- From: Giovanni Tummarello <g.tummarello@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 13:24:49 +0300
** our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message ** ================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS WWW2007 Workshop I3: Identity, Identifiers, Identification -------------------------------------------- Entity-centric Approaches to Information and Knowledge Management on the Web Banff, Canada, May 8 2007 http://okkam.dit.unitn.it/i3 ================================================================== The Scope --------- Current approaches to Information and Knowledge Management (IKM) on the Web are keyword-based, document-centric and ranking-dependent searches: keywords are used to find and retrieve possibly long lists of documents that are then presented in a ranked order so users will find what they need by opening and reading through one or more documents in the list. A substantially different yet perhaps complementary approach to IKM on the Web is to adopt an ID-based, entity-centric, and profile-dependent view, where information and knowledge are accessed and searched for by using identifiers to access relevant entities and build their profiles by gathering from diverse knowledge sources what the Web has to offer about these entities. We call this Entity-centric Information and Knowledge Management. The use of techniques from statistical natural language processing for named entity recognition has also reached a high level of maturity, and so this approach may be ready to be deployed for entity-centric knowledge management. Finally, by using URIs to identify entities, entity-centric search and knowledge management is a practical application of the Semantic Web to the search problem. The Semantic Web and search engines, long viewed as incompatible, may actually be complementary and compatible. However, an entity-centric approach needs to address and solve some very difficult yet critical issues, such as: the identification of entities across different documents, large-scale ID reuse, creating entity- based indexes of content resources, entity-based web browsing, and so on. The anticipated outcome of the workshop is to assess the state of the art in the area, as well as to discuss the approach and evaluate critically the next steps in pursuing this topic. There is the potential for creating the core of a consortium for future R&D projects on the topic for both academia and industry. Furthermore, the results of this workshop will feed into relevant W3C Working Groups. Topics ------ The intended content of the proposed workshop can roughly be grouped as follows: - Contributions from research and industry that illustrate projects, models, theories or architectures going in the direction described above. - Overview papers presenting the state of the art in the area. - Critical discussions of advantages and disadvantages of such an approach compared to other approaches. Important Dates --------------- Paper submission deadline: Feb. 15, 2007 Notification of acceptance: March 20, 2007 Camera ready papers due: March 30, 2007 Conference: May 8, 2007 Submission Details ------------------ All submissions will undergo a thorough peer-review process by an international program committee, made up of leading members of different communities from "Web 2.0", Semantic Web and Information Retrieval researchers and companies. Accepted contributions will be included on the WWW2007 Conference CD as well as made available as CEUR Online Proceedings. Send paper submissions (PDF only) using the on-line submission system http://www.easychair.org/WWW2007Workshops selecting the track "Identity, Identifiers, Identifications" Paper length should not exceed 8 pages, formatting has to follow WWW guidelines. For more information please consult the WWW Workshop Submissions page: http://www2007.org/submission-workshops.php Organization ------------ Chair Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento Program Co-Chairs Heiko Stoermer, University of Trento Giovanni Tummarello, Università Politecnica delle Marche Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh Program Committee Joshua Allen, Microsoft John Black, Kashori.com David Booth, Hewlett-Packard Dan Brickley, Univeristy of Bristol Patrick Durusau, Snowfall Software Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR Allen Ginsberg, MITRE Pat Hayes, IHMC Ryan King, University of San Francisco Brian McBride, Hewlett Packard Steve Newcomb, Coolheads Consulting Rodolfo Stecher, L3S Research Center Fred Stuckmann, University of North Carolina Brian Suda, http://suda.co.uk Bernard Vatant, Mondeca Stefan Klink, University of Trier Bernardo Magnini, ITC-IRST Larry Masinter, Adobe Stefano Mazzocchi, MIT Claudia Niederee, L3S Research Center Themis Palpanas, University of Trento Valentina Presutti, ISTC-CNR Patrick Reuther, University of Trier Alan Ruttenberg, Millennium Pharmaceuticals Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari Holger Wache, University of Amsterdam Stuart Weibel, OCLC
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