- From: Vojtech Svatek <Svatek@vse.cz>
- Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 14:18:44 +0200
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*** Please, excuse multiple cross-postings ********************************** 2nd Call for papers Knowledge Discovery and Ontologies (KDO-2004) Workshop at ECML/PKDD 2004, Pisa, Italy, September 20-24, 2004. http://olp.dfki.de/pkdd04/cfp.htm ********************************** ------- The workshop is supported by KDnet, Daimler Chrysler, and the SEKT project. ------- *** Topic and Motivation The workshop is concerned with the interaction between prior knowledge as encoded in ontologies and derived knowledge as obtained by a knowledge discovery process. The use of prior knowledge may significantly enhance knowledge discovery from large datasets or text collections. Currently, in most KDD projects, prior knowledge is only present implicitly (in the head of the human analyst) or in the form of textual documentation. Even in knowledge-intensive approaches such as ILP, the background knowledge is often not organized around a well-formed conceptual model. This practice seems to ignore latest developments in knowledge engineering, where domain knowledge is typically defined by formal ontologies. Ontologies are formal, explicit specifications of shared conceptualizations of a given domain of discourse. The expected central role of ontologies in the organization and functioning of the Semantic Web has been well documented in recent years. Somewhat less traditional is the role of ontologies in incremental approaches to knowledge discovery, in which ontologies and machine learning methods are used in combination to mine, interpret and (re-)organise knowledge. While knowledge engineering research has already recognised the value of knowledge discovery from textual and semi-structured resources in the process of building an ontology (i.e. in ontology learning), links in the opposite direction are more rare. Within the context of this workshop we intend to bring together researchers from both directions in order to initiate a discussion on how to integrate insights from both communities. *** Areas of Interest Submissions are invited on all aspects of the interaction between Knowledge Discovery (KDD) and Ontologies (Onto): * Onto4KDD - domain ontologies for extending source data and/or to constrain the search for hypotheses - ontologies of the knowledge discovery domain to recommend and/or configure methods or tools for a given problem * KDD4Onto - knowledge discovery (from databases, semi-structured data, text, multimedia) in ontology learning (extension/evolution) and/or ontology mapping (merging/integration) * Onto4KDD & KDD4Onto - combinations of knowledge discovery and ontologies to cover the full knowledge life cycle, i.e. the use of ontologies in incremental knowledge discovery experiments (based on previous results) * Usability & Evaluation - practical applications in industry of (the interaction of) knowledge discovery and ontologies - evaluation methodologies for (the interaction of) knowledge discovery and ontologies *** Workshop Schedule The workshop will consist of three to four thematic sessions of (long and short) presentations, each followed by a wrap-up discussion moderated by a PC member, and one or two invited talks. In addition to the workshop proceedings it is intended to publish a selection of accepted papers in a Springer volume of the 'Hot Topics' series, partly supported by KDNet. *** Organizing Committee Paul Buitelaar - DFKI, Saarbrucken, Germany Jurgen Franke - DaimlerChrysler, Ulm, Germany Marko Grobelnik - Jozef Stefan Inst., Ljubljana, Slovenia Gerhard Paass - Fraunhofer AIS, St. Augustin, Germany Vojtech Svatek - Univ. of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic (contact person) *** Program Committee Eneko Agirre, Univ. of the Basque Country, Spain Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT, Toulouse, France Abraham Bernstein, Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland Paul Buitelaar, DFKI, Saarbrucken, Germany Mario Cannataro, Univ. of Catanzaro, Italy Walter Daelemans, Univ. Antwerpen, Belgium Thierry Declerck, DFKI & Univ. Saarbrucken, Germany Jurgen Franke, DaimlerChrysler, Ulm, Germany Aldo Gangemi, ISTC Roma, Italy Marko Grobelnik, Jozef Stefan Inst., Ljubljana, Slovenia Siegfried Handschuh, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Andreas Hotho, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI, Marina del Rey CA, USA Mike Jackson, University of Central England, UK Alipio Jorge, University of Porto, Portugal Vipul Kashyap, NLM-NIH, Bethesda MD, USA Jorg Kindermann, FHG St. Augustin, Germany Nada Lavrac, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Bernardo Magnini, ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy Dunja Mladenic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana Reza Nakhaeizadeh, DaimlerChrysler, Ulm, Germany Claire Nedellec, MIG-INRA, Jouy-en-Josas, France Gerhard Paass, Fraunhofer AIS, St. Augustin, Germany Georgios Paliouras, NCSR 'Demokritos', Athens, Greece Jan Rauch, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Massimo Ruffolo, ICAR-CNR & EXEURA, Italy Tobias Scheffer, Humboldt-Univ. Berlin, Germany Michael Sintek, DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany Derek Sleeman, University of Aberdeen, UK Steffen Staab, Ontoprise & Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany Gerd Stumme, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany York Sure, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany Vojtech Svatek, Univ. of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Brendan Tierney, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland Ljupco Todorovski, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Paola Velardi, Univ. of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy *** Submissions Submissions (in PS or PDF format) should be in English and no longer than 12 pages (full paper) or 6 pages (position paper), following the ECML/PKDD formatting style (Springer LNCS). Submissions should be sent by email to the contact person (Vojtech Svatek): svatek@vse.cz * Paper submission deadline: June 14th, 2004 * Notification of acceptance/rejection: July 5th, 2004 * Camera-ready papers: July 12th, 2004 * Workshop Sept. 24th, 2004 *** Workshop Attendance and Registration All workshop participants must register for ECML/PKDD 2004, see http://ecmlpkdd.isti.cnr.it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague Nam.W.Churchilla 4, 13067 Praha 3, CZECH REPUBLIC phone: +420 224095462, e-mail: svatek@vse.cz web: http://nb.vse.cz/~svatek/welcom_e.htm
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