C A L L F O R P A P E R S (deadline March 12th,2000) N L D B ' 2 0 0 0 5th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems Versailles (France), June 28-30, 2000 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 programming that use new software engineering research (e.g. 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. SETTING: Versailles is an historical city famous for its palace and gardens. Half an hour separates Versailles from Paris which is one of the most charming cities in the world 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 SUPPORTING EVENTS: The organizers would like to provide for opportunities to disseminate work in a variety of ways. Those interested in preparing tutorials or panel discussions are invited to contact the program chair. Demonstrations of prototypes or tools are also welcome. Previous conferences have been held in Versailles (France), Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Vancouver (Canada) and Klagenfurt (Austria), and have attracted researchers from all the continents. In addition to a conference proceedings, selected papers have in the past been submitted for review and publication in special editions of the Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering. CONFERENCE CHAIR : Mokrane Bouzeghoub, Universite de Versailles, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE chair: Elisabeth Metais, Universite de Versailles, France Alfs T. Berztiss, University of Pittsburgh, USA Mokrane Bouzeghoub, PRiSM, Universite de Versailles, France Hans Burg, Ordina Alignment Consulting, The Netherlands Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, Universite de Cergy, France Guenther Fliedl, Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria Nicola Guarino, CNR, Padova, Italy Jon Atle Gulla, Norsk Hydro, Norway Udo Hahn, Freiburg University, Germany Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden Zoubida Kedad, PRiSM, Universitaet de Versailles, France Christian Kop, Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria Paul McFetridge, Simon Fraser University, Canada Henrich Mayr, Universiaet Klagenfurt, Austria Ana Maria Moreno, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Odile Piton, Universite de Paris 1, France Reind van de Riet, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ans Steuten, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Veda Storey, Georgia State University, USA Bernhard Thalheim, University of Cottbus, Germany Roland Wagner, University of Linz, Austria Werner Winiwarter, University of Vienna, Austria Christian Winkler, Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland ORGANIZING COMMITTEE chair: Zoubida Kedad, Universite de Versailles, France Chantal Ducoin, Universite de Versailles, France Paul Schmidt, IAI, Germany INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS: To contribute, please submit 4 copies of a paper which does not exceed 5000 words, including a short abstract, to the program committee chair : Elisabeth Metais laboratoire PRiSM 45 avenue des Etats-Unis F-78035 Versailles France Elisabeth.Metais@prism.uvsq.fr phone: +33 (0) 1 39 25 40 53 fax: +33 (0) 1 39 25 40 57 IMPORTANT DATES : PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 12th, 2000 Notification of acceptance: April 15th, 2000 Camera-ready paper: May 8th, 2000