While a lot of basic infrastructure exists now for the Semantic Web (OWL, Editors, Inference-Engines), the lack of semantic metadata is still a major hurdle for the broad success of the Semantic Web. To overcome this obstacle, one needs methods that facilitate and accelerate the creation of metadata on a mass scale. Hence, this address the issue of upgrading the actual Web to the Semantic Web by means of (automated) semantic annotation strategies.
Another issue is the semantic indexing and searching of multimedia (and multilingual) data. It is difficult to process completely the content of multimedia data, even with technologies based on natural language processing, image processing, machine vision and speech recognition. Therefore, semantic annotation as a means of supplementing automatic multimedia processing is one of the promising methodologies to to describe content semantically.
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
General description of semantic annotation
Tools/strategies for upgrading the current Web to the Semantic Web
A common semantic annotation strategy for upgrading the web to the Semantic Web (including multimedia content)
NLP tools/strategies for semantic annotation of the current Web
Multimedia tools/strategies for semantic annotation of the current Web
Semantic annotation of static vs. dynamic web documents
Manual vs. automated annotation. Can automation be effectively deployed?
Statistical vs. rule-based semantic annotation strategies
Manual and/or automated semantic annotation of the current Web
Multimedia annotation (e.g. by using MPEG-7)
Collaborative, shared annotation
Evaluation measures/strategies of semantic annotation
We invite two types of submissions for this workshop:
Technical papers on any of the topics of interest of the workshop (but not limited to them)
Short position papers on any of the topics of interest of the workshop (but not limited to them)
Format requirements for the submission of papers are:
Maximum 10 pages, excluding title page and bibliography for technical papers
Maximum 2 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 hard copies.
All submissions must be sent to the workshop contact, Siegfried Handschuh <sha AT aifb DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de>.
Although not required for the initial submission, we recommend we recommend following the format guidelines of ISWC 2005 (Springer LNCS), as this will be the required format for accepted papers (cf. http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) We will publish the workshop proceedings online at CEUR-WS.
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