FIRST Announcement / Call for papers
FQAS 2006

Seventh International Conference on
Flexible Query Answering Systems

7 %G–%@ 10 June 2006
Universitŕ degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Henrik Legind Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark 
Gabriella Pasi, Universitŕ degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy 

TOPICS OF INTEREST
 
We invite submission of original research contributions, and proposals for invited sessions, panels, and tutorials. Contributions are encouraged from all areas, as long as they address central issues in flexible query answering systems.   Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
 
Question answering systems
Database management systems
Information Retrieval systems
Information extraction
Information fusion
Text and data mining
Modeling user context
User interfaces
Semantic Web
Ontology based query answering
Flexible query answering
Spoken query interpretation
Database querying in wireless sensor networks
Search engines
Mobile search engines
Knowledge representation
Reasoning under uncertainty
Multimodal information access
Privacy protection
 
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission due:     15 February 2006
Notification:     15 March 2006
Final paper due:   1 May 2006
Conference:    7 %G–%@ 10 June 2006
 
FURTHER INFORMATION
Further information will be provided in the conference web site: http://fqas2006.disco.unimib.it/