Call for Papers 2nd International Workshop on Natural Language and Information Systems NLIS 2000 http://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/nlis2000.html in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications DEXA 2000 Greenwich, United Kingdom September 4-8, 2000 Workshop proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press THEME The Second International Workshop on Natural Language and Information Systems will take place on the eve of a new millenium which will bring unimaginable changes and new challenges. Human Language Technology (HLT) has reached a level of maturity that makes it feasible to solve many of the urgent needs of the coming information age. By learning from past failures and successes we are now ready to apply the new technology to real-life applications. Multilinguality, mobile speech access to the web, and automatic knowledge extraction from documents are just a few examples that show the importance of HLT as a key technology for the new millenium. 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 acute problems of information processing. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Natural language interfaces * Multimodal interfaces * Adaptive interfaces * HLT for information system design * HLT for conceptual modeling * HLT for requirements engineering * HLT for information retrieval and filtering * HLT for the WWW * Terminology and ontologies * Lexical resources and corpora * Multilinguality * 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: 24 January 2000 * Notification of acceptance: 10 April 2000 * Camera-ready copies: 1 May 2000 SUBMISSION DETAILS Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original, previously unpublished work.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 2000 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 http://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/format.html. If you use LaTeX, an example document can be found at http://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/nlis.tex and the corresponding output at http://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/nlis.ps. Electronic Submission Please submit your paper electronically to our FTP site. Please prepare your paper as plain ASCII PostScript only, with NO encoding, condensing, or encapsulation. Please use TrueType 1 fonts wherever possible. 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WORKSHOP CHAIRS * Werner Winiwarter, University of Vienna, Austria * Robert Dale, Language Technology Pty Ltd and Macquarie University, Australia * Tsunenori Mine, Kyushu University, Japan For any further questions or inquiries please contact: Prof. Werner Winiwarter Institute of Applied Computer Science & Information Systems University of Vienna Liebiggasse 4/3, A-1010 Wien, AUSTRIA Email: winiwarter@acm.org Phone: +43-1-4277-38434 Fax: +43-1-4277-38449