CFPPrevious | item23 | NextDate: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 20:21:28 +0100 From: Alexander Maedche ama@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Subject: CFP: ECAI'2000 Workshop on Ontology Learning, August 22, 2000 ********************************************************************* *********** Call for Papers: Ontology Learning ****************** ******************** ECAI-2000 Workshop ************************** ********************************************************************* ******************** August 22, 2000 ************************** ********************************************************************* Comprehensive information to be found at http://ol2000.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Workshop Summary Ontologies serve as a means for establishing a conceptually concise basis for communicating knowledge for many purposes. In recent years, we have seen a surge of interest that deals with the discovery and automatic creation of complex, multirelational knowledge structures. For example, the natural language community tries to acquire word semantics from natural language texts, database researchers tackle the problem of schema induction and integration, and people building intelligent information agents research the learning of complex structures from semi-structured input (HTML, XML). All the while, efforts in the machine learning community pursue the induction of more concise and more expressive knowledge structures (e.g., relational learning) in general. For the workshop we intend to gather a diverse range of participants interested in the learning of ontologies. In pa August 22, 2000 rticular, we are also interested in the maintenance (revision, incrementality) and integration (from various sources) aspects of learning ontologies. We want to further, or even establish, the exchange of ideas between these communities --- and maybe even others that we have not thought of. Hence, we solicit papers that present innovative approaches to ontology learning that are to be discussed in the workshop, system demonstrations and applications or position statements. Important Dates Deadline for paper submission 1 April 2000 Notification of acceptance 1 May 2000 Deadline final contributions 1 June 2000 All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. In addition, a few selected best papers will be considered for publication in a special issue about Ontology Learning of Elsevier's Journal "Data and Knowledge Engineering". Submission Information 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 5000 words) or a position paper (less than 1500 words) addressing new research issues. In addition, we solicit proposals for panel discussions and break-out groups that work towards visions for ontology learning. Submit before April 1, 2000 in electronic form (strongly preferred!) in postscript or pdf in the final ECAI style format (cf. http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/style.html) to: ama@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de or send three hard copies of your submission to: "Ontology Learning" Steffen Staab and Alexander Maedche Institute AIFB, Karlsruhe University, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany Previous | item23 | Next |
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