CALL FOR PAPERS
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Workshop on Application of
Semantic Web Technologies to Web Communities
http://www.nextwebgeneration.org/meetings/swpECAI04/
A Knowledge Web workshop (http://knowledgeweb.semanticweb.org/)
Workshop at ECAI 2004 (http://www.dsic.upv.es/ecai2004/)
16th European Conference on
Artificial Intelligence
August 22-27, 2004, Valencia,
Spain
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Various communities have
taken advantage of the current Web functionalities to strengthen the
communication and information exchange not only within the community, but also
with external communities or individual users. Miscellaneous web portals have
appeared with the purpose of providing an open and effective communication
forum for their members.
Nevertheless, current Web
technology presents serious limitations to make information efficiently
accessible for users. Moreover, users face the task of reading the documents
retrieved in order to extract the information desired. These limitations
naturally appear in existing Web communities based on this technology, making
information searching, accessing, extracting, interpreting and processing a
difficult and time-consuming task.
In this context, Semantic Web
technologies can considerably improve the information sharing process,
overcoming the problems found in current Web communities to search, access,
extract, interpret and process information. In this sense, Web communities
based on Semantic Web technologies represent a natural evolution of existing
Web communities.
The workshop will provide a
forum for workers in the fields of knowledge engineering, knowledge management,
knowledge representation, language technology, ontological engineering, data,
text and web mining and Semantic Web, to present their latest results and to
discuss the potential joint application of these fields to Web communities,
both analysing what has been achieved so far and what are the next steps to
accomplish. The aim is to provide a snapshot of the state of the art and
guidelines for further steps.
INVITED TALKS
- Asunción Gómez-Pérez,
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain (to be confirmed)
"Semantic Web portals:
motivations and challenges"
TOPICS OF INTEREST include
(but not limited to):
• Semantic Web portal
architecture design
• Semantic Web portal
evaluation
• Semantic Web enabled
web portal facilities
• Exposition of Web
portals functionality through Semantic Web services
• User interface design
for Semantic Web portals
• Ontology
Technologies: Engineering, Management, Learning, Evolving and Merging
• Inference and
reasoning
• Semantically-enhanced
search
• Semantic indexing and
retrieval of information
• Automatic and
semi-automatic annotation of information resources
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Dr.
DERI Austria, www.deri.at
Institute of Computer Science
University of Innsbruck, Austria
Prof. Dr.
DERI, deri.semantciweb.org
Ruben Lara,
DERI Austria, www.deri.at
DERI Ireland, National
University of Irland, Galway, www.deri.ie
DERI Austria, www.deri.at
Prof. Dr. Sung-Kook Han, sung-kook.han@deri.ie
Won Kwang University, South Korea www.wonkwang.ac.kr
SUBMISSIONS
Interested participants are
requested to submit their papers in PDF or Postscript. Papers should not exceed
15 pages in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format (http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,10735,5-40209-0-0-0,00.html).
All submissions will be
refereed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee. It is planned that the
Proceedings will be included in a special topic volume published as a book.
Submissions should be made to
the following address:
Ruben Lara: ruben.lara@deri.ie
IMPORTANT DATES
August 22-24 (Exact date to
be fixed), 2004 Workshop is held
PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TO BE
CONFIRMED)
• Asun Gomez-Perez, Universidad Politecnica
de Madrid, Spain
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• Rudi Studer,
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• Jean Delahousse,
• Stefan Wess, Empolis
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• Richard Benjamin, iSOCO,
• Chris Bussler, DERI,
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• John Domingue,