Dear colleague(s), we are in the midst of submitting a proposal for an ECML/PKDD workshop on "Semantic Web Mining". There are quite a number of people from different communities that approach the field of Semantic Web Mining from different, interesting angles. We hope to further, or even establish, communiction between these communities through the workshop. We want to include people, e.g., from the fields of - web mining - machine learning - semantic web - knowledge engineering and acquisition. To support our proposal we are solicting statements of interest from you. You may support the proposal by simply replying to this mail. This does not involve any actual commitment on your side to participate in the workshop, but is simply an indication to the ECML and PKDD workshop chairs that the topic is of high interest and importance. Best regards, Andreas Hotho, Gerd Stumme ---------------------------------- In the Semantic Web Mining workshop we intend to bring together researchers and practitioners from the two fastly developing research areas Semantic Web and Web Mining. One can improve the results of Web Mining by exploiting the new semantic structures in the web. Furthermore, Web Mining can help to build the Semantic Web. The Semantic Web is based on a vision of Tim Berners-Lee. He suggests to enrich the web by machine processable information which is organized on different levels (see www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Semantic.html). For Web Mining, the levels from XML and RDF to ontologies and logics are of particular interest. Web Mining applies data mining techniques on the web. Three areas can be distinguished: Web usage mining analyzes the user behavior, web structure mining explores the hyperlink structure, and web content mining exploits the contents of the documents in the web. In the workshop, we want to discuss the use of XML, RDF, ontologies, and logics for the three web mining areas; and the support of web mining techniques for building (XML and RDF) schemes and ontologies. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andreas Hotho Tel.: +49-(0)721-608-6558 Universität Karlsruhe Fax.: +49-(0)721-693717 Institut AIFB e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 76128 Karlsruhe www: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
