NLDB05 - X International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems June 15-17, 2005, Alicante, Spain http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/congresos/nldb05/ *** PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS *** 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 SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE Papers are invited on recent, substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of Natural Language Processing related areas, including, but not limited to the following topics: Natural Language for Web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