The Second International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding
and Cognitive Science
NLUCS - 2005

24 May 2005 - Miami, USA

First Announcement and Call for Papers

In conjunction with the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise
Information Systems - ICEIS 2005 (http://www.iceis.org/)

Chair:

Professor Bernadette Sharp
Staffordshire University
United Kingdom
nlucs@staffs.ac.uk

Workshop Background and Goals

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

- Computer Model of Language Understanding
- Evolutionary Language Understanding
- Cognitive and Psychological Models of Language Understanding
- Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding
- Speech Understanding
- Computational Text Understanding
- Situated (embodied) understanders / communicators
- Multimodality in speech / text understanding
- Message and Narrative Understanding Systems
- Text Summarization and Information Extraction
- Natural Language Interfaces and Dialogue Systems
- Multi-Lingual Processing and Understanding
- Tools and Resources in Language Understanding
- Evaluation of Language Understanding Systems
- Ontologies
- Text Mining
- Electronic Dictionaries

Format of the Workshop

The workshop will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations of
previously submitted papers that went through a double peer review
process. The proceedings of the workshop will be published in the form of a
book.

Submission of Papers

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for oral presentation in
any of the areas listed above. Only full papers in English will be accepted,
and the length of the paper should not exceed 10 pages (5000
words). Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex format)
are available at the ICEIS web site. Postscript/RTF versions of the
manuscript should be submitted thru ICEIS web-based paper submission
procedure.

Important Dates

Full paper submission: December 29, 2004
Author notification: February 15, 2005
Camera-ready paper submission: March 4, 2005

Workshop Program Committee

J. A Barnden
A. Gelbukh (Korea)
C. Day (UK)
Brigitte Endres-Niggemeyer (Germany)
R. Mitkov (UK)
A. Monaghan (Ireland)
C. Mota (Portugal)
J. Mothe (France)
M. Nunes (Brasil)
E. Ranchhod (Portugal)
P. Rayson (UK)
R. Schwitter (Australia)
F. Sedes (France)
C. Shan (USA)
C. Soule Dupuy (France)
M. Tadic (Croatia)
G. Thompson (UK)
D. Tufis (Romania)
Y. Wilks (UK)

Conference Location

The workshop will be held at Deauville Beach Resort in Miami, USA.

Registration Information

To attend the workshop you need to register at http://www.iceis.org

Secretariat

ICEIS 2005 Secretariat - The Second International Workshop on Natural
Language Understanding and Cognitive Science
E-mail: workshops@iceis.org
Web site: http://www.iceis.org