2006 Artificial Intelligence and the Web
a special track of technical conference papers at AAAI-06
Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center, Boston, 16-20 July
2006
Co-Chairs
The web has quickly grown from a modest hypertext system of interest
to computer researchers to a ubiquitous information system including
virtually all of human knowledge. Today's Web provides ready access
to not only text, images, and audio files, but also to structured and
semi-structured information, services and people. It offers an open,
decentralized (and uncontrollable!) environment in which anyone can
publish information and services coupled with powerful search engines
and agents to find and rank results. All of this is ubiquitously
available from wired, wireless and mobile devices. Oh, and did we
mention that it's free?
The result is an environment enormously useful to people for research,
learning, commerce, socializing, communication and entertainment. We
have just begun to explore how this vast amount of machine accessible
knowledge can be exploited and used by machines -- to better serve
human needs as well as to discover new knowledge.
The special track on "AI and the Web" invites technical papers on the use of
AI techniques, systems and concepts involving the Web. We are especially
interested in receiving papers in two active research areas: (i) using
text and language analysis to interpret and understand natural language
text found on the web and (ii) developing and exploiting "Semantic Web"
languages and systems that explicitly encode knowledge using languages
such as RDF and OWL. Innovative papers in other areas describing research
involving both AI and the Web are definitely encouraged also. The AAAI-06
track on AI and the Web welcomes submissions on all topics relevant to
the track, including the following.
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Semantic Web |
NLP and the
Web |
Other AI&Web
topics |
| Information integration
New/better/different KR languages for the Semantic
Web (e.g.,
RuleML)
Semantic Web grounded policy languages
Semantic web and agents
Semantic web in mobile and pervasive computing
Semantic web ontologies
Semantic web services
Social aspects of web semantics
Tags and folksonomies
Proof, trust and provenance for web information
Applications |
Cross-language
IR for the web
Enhancing IR and web search
Information extraction on the web
Knowledge acquisition from the Web
NLP for automating markup
Machine translation for and using the Web
Opinion extraction
Weblog analysis
Ontology generation from text
Fact extraction from text
Question answering on the web
Text summarization
Applications |
AI and web-based
ecommerce
AI for P2P & GRID environments
Intelligent information retrieval
Intelligent user interfaces for Web systems
Multi-agent systems on the Web
Ontologies for the Web
Mining weblogs, query logs, blogs
Recognizing web spam
Recommendation systems
Social networking & community identification
Trend spotting
Web link-analysis & graph mining
Graph based methods for analyzing Web information
Web personalization & user modeling |
Papers for this special track should be prepared and submitted following
the general
technical conference paper submission guidelines. Papers will be reviewed
by qualified reviewers drawn from a special track committee as well as
the general program committee, with the final selections determined by
the track co-chairs in conjunction with the AAAI-06 cochairs. Submissions
to this special track deemed not to be relevant may be considered for
review for the general technical papers track at the discretion of the
chairs. For information on submitting your paper, registering at the paper
submission site, blind review preparation, submissions to other conferences
and journals, and format requirements, please see the submissions
instructions page. Abstracts must be submitted by 16 February and
full papers by 21 February, 2006.
Track program committee
| Steve Abney, U. Michigan
Lada Adamic, U. Michigan
Jose Luis Ambite, USC ISI
Rie Ando, IBM
Ron Brachman, Yahoo
Jeff Bradshaw, IHMC
Chris Brew, Ohio State U.
Eric Brill, Microsoft Research
Mark Burstein, BBN
Junghoo Cho, UCLA
Ken Church, Microsoft Research
Ido Dagan, LingoMotors
Robert Dale, Macquarie U.
Umesh Dayal, HP
Jos de Bruijn, DERI
Mike Dean, BBN
Stefan Decker, DERI
Grit Denker, SRI
Ian Dickinson, HP
AnHai Doan, U. Illinois
Oren Etzioni, U. Washington
Jerome Euzenat, INRIA
Dieter Fensel, DERI
Gary Flake, MSN Research
Victoria Fossum, U. Michigan
Lee Giles, Penn State U.
Fausto Giunchiglia, U. Trento
Eric Glover, AskJeeves
Mark Greaves, Vulcan Inc.
Benjamin Grosof, MIT
Ramanathan V. Guha, Google |
Alon Halevy, Google
Frank van Harmelen, Vrije U. Amsterdam
Pat Hayes, IHMC
Jeff Heflin, Lehigh U.
Thomas Hoffman, Brown U.
Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research
Todd Hughes, Lockheed Martin
Mike Huhns, U. South Carolina
Nancy Ide, Vassar COllege
Rosie Jones, Yahoo
Anupam Joshi, UMBC
Lalana Kagal, MIT
Frank Keller, U. Edinburgh
Michael Kifer, U. Stony Brook
Paul Kogut, Lockheed Martin
Yannis Labrou, Fujitsu Labs of America
Mirella Lapata, U. Edinburgh
Ora Lassila, Nokia Research
Henry Lieberman, MIT
Dekang Lin, U. Alberta
Lluis Marquez, U. Politecnica de Catalunya
David Martin, SRI
Ryusuke Masuoka, Fujitsu Labs of America
James Mayfield, Johns Hopkins U. APL
Sheila McIlraith, U. Toronto
Fil Menczer, Indiana U.
Rada Mihalcea,U. North Texas
Vibhu Mittal, Google
Dunja Mladenic, Jozef Stefan Institute |
Mark Musen, Stanford U.
Wolfgang Nejdl, U. Hannover
Hwee Tou Ng, National U. of Singapore
Sergei Nirenburg, UMBC
Peter Norvig, Google
Tim Oates, UMBC
Miles Osborne, U. Edinburgh
Patrick Pantel, USC ISI
Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs
Terry Payne, U. Southampton
Yun Peng, UMBC
David Pennock, Yahoo
Tom Potok, Oak Ridge Nat. Lab.
Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo
Dan Roth, U. Illinois
Norman Sadeh, CMU
Amit Sheth, U. Georgia & Semagix
Steffen Staab, U. Koblenz-Landau
Lynn Andrea Stein, Olin U.
Rudi Studer, U. Karlsruhe
Katia Sycara, CMU
Ben Taskar, UC Berkeley
Marty Tenenbaum, Commerce Net
Simone Teufel, U. Cambridge
Walt Truszkowski, NASA Goddard
Mike Uschold, Boeing
David Waltz, Columbia U.
Chris Welty, IBM
Janyce Wiebe, U. Pittsburgh
Steve Willmott, U. Politecnica de Catalunya
Dekai Wu, Hong Kong U. Science & Technology
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