[Ltg] 2nd call for papers NLDB 2005

[Diego Molla]

*** 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ***

NLDB05 - X INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLICATIONS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE 
TO INFORMATION SYSTEMS
June 15-17, 2005, Alicante, Spain
http://www.nldb.org



IMPORTANT DATES

     Paper Submission Due:           22 January 2005
     Notification of Acceptance:     16 February 2005
     Camera-ready Paper Due:         25 February 2005
     Conference:                     15-17 June 2005


Hosted by University of Alicante, Spain.

NLDB05 continues the series of  NLDB conferences: NLDB'95 (Versailles, 
France), NLDB'96 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands),
NLDB'97 (Vancouver, Canada), NLDB'99 (Klagenfurt, Austria), NLDB'00 
(Versailles, France), NLDB'01 (Madrid, Spain),
NLDB'02 (Stockholm, Sweden), NLDB'03 (Burg, Germany) and NLDB05 
(Manchester, United Kingdom).

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 modeling, validation, etc) and the 
usability of applications



SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE

Papers are invited on recent, substantial, original, and unpublished
research on all aspects of Natural Language Processing related
areas, including, but not limited to the following 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


Applications 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

Natural language on data warehouses (DW) and data mining (DM)
     Ontologies and conceptual modeling of DW's
     Natural language interfaces for modeling and/or querying DW's
     XML, Semistructured, document data warehouses
     Intelligent data warehouses
     Natural language for text mining


We welcome submissions on any topic that is of interest to the NLP
community, but we particularly encourage submissions that broaden the
scope of our community through the consideration of practical NLP
applications. We also invite people from industry working on NLP to send
us their submissions and offer an opportunity to discuss and demonstrate
their latest applications.

Submitted papers should describe original  work, completed  or in
progress, rather  than merely planned,  and clearly  indicate the
current  state  of  advancement  of   the  work.   No  previously
published papers should be submitted. Simultaneous  submission to other
conferences is allowed provided it is  explicitly indicated on the
identification page.




PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors should submit original manuscripts via the NLDB2005 Web site, as 
  PostScript
or PDF files.  The conference proceedings will be published by 
Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes
in Computer Science (LNCS) series (Confirmation pending).
Springer-Verlag publishes a full-text electronic version of LNCS in
parallel with the printed version, so the electronic source of accepted
papers will be required (LaTeX 2e format is preferred).



CONFERENCE CHAIRS

Rafael Muñoz, University of Alicante, Spain
Elisabeth Metais, CEDRIC/CNAM , France

PROGRAM CHAIR

Andres Montoyo, University of Alicante, Spain

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

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
Jon Atle Gulla, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Harmain 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
Bernardo Magnini, IRST, Italy
Paul McFetridge, Simon Frazer University, Canada
Elisabeth Metais, CEDRIC/CNAM , France
Farid Meziane, Salford University, UK
Luisa Mich, University of Trento, Italy.
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Ana Maria Moreno, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Diego Mollá Aliod, Macquarie University, Australia
Andrés Montoyo, Universidad de Alicante, Spain
Rafael Muñoz, Universidad de Alicante, 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, Kiel University, Germany
Babis Theodoulidis, UMIST, UK
Juan Carlos Trujillo, Universidad de Alicante, Spain
Luis Alfonso Ureña, Universidad de Jaén, Spain
Sunil Vadera, University of Salford, UK
Panos Vassiliadis (University of Ioannina, Greece)
Rolland Wagner, University of Linz, Austria
Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Werner Winiwarter, University of Vienna, Austria
Christian Winkler, Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland


ORGANISING COMITTEE

Patricio Martínez-Barco, Universidad de Alicante
Andres Montoyo, Universidad de Alicante
Paloma Moreda, Universidad de Alicante
Rafael Muñoz, Universidad de Alicante