Ontologies and Language Technologies for Business Information Systems - OntoLangBIS
 

INTRODUCTION

BIS conference provides a forum for the dissemination of research on
the design, implementation and deployment of computer systems for
business purposes. In the last decade, we have witnessed an
ever-growing tendency towards stronger utilization of semantic and
language technologies in knowledge management and acquisition
processes, which are crucial tasks in the context of real-world
business information systems. The goal of this special session is to
present novel solutions, exchange new ideas and experiences, and to
promote interdisciplinary discussion on issues concerning creation and
application of ontologies as well as exploitation of intelligent
natural language processing techniques in business applications.

On the one hand, ontologies provide a machine-processable semantics of
information that is exchanged between humans and computer
systems. Various standards, tools, services and approaches for
automatic ontology acquisition emerged. It will be advantageous to
compare existing resources and elaborate on proximate line of
research.

On the other hand, recent advances in the field of language
technology, in particular in the area of robust and efficient
processing, structuring and searching of unstructured textual data
attracts an enormous attention of the business community. Natural
language processing will obviously play paramount role in next
generation business applications dealing with processing vast amount
of unstructured data.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

OntoLangBis invites submissions related to all aspects of ontologies
and natural language processing techniques, which exhibit relevance to
the potential usage in business information systems. The scope of the
session encompasses but is not limited to:

%G�%@X Domain Ontologies in BIS
%G�%@X Ontologies for Services and Processes
%G�%@X Applications of the Semantic Web
%G�%@X Semantic Web for Decision Support
%G�%@X Merging of Ontologies
%G�%@X Enterprise Application Integration
%G�%@X Ontologies for Information Extraction
%G�%@X Ontologies for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
%G�%@X Language Technologies for Knowledge Management and Acquisition
%G�%@X Mono and multilingual information extraction
%G�%@X Cross-lingual Information Retrieval
%G�%@X NLP-based Text Classification and Summarization
%G�%@X Textual Question Answering
%G�%@X Text and Web Mining

Papers must be submitted electronically to the Organizing Committee
(bis2005@kie.ae.poznan.pl)

Important dates

Submission: December 1, 2004
Acceptance notice: February 15, 2005
Manuscript closing date - March 10, 2005