagenfurt, Austria</font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Alexander Gelbukh, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Nicola Guarino, CNR, Italy </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Rafael Muñoz Guillena, Universidad de Alicante, Spain </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Jon Atle Gulla, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway</font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Mohammed Harmain, United Arab Emirates University, UAE</font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Helmut Horacek, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany</font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Zoubida Kedad, PRiSM, Université de Versailles, France </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Leila Kosseim, Concordia University, Canada.</font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Nadira Lammari, CEDRIC/CNAM, France </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Winfried Lenders, Universität Bonn, Germany </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Jana Lewerenz, sd&m Düsseldorf, Germany </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Robert Luk, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Heinrich C. Mayr, Universität Klagenfurt, Austria </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Paul McFetridge, Simon Frazer University, Canada</font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Elisabeth Metais, CEDRIC/CNAM , France </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Farid Meziane, Salford University, UK </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Luisa Mich, University of Trento, Italy. </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Ana Maria Moreno, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Jian-Yun Nie, Université de Montréal, Canada </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Manual Palomar, Universidad de Alicante, Spain </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Odile Piton, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Reind van de Riet, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Hae-Chang Rim, Korea University, Korea </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Tim Ritchings, University of Salford, UK </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Hongchi Shi, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Niculae Stratica, Concordia University, Canada </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Vijay Sugumaran, Oakland University Rochester, USA </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Veda Storey, Georgia State University, USA </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Lua Km Teng, National University of Singapore, Singapore </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Bernhard Thalheim, University of Cottbus, Germany </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Babis Theodoulidis, UMIST, UK </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Sunil Vadera, University of Salford, UK</font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Ronald Wagner, University of Linz, Austria</font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, The Netherlands </font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Werner Winiwarter, University of Vienna, Austria</font>
<br><font size=1 face="Century Schoolbook">Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland</font>
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