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Call for Papers

15th International Conference on
Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems

NLDB’10

June 23-25, 2010, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK

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Submission Deadline January 29th 2010*********

Since 1995, the NLDB conference has aimed at bringing together
researchers, industrials and potential users interested in various applications
of Natural Language in the Data Bases and Information System area. Natural
Language Processing has become an important factor in the field of Information
and Communication systems in the last years. It has contributed to both
improving the development process from the viewpoints of the developers (e.g.
the process of requirements engineering, conceptual modeling, validation etc.)
and the usability of applications (e.g. natural language query interfaces,
retrieval, semantic web etc.) To underline these inspiring connections, NLDB
2010 will take place from June 23 to June 25 in Cardiff (Wales).

Topics
and Interest:

NLDB
2010 invites researchers to submit papers on recent, unpublished research on
all aspects of Natural Language Processing related to information systems. The
Program Committee also encourages people from the industry to submit papers
reporting on industrial Natural Language projects. Contributions are welcome
in, 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 Modeling: Analysis of Natural Language Descriptions,
  Requirement Engineering, Terminological Ontologies, Paraphrasing, Dynamic
  Modeling, Verification, Consistency Checking, Metadata Harvesting
• Natural Language
  Interfaces for Data Base Querying/Retrieval: Natural
  Languages Interfaces for Data Base Querying, Verification of Data Base
  Queries by Paraphrasing, Semantic Analysis for Information retrieval, NL
  Interaction with Data Bases
• 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, Text Mining

Submission
Guidelines:

Authors
should submit manuscripts via the NLDB’10 web submission system.
Accepted formats are: PostScript or Portable Document Format (PDF). Papers
should not exceed 12 pages. The Proceedings of NLDB 2010 will be published in
the LNCS-series at Springer Verlag. The authors should follow the LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html)
Please also note:
The best papers will be selected after the conference and an extended version
of these papers will be published in the Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal
as a special issue

Important
Dates:

Paper
submission: January 29, 2010
Notification of acceptance: April
5, 2010

Camera-Ready
papers: April 19, 2010