Call for Papers 12th International Conference on APPLICATIONS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE TO INFORMATION SYSTEMS NLDB'07 June 27-29, 2007, CNAM, Paris, France (www.nldb.org) 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 modeling, validation etc.) and the usability of applications (e.g. natural language query interfaces, retrieval, semantic web etc.) To underline these inspiring connections, NLDB 2007 will take place from June 27 to June 29 in Paris (France). Topics of Interest NLDB 2007 invites researchers to submit papers on recent, unpublished research on all aspects of Natural Language Processing related to information systems.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 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, Text Mining Conference Co-Chairs Elisabeth Métais, CNAM, France, Jacky Akoka, CNAM, France, Mokrane Bouzeghoub, Université de Versailles, France, Yacine Rezgui, University of Salford, UK Program Committee Co-Chairs Zoubida Kedad, Université de Versailles, France, Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, CNAM, France, Farid Meziane, University of Salford, UK Program Committee (pending on approval) Witold Abramowicz, The Poznañ University of Economics, Poland Frederic Andres, University of Advanced Studies, Japan Kenji Araki, Hokkaido University, Japan Akhilesh Bajaj, University of Tulsa, USA Maria Bergoltz, Stockholm University, Sweden Mokrane Bouzeghoub, Université de Versailles, France Andrew Burton-Jones, University of British Columbia, Canada Hiram Calvo, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico Roger Chiang, University of Cincinnati, USA Gary A Coen, Boeing, USA Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, CNAM, France Antje Düsterhöft, University of Wismar, Germany Günther Fliedl, Universität Klagenfurt, Austria Alexander Gelbukh, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico Jon Atle Gulla, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Udo Hahn, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany Karin Harbusch, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany Harmain Harmain, United Arab Emirates University, UAE Helmut Horacek, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany Cecil Chua Eng Huang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden Epaminondas Kapetanios, University of Westminster, UK Zoubida Kedad, Université de Versailles, France Christian Kop, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Leila Kosseim, Concordia University, Canada Nadira Lammari, CNAM, France Winfried Lenders, Universität Bonn, Germany Jana Lewerenz, sd&m Düsseldorf, Germany Deryle Lonsdale, Brigham Young Uinversity, USA Stéphane Lopes, Université de Versailles, France Robert Luk, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Bernardo Magnini, IRST, Italy Heinrich C. Mayr, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Paul McFetridge, Simon Frazer University, Canada Elisabeth Metais, CNAM , France Farid Meziane, Salford University, UK Luisa Mich, University of Trento, Italy Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK Diego Mollá Aliod, Macquarie University, Australia Andrés Montoyo, Universidad de Alicante, Spain Ana Maria Moreno, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Rafael Muñoz, Universidad de Alicante, Spain Samia Nefti-Meziani, Salford University, UK Günter Neumann, DFKI, Germany Jian-Yun Nie, Université de Montréal, Canada Manual Palomar, Universidad de Alicante, Spain Sandeep Purao, Pennsylvania State University, USA Odile Piton, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Yacine Rezgui, University of Salford, UK Reind van de Riet, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Hae-Chang Rim, Korea University, Korea Grigori Sidorov, National Researcher of Mexico, Mexico Samira si-Said, CNAM, France Max Silberztein, Université de Franche-Comté, France Veda Storey, Georgia State University, USA Vijay Sugumaran, Oakland University Rochester, USA Lua Kim Teng, National University of Singapore, Singapore Bernhard Thalheim, Kiel University, Germany Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Wright State University, USA Juan Carlos Trujillo, Universidad de Alicante, Spain Luis Alfonso Ureña, Universidad de Jaén, Spain Panos Vassiliadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Jürgen Vöhringer, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Roland Wagner, University of Linz, Austria Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Werner Winiwarter, University of Vienna, Austria Christian Winkler, Universität Klagenfurt, Austria Petia Wohed, Stockholm University, Sweden Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland Publicity Chair Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University, USA Organizing Committee Chair Nadira Lammari, CNAM, France Organizing Committee Tatiana Aubonnet, CNAM, France, Jean-Christophe Barrez, CNAM, France, Cedric Du Mouza, CNAM, France, Xiaohui Xue, Université de Versailles, France Submission Guidelines Authors should submit manuscripts via the NLDB'07 web site, in the form of PostScript or PDF files. The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for possible publication in the Data & Knowledge Engineering journal. Important Dates Paper submission: January 30, 2007 Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2007 Camera-Ready papers: April 12, 2007 Pr. Elisabeth Métais CNAM Chaire d'informatique d'entreprise 292 rue Saint Martin 75141 Paris cedex 03 France (33) 1 40 27 29 08 NLDB'07 in Paris: http://www.nldb.org/