This conference was first established in 1995 and gives those interested in applications of Natural Language in the field of Information Systems a platform to come together. The conference covered topics such as information search and topic extraction, plus classification and sentiment analysis across the various fields of medicine, e-commerce and social media.
In addition to the presentation of the accepted papers, two talks were given by invited speakers: Robert Stevens from the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, who shared his experience in bio-ontologies; and Vijayan Sugumaran from the Department of Decision and Information Sciences at Oakland University, who talked about detecting different states of emergency events using web resources to help social groups and first responders handle these events effectively.