Mokrane Bouzeghoub

Elisabeth Metais

Zoubida Kedad

This book includes the papers presented at the fifth International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2000) which was held in Versailles (France) on June 28-30. Following NLDB95 in Versailles, NLDB96 i n Amsterdam, NLDB97 i n Vancouver, and NLDB99 i n Klagenfurt, NLDB 2000 was a forum for exchanging new research results and trends on the benefits of integrating Natural Language resources in Information System Engineering. Since the first NLDB workshop in 1995 it has become apparent that 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 (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. The main new trend in NLDB 2000 is related to the WEB wave: WEB querying, WEB answering, and information retrieval. Among 47 papers submitted from 18 countries, the program committee selected 29 papers to be presented during the conference. Besides these regular papers, two invited talks (given by Pr. Reind P. van de Riet and Pr. Maurice Gross), and a set of posters and demonstrations are also included in these proceedings.

5th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2000, Versailles, France, June 28-30, 2000; Revised Papers

Natural Language Processing and Information Systems

Jacky Akoka

Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau

This book provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art, in conceptual modeling. It grew out of research papers presented at the 18th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER '99) and arranged by the editors. The plan of the conference is to cover the whole spectrum of conceptual modeling as it relates to database and information systems design and to offer a complete coverage of data and process modeling, database technology, and database applications. The aim of the conference and of these proceedings is to present new insights related to each of these topics. This book contains both selected and invited papers. The 33 selected papers are organized in 11 sessions encompassing the major themes of the conference, especially : - schema transformation, evolution, and integration - temporal database design - views and reuse in conceptual modeling - advanced conceptual modeling - business process modeling and workflows - data warehouse design. Besides the selected papers, 3 invited papers present the views of three keynote speakers, internationally known for their contribution to conceptual modeling and database research and for their active role in knowledge dissemination. Peter Chen presents the results of his ongoing research on ER model, XML, and the Web. Georges Gardarin presents the first results of an ESPRIT project federating various data sources with XML and XML-QL. Finally, Matthias Jarke develops a way to capture and evaluate the experiences gained about process designs in so-called process data warehouses.

18th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling Paris, France, November 15-18, 1999 Proceedings

Conceptual Modeling ER'99

International Conference on Extending Database Technology (5 : 1996 : Avignon)

Georges Gardarin

This book presents the refereed proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT'96, held in Avignon, France in March 1996. The 31 full revised papers included were selected from a total of 178 submissions; also included are some industrial-track papers, contributed by partners of several ESPRIT projects. The volume is organized in topical sections on data mining, active databases, design tools, advanced DBMS, optimization, warehousing, system issues, temporal databases, the web and hypermedia, performance, workflow management, database design, and parallel databases.

5th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Avignon, France, March 25-29 1996, Proceedings.

Advances in Database Technology EDBT '96

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLICATIONS OF NATURA

International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems

International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Inform

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2000, held in Versailles, France, in June 2000. The 29 revised full papers presented together with two invited papers and seven posters and demonstrations have passed through two rounds of reviewing and selection. The book offers topical sections on linguistics in information design, temporal databases, word-sense disambiguation, semantic relationships in databases, semantic and contextual document retrieval, natural language generation for answering email and OLAP, NLP techniques for information retrieval, Web information retrieval, technical databases, users and interactions in Web querying, and conceptual patterns.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER '99, held in Paris, France, in November 1999. The 33 revised full papers presented together with three invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 143 submissions. The book is divided into topical sections on supporting schema evolution, temporal database design, schema transformation, views and conceptual modeling, reuse in conceptual modeling, business process modeling and workflows, integrating application models, data warehouse design, modeling concepts, schema integration, and advanced conceptual modeling.

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