14.2742, Calls: Computational Ling; Switzerland & UK

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-14-2742. Fri Oct 10 2003. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 14.2742, Calls: Computational Ling; Switzerland & UK

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Date:  Wed, 08 Oct 2003 11:43:04 +0000
From:  rinaldi at ifi.unizh.ch
Subject:  COLING 2004

2)
Date:  Wed, 08 Oct 2003 12:49:38 +0000
From:  f.meziane at salford.ac.uk
Subject:  NLDB04

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Date:  Wed, 08 Oct 2003 11:43:04 +0000
From:  rinaldi at ifi.unizh.ch
Subject:  COLING 2004

Call for Workshop Proposals
Date: 28-Aug-2003 - 29-Aug-2003
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Contact: Michael Hess
Contact Email: hess at cl.unizh.ch
Meeting URL: http://www.cl.unizh.ch/COLING2004/workshops.html

Linguistic Sub-field: Computational Linguistics

This is a session of the following conference: 20th International
Conference on Computational Linguistics

Meeting Description:

The COLING Organising Committee invites proposals for workshops to be
held at COLING 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland
http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/

Main conference: August 23rd-27th, 2004
Workshops:

August 28th-29th, 2004 The COLING Organising Committee invites
proposals for workshops to be held at COLING 2004

University of Geneva, Switzerland
http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/

Main conference: August 23rd-27th, 2004

Workshops: August 28th-29th, 2004

Following the regular program of the main conference, workshops on
current topics in Computational Linguistics will be held on 28th-29th,
August 2004, at the conference venue. Workshops will normally last one
day, but may extend to a second day if required. Proposals by
qualified individuals interested in organising a workshop are
solicited.

Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, as soon as possible,
but no later than December 15, 2003. The subject line should be:
''COLING 2004 WORKSHOP PROPOSAL''. Those interested in organising a
workshop should send a brief proposal (in plain text) to:

Michael Hess (hess at cl.unizh.ch), describing

* A title and brief (2-page max) description of the workshop topic and
  content, including a description of the proposed workshop format.

* relevance to COLING

* the target audience

* approximate number of participants expected

* tentative schedule for the workshop (at least half a day, up to two
days)

* a calendar of deadlines for submission, notification, and
camera-ready copy (which must be compatible with COLING deadlines)

* programme committee for the workshop

* relevant experience of the organiser(s)

* the name, postal address, phone number, e-mail address, and webpage
of each chair

* facilities required (overhead projector, beamer, computer, etc.)



The goal of the workshops is to provide an opportunity to focus
intensively on a specific topic within computational
linguistics/NLP. The workshop should bring together researchers and
practitioners from different communities to discuss recent results and
trends in the field.

The workshop proposers will be responsible for the organisational
aspects (e.g. workshop call preparation and distribution, review of
papers, notification of acceptance, coordinating workshop
participation and content, assembling of the workshop proceedings,
etc.).

Proposers are encouraged to submit as early as possible to ensure that
appropriate arrangements can be made to accommodate all workshop
sessions, and to provide adequate time for proposal evaluation and
feedback. No submissions will be accepted after the final deadline of
December 15, 2003.

Deadlines for workshops proposals

*  Electronic submission of proposals: no later than December 15, 2003
*  Notification to proposers: January 16, 2004


Programme Committee

Michael Hess (hess at cl.unizh.ch)
Fabio Rinaldi (rinaldi at cl.unizh.ch)
Kai-Uwe Carstensen (carstensen at cl.unizh.ch) (Institute of
Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich)

Rolf Schwitter (rolfs at ics.mq.edu.au)
Diego Molla (diego at ics.mq.edu.au)
(Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney)


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Date:  Wed, 08 Oct 2003 12:49:38 +0000
From:  f.meziane at salford.ac.uk
Subject:  NLDB04

9th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to
Information Systems

Short Title: NLDB04

Date: 23-Jun-2003 - 25-Jun-2003
Location: Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom
Contact: Farid Meziane
Contact Email: f.meziane at salford.ac.uk
Meeting URL: http://www.nldb.org

Linguistic Sub-field: Computational Linguistics
Subject Language: English
Meeting Description:

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 field.

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

The use of Natural Language in the Software Engineering has
contributed to both improving the development process from the
viewpoints of developers (improve the process of conceptual modeling,
validation, etc) and to improving the usability of applications by
users (natural language query interfaces, semantic webs, etc).

CONFERENCE TOPICS

Natural Language for Web Information-Intensive Services

   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

Natural Language in Conceptual Modelling

   Analysis of natural language descriptions
   Requirement engineering
   Terminological ontologies
   Paraphrasing
   Dynamic modelling
   Verification, consistency checking
   Metadata harvesting

Natural Language Interfaces for Data Base Querying/Retrieval

   Natural languages interfaces for database querying
   Verification of database queries by paraphrasing
   Semantic analysis for information retrieval
   NL interaction with databases

Natural-Language-Based Integration of Systems

   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

Large-Scale Online Linguistic Resources

   Electronic dictionaries
   Question-answer corpora
   Informal ontologies
   Linguistic databases
   Digital libraries

Using Computational Linguistics for IS

   Multilingual information systems
   NLP in requirements engineering
   NLP in knowledge management
   Ontology-driven NLP
   Semiotics and fundamentals

Management of Textual Databases

   Text classification
   Information extraction and detection
   Text mining for creating metadata
   Document management
   Hypertext and Hyperbases

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