======================================== = Deadline Extension = New Submission Deadline: 1st June 2003 ======================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Semantic Web Workshop Funded by Ontoweb (http://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 - Christoph Bussler, Oracle, USA - 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 industry, 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 Databases. 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. Contributions are solicited dealing with, but not limited to, the following topics: - 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 submitted 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 in WORD, POSTSCRIPT or PDF formats to the organising committee: sw2003-info@dcs.gla.ac.uk All submissions will be refereed by at least 3 members of the PC. It is planned that the Proceedings will be included in a special post-workshop topic volume to be published as a book. IMPORTANT DATE June 1, 2003 Electronic submission of full papers June 15, 2003 Notification of paper acceptance June 30, 2003 Camera-ready of accepted papers August 1, 2003 Workshop July 28 to August 1, 2003 Conference & workshops PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alan Gilchrist, UK Alain Leger, France Telecom, France Alexander Maedche, FZI, Germany Alvaro Barreiro, University of A Coruna, Spain Atanas Kiryakov, OntoText, Bulgaria Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK Chen Chaomei, Drexel University, USA Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona, USA David Harper, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK David Losada, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria Dieter Merkl, TU Vienna, Austria Enrico Motta, Open University, UK Gianni Amati, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy Gobinda Chowdhury, University of Strathclyde, UK Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield, UK Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester, UK Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde, UK Jan Paralic, Technical University Kosice, Slovakia John Davies, BritishTelecom, UK (confirmed) John Tait, University of Sunderland, UK Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK Lim Em Ping, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Marius Pasca, Southern Methodist University, USA 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 Schubert Foo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Steffan Staab, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Stefan Decker, University of South California, USA Tim Finn, University of Maryland, 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, France FURTHER INFORMATION Direct correspondence, inquires and submissions relating to this workshop should be addressed to the organising committee: sw2003-info@dcs.gla.ac.uk