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Title, Dates &
Place
SemTech Conference
(SemTech’2008)
18-22 May, 2008, San
José, USA
Deadlines & Requirements
Abstract:
Ext. to
Dec. 10, 2007
Topics Related to Ontos
 Foundational Topics
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This will include the basics of Semantic Technology for the beginner and/or business user
including knowledge representation, ontologies, taxonomies, folksonomies, vocabularies,
assertions, triples, semantic models.
Semantic Web
 OWL/RDF and Semantic Web rule and query languages such as SWRL, SPARQL and the
like. Includes linked data. Also progress of policy and trust.
Business Ontologies
 Design and deployment methods, best practices, industry-specific ontologies, case studies,
ontology-based application development, ontology design tools, ontology-based integration.
Taxonomies
 Design and development approaches, tools, underlying disciplines for practitioners,
vocabularies, taxonomy representation, taxonomy integration, relationship to ontologies.
Semantic Integration
 Includes semantic enhancement of Web services, standards such as OWL/S, WSDL/S,
WSMO and USDL, semantic brokers.
Data Integration and Mashups
 Web-scale data integration, semantic mashups, disparate data access, scalability, database
requirements, Linked Data, data transformations, XML.
Unstructured Information
 This will include entity extraction, Natural Language Processing, social tagging, content
aggregation, knowledge extraction, metadata acquisition, text analytics, content and document
management, multi-language processing, GRDDL.
Semantic Query
 Advances in semantically-based federated query, query languages such as SWRL, SPARQL,
query performance, faceted query, triple stores, scalability issues.
Semantic Search
 Different approaches to semantic search in the enterprise and on the web, successful
application examples, tools (such as Sesame), performance and relevance/accuracy measures,
natural language search, faceted search, visualization.
Developing Semantic Applications
 Experienced reports or prototypes of specific applications that demonstrate automated
semantic inference. Frameworks, platforms, and tools used could include: Wikis, Jena,
Redland, JADE, NetKernal, OWL API, RDF, GRDDL, Ruby On Rails, AJAX, JSON,
Microformats, Process Specification Language (PSL), Atom, Yahoo! Pipes, Freebase,
Powerset, and Twine.
Semantics for Enterprise Information Management (EIM)
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Where and how semantic technology can be used in Enterprise Information Management.
Applications such as governance, data quality, decision automation, reporting, publishing,
search, enterprise ontologies.
 Knowledge Engineering and Management
 Knowledge management concepts, knowledge acquisition, organization and use, building
knowledge apps, artificial intelligence.
 Semantic SOA (Service Oriented Architectures)
 Semantic requirements within SOA, message models and design, canonical model
development, defining service contracts, shared business services, discovery processes.
 Collaboration and Social Networks
 Leveraging Web 2.0 in semantic systems. FOAF, Semantically-Interlinked Online
Communities (SIOC), wikis, tagging, folksonomies.
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5th International
Workshop on Natural
Language Processing
and Cognitive Science
(NLPCS-2008)
Paper:
Mar. 3, 2008
Paper in English up to 5.000 words,
using the paper format
1-5 June, 2008,
Barcelona, Spain
3.
European Semantic
Web Conference
(ESWC 2008)
3-5 June, 2008,
Tenerife, Spain
4.
3rd Workshop on
Formal Ontologies
Meet Industry
Abstract:
Dec. 7, 2007
Full Paper:
Dec. 14, 2007
Papers should not exceed 15 pages in
length and must be formatted
according to the information for
LNCS authors.
Posters – 2 page paper with a short
abstract for evaluation.
Paper:
Jan. 7, 2008
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Computational Models of NLP
Cognitive and Psychological Models of NLP
Evolutionary NLP
Text Summarization and Information Extraction
Multi-Lingual Processing
Pragmatics and NLP
Tools and Resources in NLP
Ontologies
Text Mining
Electronic Dictionaries
Evaluation of NLP Systems
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Semantic Annotation of Data
Semantic Web Mining
Searching, Querying, Visualizing, Navigating and Browsing the Semantic Web
Semantic Web-based Knowledge Management (e.g. Semantic Desktop, Knowledge Portals)
Semantic Web for e-Business, e-Science, e-Health, e-Culture, e-Government, e-Learning and other
application domains
 Evaluation of Semantic Web Technologies
 Problems in ontology application:
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practical issues in using ontologies in the enterprise;
real cases of successful/unsuccessful use of ontology in business
(FOMI 2008)
5-6 June, 2008, Torino,
Italy
5.
46th Annual Meeting
of the Association for
Computational
Linguistics: Human
Language
Technologies (ACL08:HLT)
15-20 June, 2008,
Columbus, Ohio, USA
6.
European Conference
on Artificial
Intelligence
(ECAI 2008)
21-25 July, Patras,
Greece
Paper maximal length is 10 pages,
excluding title page and bibliography.
Instructions about format will be
provided soon here.
 Ontology and business:
Full Paper:
Jan. 10, 2008
Short paper :
Mar 14, 2008
 Information retrieval/NLP applications
Full papers may consist of up to eight
(8) pages of content, with 1 extra page
for references.
Short paper should not exceed four (4)
pages, including references.
 ontology and ontological methodologies in business;
 adaptation of ontologies for companies and organizations;
 ontology effectiveness and evaluation in business
 Ontology and enterprise:
 ontology-driven enterprise modeling;
 ontology development and change within organizations;
 ontology-driven representation of products, services, functionalities, design, processes
 Ontology and linguistics:
 ontology-driven linguistic representation in organization knowledge;
 linguistic problems in standards and in codification processes;
 ontologies and multilingualism in business and organizations
 Text Data Mining, Information Extraction, Filtering, Recommendation
 Topic/text classification and clustering
 Sentiment/attribution/genre analysis
 Summarization
 Development of language resources, including
 Lexicons and ontologies
 Evaluation
 Glass-box evaluation of systems and system components
 Black-box evaluation of systems in application settings
Paper :
Feb. 25, 2008
Poster :
Mar. 20, 2008
Demo:
Apr. 20, 2008
 Distributed AI
Paper - 5 pages.
Poster submissions - 2 pages.
Unformatted papers are limited to
6000 words including footnotes,
figure captions, tables, appendices,
and bibliography. Each half-page of
figures will be counted as 600 words.
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 Information Agents
 Multi-Agent Systems
 Web Intelligence
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
 Common-Sense Reasoning
 Ontologies
 Semantic Web
Machine Learning
 Information Extraction
 Knowledge Discovery
 Text Mining
Model-Based Reasoning
 AI Architectures
 Knowledge Engineering
Natural Language Processing
 Automatic Summarization
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7.
IEEE International
Conference on
Intelligent Systems
(IS 2008)
6-8 September, 2008,
Varna, Bulgaria
Draft:
Dec. 20, 2007
Notification:
Mar. 3, 2008 (via e-mail)
Final papers:
15 April 2008
Draft paper(s) in PDF format, in
English, via e-mail (200-250 words).
Computational Linguistics
Dialogue and Discourse Systems
Natural Language Generation
 Artificial Intelligence
 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
 Distributed Artificial Intelligence
 Intelligent Information Systems
 Multi-Agent Systems
 Ontology-based Intelligent Systems
 Advanced Intelligent Systems
Application areas:
 Knowledge Management
 Education, e-Learning
 Business&Finance
 Health, Medicine and Bioengineering