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NLDB 2023

The 28th International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems 21-23 June 2023, University of Derby, United Kingdom. https://www.derby.ac.uk/events/latest-events/nldb-2023/

About NLDB

The 28th International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems will be held at the University of Derby, United Kingdom and will be a face to face event. Since 1995, the NLDB conference brings together researchers, industry practitioners, and potential users interested in various application of Natural Language in the Database and Information Systems field. The term "Information Systems" has to be considered in the broader sense of Information and Communication Systems, including Big Data, Linked Data and Social Networks.

The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has itself recently experienced several exciting developments. In research, these developments have been reflected in the emergence of neural language models (Deep Learning, Word Embeddings, Transformers) and the importance of aspects such as transparency, bias and fairness, a (renewed) interest in various linguistic phenomena, such as in discourse and argumentation mining, and in new problems such as the detection of disinformation and hate speech in social media, as well of mental health disorders that increased during the recent pandemic. Regarding applications, NLP systems have evolved to the point that they now offer real-life, tangible benefits to enterprises. Many of these NLP systems are now considered a de-facto offering in business intelligence suites, such as algorithms for recommender systems and opinion mining/sentiment analysis. It is against this backdrop of recent innovations in NLP and its applications in information systems that the 28th edition of the NLDB conference takes place. We welcome research and industrial contributions, describing novel, previously unpublished works on NLP and its applications across a plethora of topics as described in the Call for Papers.

Call for Papers

NLDB 2023 invites authors to submit papers for oral or poster presentations on unpublished research that addresses theoretical aspects, algorithms, applications, architectures for applied and integrated NLP, resources for applied NLP, and other aspects of NLP, as well as survey and discussion papers. This year's edition of NLDB also introduces an Industry Track, to foster fruitful interaction between the industry and the research community. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Social Media and Web Analytics: Opinion mining/sentiment analysis, irony/sarcasm detection; detection of fake reviews and deceptive language; detection of harmful information: fake news and hate speech; sexism and misogyny; detection of mental health disorders; identification of stereotypes and social biases; robust NLP methods for sparse, ill-formed texts; recommendation systems.

Deep Learning and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Deep learning architectures, word embeddings, transparency, interpretability, fairness, debiasing, ethics.

• Argumentation Mining and Applications: Automatic detection of argumentation components and relationships; creation of resource (e.g. annotated corpora, treebanks and parsers); Integration of NLP techniques with formal, abstract argumentation structures; Argumentation Mining from legal texts and scientific articles. • Question Answering (QA): Natural language interfaces to databases, QA using web data, multi-lingual QA, non-factoid QA(how/why/opinion questions, lists), geographical QA, QA corpora and training sets, QA over linked data (QALD). • Corpus Analysis: multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-modal corpora; machine translation, text analysis, text classification and clustering; language identification; plagiarism detection; information extraction: named entity, extraction of events, terms and semantic relationships. • Semantic Web, Open Linked Data, and Ontologies: Ontology learning and alignment, ontology population, ontology evaluation, querying ontologies and linked data, semantic tagging and classification, ontology-driven NLP, ontology-driven systems integration. • Natural Language in Conceptual Modelling: Analysis of natural language descriptions, NLP in requirement engineering, terminological ontologies, consistency checking, metadata creation and harvesting. • Natural Language and Ubiquitous Computing: Pervasive computing, embedded, robotic and mobile applications; conversational agents; NLP techniques for Internet of Things (IoT); NLP techniques for ambient intelligence • Big Data and Business Intelligence: Identity detection, semantic data cleaning, summarisation, reporting, and data to text.

Important Dates:

Full paper submission: 14 March, 2023 Paper notification: 10 April, 2023 Camera-ready deadline: 24 April, 2023 Conference: 21-23 June 2023

Submission Guidelines

Authors should follow the LNCS format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui... ) and submit their manuscripts in pdf via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nldb2023 ) Submissions can be full papers (12 pages maximum including references), short papers (8 pages including references) or papers for a poster presentation or system demonstration (6 pages including references). The programme committee may decide to accept some full papers as short papers or poster papers. The reviewing process of NLDB 2023 is double-blind, i.e., submissions to the main conference and to the industry track must not contain author names or other identifying information, such as funding sources, acknowledgments and must use the third person to refer to work the authors have previously undertaken. System demonstration papers may not be anonymous.

Committee

Conference Chairs:

Manning Warren, University of Derby, UK Métais Elisabeth, Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France Meziane Farid, University of Derby, UK

Program Chairs:

Reiff-Marganiec Stephan, University of Derby, UK Sugumaran Vijayan, Oakland University, Rochester, USA

Programme Committee:

Abdi Asad, University of Derby, UK. Akoka Jacky, CNAM & TEM, France Anselma Luca, University of Turin, Italy Bajaj Ahsaas, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Balakrishna Mithun, Limba Corp, USA Banerjee Somnath, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Bensalem Imene, MISC Lab, Constantine 2 University, Algeria Bosco Cristina, University of Turin, Italy Braschler Martin, ZHAW School of Engineering, Switzerland Buscaldi Davide, University Sorbonne Paris Nord, France Cabrio Elena, Université Côte d’Azur, Inria, CNRS, I3S, France Caselli Tommaso, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands Chiruzzo Luis, Universidad de la República, Uruguay Cignarella Alessandra Teresa, University of Turin, Italy Cimiano Philipp, Bielefeld University, Germany Croce Danilo, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy Delgado Agustín, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain Dinu Liviu, University of Bucharest, Romania Doucet Antoine, La Rochelle University, France Fersini Elisabetta, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Florio Komal, University of Turin, Italy Fomichov Vladimir, Moscow Aviation Institute, Russia Fornaciari Tommaso, Bocconi University Milan, Italy Franco Marc, Symanto, Germany/Spain Frasincar Flavius, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands Hacohen-Kerner Yaakov, Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel Horacek Helmut, DFKI, Germany Ienco Dino, IRSTEA, France Iglesias Carlos A., Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Ittoo Ashwin, HEC, Univ. of Liege, Belgium Kapetanios Epaminondas, University of Hertfordshire, UK Kedad Zoubida, UVSQ, France Kop Christian, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Koufakou Anna, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA Laatar Rim, University of Sfax, Tunisia Lai Mirko, University of Turin, Italy Lopez Cédric, Emvista, Montpellier, France Loukachevitch Natalia, Moscow State University, Russia Aaisha Makkar, University of Derby Mandl Thomas, University of Hildesheim, Germany Martínez Paloma, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Martínez Patricio, Universidad de Alicante, Spain Martínez Unanue Raquel, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain Masmoudi Abir, LIUM, University of Le Mans, France Mazzei Alessandro, University of Turin, Italy Métais Elisabeth, Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, France Meziane Farid, University of Derby, UK Mich Luisa, University of Trento, Italy Mimouni Nada, Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, France Mitrović Jelena, University of Passau, Germany Montalvo Soto, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain Montes y Gómez Manuel, INAOE Puebla, Mexico Monti Johanna, L'Orientale University of Naples, Italy Muñoz Rafael, Universidad de Alicante, Spain Okky-Ibrohim Muhammad, University of Turin, Italy Passaro Lucia, University of Pisa, Italy Patti Viviana, University of Turin, Italy Picca Davide, Columbia University, USA Plaza Laura, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain Rangel Francisco, Symanto, Germany/Spain Reyes Antonio, Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexico Roche Mathieu, Cirad, TETIS, France Rosso Paolo, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Saggion Horacio, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Sakketou Flora, Philipps-Marburg University Sanguinetti Manuela, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy Silberztein Max, Université de Franche-Comté, France Sprugnoli Rachele, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Milan, Italy Sugumaran Vijayan, Oakland University, Rochester, USA Tagarelli Andrea, University of Calabria, Italy Taulé Mariona, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain Teisseire Maguelonne, Irstea, TETIS, France Tomás David, Universidad de Alicante, Spain Tufis Dan, RACAI, Bucharest, Romania Uban Ana Sabina, University of Bucharest, Romania Ureña-López Alfonso, Universidad de Jaén, Spain Vadera Sunil, University of Salford, UK Valencia-Garcia Rafael, Universidad de Murcia, Spain Villatoro Esaú, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland Wattiau Isabelle, ESSEC, France Zaghouani Wajdi, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Zubiaga Arkaitz, Queen Mary University of London, UK