[LFG] Call for Papers: 20th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB'15)

[Valia Kordoni]

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Call for Papers: 20th International Conference on Application of Natural
Language to
Information Systems (NLDB'15)

Conference website: http://nldb2015.org/

NLDB 2015 invites researchers from academia and industry to submit papers
for oral
or poster presentations on recent, unpublished research that addresses
theoretical
aspects, algorithms, applications, architectures for applied and
integrated NLP,
resources for applied NLP, and other aspects of NLP, as well as survey and
discussion papers.

Special Track: Semantic and Cognitive Computing
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For the 20th edition of NLDB, we especially solicit submissions for our
special
track: Natural Language and its connection to Semantic and Cognitive
Computing.
Semantic computing aims at connecting the meaning of the user’s need with
semantics
of content in a multidisciplinary fashion. Cognitive Computing systems
naturally
interact with people and learn over time. While natural language
understanding is
necessary for semantic understanding and interacting with a cognitive
system (e.g. a
question answering system or a search application), it is an open question
how to
leverage direct or indirect user feedback for improving the overall
system's output,
but also for improving the natural language processing stack and evolving
the system's knowledge representations. Further, the interaction of
natural language and
formalized knowledge repositories is attained differently in the
literature.  Papers
for the special track especially focus on the adaptivity and the
combination of NL
and knowledge processing systems: domain adaptation, adaptation over time,
adaptivity and user feedback, wisdom of the crowds, information fusion
from heterogeneous sources, incremental/online machine learning. We
especially encourage
submission of survey and discussion papers for the special track.

NLDB'15 Topics
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Further, we encourage submissions on the following topics:

* Applications of NLP in Information Systems: Multilingual Information
Systems, NLP
in Requirement Engineering, NLP in Knowledge Management, Semantic Data
Integration
and Data Cleaning.

* Social Media and Web Data: Corpus analysis, Language identification,
Text normalization, Robust NLP for social media, Text classification,
Information Extraction and Sentiment Analysis for social media.

* Semantic Web Open Linked Data: Ontology Learning and Alignment,
Populating ontologies, Querying Ontologies and linked data, Semantic
tagging and classification, Ontology-driven NLP.

* Question Answering (QA): NL interfaces to databases, QA using web data,
multi-lingual QA, Non-factoid QA (how/why/opinion questions, lists),
geographical
QA, QA corpora and training sets.

* Natural language and Ubiquitous Computing: Pervasive Computing,
Embedded, Robotic
and Mobile Applications.

* Natural Language in Conceptual Modeling: Analysis of Natural Language
Descriptions, Terminological Ontologies, Consistency Checking, Metadata
Creation and
Harvesting, Ontology-driven Systems Integration, Ontology Management.

* NLP Applications: Business Intelligence, Subjectivity and Sentiment
Analysis, QA
systems, Event Detection, Named Entity and Event Detection, Information
Extraction,
Summarization, NLP for Data Mining, NLP for Data Warehouses, Plagiarism
detection,
Identity detection.

Submission information
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All accepted papers will be included in Springer proceedings of the
conference. We
solicit four types of papers:
* Long papers: Up to 12 pages, plus references. Long papers should
describe unpublished, complete research
* Short papers: Up to 6 pages, plus references. Short papers describe a
comparative
evaluation of existing works, a negative result, or consist of a survey,
discussion
or position paper.
* Poster and Demo papers: Up to 4 pages, plus references: Poster/Demo
papers describe a small focused result, a negative result, or a
late-breaking result, or a
description of a system that can be demonstrated on-site at the conference.

Organization
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Siegfried Handschuh, University of Passau, Germany (Conference Chair)
Elisabeth Métais, CNAM, France (Conference Chair)
Farid Meziane, University of Salford, UK (Conference Chair)
Chris Biemann, TU Darmstadt, Germany (Program Chair)
André Freitas, University of Passau, Germany / Insight, Ireland (Local
Organisation
Chair)

Senior Programme Committee
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Gerard de Melo, Tsinghua University, China
Valia Kordoni, HU Berlin, Germany
Mathieu Lafourcade, LIRMM, France
Johannes Leveling, CNGL, Dublin City University, Ireland
Els Lefever, Ghent University, Belgium
Simone Paolo Ponzetto, University of Mannheim, Germany
Mathieu Roche, Cirad, TETIS, France
Maguelonne Teisseire, Irstea, TETIS, France
Christina Unger, CITEC, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
Torsten Zesch, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Michael Zock, CNRS-LIF, France

Important Dates
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January 31, 2015: Deadline for paper submission
March 15, 2015: Notifications
March 31, 2015: Final versions due
June 17-19, 2015: Conference in Passau, Germany

Conference website: http://nldb2015.org/