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CALL FOR PAPERS 

Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science (NLUCS - 2006)
23-24 May 2006
Paphos, Cyprus

Submission deadline: 16 January 2006
http://www.iceis.org/workshops_list.htm#NLUCS
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The workshop is co-located with the International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS)
http://www.iceis.org

organized by the Institute for Information Systems and Technologies, Control and Communication (INSTICC)
in cooperation with the University of Cyprus, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Athens University of Economics and Business


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IMPORTANT DATES

Full Paper Submission: January 16, 2006
Author Notification: February 17, 2006
Final Camera-Ready Submission and Registration: March 17, 2006
Workshop dates: May 23-24, 2006


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MAIN TOPIC AREAS 

Papers may address one or more of the listed topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in the general workshop concept. 

- 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 


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SUBMISSION
Please submit your contribution through the web-based submission facility available at http://www.iceis.org/paper_submission.htm

E-mail for paper submission questions, proceedings and registrations: workshops@iceis.org


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PUBLICATION
All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings with ISBN, in book and CD-ROM


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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Y. Wilks (UK) 
J. Barnden (UK) 
C. Higgins (UK)
J. Mothe (France) 
C. Soule Dupuy (France) 
C. Mota (Portugal) 
P. Rayson (UK) 
E. Ranchhod (Portugal) 
D. Tufis (Romania) 
F. Sedes (France) 
M. Nunes (Brasil) 
C. Day (UK) 
M. Tadic (Croatia) 
A. Gelbukh (Korea) 
C. Shan (USA)
G. Thompson (UK)
B. Endres-Niggemeye (Germany)
A. Monaghan (Ireland) 
R. Schwitter (Australia)
D. Molla (Australia) 
S. Helmreich (USA)
M. Aretoulaki (Germany)
P. Windridge (UK)
D. Cristea (Romania)
S. Narayanan (USA)
D. Mladenic (Slovenia)
E. Hinrichs (Germany)