MSW2004

Mining for and from the Semantic Web

MSW2004

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

Preliminary Program for MSW 2004

08:30-08:45 Introduction & Welcome

Session 1 - Text Mining and Semantics

08:45-09:10 The Terascale Challenge
Deepak Ravichandran, Patrick Pantel, Eduard Hovy
09:10-09:35 Large-Scale Extraction of Fine-Grained Semantic Relations between Verbs
Timothy Chklovski, Patrick Pantel
09:35-10:00 Sentiment Extraction from Unstructured Text using Tabu Search-Enhanced Markov Blanket
Xue Bai and Rema Padman, Edoardo Airoldi
10:00-10:30 Break

Session 2 - Mining Structures

10:30-11:30 Invited Talk: Mining Structures to Predict Semantics
Alon Y. Halevy
11:30-11:45 Exploiting Recurring Structure in a Semantic Network
Shawn R. Wolfe, Richard M. Keller
11:45-13:15 Lunch

Session 3 - Tools, Frameworks and Applications

13:15-13:40 SEMEX: Mining for Personal Information Integration
Xin Dong, Alon Halevy, Ema Nemes, Stephan B. Sigurdsson,Pedro Domingos
13:40-13:50

A Knowledge DiscoveryWorkbench for the SemanticWeb
Jens Hartmann, York Sure

13:50-14:05

A Framework for Image Annotation Using Semantic Web
Ahmed Bashir and Latifur Khan

Joint Session (with WebKDD'04)

14:05-14:15 Joint Session Introduction
14:15-14:40 Boosting for Text Classification with Semantic Features
Stephan Bloehdorn, Andreas Hotho
14:40-15:05 WebKDD:Integrating Web Conceptual Modeling and Web Usage Mining
Rosa Meo, Pier Lanzi, Maristella Matera, Roberto Esposito
15:05-15:30 Break
15:30-15:55 WebKdd: Discovering Links between Lexical and Surface Features in Questions and Answers
Soumen Chakrabarti
15:55-16:30 (Joint) Discussion and Closing