2nd Workshop on
SEMANTIC WEB MINING
http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/semwebmine2002/
in conjunction with the
13th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML'02)
6th European Conference on Principles and Practice
of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD'02)
19-23 August 2002, Helsinki, Finland
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/events/ecmlpkdd/
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The Semantic Web Mining workshop is a follow-up to last year's workshop
at ECML/PKDD, the first workshop on that topic at a large international
conference. Our intention to bring together researchers and
practitioners from the two fast-developing research areas Semantic Web
and
Web Mining has resulted in a very successful workshop. The goal of this
year's workshop is to continue and extend this sucessful start.
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. Recent
advances in Web site design that pay increasing attention to the
need for a clear semantic structure underlying the information
architecture of a site, have prepared the ground for both broader and
deeper applications of semantic mining technologies. Similarly, new
developments in mining such as the increasing analysis of usage
information for personalising Web sites, pose new challenges for
semantic
encodings of Web resources.
There are quite a number of people from different communities that
approach the field of Semantic Web Mining from different, interesting
angles. The goal of the workshop is to establish and enhance
communiction
between these communities.
Important Dates
Deadline for paper submission: 24 May 2002
Notification of acceptance: 14 June 2002
Deadline for final contributions: 1 July 2002
Submission Information
Authors will be asked to place their contributions in relation to the
following, overarching, stages of the Semantic Web Mining process. This
will help to structure the workshop and intensify discussion and
exchange between the different approaches:
- Mining for Building the Semantic Web
- Exploiting Semantics for Web Mining
- Mining the Semantic Web
- Closing the Loop: How do the three previous topics interact?
Subtopics include, but are not limited to:
- Web Usage, Content, and Structure Mining for Discovering Semantics
- Concept Taxonomies (e. g. product hierarchies) and Web Mining
- Using the Syntactic Layer (XML) for Semantic Web Mining
- Using the Vocabulary Layer (e. g. RDF-Schema) for Semantic Web Mining
- Using the Logical Layer (e. g. Description Logics/OIL) for Semantic
Web
Mining
- User Profiling, Segmentation and Interpretation with Background
Knowledge
- Using Background Knowledge for Web Mining
- Metadata-based Text Mining
- Text Mining for Creating Metadata
- Learning Taxonomies and Ontologies from the Web
- Metadata Harvesting
- Information Extraction with Machine Learning
- Applications of Semantic Web Mining
We also encourage submissions which relate research results from other
areas (e.g., relational data mining, information retrieval, knowledge
representation) to the workshop topics.
We invite contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in topics
related to the purpose of the workshop. Persons interested in
participating should submit either a technical paper (less than 6000
words) or a position paper (less than 1500 words) addressing new
research
issues. In addition, we solicit proposals for panel discussions. Submit
before May 24, 2002 in electronic form (strongly preferred!) in
postscript
or pdf to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Although not required for the
initial submission, we recommend to use the Springer's LNCS format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) , as this will be the
required format for accepted papers.
Alternatively, printed copies can be sent to:
Andreas Hotho
Institute AIFB University of Karlsruhe
76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
People who want to attend the workshop have to be registered to the
main conference ECML/PKDD-2002. Workshop proceedings will be
distributed among registered participants at the workshop. The
conference will probably provide a joint paper style for the
proceedings. In addition, there will be a joint Web-publication of all
the
workshop proceedings after the conference. Hence, electronic
submissions
to the workshops are strongly encouraged.
Organizing Committee
Bettina Berendt
Abteilung P�dagogik und Informatik, Humboldt-Universit�t zu Berlin
Geschwister-Scholl-Stra�e 7
D-10117 Berlin
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Andreas Hotho
AIFB, Universit�t Karlsruhe
D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gerd Stumme
AIFB, Universit�t Karlsruhe
D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Program Committee
Rosine Cicchetti (Universit� de la M�diterran�e, Marseille)
Stefan Decker (Stanford University, Palo Alto)
Ronen Feldman (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan)
Stefan Haustein (Universit�t Dortmund)
Klaus-Peter Huber (SAS, Heidelberg)
J�rg-Uwe Kietz (Swiss Life, Z�rich)
Nada Lavrac (Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana)
Alexander M�dche (FZI Research Center at the University of Karlsruhe)
Bamshad Mobasher (DePaul University, Chicago)
Claire Nedellec (Universit� Paris Sud)
John R. Punin (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y.)
Myra Spiliopoulou (Handelshochschule Leipzig)
Rudi Studer (Universit�t Karlsruhe)
Stefan Wrobel (Otto-von-Guericke Universit�t Magdeburg)
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Andreas Hotho Tel.: +49-(0)721-608-6558
Universit�t Karlsruhe Fax.: +49-(0)721-693717
Institut AIFB e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
76128 Karlsruhe www: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/
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