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	Reminder: Early registration closes at June 1st !!!!
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			CALL FOR PARTICIPATION  

				NLDB'96

		Second International Workshop on Applications 
		  of Natural Language to Information Systems  

 
    		 	    26-28 June, 1996  


		      Amsterdam, The Netherlands  


  
 
Dear Colleagues,

 
NLDB'96 is the second International Workshop on Applications of
Natural Language to Information Systems. 
This year it will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on 26-28 June,
continuing the successful first edition of last year when NLDB was held 
in Versailles, France.

The three-day workshop consists of a scientific programme including 22
paper presentations, and some poster and demo presentations. The
papers have been carefully selected by the programme committee through a
thorough reviewing process. The papers are of high academic quality
and treat the following topics: natural language interfaces to databases,
information retrieval, use of linguistic tools and electronic dictionaries,
conceptual modelling, paraphrasing and validating information system
models, the use of natural language as a specification interface for
the design of information systems, linguistic aspects of database view 
integration and hypertext facilities for database querying. 
The programme also features keynote speeches that address typical applications
of natural language, and that are presented both from a 
scientific as well as an industrial perspective by Peter Chen, the inventor 
of the ER model, and Gerald Kristen, the founder of the KISS company.

The organizers of NLDB'96 look forward to meeting you in Amsterdam!



Hans Burg   		(Organizing Chair)  
Reind van de Riet   	(Programme Chair)  

 

Programme Committee:  
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Chairman: 	Reind van de Riet, 
		Vrije U., The Netherlands    

    
Ana Paula Ambrosio	  U. of Goias, 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 		  NDMC, Taiwan



Preliminary Programme:
----------------------

 
Wednesday 26 June   

    	09.30   Registration and Opening  
    	10.00   Keynote Speech: English, Chinese, and ER Diagrams   
	    	Peter P. Chen  
	11.00   Coffee Break  
    	11.30   Natural and Formal Languages in the Development of
    		Information Systems  
    	    	A.T. Berztiss  
    	12.00   Analyzing Informal Requirements Specifications:  
	    	A First Step towards Conceptual Modelling 
	    	J.F.M. Burg, R.P. van de Riet  
	12.30   Lunch  
	14.00   Paraphrasing as a Technique to Support Object-Oriented 
		Analysis  
    	    	C.F. Derksen, P.J.M. Frederiks, Th.P. van der Weide  
    	14.30   Exploring Fact Verbalisations for Conceptual Query 
		Formulation  
	    	A.H.M. ter Hofstede, H.A. Proper, Th.P. van der Weide  
    	15.00   Tea break  
    	15.30   An Information Retrieval Approach to Locating Information  
	    	in Large Scale Federated Database Systems  
	    	R. Richardson, A.F. Smeaton 
    	16.00   Metalinguistic Formulas and Semantics Representation of 
		Knowledge  in Training Simulators  
	    	G. Le Bail, R. Cousin, P. Capdeville  

 
Thursday 27 June   

	09.00   Hypertext Facilities to Document Conceptual Database 
		Schemata  
	    	G. Levreau, M. Bouzeghoub  
    	09.30   Audio Facilities for Hypermedia Consultation  
	    	S. Djennane, F. Sedes  
    	10.00   Hyper-Text Generation from Databases on the Internet  
	    	S. Geldof  
    	10.30   Coffee break  
    	11.00   Retrieving Conceptual Models on the Basis of Word Semantics  
	    	J.A. Gulla, A.J. van der Vos, U. Thiel  
    	11.30   Conceptual Modelling, Indexing and Retrieval for Textual
    		Corporate  Knowledge Bases  
	    	G.P. Zarri  
    	12.00   Extraction of Exact Meaning Using a Keyfact Concept System  
	    	M.-S. Jeon, S.-Y. Park, M.-S. Kim  
    	12.30   Lunch  
	14.00   Structured Data Entry for Medical Records and Reports  
	    	J. Bernauer, A. Benneke, A. Fuesechi, M. Urban  
	14.30   Natural Language Interpretation for Public Administration
    		Database  Querying in the TAMIC Demonstrator  
	    	C. Bagnasco, P. Bresciani, B. Magnini, C. Strapparava  
	15.00   Natural Language Interfaces for Environmental Data Bases  
	    	F. Dinenberg, D. Levin  


Friday 28 June  

    	09.00   Capturing Information on Behaviour with the RADD-NLI: 
	    	A Linguistic and Knowledge Based Approach  
	    	E. Buchholz, A. D  u sterh  o ft, B. Thalheim  
	09.30   NL Structures and Conceptual Modelling: The KISS Case  
	    	J. Hoppenbrouwers, A.J. van der Vos, S. Hoppenbrouwers  
	10.00   A Basis for Natural Language Analysis of Part-Whole
    		Relationships  in Fact-Based Conceptual Modelling  
	    	P. Gupta, J.A. Sykes  
	10.30   Coffee break  
	11.00   NTS-based derivation of KCPM cardinalities:  
	    	From Natural Language to Conceptual Predesign  
	    	G. Fliedl, Ch. Kop, W. Mayerthaler, H.C. Mayr, Ch. Winkler  
	11.30   Keynote Speech:    Understanding Business Languages   
    	    	Gerald Kristen  
	12.30   Lunch  
    	14.00   Linguistic Tool Based Information Elicitation in Large
    		Heterogeneous  Database Networks  
	    	S. Milliner, M. Papazoglou, H. Weigand  
    	14.30   Correspondency Analysis of Dynamic Schema Constructs Using 
	    	Case Grammar  
	    	S. Hakkarainen  
    	15.00   Implementation of a Third Generation View Integration Tool  
	    	E. Metais, Z. Kedad, I. Comyn-Wattiau, M. Bouzeghoub  
    	15.30   Closure  

 

                                 
Important dates and addresses: 
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1 June 1996   		Deadline for early registration and hotel reservation  
	Early Registration (paid before 1 June 1996)   NLG 500,--  
	Late Registration (paid after 1 June 1996)     NLG 550,--  
26 - 28 June 1996   	NLDB'96  

 
 
For more information:

Hans Burg  
De Boelelaan 1081a  
1081 HV Amsterdam  
The Netherlands  
tel: +31 (0)20 4447769  
fax: +31 (0)20 4447653  
e-mail: jfmburg@cs.vu.nl 

http://www.cs.vu.nl/vakgroepen/infsys/nldb96/nldb96.html 

-- 
+------ Hans Burg ----- Organizing Chairman NLDB'96 ----------------+
|     	email:	 	<jfmburg@cs.vu.nl>                          |
|	www home-page: 	http://www.cs.vu.nl/~jfmburg/               |
+------	address:	Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Holland -----+
