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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>18th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>19-21 JUNE 2013, UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD AT MEDIA CITY UK (<a href="http://www.nldb.org">www.nldb.org</a>)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Since 1995, the NLDB conference aims at bringing together researchers, 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 Software Engineering has contributed to both improving the development process from the viewpoints of developers (improve the process of conceptual modeling, validation, etc.) and the usability of applications by users (natural language query interfaces, semantic web, etc.).NLDB 2013 invites researchers from academia and industry to submit papers for oral or poster presentations on recent, unpublished research that ad-dresses theoretical aspects, algorithms, applications, architectures for applied and integrated NLP, resources for applied NLP, and other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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Topics of interest include but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Applications of NLP in Information Systems: Multilingual Information Systems, NLP in Requirement Engineering, NLP in Knowledge Management, Semantic Data Integration and Data Cleaning<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Semantic Web Open Linked Data: Ontology Learning and Alignment, Populating ontologies, Querying Ontologies and linked data, Semantic tagging and classification, Ontology-driven NLP<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Natural language and Ubiquitous Computing: Pervasive Computing, Embedded, Robotic and Mobile Applications.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Natural Language in Conceptual Modeling: Analysis of Natural Language Descriptions, Terminological Ontologies, Consistency Checking, Metadata Creation and Harvesting, Ontology-driven Systems Integration, Ontology Management<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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 Ware-houses, Plagiarism detection, Identity detection.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>IMPORTANT DATES:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Full paper submission: February 1, 2013<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2013<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Camera-ready papers: April 1, 2013<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Contact: <a href="mailto:nldb2013@easychair.org">nldb2013@easychair.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Conference Co-Chairs: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Elisabeth Métais, CNAM, Paris, France<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Farid Meziane, University of Salford, UK<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sunil Vadera, University of Salford, UK<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Programme Committee Co-Chairs: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mohamed Saraee, University of Salford, UK<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Vijay Sugumaran, Oakland University Rochester, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jacky Akoka, CNAM, France<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Johan Bos, Groningen University, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Goss Bouma, Groningen University, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chris Bryant, University of Salford, UK<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Philipp Cimiano, Universität Bielefeld, Germany<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, ESSEC, France<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Zhou Erqiang, University of Electronics and Technology, China<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Stefan Evert, University of Osnabrück, Germany<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Alexander Gelbukh, Mexican Academy of Science, Mexico<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jon Atle Gulla, NTNU, Norway<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Karin Harbusch, Koblenz University, Germany<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dirk Heylen, University of Twente, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Helmut Horacek, Saarland University, Germany<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Epaminondas Kapetanios, University of Westminster, UK<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>John Kean, University of Manchester, UK<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Zoubida Kedad, Université de Versailles, France<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mohamed Khayyambashi, University of Isfahan, Iran<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Christian Kop, University of Klagenfurt, Austria<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Valia Kordoni, Saarland University, Germany<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Leila Kosseim, Concordia University, Canada<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Zornitsa Kozareva, University of Southern California, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nadira Lammari, CNAM, France<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jochen Leidner, Thomson Reuters, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Piroska Lendvai, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Johannes Leveling, Dublin City University, Ireland<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Deryle Lonsdale, Brigham Young University, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Rob Malouf, San Diego State University, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Farhi Marir, London Metropolitan University, UK<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Heinrich C. Mayr, University of Klagenfurt, Austria<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Luisa Mich, University of Trento, Italy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Shamima Mithun, Concordia University, Canada<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Marie-Francine Moens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Andres Montoyo, Universidad de Alicante<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Rafael Muñoz, Universidad de Alicante<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Guenter Neumann, DFKI, Germany<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jan Odijk, Utrecht University, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jim O’Shea, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Karim Ouazzane, London Metropolitan University, UK<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Pit Pichappan, Al Imam University, Saudi Arabia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Lonneke van der Plas, Université de Genève, Switzerland<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mike Rosner, University of Malta, Malta<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>German Rigau, University of the Basque Country, Spain<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Fabio Rinaldi, University of Zurich, Switzerland<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Patrick Saint-Dizier, Université Paul Sabatier, France<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Khaled Shaalan, The British University in Dubai, UAE<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Max Silberztein, Université de Franche-Comté, France<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Samira Si-Said Cherfi, CNAM, France<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Veda Storey, Georgia State University, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bernhard Thalheim, Kiel University, Germany<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Michael Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton, UK<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Wright State University, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Juan Carlos Trujillo, Universidad de Alicante, Spain<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Christina Unger, Universität Bielefeld, Germany<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Alfonso Urena, University of Jaén, Spain<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Panos Vassiliadis, University of Ioannina, Greece<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Robert Wagner, Linz University, Austria<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>René Witte, Concordia University, Canada<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Magdalena Wolska, Saarland University, Germany<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bing Wu, Dublin Institute of Technology, Republic of Ireland<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jim Yip, University of Salford, UK<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>=======================================<br>Vijayan Sugumaran, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Professor of Management Information Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Department of Decision and Information Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>School of Business Administration<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Oakland University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Rochester, MI 48309<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Phone: +1 248 370 2831<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Fax: +1 248 370 4275<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Email: <a href="mailto:sugumara@oakland.edu">sugumara@oakland.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>=======================================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>