15th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2010) Paper Submission Deadline (2nd Extended)

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********* Second Extension Submission Deadline February 24th 2010*********

In response to a large number of requests from the community, the organizing
committee

of the

15th International Conference on

Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems

NLDB 2010

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

( www.nldb.org)

decided to extend the deadline for full papers from Monday, February 15th
to Wednesday, February 24th, 2010.

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Papers are invited for the 15th International Conference on Applications of
Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB’10). This year, NLDB’10, will
be held in Cardiff, Wales, from June 23-25, 2010. This year’s theme is
"Communicating with Anything, Anywhere in Natural Language".

Since 1995, the NLDB conference has aimed at bringing together researchers,
industrials and potential users interested in various applications of
Natural Language in the Database 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
modelling, 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 of 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NLDB 2010 invites researchers to submit papers on recent, unpublished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 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 Modelling of DW's, Natural Language Interfaces for
Modelling 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 extended: February 24, 2010

Notification of acceptance: April 5, 2010

Camera-Ready papers: April 19, 2010

Conference Co-Chairs

Yacine Rezgui, Cardiff University, UK

Elisabeth Métais, CNAM, France

Program Committee Co-Chairs

Alun Preece, Cardiff University, UK

Christina J Hopfe, Cardiff University, UK

Conference Publicity Chair

Nadira Lammari, CNAM, France