Appel: 9 th Int. Conf. on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems

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

June 23-25 2004, Salford, Manchester, UK.

www.nldb.org

Call for papers

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

Important Dates:

- Full paper submission: January 28, 2004
- Notification of acceptance: March 8, 2004
- Camera-ready papers: March 31, 2004

Proceedings Publication

- The proceedings of NLDB04 will be published by Springer in their
LNCS series

- The best 5 papers will be selected for publication in a special
issue of the Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal

Topics:

- Natural Language for Web 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 on-line Resources

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

- Application of Computational Linguistics in Information Systems

(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)

Conference Organisation

Conference Chair : Elisabeth Métais, Conservatoire National des Arts
et Métiers de Paris, France.

Program Committee Chair : Farid Meziane, University of Salford, UK.

Program Committee

Diego Mollá Aliod, Macquarie University, Australia
Kenji Araki, Hokkaido University, Japan
Mokrane Bouzeghoub, PRiSM, Université de Versailles, France
Fabio Ciravegna, University of Sheffield, UK
Gary A Coen, Boeing, USA
Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, CEDRIC/CNAM, France
Antje Düsterhöft, University of Wismar, Germany
Günther Fliedl, Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
Alexander Gelbukh, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico
Nicola Guarino, CNR, Italy
Rafael Muñoz Guillena, Universidad de Alicante, Spain
Jon Atle Gulla, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Mohammed Harmain, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Helmut Horacek, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany
Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden
Zoubida Kedad, PRiSM, Université de Versailles, France
Leila Kosseim, Concordia University, Canada.
Nadira Lammari, CEDRIC/CNAM, France
Winfried Lenders, Universität Bonn, Germany
Jana Lewerenz, sd&m Düsseldorf, Germany
Robert Luk, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Heinrich C. Mayr, Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
Paul McFetridge, Simon Frazer University, Canada
Elisabeth Metais, CEDRIC/CNAM , France
Farid Meziane, Salford University, UK
Luisa Mich, University of Trento, Italy.
Ana Maria Moreno, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Jian-Yun Nie, Université de Montréal, Canada
Manual Palomar, Universidad de Alicante, Spain
Odile Piton, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Reind van de Riet, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Hae-Chang Rim, Korea University, Korea
Tim Ritchings, University of Salford, UK
Hongchi Shi, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
Niculae Stratica, Concordia University, Canada
Vijay Sugumaran, Oakland University Rochester, USA
Veda Storey, Georgia State University, USA
Lua Km Teng, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Bernhard Thalheim, University of Cottbus, Germany
Babis Theodoulidis, UMIST, UK
Sunil Vadera, University of Salford, UK
Ronald Wagner, University of Linz, Austria
Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Werner Winiwarter, University of Vienna, Austria
Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland

Organising Committee

Sunil Vadera (Chair), University of Salford, UK.
Farid Meziane, University of Salford, UK.
Samia Nefti, University of Salford, UK.
Mohamad Saraee, University of Salford, UK.
Edwin Mit, University of Salford, UK.

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