Due to many requests we have decided to extend the deadline for submissions. The new deadline is February 25! C A L L F O R P A P E R S 3rd International Workshop on Natural Language and Information Systems (NLIS 2002) to be held in Aix-en-Provence, France, September 2-3, 2002 www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/nlis2002.htm in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2002, www.dexa.org) Workshop proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press THEME Ubiquitous business, ambient intelligence, global digital libraries, lifelong learning, virtual communities, are just a few of the visions for the future which will bring unimaginable changes and new challenges for all of us. Human Language Technology (HLT) is one of the key technologies to make these visions come true. The main objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers from both natural language processing and information systems with the aim of encouraging the exchange of ideas and experience between these two communities. It will provide an international forum for the presentation of an overview of the most recent trends in these two active research fields, and a common starting-point to tackle the most pressing research problems and to address long-term research issues. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Natural language and speech interfaces Multimodal and multilingual interfaces Adaptive and personalized interfaces HLT for information system design HLT for conceptual modeling HLT for requirements engineering HLT for information retrieval and filtering HLT for the WWW and the Semantic Web HLT for mobile applications HLT for digital libraries HLT for education systems HLT for e-business and e-government Terminology and ontologies Lexical resources and corpora Computer-assisted language learning Machine translation Word sense disambiguation Document categorization Information extraction Text summarization Natural language learning Natural language generation Evaluation of natural language systems IMPORTANT DATES * Submission deadline: 25 February 2002 * Notification of acceptance: 12 April 2002 * Camera-ready copies: 15 May 2002 SUBMISSION DETAILS Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original, previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. All papers will be refereed by at least two members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press as proceedings of the DEXA 2002 workshops. All submitted papers MUST be formatted according to the author guidelines provided by IEEE Computer Society Press and MUST NOT be longer than FIVE pages. The author guidelines can be found at www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/format.htm. If you use LaTeX, you can find an example document at www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/nlis.tex and the corresponding output at www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/nlis.ps. Please submit your paper via email to ww@ifs.univie.ac.at as RTF or PDF file. WORKSHOP CHAIRS Werner Winiwarter, University of Vienna, Austria Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia Tsunenori Mine, Kyushu University, Japan PROGRAM COMMITTEE Masatoshi Arikawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium Antje Duesterhoeft, Rostock University, Germany Guenther Fliedl, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Benoit Habert, UMR8503 et ENS Fontenay/Saint-Cloud, France Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University and the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Zoubida Kedad, PRISM Laboratory, France Christian Kop, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Yves Lepage, ATR-SLT, Japan Jana Lewerenz, sd&m AG, Germany Ee-Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Willi Mayerthaler, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Heinrich C. Mayr, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Dieter Merkl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Elisabeth Metais, CNAM of Paris, France Diego Molla-Aliod, Macquarie University, Australia Andres Montoyo, University of Alicante, Spain John Nerbonne, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Wee-Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Manuel Palomar, University of Alicante, Spain Mike P. Papazoglou, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Jon Patrick, University of Sydney, Australia David Powers, The Flinders University of South Australia, Australia Hong Liang Qiao, University of Sydney, Australia Fuji Ren, The University of Tokushima, Japan Peter Sandrini, University of Innsbruck, Austria Bruno Schienmann, Postbank Systems AG, Germany Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria Rolf Schwitter, Macquarie University, Australia Kosho Shudo, Fukuoka University, Japan Steffen Staab, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Bernhard Thalheim, Brandenburg Technical University at Cottbus, Germany Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Christian Winkler, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Kazumasa Yokota, Okayama Prefectural University, Japan For any further questions or inquiries please contact: Prof. Dr. Werner Winiwarter Institute for Computer Science and Business Informatics Liebiggasse 4 A-1010 Vienna, Austria Email: ww@ifs.univie.ac.at Tel: +43-1-4277-38516 Fax: +43-1-4277-38449 URL: www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/