[AISWorld] NLDB 2016 - Submission deadline 31 March, 2016

[Vijayan Sugumaran]

Call for Papers NLDB 2016

21st International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to
Information Systems

June 22-24, 2016, University of Salford, Manchester, UK

 <http://nldb.org/> http://nldb.org/

********* Submission Deadline 31 March 2016 *********

Since 1995, the NLDB conference aims at bringing together researchers,
industrials and potential users interested in various applications of
Natural Language in the Database and Information Systems field. NLDB 2016
invites researchers from academia and industry to submit papers for oral or
poster presentations on recent, unpublished research that addresses
theoretical aspects, algorithms, applications, architectures for applied and
integrated NLP, resources for applied NLP, and other aspects of NLP, as well
as review and discussion papers.

Further, we encourage submissions on the following topics:

Applications of NLP in Information Systems: Multilingual Information
Systems, NLP in Requirement Engineering, NLP in Knowledge Management,
Semantic Data Integration and Data Cleaning.

Social Media and Web Data: Corpus analysis, Language identification, Text
normalization, Robust NLP for social media, Text classification, Information
Extraction and Sentiment Analysis for social media.

Semantic Web Open Linked Data: Ontology Learning and Alignment, Populating
ontologies, Querying Ontologies and linked data, Semantic tagging and
classification, Ontology-driven NLP.

Question Answering (QA): NL interfaces to databases, QA using web data,
multi-lingual QA, Non-factoid QA (how/why/opinion questions, lists),
geographical QA, QA corpora and training sets.

Natural language and Ubiquitous Computing: Pervasive Computing, Embedded,
Robotic and Mobile Applications.

Natural Language in Conceptual Modeling: Analysis of Natural Language
Descriptions, Terminological Ontologies, Consistency Checking, Metadata
Creation and Harvesting, Ontology-driven Systems Integration, Ontology
Management.

NLP Applications: Business Intelligence, Subjectivity and Sentiment
Analysis, QA systems, Event Detection, Named Entity and Event Detection,
Information Extraction, Summarization, NLP for Data Mining, NLP for Data
Warehouses, Plagiarism detection, Identity detection.

Submission Guidelines:

*         Authors should submit manuscripts via the NLDB 2016 web submission
system.

*         Accepted formats are: PostScript or Portable Document Format
(PDF). 

*         Papers should not exceed 12 pages. 

*         The Proceedings of NLDB 2016 will be published in the LNCS-series
at Springer Verlag. The authors should follow the LNCS
format ( <http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html>
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html)

*         Please also note: The best papers will be selected after the
conference and an extended version of these papers will be published in the
Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal as a special issue



Important Dates:

Paper submission: March 31, 2016

 

Contact: conference-com at salford.ac.uk <mailto:conference-com at salford.ac.uk> 

 

Conference Chairs:

•Elisabeth Métais, Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, Paris, France

•Farid Meziane, University of Salford, UK

•Sunil Vadera, University of Salford, UK

 

Programme Committee Chairs:

•Mohamed Saraee, University of Salford, UK

•Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University Rochester, USA

 

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Vijayan Sugumaran, Ph.D.

Professor of Management Information Systems

Chair, Department of Decision and Information Sciences

School of Business Administration

Oakland University

Rochester, MI 48309

Phone: 248-370-4649

Fax: 248-370-4275

Email:  <mailto:sugumara at oakland.edu> sugumara at oakland.edu

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