Forwarded message from [Elisabeth.Metais@PRISM.UVSQ.FR (Elisabeth Métais)] sent originally on Mon, 12 Jun 2000 17:06:43 +0200: : N L D B ' 2 0 0 0 VERSAILLES (FRANCE) JUNE 28-30 : 5th International Conference on Applications of : Natural Language to Information Systems : : http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/dataware/confs/nldb00/ : : Since 1995 the NLDB conference aims at bringing together researchers, : industrial and potential users interested in various applications of : NATURAL LANGUAGE in the DATABASE and information systems field. : : The integration of databases and natural language has been an utopia for : a long time. 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 an : information system life cycle may be improved by natural language : techniques: database design (specification, validation, conflict : resolution), database query languages and application programing that : use new software engineering research (natural language program : specifications). : 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. : : MAJOR TOPICS OF INTEREST : : : Natural Language for WEB Databases : Semantic information retrieval : Semi-structured models and associated languages : Natural Language Resources for Integration in Multi-Sources : Systems : Linguistic aspects of view integration : Linguistic aspects of data warehouse : Natural language queries to multi-databases systems : Data integration and data cleaning : Natural Language in Conceptual Modeling : Requirement engineering : Analysis of natural language descriptions : Verification, consistency checking : Paraphrasing : Dynamic modeling : Natural Language Interfaces for Data Base Querying : Natural languages interfaces for database querying : Verification of database queries by paraphrasing : Semantic analysis for information retrieval : Hypertext and Hyperbases : Hypertext as a navigation tool : Generating hypertext from data sources : Large-Scale Online Linguistic Resources : Question-answer corpora : Electronic dictionaries : Ontologies : Natural Language for Reuse : Application dictionaries : Reusable components in database design : Textual Databases : Indexing : Retrieval : Multilingual Issues : Machine translation : Multilingual information systems : : For further information: Elisabeth.Metais@prism.uvsq.fr : and the web site: http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/dataware/confs/nldb00/ : : ===== Start of ISWorld List Footer ===== : ISWorld list is a service of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) : (http://www.aisnet.org) hosted at University College Dublin. For archives, : subscribing, or posting "norms" see http://www.isworld.org/isworldlist : ===== End of ISWorld List Footer =====

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