9th International Conference on Applications of NATURAL
      LANGUAGE to INFORMATION SYSTEMS

      NLDB'04
      Manchester (United Kingdom), June 23-25
      http://www.nldb.org

      TOPICS

      - Natural Language for Web Information-Intensive Services (
      Semantic Information retrieval, Semantic web, Semi-structured
      models and associated languages, Web usage, Content and
      structure mining for discovering semantics, Concept
      taxonomies and web mining,=A0Learning taxonomies and ontologies
      from the web, information extraction with machine learning,
      document classification and indexation),

      - Natural Language in Conceptual Modeling ( Analysis of
      natural language descriptions, Requirement engineering,
      Terminological ontologies, Paraphrasing, Dynamic modeling,
      Verification, consistency checking, Metadata harvesting),

      - Natural Language Interfaces for Data Base
      Querying/Retrieval ( Natural languages interfaces for
      database querying, Verification of database queries by
      paraphrasing, Semantic analysis for information retrieval, NL
      interaction with databases),

      - Natural-Language-Based Integration of Systems ( Linguistic
      aspects of view integration, Linguistic aspects of data
      warehouses, Natural language queries to multi-databases
      systems, Data integration and data cleansing, Ontology driven
      integration, Ontology management),

      - Large-Scale Online Linguistic Resources ( Electronic
      dictionaries, Question-answer corpora, Informal ontologies,
      Linguistic databases, Digital libraries),

      - Applications of Computational Linguistics in Information
      Systems (Multilingual information systems, NLP in
      requirements engineering, NLP in knowledge management,
      Ontology-driven NLP, Semiotics and fundamentals),

      - Management of Textual Databases (Text classification,
      Information extraction and detection, Text mining for
      creating metadata, Document management, Hypertext and
      Hyperbases).

      IMPORTANT POINTS

      -> The proceedings will be published by SPRINGER in their
      LNCS Series
      -> The best 5 papers will be selected for publication in a
      special issue of Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal.

      IMPORTANT DATE

      Paper submission, extended deadline: February 29, 2004

      CONFERENCE SITE

      http://www.nldb.org