CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================== Semantic Web Workshop funded by Ontoweb (www.ontoweb.org) Workshop at SIGIR 2003 (http://www.sigir2003.org) 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference July 28 - August 1, 2003, Toronto, Canada ================================================== Invited talks - Prof. Jim Hendler, University of Maryland, USA (to be confirmed) - Atanas Kiryakov, OntoText, Bulgaria The emergence of the Internet has brewed the revolution of information storage and retrieval. The web was initially designed for direct human processing. With its current structure, machine-based approaches to web applications are not possible unless its content is transformed into a machine-readable format encoding semantic information. Ontologies are the backbone technology for the Semantic Web by providing machine-processable semantics of data and information sources that can be communicated between different agents. The Semantic Web goes beyond the simple bag-of-words approach currently used by search engines and get closer to the meaning of the texts. Semantic Web initiatives have met with growing enthusiasm of researchers and developers world-wide, both in academia and in, which encourages the integration of efforts that have been ongoing from different disciplines, involving specialists in Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction, Knowledge Representation, Artificial Intelligence and database. These efforts are aimed at capturing the semantics of digital content of all sorts and origins, and making current Web to be easily accessed and precisely retrieved. Topics of interest may include (but not limited): " Ontology-based Information Retrieval or Semantic Information Retrieval " Metadata in Information Retrieval " Ontology Learning based on Information Extraction and Natural Language Processing Technologies " Automatic Indexing and Cataloguing " Information Retrieval and Web Services " Languages, Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Annotations " Knowledge Portals " Semantic Web Mining " Semantic Web Searching and Querying " Semantic Web for multimedia retrieval " Semantic Web for multilingual information retrieval " Semantic Web for digital library " Semantic Interoperability and integration " Semantic Web and Peer-to-Peer " Semantic Web for Information Visualization " Peer to Peer for Information Retrieval " User studies for Semantic Web " Business applications and best of practice ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Ying Ding University of Innsbruck, Austria, http://informatik.uibk.ac.at/infweb/, ying.ding@uibk.ac.at Keith Van Rijsbergen Iadh Ounis Joemon Jose University of Glasgow, UK, http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/, {keith, ounis, jj}@dcs.gla.ac.uk SUBMISSIONS Maximum length of paper should be no more than 15 pages. This workshop uses the same guidelines as the main conference. The instructions can be found at http://www.sigir2003.org/papers.html. Submissions should be sent electronically by email in WORD or PDF format to the organising committee: ying.ding@uibk.ac.at, ounis@dcs.gla.ac.uk, jj@dcs.gla.ac.uk The submission deadline is May 20, 2003 IMPORTANT DATE May 20, 2003 Electronic submission of full papers June 10, 2003 Notification of paper acceptance June 30, 2003 Camera-ready of accepted papers Aug 1, 2003 Workshop July 28 to Aug 1, 2003 Conference & workshops PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TO BE CONFIRMED) Alan Gilchrist, UK, Alain Leger, FrenchTelecom, France Alexander Maedche, FZI, Germany Asun Gomez-Perez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Atanas Kiryakov, OntoText, Bulgaria Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK Chen Chaomei, Drexel University, USA Chen Hinchun, Arizona University, USA David Harper, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria Dieter Merkl, TU Vienna, Austria Enrico Motta, Open University, UK Fabio Crestani, University of Strathclyde, UK Gianni Amati, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, IT Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield, UK Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester, UK Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde, UK Jan Paralic, Technical University Kosice, Slovakia Jeen Broekstra, Aidministrator, NL John Davies, BritishTelecom, UK John Tait, University of Sunderland, UK Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK Micheal Klein, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, NL Mounia Lamas, Queen Marry University of London, UK Robert Engels, CognIT, Norway Robert Meersman, Vrije Universiteit, Brussel, Belgium Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Stefan Stab, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Stefen Decker, University of California, USA Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany York Wilks, University of Sheffield, UK Yves Chiaramella, CLIPS-IMAG, FR