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C A L L F O R
P A P E R S
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17th International conference on Application of Natural Language
Processing to Information Systems
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<br>
Groningen, The Netherlands, June 26-28 2012
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NLDB is a series of conferences organized since 1995 dedicated
to
<br>
applications of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in the
Information Systems
<br>
field. In recent years, emphasis has been on topics such as
sentiment
<br>
analysis, information extraction, question answering, NLP for
information
<br>
systems, summarization, analysis of social media, use and
construction of
<br>
ontologies, and the semantic web. It aims at bringing together
researchers,
<br>
industrials, and potential users interested in these areas.
<br>
<br>
NLDB 2012 will take place from June 26 to June 28 in Groningen
(the Netherlands).
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<br>
Proceedings appear in the Springer LNCS series. After the
conference, authors of
<br>
the best papers are invited to submit an extended version of their
paper for a
<br>
special issue of Data and Knowledge Engineering.
<br>
<br>
More information is available at <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.nldb.org">www.nldb.org</a>
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**** Topics and Interest ****
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NLDB 2012 invites researchers from academia and industry to submit
papers for oral
<br>
or poster presentations on recent, unpublished research that
addresses theoretical
<br>
aspects, algorithms, applications, architectures for applied and
integrated NLP,
<br>
resources for applied NLP, and other aspects of NLP, as well as
review and discussion papers.
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<br>
We especially encourage submissions on one of the following
topics:
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- Applications of NLP in Information Systems:
<br>
Multilingual Information Systems, NLP in Requirement Engineering,
NLP in
<br>
Knowledge Management, Semantic Data Integration and Data Cleaning
<br>
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- Social Media and Web Data
<br>
Corpus analysis, Language identification, Text normalization,
<br>
Robust NLP for social media, Text classification, Information
Extraction
<br>
and Sentiment Analysis for social media
<br>
<br>
- Semantic Web Open Linked Data
<br>
Ontology Learning and Alignment, Populating ontologies, Querying
Ontologies
<br>
and linked data, Semantic tagging and classification,
Ontology-driven NLP
<br>
<br>
- Question Answering (QA)
<br>
NL interfaces to databases, QA using web data, multi-lingual QA,
Non-factoid
<br>
QA (how/why/opinion questions, lists), geographical QA, QA corpora
and training
<br>
sets
<br>
<br>
- Natural language and Ubiquitous Computing:
<br>
Pervasive Computing, Embedded, Robotic and Mobile Applications.
<br>
<br>
- Natural Language in Conceptual Modeling:
<br>
Analysis of Natural Language Descriptions, Terminological
Ontologies,
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Consistency Checking, Metadata Creation and Harvesting,
Ontology-driven Systems
<br>
Integration, Ontology Management
<br>
<br>
- NLP Applications
<br>
Business Intelligence, Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis, QA
systems,
<br>
Event Detection, Named Entity and Event Detection, Information
Extraction,
<br>
Summarization, NLP for Data Mining, NLP for Data Warehouses,
Plagiarism detection,
<br>
Identity detection
<br>
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**** Invited Speakers ****
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<br>
TBA
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**** Submission Guidelines ****
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Authors should follow the LNCS format (<a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html">http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html</a>)
<br>
and submit their manuscripts in pdf via Easychair
<br>
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nldb2012">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nldb2012</a>).
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Submissions can be full papers (maximally 12 papers, including
references),
<br>
short papers (6 pages) or papers for a poster presentation (4
pages). The
<br>
programme committee may decide to accept some full papers as short
papers
<br>
or poster contributions.
<br>
<br>
The Proceedings of NLDB 2012 will be published in the Lecture
Notes for
<br>
Computer Science series at Springer Verlag.
<br>
<br>
Note that we also plan to publish extended versions of a selection
of the best papers
<br>
after the conference in the Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal
as a special issue.
<br>
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**** Important Dates ****
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January 15, 2011 Deadline for paper submission
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March 15, 2012 Notifications
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March 31, 2012 Final versions due
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June 26-28, 2012 Conference
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**** Organization ****
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<br>
Elisabeth Metais (Conference Co-chair)
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Hans Wortmann (Conference Co-chair)
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Gosse Bouma (Program Chair)
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Valerio Basile
<br>
Ashwin Ittoo
<br>
Laura Maruster
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Contact: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:nldb12@rug.nl">nldb12@rug.nl</a>
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**** Programme Committee ****
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See <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.nldb.org">www.nldb.org</a>
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