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Textual Case-Based Reasoning Workshop
at the 6th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~rw37/tcbr05.html
24 August 2005 as part of the ICCBR 2005 Workshop Program, Chicago, IL
DESCRIPTION
Textual CBR is an increasingly important CBR sub-discipline. Textual CBR
techniques can
facilitate rapid construction of CBR systems by reducing or eliminating the
task of
feature-design in domains in which raw cases consist of free or semi-structured
text.
Moreover, many tasks, such as question answering, are inherently
language-based. For
such tasks, retaining a textual case representation may be more effective than
engineering a feature representation that is intermediate between text queries
and text
solutions. In addition, textual CBR can provide information extraction or other
language analysis tools to assist in engineering feature-based cases.
Accelerating
growth in the number and size of incident report, lessons-learned, and other
unstructured or semi-structured text collections insures that textual CBR will
continue
to increase in importance.
The goal of this workshop will be to provide a forum for discussion of trends,
developments, research issues, contributions from other communities, and
practical
experience in textual case-based reasoning. A particular focus of the workshop
will be
development of data repositories and other shared resources for research,
validation,
and development of textual CBR systems.
Topics will include, but not be limited to, the following:
� Range and scope of applicability: What characteristics of a domain
determine whether
it is amenable to textual CBR techniques?
� Representation issues: What representations should textual cases be
mapped into, and
when should cases be manipulated as raw text documents?
� Segmentation and case extraction.
� Conversational CBR.
� Reuse and adaptation of textual cases.
� The relationship between textual CBR and related technologies, such as
text mining,
question-answering and dialogue systems, and human-language technology.
� Case studies of textual CBR systems.
� Indexing and retrieval of textual cases.
� Automated extraction of lexical and taxonomic information from cases.
� Testing and evaluation methodologies for textual CBR systems.
� Corpora and repositories for textual cases.
WORKSHOP FORMAT
This half-day workshop will start with an invited talk on The Role of Generative
Ontologies in Textual CBR, speaker is Kalyan Moy Gupta (AES, ITT Industries,
Alexandria, VA. & NCARAI, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, USA);
followed by
paper presentations, a panel, and a concluding discussion period among
participants to
delineate conclusions and potential future efforts.
This workshop is open to all interested conference participants, but may be
limited by
available room facilities.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Papers MUST be submitted in Springer LNCS format, with a maximum of 10 pages.
Authors'
instructions along with LaTeX and Word macro files are available on the web at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
Extended abstracts that outline relevant research activities, publications, and
goals
for participation should be submitted using the same LNCS format. Please limit
extended
abstracts to 2 pages.Submit papers in pdf or ps formats using the following
link:
http://www.zerosolution.com/tcbr_at_iccbr05/
IMPORTANT DATES
May 11, 2005: Deadline for workshop paper and extended abstract submission
June 10, 2005: Notification of acceptance for workshop papers
July 1, 2005: Camera ready copy due
August 24, 2005: Workshop
WORKSHOP COMMITTEE
David Aha, NRL, US
Kevin D Ashley, University of Pittsburg, US
L. Karl Branting (co-chair), BAE Systems, Inc.
Stefanie Bruninghaus
Luc Lamontagne, Universite Laval, CA
Rosina Weber (co-chair), Drexel University
FOR ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE CONTACT WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
Dr. Rosina Weber (co-chair)
College of Info Science & Technology
Drexel University
3141 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
United States
+1 215 895-1911 Voice
+1 215 895-2494 FAX
+1 215 869 8121 Cell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~rw37/
L. Karl Branting (co-chair)
BAE Systems, Inc.
6315 Hillside Court
Columbia, MD 21046
United States
+1 410 309-9633 ext 2069 Voice
+1 410 309-9370 FAX
+1 919 349-0080 Cell
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http://www.karlbranting.net
Workshop URL: http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~rw37/tcbr05.html
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