www.ontoweb.org

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Semantic Web Workshop

 

Workshop at SIGIR 2003

funded by Ontoweb (http://www.ontoweb.org/)

(http://www.sigir2003.org/)

 

26^th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference

July 28 – August 1, 2003, Toronto, Canada

 

Ying Ding

Keith Van Rijsbergen

Iadh Ounis

Joemon Jose

Invited talks

Christoph Bussler, Oracle, USA

 

 

The emergence of the Internet has brewed the revolution of information storage and retrieval. The web was initially designed for direct human processing. With its current structure, machine-based approaches to web applications are not possible unless its content is transformed into a machine-readable format encoding semantic information. Ontologies are the backbone technology for the Semantic Web by providing machine-processable semantics of data and information sources that can be communicated between different agents. The Semantic Web goes beyond the simple bag-of-words approach currently used by search engines and get closer to the meaning of the texts. Semantic Web initiatives have met with growing enthusiasm of researchers and developers world-wide, both in academia and in industry, which encourages the integration of efforts that have been ongoing from different disciplines, involving specialists in Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction, Knowledge Representation, Artificial Intelligence and Databases. These efforts are aimed at capturing the semantics of digital content of all sorts and origins, and making current Web to be easily accessed and precisely retrieved.

 

Contributions are solicited dealing with, but not limited to, the following topics:

 

·        Ontology-based Information Retrieval or Semantic Information Retrieval

·        Metadata in Information Retrieval

·        Ontology Learning based on Information Extraction and Natural Language Processing Technologies

·        Automatic Indexing and Cataloguing

·        Information Retrieval and Web Services

·        Languages, Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Annotations

·        Knowledge Portals

·        Semantic Web Mining

·        Semantic Web Searching and Querying

·        Semantic Web for multimedia retrieval

·        Semantic Web for multilingual information retrieval

·        Semantic Web for digital library

·        Semantic Interoperability and integration

·        Semantic Web and Peer-to-Peer

·        Semantic Web for Information Visualization

·        Peer to Peer for Information Retrieval

·        User studies for Semantic Web

·        Business applications and best of practice

 

 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

 

Ying Ding

University of Innsbruck, Austria, http://informatik.uibk.ac.at/infweb/, ying.ding@uibk.ac.at

 

Keith Van Rijsbergen

Iadh Ounis

Joemon Jose

University of Glasgow, UK, http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/, {keith, ounis, jj}@dcs.gla.ac.uk

 

 

IMPORTANT DATE

June 1, 2003                         Electronic submission of full papers

June 15, 2003                        Notification of paper acceptance

June 30, 2003                        Camera-ready of accepted papers

Aug 1, 2003                            Workshop

July 28 to Aug 1, 2003            Conference & workshops

 

SUBMISSIONS

 

Maximum length of submitted paper should be no more than 15 pages. This workshop uses the same guidelines as the main conference. The instructions can be found at http://www.sigir2003.org/papers.html. Submissions should be sent electronically in WORD, POSTSCRIPT or  PDF formats to the organising committee:

 

   sw2003-info@dcs.gla.ac.uk

 

All submissions will be refereed by at least 3 members of the PC. It is planned that the Proceedings will be included in a special topic volume published as a book by IOS Press.

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

 

Alan Gilchrist, UK

Alain Leger, French Telecom, France

Alexander Maedche, FZI, Germany

Alvaro Barreiro, University of A Coruna, Spain

Atanas Kiryakov, OntoText, Bulgaria

Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK

Chen Chaomei, Drexel University, USA

Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona, USA

David Harper, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK

David Losada, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Dieter Merkl, TU Vienna, Austria 

Enrico Motta, Open University, UK

Gianni Amati, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy

Gobinda Chowdhury, University of Strathclyde, UK

Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield, UK

Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester, UK

Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde, UK

Jan Paralic, Technical University Kosice, Slovakia

John Davies, BritishTelecom, UK 

John Tait, University of Sunderland, UK

Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK

Lim Em Ping, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK

Malik Yousef, University of Haifa, Israel

Marius Pasca, Southern Methodist University, USA

Micheal Klein, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, NL

Mounia Lamas, Queen Marry University of London, UK

Robert Engels, CognIT, Norway

Robert Meersman, Vrije Universiteit, Brussel, Belgium

Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Schubert Foo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Steffan Staab, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Stefan Decker, University of South California, USA

Tim Finn, University of Maryland, USA

Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic

York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

York Wilks, University of Sheffield, UK

Yves Chiaramella, CLIPS-IMAG, France

 

 

Further information

 

Direct correspondence, inquires and submissions relating to this workshop should be addressed to the organising committee:

 

sw2003-info@dcs.gla.ac.uk