(DBWORLD) ISI-NIS Special Issue on the Application of Natural Language to Information Systems - DEADLINE EXTEN

DEADLINE EXTENSION : February 15th, 2003

CALL FOR PAPERS
French Journal  "Ingenierie des Systemes d'Information"  (ISI-NIS)
Special Issue on the Application of  Natural Language to Information Systems
Scope:
The integration of databases and natural language has been an utopia for a
long time. Nowadays, this is an accessible convergent point on which many
researchers are focusing, mainly due to the large progress of research in
natural language and to the development of new technologies which enable the
storage of really 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 in the
sense that they use new software engineering research (natural language
program specifications). As information systems are now evolving into the
communication area, the term database should be considered in the broader
sense of information and communication system.
Sharing information is the emerging theme in the trend of Information
Systems. Information is nowadays exchanged as it has never been before.
Shared access to data is expected via the Internet or Intranets. Many
efforts are put in finding new exchange formats such as XML. Inside
organizations, operational data are gathered for common storage in
Enterprise Resource Planning systems. For decisional purpose, legacy data,
external data and operational data are extracted into Data Warehouses.
Gathering and sharing information leads to an explosion of activities like
information retrieval, data integration, data mining and text mining. There
is now evidence that the very tool for dealing with semantically
heterogeneous data is ontology. The Web also serves as a platform for many
distributed applications. This leads to new exciting research directions
such as Semantic Web or Web Mining. All these techniques are tiny related to
Natural Language Processing Techniques.

Topics:
 The topics addressed by this issue include, but are not limited to,
applications of Natural Language Processing techniques to :
CONCEPTUAL MODELING
·        Requirement engineering , Analysis of natural language descriptions
·        Validation, Consistency Checking, Paraphrasing
·        Dynamic modeling, UML
ONTOLOGIES
·        Ontology building and updating
·        Formal representation, descriptive logic
·        Semantic links, retrieval procedures
WEB DATABASES
·        Semantic Web
·        Semi-structured models and associated languages
·        XML
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
·        Semantic Matching
·        Indexing
·        Search Engines
·        WEB Mining
INFORMATION  SYSTEMS QUERYING AND ANSWERING
·        Text Generation and Summarization
·        Automatic Answering Systems
INFORMATION SHARING IN MULTI-SOURCES SYSTEMS
·        Natural Language Resources for Querying Multi-Sources Systems
·        Data integration and data cleaning
·        Data Warehouses
PATTERN AND COMPONENT REUSE
DOCUMENTARY, TEXTUAL AND MULTIMEDIA DATABASES
VALIDATION AND VERIFICATION OF SOFTWARE
ERP MANAGEMENT
MULTILINGUAL APPLICATIONS

Guest Editors :
Elisabeth Métais, CEDRIC/CNAM Paris, France, elsa-49WeHKhj208@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, CEDRIC/CNAM Paris, France, wattiau@xxxxxxx
 Editorial Committee :
Jacky Akoka, France
Claude Belleil, France
Patrick Bosc, France
Mokrane Bouzeghoub, France
Henri Briand, France
Paul Johannesson, Sweden
Farid Meziane, United Kingdom
Reind van de Riet, The Netherlands
Colette Rolland, France
Marie-Christine Rousset, France
Florence Sedes, France
Veda Storey, United States
Bernhard Thalheim, Germany
Pierre Zweigenbaum, France

Submission Guidelines:
Authors are invited to submit research contributions to elsa@xxxxxxx. Papers
should not be more than 5000 words.  Referees will consider originality,
significance, technical soundness and clarity. Accepted formats are:
Microsoft Word, PostScript, RTF, PDF.
Languages :
Papers must be written using either the French or the English language.

Important deadlines:
Extended Paper submission deadline: February 15th 2003
Notification of acceptance: April 10th 2003
Final version : May 30th 2003
Publication: September 2003

NLDB'2003 :
We cheer you to submit a shorter (and English) version of your paper to the
NLDB'2003 conference at http://www.nldb.org.

Prof. Elisabeth Métais
Prof. Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau

CNAM,  laboratoire CEDRIC
chaire d'informatique d'entreprise
292 rue Saint Martin
75141 Paris cedex 03
FRANCE

 

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