4^th International Workshop on

Natural Language and Information Systems

to be held in Zaragoza, Spain, August 30, 2004
in conjunction with the
15^th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
DEXA 2004

directly after the
20th International Conference on Computer Linguistics (COLING 2004), Geneva, Switzerland, August 23-27, 2004
and the
18th IFIP World Computer Congress (WCC 2004), Toulouse, France, August 22-27, 2004

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Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original, previously unpublished work.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 here. If you use LaTeX, here is an example document and here the corresponding output.

 

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 Düsterhöft, 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
• Günther Fliedl, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
• Benoît Habert, UMR8503 et ENS Fontenay/Saint-Cloud, France
• Willem-Jan van den Heuvel, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
• Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University and the Royal Institue 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 Métais, CNAM of Paris, France
• Diego Mollá-Aliod, Macquarie University, Australia
• Andrés 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

University of Vienna

Liebiggasse 4

A-1010 Vienna, Austria

Email:  werner.winiwarter@univie.ac.at

Tel:      +43-1-4277-38516

Fax:     +43-1-4277-38549

URL:    http://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/

 

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