LINGUIST List 13.3168

Tue Dec 3 2002

Confs: Natural Language and Information Systems

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  • f.meziane, Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, Germany

    Message 1: Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, Germany

    Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 11:26:12 +0000
    From: f.meziane <f.mezianesalford.ac.uk>
    Subject: Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, Germany


    8th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems

    Short Title: NLDB'03 Location: Burg, Germany Date: 23-Jun-2003 - 25-Jun-2003 Web Site: http://www.nldb.org Contact Person: Bernhard Thalheim Meeting Email: thalheiminformatik.tu-cottbus.de Linguistic Subfield: Computational Linguistics

    Meeting Description:

    Since 1995 the NLDB conference aims at bringing together researchers, industrial and potential users interested in various applications of NATURAL LANGUAGE in the DATABASE and INFORMATION SYSTEMS field.

    The integration of databases and natural language has been an utopia for a long time. Nowadays, this is an accessible convergent point on which a lot of researchers are focusing, mainly due to the large progress of research in natural language and to the development of new technologies which allow the storage of real semantic electronic dictionaries. Each aspect of an information system life cycle may be improved by natural language techniques: database design (specification, validation, conflict resolution), database query languages and application programming that use new software engineering research (e.g. natural language program specifications). As information systems are now evolving into the communication area, the term databases should be considered in the broader sense of information and communication systems. topic

    The topics addressed by the conference include, but are not limited to, applications of natural language to:

    Natural Language for Web Information-Intensive Services Semantic information retrieval Semantic Web Semi-structered 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 Natural Language in Conceptual Modeling Analsysis 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 Large-Scale Online Linguistic Resources Electronic dictionaries Question-answer corpora Informal ontologies Linguistic databases Digital libraries Using Computational Linguistics for IS 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