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C A L L F O
R P A P E R S <br>
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<br>
17th International conference on Application of Natural Language
Processing to Information Systems <br>
<br>
Groningen, The Netherlands, June 26-28 2012 <br>
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<br>
<br>
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). <br>
<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 moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.nldb.org">www.nldb.org</a>
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<br>
**** Topics and Interest **** <br>
<br>
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or poster presentations on recent, unpublished research that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. <br>
<br>
We especially encourage submissions on one of the following
topics: <br>
<br>
- 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>
<br>
- 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, <br>
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>
<br>
**** Invited Speakers **** <br>
<br>
TBA <br>
<br>
**** Submission Guidelines **** <br>
<br>
Authors should follow the LNCS format (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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 moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nldb2012">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nldb2012</a>).
<br>
<br>
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>
<br>
**** Important Dates **** <br>
<br>
January 15, 2011 Deadline for paper submission <br>
March 15, 2012 Notifications <br>
March 31, 2012 Final versions due <br>
June 26-28, 2012 Conference <br>
<br>
**** Organization **** <br>
<br>
Elisabeth Metais (Conference Co-chair) <br>
Hans Wortmann (Conference Co-chair) <br>
Gosse Bouma (Program Chair) <br>
Valerio Basile <br>
Ashwin Ittoo <br>
Laura Maruster <br>
<br>
Contact: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nldb12@rug.nl">nldb12@rug.nl</a>
<br>
<br>
**** Programme Committee **** <br>
<br>
See <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.nldb.org">www.nldb.org</a> <br>
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