---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: Semantic Web Mining Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 13:52:14 +0200 From: Gerd Stumme stumme@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de To: cg@cs.uah.edu, fca-list@indiana.edu, dl@dl.kr.org, KR-POSTINGS@KR.ORG, community@mlnet.org, www-rdf-interest@w3.org, www-rdf-logic@w3.org, kr@KR.ORG, kaw@swi.psy.uva.nl
Workshop on
SEMANTIC WEB MINING http://semwebmine2001.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/
in conjunction with the 12th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML'01) 5th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD'01) September 3-7, 2001, Freiburg, Germany http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~ml/ecmlpkdd/
--- Call for Papers ---
The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from the two fastly developing research areas Semantic Web and Web Mining. One can improve the results of Web Mining by exploiting the new semantic structures in the web. Furthermore, Web Mining can help to build the Semantic Web.
The Semantic Web is based on a vision of Tim Berners-Lee. He suggests to enrich the web by machine processable information which is organized on different levels (see www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Semantic.html). For Web Mining, the levels from XML and RDF to ontologies and logics are of particular interest. Web Mining applies data mining techniques on the web. Three areas can be distinguished: Web usage mining analyzes the user behavior, web structure mining explores the hyperlink structure, and web content mining exploits the contents of the documents in the web.
In the workshop, we want to discuss the use of XML, RDF, ontologies, and logics for the three web mining areas; and the support of web mining techniques for building (XML and RDF) schemes and ontologies. There are quite a number of people from different communities that approach the field of Semantic Web Mining from different, interesting angles. The goal of the workshop is
to establish communiction between these communities.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Concept Taxonomies (e.g. product hierarchies) and Web Mining - Using the Syntactic Layer (XML) for Semantic Web Mining - Using the Vocabulary Layer (e.g. RDF-Schema) for Semantic Web Mining - Using the Logical Layer (e.g. Description Logics/OIL) for Semantic Web Mining - User Profiling, Segmentation and Interpretation with Background Knowledge - Using Background Knowledge for Web Mining - Metadata-based Text Mining - Text Mining for Creating Metadata - Learning Taxonomies and Ontologies from the Web - Metadata Harvesting - Information Extraction with Machine Learning
We invite contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in topics related to the purpose of the workshop. Persons interested in participating should submit either a technical paper (less than 6000 words) or a position paper (less than 1500 words) addressing new research issues. In addition, we solicit proposals for panel discussions. Submit before June 8, 2001 in electronic form (strongly preferred!) in postscript or pdf to: hotho@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de. Although not required for the initial submission, we recommend to use the IJCAI 2001 style (http://ijcai.org/data/), as this will be the
required format for accepted papers.
Alternatively, printed copies can be sent to: Andreas Hotho Institute AIFB University of Karlsruhe 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
People who want to attend the workshop have to be registered to the main conference ECML/PKDD-2001. Workshop proceedings will be distributed among registered participants at the workshop. The conference will probably provide a joint paper style for the proceedings. In addition, there will be a joint Web-publication of all
the workshop proceedings after the conference. Hence, electronic submissions to the workshops are strongly encouraged.
Schedule
Deadline for paper submission: 8 June 2001 Notification of acceptance: 29 June 2001 Deadline for final contributions: 13 July 2001
Organizing Committee
Gerd Stumme AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany email: stumme@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
Andreas Hotho AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany email: hotho@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
Bettina Berendt Abteilung Pädagogik und Informatik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 7 D-10117 Berlin email: berendt@educat.hu-berlin.de
Program Committee
Soumen Chakrabarti (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay) Rosine Cicchetti (Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille) Stefan Decker (Stanford University, Palo Alto) Ronen Feldman (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan) Klaus-Peter Huber (SAS, Heidelberg) Alexander Mädche (Universität Karlsruhe) Tom Mitchell (WhizBang! Labs, Pittsburgh) Bamshad Mobasher (DePaul University, Chicago) Katharina Morik (Universität Dortmund) Claire Nedellec (Université Paris Sud) Myra Spiliopoulou (Universität Leipzig) Rudi Studer (Universität Karlsruhe)
-- Gerd Stumme, Institut für Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB), Universität Karlsruhe (TH) 0721/608-4754; http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/gst/
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