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Subject: NLIS 2004 - First Call for Papers Date: Monday 17 November 2003 15:21 From: "Werner Winiwarter" werner.winiwarter@univie.ac.at To: pro-it@ocg.at

C A L L F O R P A P E R S 4th International Workshop on Natural Language and Information Systems (NLIS 2004) to be held in Zaragoza, Spain, August 30, 2004 www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/nlis2004.htm

in conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2004, www.dexa.org)

directly after the 20th International Conference on Computer Linguistics (COLING 2004), Geneva, Switzerland, August 23-27, 2004, www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/, and the 18th IFIP World Computer Congress (WCC 2004), Toulouse, France, August 22-27, 2004, www.wcc2004.org

Workshop proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press

THEME

Ubiquitous business, ambient intelligence, global digital libraries, lifelong learning, virtual communities, are just a few of the visions for the future which will bring unimaginable changes and new challenges for all of us. Human Language Technology (HLT) is one of the key technologies to make these visions come true. The main objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers from both natural language processing and information systems with the aim of encouraging the exchange of ideas and experience between these two communities. It will provide an international forum for the presentation of an overview of the most recent trends in these two active research fields, and a common starting-point to tackle the most pressing research problems and to address long-term research issues.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Natural language and speech interfaces Multimodal and multilingual interfaces Adaptive and personalized interfaces HLT for information system design HLT for conceptual modeling HLT for requirements engineering HLT for information retrieval and filtering HLT for the WWW and the Semantic Web HLT for mobile applications HLT for digital libraries HLT for education systems HLT for e-business and e-government Terminology and ontologies Lexical resources and corpora Computer-assisted language learning Machine translation Word sense disambiguation Document categorization Information extraction Text summarization Natural language learning Natural language generation Evaluation of natural language systems

IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission deadline: 8 February 2004 * Notification of acceptance: 19 April 2004 * Camera-ready copies: 15 May 2004

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original, previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. All papers will be refereed by at least two members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press as proceedings of the DEXA 2004 workshops. All submitted papers MUST be formatted according to the author guidelines provided by IEEE Computer Society Press and MUST NOT be longer than FIVE pages. The author guidelines can be found at www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/format.htm. If you use LaTeX, you can find an example document at www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/nlis.tex and the corresponding output at www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/nlis.ps.

Please submit your paper via email to werner.winiwarter@univie.ac.at as RTF or PDF file.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Werner Winiwarter, University of Vienna, Austria Antje Duesterhoeft, University of Wismar, Germany Tsunenori Mine, Kyushu University, Japan

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Masatoshi Arikawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan Helmut Berger, EC3, Austria Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium Michael Dittenbach, EC3, Austria Guenther Fliedl, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Benoit Habert, UMR8503 et ENS Fontenay/Saint-Cloud, France Willem-Jan van den Heuvel, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University and the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Zoubida Kedad, PRISM Laboratory, France Christian Kop, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Yves Lepage, ATR-SLT, Japan Jana Lewerenz, sd&m AG, Germany Ee-Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Heinrich C. Mayr, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Dieter Merkl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Elisabeth Metais, CNAM of Paris, France Diego Molla-Aliod, Macquarie University, Australia Andres Montoyo, University of Alicante, Spain John Nerbonne, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Wee-Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Douglas W. Oard, University of Maryland, USA Satoshi Oyama, Kyoto University, Japan Manuel Palomar, University of Alicante, Spain Jon Patrick, University of Sydney, Australia David Powers, The Flinders University of South Australia, Australia Fuji Ren, The University of Tokushima, Japan Peter Sandrini, University of Innsbruck, Austria Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria Rolf Schwitter, Macquarie University, Australia Kosho Shudo, Fukuoka University, Japan Steffen Staab, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Bernhard Thalheim, Brandenburg Technical University at Cottbus, Germany Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Christian Winkler, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Jian Yang, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Kazumasa Yokota, Okayama Prefectural University, Japan Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia

For any further questions or inquiries please contact:

Prof. Dr. Werner Winiwarter Department of Computer Science and Business Informatics Liebiggasse 4 A-1010 Vienna, Austria Email: werner.winiwarter@univie.ac.at Tel: +43-1-4277-38516 Fax: +43-1-4277-38549 URL: www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/

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