[Corpora-List] NLDB 2008 Doctoral Symposium: CfP

[Eric Atwell]

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NLDB 2008: Doctoral Symposium -
Research Proposal Submission Deadline: March 10, 2008
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   * LONDON, UK, 24 June 2008, University of Westminster
   * In conjunction with NLDB 2008 - http://www.nldb.org

   * Accepted proposals will be included in the proceedings, LNCS,
     Springer Verlag, as short papers
   * Best Research Proposal Award: Partial reimbursement of
     participation costs
   * Internationally Recognised Panel of Experts:
        - Andres Montoyo, Universidad de Alicante, Spain
        - Gunter Neumann, DFKI, Germany
        - Mokrane Bouzeghoub, Universite de Versailles, France
        - Mounia Lalmas, University of London, UK
        - Rafael Munoz, Universidad de Alicante, Spain

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Important dates
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   * Paper submission (Extended Deadline):  March 10, 2008
   * Notification of acceptance:         March 31, 2008
   * Camera-ready:                       April 15, 2008
   * Doctoral Symposium:                June 24, 2008


Call for Papers
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This year, the 13th International Conference on Applications of Natural 
Language to Information Systems
(NLDB 2008) is organizing a Doctoral Symposium. This is intended to encourage 
Ph.D. students, or those
who intend to apply for a Ph.D. studentship, in the area of Natural Language 
Processing and Management
as related to Information Systems, to share and discuss their research 
proposals, research direction
and methodology under the guidance of a panel of leading academics in Computer 
Science and
Information Systems. It will also provide an opportunity to liaise and network 
with other doctoral
students, researchers and academics.

Contributions are welcome in all topics covered by NLDB 2008:

http://www.wmin.ac.uk/page-14805


Submissions
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In order to present at the symposium, Ph.D. students should submit a paper 
describing their research proposal
and direction of their work. The paper should not exceed 4 pages in PDF or 
Postscript format. The paper should
be formatted according to the LNCS formatting guidelines, since we intend to 
include accepted papers in the
proceedings to be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series of 
publications by Springer-Verlag.

In contrast to regular conference papers, submissions to this Doctoral 
Symposium should clearly address:

   * The motivation behind the proposed research
   * A clear formulation of the research problem to be solved
   * An outline of the current knowledge of the problem domain, by
     briefly citing and describing any existing solutions
   * A proposed methodology and any preliminary ideas and results
     achieved so far
   * The aspired contributions of the current proposal

Similar to a Ph.D. thesis, only a single author is allowed per submission to 
the symposium.
The Ph.D. advisor is not stated as co-author but should be separately mentioned 
as a footnote
in the first page of the paper attached on the title of the paper.


Submission Procedure
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Ph.D. students should submit their research paper via the paper submission and 
reviewing system at:
http://www.nldb.org or by sending an email to the organisers:

Georgia Koutrika, Stanford University, USA: koutrika at stanford.edu
Anastassia Angelopoulou, University of Westminster, UK: agelopa at wmin.ac.uk


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