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NLDB 2008
http://www.nldb.org
13th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to
Information Systems
LONDON, UK, 25-27 June 2008
University of Westminster
Important Dates:
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Opening of Paper Submission Engine: 19th of November 2007
Paper Submission Deadline: 31st of January 2008
Notification of Acceptance: 31st of March 2008
Camera-ready Papers: 15st of April 2008
Awards
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Best papers to be published in a special issue of the
Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE) Journal
Elsevier Publisher
Proceedings
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LNCS - Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag,
http://www.springer.com/lncs
Aims & Objectives
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Natural language has always posed serious challenges to theory of
computation and Turing Machine based intelligence. This controversy also
inspired the writing of exciting stories in the literature, e.g., The
Cambridge Quintet by John Casti. However, natural language plays a key role
in many areas such as
* Web and Web based Information Systems
* Information Retrieval in Cross-Lingual or Mono-Lingual settings
* Digital Libraries
* Documentation in Software Engineering
* Document and Content Management Systems
* Human-Machine Interaction
* Machine Translation
* Knowledge Management and Electronic Encyclopedias
Since 1995, the NLDB conference, with high impact factor, has aimed at
bringing together researchers, industrials and potential users interested in
various applications of Natural Language in the Web and database driven
information systems area. It has contributed to many areas such as
* improving the development process from the viewpoint of developers (e.g.,
the process of requirements engineering, conceptual modeling, validation, etc.)
* the usability of applications (e.g., natural language query interfaces,
retrieval, semantic web, etc.)
* knowledge extraction and dissemination (e.g., text mining, knowledge
discovery, etc.)
To highlight these inspiring connections, NLDB 2008 will take place from
June 25 to June 27 in the world city of London (UK).
It will provide the stage for fruitful and challenging discussions.
Indicative Topics of Interest
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* Semantic Web and Information Retrieval
* Text and Web Mining
* Taxonomies and Ontology Extraction from Text
* Document Classification and Indexing
* Natural Language in Conceptual Modelling
* Natural Language in Software Engineering
* Natural Language Based Interfaces for Database
* Querying and Retrieval
* Natural Language Based Integration of Systems
* Large Scale On-line Linguistic Resources
* Electronic Dictionaries
* Digital Libraries
* Applications of Computational Linguistics in Information Systems
* Management of Textual Databases
* Natural Language for Data Warehouses and Data Mining
Conference Organisation
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Epaminondas Kapetanios, University of Westminster, London, UK
Elisabeth Métais, CNAM, Paris, France
Reind van de Riet, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Programme Co-Chairs:
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Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University, USA
Myra Spiliopoulou, University of Magdeburg, Germany
Publicity Chair:
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Farid Meziane, University of Salford, Manchester, UK
PC-Members
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Akhilesh Bajaj, University of Tulsa, USA
Alexandra Poulovassilis, University of London, UK
Alexander Hinneburg, University of Halle, Germany
Ana Maria Moreno, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany
Andrés Montoyo, Universidad de Alicante, Spain
Annika Hinze, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Antje Düsterhöft, University of Wismar, Germany
Benno Stein, Faculty of Media, Universität Weimar, Germany
Bernhard Thalheim, Kiel University, Germany
Christian Kop, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Deryle Lonsdale, Brigham Young Uinversity, USA
Elisabeth Metais, CNAM , France
Epaminondas Kapetanios, University of Westminster, UK
Farid Meziane, Salford University, UK
Frederic Andres, University of Advanced Studies, Japan
Georgia Koutrika, Stanford University, USA
Günter Neumann, DFKI, Germany
Günther Fliedl, Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
Grigori Sidorov, National Researcher of Mexico, Mexico
Hae-Chang Rim, Korea University, Korea
Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Heinrich C. Mayr, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Helmut Horacek, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany
Hiram Calvo, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico
Irena Spasic, Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, UK
Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, CNAM, France
Jacky Akoka, CNAM, France
Jana Lewerenz, SD&M Düsseldorf, Germany
Jian-Yun Nie, Université de Montréal, Canada
Jing Jiang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Juan Carlos Trujillo, Universidad de Alicante, Spain
Jürgen Rilling, University of Concordia, Canada
Karin Harbusch, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Wright State University, USA
Leila Kosseim, Concordia University, Canada
Luis Alfonso Ureña, Universidad de Jaén, Spain
Luisa Mich, University of Trento, Italy
Manolis Koubarakis, University of Athens, Hellas (Greece)
Maria Orlowska, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland
Maristella Agosti, University of Padova, Italy
Markus Schaal, Bilkent University, Turkey
Max Silberztein, Université de Franche-Comté, France
Moira Norrie, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Mokrane Bouzeghoub, Université de Versailles, France
Mounia Lalmas, University of London, UK
Myra Spiliopoulou, University of Magdeburg, Germany
Odile Piton, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Panos Vassiliadis, University of Ioannina, Hellas (Greece)
Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden
Paul McFetridge, Simon Frazer University, Canada
Pit Pichappan, Al Imam University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Rafael Muñoz, Universidad de Alicante, Spain
Reind van de Riet, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Philip Cimiano, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Robert Luk, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Roger Chiang, University of Cincinnati, USA
Roland Wagner, University of Linz, Austria
Sandeep Purao, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Sofia Ananiadou, NACTEM, Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, UK
Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland
Stéphane Lopes, Université de Versailles, France
Udo Hahn, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
Vangelis Karkaletsis, Demokritos Research Centre, Hellas (Greece)
Veda Storey, Georgia State University, USA
Vanessa Lopez, Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, UK
Vijay Sugumaran, Oakland University Rochester, USA
Yacine Rezgui, University of Salford, UK
Yannis Ioannidis, University of Athens, Hellas (Greece)
Zoubida Kedad, Université de Versailles, France
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