LINGUIST List 14.2742
Fri Oct 10 2003
Calls: Computational Ling; Switzerland & UK
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Message 1: COLING 2004
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 11:43:04 +0000
From: rinaldi <rinaldiifi.unizh.ch>
Subject: COLING 2004
Call for Workshop Proposals
Date: 28-Aug-2003 - 29-Aug-2003
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Contact: Michael Hess
Contact Email: hesscl.unizh.ch
Meeting URL: http://www.cl.unizh.ch/COLING2004/workshops.html
Linguistic Sub-field: Computational Linguistics
This is a session of the following conference: 20th International
Conference on Computational Linguistics
Meeting Description:
The COLING Organising Committee invites proposals for workshops to be
held at COLING 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland
http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/
Main conference: August 23rd-27th, 2004
Workshops:
August 28th-29th, 2004 The COLING Organising Committee invites
proposals for workshops to be held at COLING 2004
University of Geneva, Switzerland
http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/
Main conference: August 23rd-27th, 2004
Workshops: August 28th-29th, 2004
Following the regular program of the main conference, workshops on
current topics in Computational Linguistics will be held on 28th-29th,
August 2004, at the conference venue. Workshops will normally last one
day, but may extend to a second day if required. Proposals by
qualified individuals interested in organising a workshop are
solicited.
Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, as soon as possible,
but no later than December 15, 2003. The subject line should be:
''COLING 2004 WORKSHOP PROPOSAL''. Those interested in organising a
workshop should send a brief proposal (in plain text) to:
Michael Hess (hesscl.unizh.ch), describing
* A title and brief (2-page max) description of the workshop topic and
content, including a description of the proposed workshop format.
* relevance to COLING
* the target audience
* approximate number of participants expected
* tentative schedule for the workshop (at least half a day, up to two
days)
* a calendar of deadlines for submission, notification, and
camera-ready copy (which must be compatible with COLING deadlines)
* programme committee for the workshop
* relevant experience of the organiser(s)
* the name, postal address, phone number, e-mail address, and webpage
of each chair
* facilities required (overhead projector, beamer, computer, etc.)
The goal of the workshops is to provide an opportunity to focus
intensively on a specific topic within computational
linguistics/NLP. The workshop should bring together researchers and
practitioners from different communities to discuss recent results and
trends in the field.
The workshop proposers will be responsible for the organisational
aspects (e.g. workshop call preparation and distribution, review of
papers, notification of acceptance, coordinating workshop
participation and content, assembling of the workshop proceedings,
etc.).
Proposers are encouraged to submit as early as possible to ensure that
appropriate arrangements can be made to accommodate all workshop
sessions, and to provide adequate time for proposal evaluation and
feedback. No submissions will be accepted after the final deadline of
December 15, 2003.
Deadlines for workshops proposals
* Electronic submission of proposals: no later than December 15, 2003
* Notification to proposers: January 16, 2004
Programme Committee
Michael Hess (hesscl.unizh.ch)
Fabio Rinaldi (rinaldicl.unizh.ch)
Kai-Uwe Carstensen (carstensencl.unizh.ch) (Institute of
Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich)
Rolf Schwitter (rolfsics.mq.edu.au)
Diego Molla (diegoics.mq.edu.au)
(Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney)
Message 2: NLDB04
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 12:49:38 +0000
From: f.meziane <f.mezianesalford.ac.uk>
Subject: NLDB04
9th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to
Information Systems
Short Title: NLDB04
Date: 23-Jun-2003 - 25-Jun-2003
Location: Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom
Contact: Farid Meziane
Contact Email: f.mezianesalford.ac.uk
Meeting URL: http://www.nldb.org
Linguistic Sub-field: Computational Linguistics
Subject Language: English
Meeting Description:
Since 1995, the NLDB conference aims at bringing together researcher,
industrials and potential users interested in various application of
Natural Language in the Database and Information Systems field.
The integration of databases and natural language has been an utopia
for many years. However, progress has been made and this is now an
established field thanks to developments in Natural Language and
technologies that made the storage and manipulation of large
electronic dictionaries possible. 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
The use of Natural Language in the Software Engineering has
contributed to both improving the development process from the
viewpoints of developers (improve the process of conceptual modeling,
validation, etc) and to improving the usability of applications by
users (natural language query interfaces, semantic webs, etc).
CONFERENCE TOPICS
Natural Language for Web Information-Intensive Services
Semantic information retrieval
Semantic Web
Semi-structured 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
Document classification and indexation
Natural Language in Conceptual Modelling
Analysis of natural language descriptions
Requirement engineering
Terminological ontologies
Paraphrasing
Dynamic modelling
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
Ontology driven integration
Ontology management
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