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Subject: CFP: ECAI 2004 Workshop on Application of Semantic Web Technologies to Web Communities Date: Friday 09 January 2004 12:51 From: Rubén Lara Ruben.Lara@uibk.ac.at To: seweb-list@www1-c703.uibk.ac.at, ontoweb-list@www1-c703.uibk.ac.at, public-sws-ig@w3.org, www-ws@w3.org, www-rdf-logic@w3.org, www-rdf-interest@w3.org, swws-list@isoco.com, esperonto_all@isoco.com, deri-all@www1-c703.uibk.ac.at

CALL FOR PAPERS

================================================== 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 ==================================================

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. Ying Ding, ying.ding@deri.ie DERI Austria, www.deri.at Institute of Computer Science University of Innsbruck, Austria

Prof. Dr. Dieter Fensel, dieter.fensel@deri.ie DERI, deri.semantciweb.org

Ruben Lara, ruben.lara@deri.ie DERI Austria, www.deri.at

Holger Lausen, holger.lausen@deri.ie DERI Ireland, National University of Irland, Galway, www.deri.ie

Michael Stollberg, michael.stollberg@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/0,10735,5-40209-0-0-0,0 0.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 April 15, 2004 Dealine for paper submission May 15, 2004 Notification of accepted papers June 01, 2004 Camera-ready of accepted papers 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 • Atanas Kiryakov, OntoText, Bulgaria (confirmed) • Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield, UK • Robert Meersman, Vrije Universiteit, Brussel, Belgium • Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe, Germany • Pablo Castells, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain (confirmed) • Jean Delahousse, Mondeca, France (confirmed) • Stefan Wess, Empolis GmbH, Germany • York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany (confirmed) • Richard Benjamin, iSOCO, Spain (confirmed) • Chris Bussler, DERI, Ireland • Witold Abramowicz, Poznan University of Economics, Poland (confirmed) • John Domingue, Open University, UK (confirmed)

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