MSW2004

Mining for and from the Semantic Web

International Workshop

located at the
10th International ACM SIGKDD Conference
on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining KDD 2004
22nd August 2004 - Seattle, WA, USA

Supported by KnowledgeWeb and SEKT

Program

Objectives

Topics

Previous Workshops

Organization Committee

Program Committee

Submission

Dates

Accepted Papers Top

Program Top

The schedule of the workshop can be found here.

Objectives Top

The intention of the workshop is to bring together researchers from the two research areas Semantic Web and Knowledge Discovery. According to T. Berners-Lee the Semantic Web is "an extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation". Current standardization efforts include e.g. the W3C recommendation for the Web Ontology Language (OWL). Knowledge Discovery is defined by U.M. Fayyad as "the nontrivial process of identifying valid, previously unknown, potentially useful patterns in data".

We foresee two ways of combining these areas. On the one hand, mining for the semantic web includes the application of knowledge discovery methods and techniques to support the setting up of the semantic web itself. Prominent examples are here ontology learning and population of ontologies (instance learning). On the other hand, mining from the semantic web emphasizes the usage of semantic web technologies for mining purposes such as e.g. the usage of taxonomies in recommender systems, applying association rules with generalizations or clustering with background knowledge in form of ontologies.

This event is supported by

Topics of Interest Top

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Mining for the Semantic Web:

Text-based approaches for ontology learning
Text mining to extract metadata/ontologies
Challenges of knowledge discovery from ontology learning perspective
Information retrieval for the semantic web
Information extraction with machine learning
Web usage, content, and structure mining for discovering semantics
Evaluation methodologies and metrics for ontology learning
Instance mining
Learning schema information from semi-structured information sources
Schema mapping

Mining from the Semantic Web:

Semantic web mining
Multi-relational learning, inductive logic programming
Data, web and text mining with background knowledge
User profiling, segmentation and interpretation with background knowledge
Schema matching
Link and graph mining

We also encourage submissions which relate research results from other areas (e.g., relational data mining, information retrieval, knowledge representation) to the workshop topics.

Please do not hesitate to contact any of the Organizing Comittee members for further details.

Related Workshops Top

Workshop on Information Integration on the Web at IJCAI'03
Workshop on Ontologies and Distributed Systems at IJCAI'03
2nd Workshop Semantic Web Mining at ECML/PKDD-2002
1st Workshop Semantic Web Mining at ECML/PKDD-2001
Workshop on Ontology Learning at ECAI 2000

Workshop Organising Committee Top

Andreas Hotho, KDE Group at University of Kassel (DE)
York Sure, Institute AIFB at University of Karlsruhe (DE)
Lise Getoor, Computer Science Dept/UMIACS at University of Maryland (US)

Program Committee Top

AnHai Doan (University of Illinois)
Bamshad Mobasher (DePaul University, Chicago)
Bettina Berendt (Humboldt Universitaet Berlin)
Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh)
Kristina Lerman (ISI, University of Southern Calofirnia)
Lyle Ungar (University of Pennsylvania)
Marko Grobelnik (J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana)
Natasha Fridman Noy (Stanford Medical Informatics)
Rudi Studer (University of Karlsruhe)
Vipul Kashyap (Partners HealthCare Systems, Clinical Informatics R&D)

Submission and Proceedings Top

We invite two types of submissions for this workshop:

Technical papers in any of the topics of interest of the workshop (but not limited to them)
Short position papers in any of the topics of interest of the workshop (but not limited to them)

Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and selected on the basis of these reviews. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop.

Format requirements for submissions of papers are:

Maximum 12 pages, excluding title page and bibliography for technical papers.
Maximum 6 pages, excluding title page and bibliography for short position papers.
All submissions should be made electronically if possible, by email attachment and preferably in Postscript or PDF format. Only if electronic submission is impossible should you send three hardcopies.
All submissions must be sent to the workshop contact, Andreas Hotho at hotho@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de

Although not required for the initial submission, we recommend to follow the format guidelines of KDD (Springer LNCS), as this will be the required format for accepted papers (cf. instructions).

Note: Please also check the list of topics in the KDD Workshop on Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis (WebKDD). You should consider submitting your paper to WebKDD, if the primary topics covered by the paper relate more directly to usage mining or recommendation and personalisation techniques. Given certain amount of overlap between the topics covered by the two workshops, some of the papers submitted to each workshop will be selected for presentation at a joint session. More details about the joint session will be posted at a later date.

Important Dates Top

First call for papers: April, 2004
Abstract submissions: May 26th, 2004
Full paper submissions: May 31st, 2004
(new) Notification of acceptance: June 29nd, 2004
(new) Camera ready deadline: July 9th, 2004 (hard deadline)
Workshop: August 22nd, 2004

Please do not hesitate to contact us for any questions you have!