CFP Workshop on the Application of Language and Semantic Technologies to support Knowledge Management Processes

Call For Contributions - EKAW 2004 Workshop on the Application of Language and Semantic Technologies to support Knowledge Management Processes

http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/victoria/ekaw/
 
  
Companies worldwide have access to repositories of millions of documents online via intranets and data-warehouses. These documents are an invaluable resource of information on customers, competitors and technical expertise within the company. However because the knowledge is stored in unstructured text format it is hard to capture, share and reuse. The combination of Human Language and Semantic Web technologies presents an opportunity to improve the capabilities of the next generation of knowledge management tools. This workshop aims to promote discussion of issues and priorities for the utilisation of language technologies in knowledge management and for the integration of language and semantic technologies. 

We are looking for innovative approaches, theoretical frameworks, and practical applications. Position papers and demonstrations are invited on the following list of topics, but work on related topics is also welcome: 

Multi-lingual systems, 
Information Extraction, 
Ontology Learning, 
Document Indexing, Retrieval and Browsing, 
Approaches to Semantic Annotation, 
Smart Browsing, 
Semantic Search, 
Question Answering, 
Enterprise Content Management. 

The Workshop is taking place as part of the 14th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2004) 5-8th October 2004 - Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire, UK http://kmi.open.ac.uk/events/ekaw/

INVITED SPEAKER

Siegfried Handschuh (AIFB Karlsruhe) has agreed to give a keynote talk. He is an expert in the field of annotation and co-editor with Steffen Staab of "Annotation for the Semantic Web" (IOS Press, 2003).

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Deadline 1st July 2004 
Notification of Acceptance 22nd July 2004
Camera-ready Copy Deadline 24th August 2004 
Workshop 8th October 2004

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Authors should submit their paper electronically as a PDF file. The first page of submitted papers should include: title, author names, affiliations, postal addresses, electronic mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers for all authors, and a brief abstract. All correspondence will be sent to the author mentioned as contact person in the electronic title page (by default, the first author). Submissions of upto 7 pages in length are expected. These should be printable on A4 paper with at least 1 inch margins on all sides. Authors are encouraged to use the Springer style files available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. At least one author must register for the workshop.

Send papers by email to Philipp Cimiano on or before June 30th 2004.

Submission Address : cimiano@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de

CONTACT PERSON

General enquiries about the workshop should be addressed to Victoria Uren

Contact Address: v.s.uren@open.ac.uk


ORGANIZERS

Philipp Cimiano, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
Fabio Ciravegna, Natural Language Processing Group, University of Sheffield, UK
Enrico Motta, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK.
Victoria Uren, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Philipp Cimiano, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe 
Fabio Ciravegna, University of Sheffield 
Enrico Motta, KMi, Open University 
Victoria Uren, KMi, Open University 
Maria Vargas-Vera, KMi, Open University 
Marko Grobelnik, Josef Stefan Insitute, Ljubljana 
Andreas Hotho, AIFB Karlsruhe 
Paul Buitelaar, DFKI Saarbrücken 
Siegfried Handschuh, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe 
Steffen Staab, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe