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Subject: 2nd Call for Papers NLDB'96
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     				NLDB'96  
 
			Second International Workshop on 
	    Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems  
 
    		Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 26-28, 1996  
 


     			 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS  

This workshop aims at bringing together research results, practical
experiences and new possible ideas and directions within the field 
of applications of natural language in database and information systems.  
The integration of databases and natural language has been an utopia
for a long time. Since two decades, consulting databases or getting 
answers in natural language remain a dream for many users. 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 the 
life cycle of the information system may be improved by using natural 
language techniques : database design (specification, validation, 
conflicts resolution), database query languages and consulting programs 
that use new software engineering research results allowing natural 
language program specifications. As information systems are now evolving 
into the communication area, the term databases should be considered the 
in broader sense of information and communication systems, abbreviated 
to ICS.  

The Workshop Organizers invite submissions of original papers, as well 
as posters descriptions, product demonstration outlines and panel 
proposals to NLDB'96, which will be held in Amsterdam on June 26-28, 1996.

More and up-to-date information is available at:
http://www.cs.vu.nl/vakgroepen/infsys/nldb96/nldb96.html
 		
Topics: 
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Major topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the
following:

  - Natural languages interfaces for database querying,
  - Natural language as a specification interface for design of ICSs.
  - Paraphrasing the design of ICSs as conceptual schemas in natural language,
  - Natural language for the validation of specifications of ICSs,
  - Linguistic aspects of view integration,
  - Conceptual modelling and linguistic knowledge,
  - Use of linguistic tools and electronic dictionaries,
  - Textual databases, indexing and retrieval,
  - Generating texts from  structured data,
  - Generation of natural language texts from formal specifications, 
  - Semi-formal interfaces for interacting with databases,
  - Hypertext facilities for database querying.

Program Committee:  
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  Chairman: 	Reind van de Riet, 
		Vrije Universiteit, 
		The Netherlands    

  Ana Paula Ambrosio	  U. of Brasilia, Brazil  
  Elisa Bertino 	  U. di Milano, Italy  
  Mokrane Bouzeghoub 	  PRiSM, U. of Versailles, France  
  Janis Bubenko 	  U. of Stockholm, Sweden  
  Hans Burg 		  Vrije U., The Netherlands  
  Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau  Essec, France  
  Roland Dachelet 	  Inria, France  
  Jan Dietz 		  U. of Delft, The Netherlands  
  Frank Dignum 		  U. of Eindhoven, The Netherlands  
  Paul McFetridge 	  Simon Fraser U., Canada  
  Christian Fluhr 	  CEA, France  
  Sabine Geldof 	  Vrije U. Brussels, Belgium  
  Jon Atle Gulla 	  GMD Darmstadt, Germany  
  Henri Habrias 	  U. of Nantes, France  
  Kees Koster		  U. of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  Jean-Noel Meunier 	  PRiSM, U. of Versailles, France  
  Elisabeth Metais 	  PRiSM, U. of Versailles, France  
  Anton Nijholt 	  U. of Twente, The Netherlands  
  Erich Ortner		  U. of Konstanz, Germany  
  James Pustejovsky 	  Brandeis U., USA  
  Anne de Roeck 	  U. of Essex, UK  
  Bram van der Vos 	  Vrije U., The Netherlands  
  Hans Weigand 		  U. of Brabant, The Netherlands  
  Chien-ho Wu 		  UMIST, UK


Organizing Committee: 
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  Chairman: 	Hans Burg   (jfmburg@cs.vu.nl)  
  	    	Department of Mathematics and Computer Science   
  		Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands   
  		tel: +31-20-444 7769, fax: +31-20-444 7653   

  Mokrane Bouzeghoub   	  PRiSM, U. of Versailles, France 
  Jon Atle Gulla   	  GMD Darmstadt, Germany 
  Anton Nijholt   	  U. of Twente, The Netherlands  
  Reind van de Riet   	  Vrije U., The Netherlands 
  Bram van der Vos   	  Vrije U., The Netherlands  


Proceedings: 
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The proceedings of the conference will be available at the conference.
A special issue of Data and Knowledge Engineering (North-Holland) is planned 
containing the best papers of the workshop.

                                 
Workshop Format: 
----------------

The workshop will be three days long from Wednesday to Friday, and will
include invited talks, paper presentations, panel discussions, product
demonstrations and poster sessions to encourage the participation of newcomers. 

 
Instructions to authors:  
------------------------
 
The Workshop Organizers invite submissions of original papers (4
copies with a maximum of 5000 words, including a short abstract), 
as well as poster descriptions (including title and presenter(s)),
product demonstration outlines (including product and
organization name) and panel proposals to NLDB'96. To contribute,
please submit to the program committee chairman:

	prof. dr. R.P. van de Riet 
	Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, 
	Vrije Universiteit  
	De Boelelaan 1081a, 
	1081 HV Amsterdam, 
	The Netherlands  
	tel: +31-20-444 7757, 
	fax: +31-20-444 7653, 
	secretary: +31-20-444 7730 


Important dates:    
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  Paper, poster, demo and panel submission deadline:	    February 1st, 1996  
  Notification of paper, poster, demo and panel acceptance: April 1st, 1996
  Camera-ready papers due:				    May 15th, 1996  
  

Related Workshop: 
-----------------

Succeeding the NLDB'96 workshop the related LAP'96 (Language Action
Perspective) workshop will be held in Tilburg, The Netherlands. More
information about this communication oriented workshop can be found
at: http://infolabwww.kub.nl:2080/infolab/lap96/
-- 
+------ Hans Burg --------------------------------------------------+
|     	email:	 	<jfmburg@cs.vu.nl>                          |
|	www home-page: 	http://www.cs.vu.nl/~jfmburg/               |
+------	address:	Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Holland -----+
