- From: Fumihiro Kato <fumihiro@sfc.keio.ac.jp>
- Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 12:14:45 +0900
- To: semantic-web@w3.org, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
---------------------------------------------- Please accept our apologies if you receive this more than once CALL FOR PAPERS =============== Workshop on Social Web Content Filtering and Semantic Web (SWCF2005) at 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2005) 10 May 2005, Chiba, Japan http://swcf2005.tom.sfc.keio.ac.jp/ Important Dates: =============== Electronic submission due: March 18, 2005 Author notification: April 1, 2005 Workshop: May 10, 2005 Topics and Content: ================== The World Wide Web allows anyone on the network to access a much wider variety of content than any previous information distribution mechanism. There are so many Web sites about every subject imaginable, and about subjects that were entirely unknown or alien to readers before encountering them in the Web. The inclusive nature of the World Wide Web can complicate effective site navigation and bring users in contact with materials they find offensive or inappropriate. Content filtering is an information seeking process in which contents are selected to satisfy a relatively stable and specific information need. There are two dominant approaches to tackle the problem of content filtering: content-based filtering and social information filtering. Content based filtering has limitation and social information filtering is developed as a complementary technique to address the limitations. Social information filtering finds potentially interesting contents by taking account of other people with similar taste. People can share their taste on the Semantic Web by using RSS, shared bookmark and so on. Although individual information about their taste in traditional social information system are closed and centralized, social information filtering on the Semantic Web is so open and widely distributed. Also existing techniques are suffering from low quality results with errors, lack of accountability of results, relatively low speed processing and tyranny of the majority, we believe to explore new technology to find out the contents we really want and need getting rid us of the contents we do not want to be bothered with. This new technique allows us to improve navigation, personalize search engine results and make Web spaces safer. In order to archive this, for example new reasoning or inference techniques and high performance distributed queries will be needed. Among the specific topic areas we intend to address are, but not limited to the following: * New framework for specifying and reasoning about metadata on the Semantic Web * New statistical or probabilistic reasoning techniques for social information filtering on the Semantic Web * Novel social information filtering architecture and techniques on the Semantic Web * Privacy in social information filtering on the Semantic Web * Dissemination of meta-data for information filtering on the Semantic Web * Novel techniques to harmonize existing standards (e.g., RSS, Dublin Core) with social information filtering * Application of social information filtering (e.g., personal navigation and search engine) Paper Submission and Review: =========================== Papers should be submitted via email to the workshop chair at swcf2005@tom.sfc.keio.ac.jp. Papers submitted to the workshop will undergo a peer review process overseen by the workshop co-chairs. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two program committee members. Accepted papers will appear in informal electronic and printed proceedings that will be made available after (or before) the workshop. Papers should not exceed 5000 words (approximately 12 pages) in length and must be submitted in PDF. Short papers (up to 6 pages) describing early research results are also welcome. Workshop Co-Chairs: ================== Kazuhiro Kitagawa, Keio University/W3C Nobuo Saito, Keio University/W3C Akio Kokubu, Internet Association, Japan Workshop Program Committee: ========================== Francois Bry, The University of Munich Michel Plu, France Telecom Phil Archer, ICRA Nicola Henze, The University of Hannover Jon Herlocker, Oregon State University Toshihiro Kamishima, National Institute of AIST Shyong K. Lam, University of Minnesota Fumihiro Kato, Keio University
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