Artificial Intelligence and the Web

a special track of technical conference papers at AAAI-06

21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center, Boston, 16-20 July 2006

The AAAI-06 special technical track on "AI and the Web" received 106 submissions, 20 of which were accepted as full papers with oral presentations and 11 as full papers with poster presentations. Papers can be accessed online via the links below by AAAI members and the proceedings can be purchased in CD and book format.

A Platform to Evaluate the Technology for Service Discovery in the Semantic Web
Cecile Aberg, Johan Aberg, Patrick Lambrix, and Nahid Shahmehri

Using Semantics to Identify Web Objects
Nathanael Chambers, James Allen, Lucian Galescu, Hyuckchul Jung, and William Taysom

Comparative Experiments on Sentiment Classification for Online Product Reviews
Hang Cui, Vibhu Mittal, and Mayur Datar

On the Update of Description Logic Ontologies at the Instance Level
Giuseppe De Giacomo, Maurizio Lenzerini, Antonella Poggi, and Riccardo Rosati

Inexact Matching of Ontology Graphs Using Expectation-Maximization
Prashant Doshi and Christopher Thomas

Mining and Re-ranking for Answering Biographical Queries on the Web
Donghui Feng, Deepak Ravichandran, and Eduard Hovy

Towards Modeling Threaded Discussions using Induced Ontology Knowledge
Donghui Feng, Jihie Kim, Erin Shaw, and Eduard Hovy

Inconsistencies, Negations and Changes in Ontologies
Giorgos Flouris, Zhisheng Huang, Jeff Z. Pan, Dimitris Plexousakis, and Holger Wache

Overcoming the Brittleness Bottleneck using Wikipedia: Enhancing Text Categorization with Encyclopedic Knowledge
Evgeniy Gabrilovich and Shaul Markovitch

Mixed Collaborative and Content-Based Filtering with User-Contributed Semantic Features
Matthew Garden and Gregory Dudek

Table Extraction Using Spatial Reasoning on the CSS2 Visual Box Model
Wolfgang Gatterbauer and Paul Bohunsky

Deciding Semantic Matching of Stateless Services
Duncan Hull, Evgeny Zolin, Andrey Bovykin, Ian Horrocks, Ulrike Sattler, and Robert Stevens

OntoSearch: A Full-Text Search Engine for the Semantic Web
Xing Jiang and Ah-Hwee Tan

Mining Comparative Sentences and Relations
Nitin Jindal and Bing Liu

Using Semantic Web Technologies for Policy Management on the Web
Lalana Kagal, Tim Berners-Lee, Dan Connolly, and Daniel Weitzner

Social Network-based Trust in Prioritized Default Logic
Yarden Katz and Jennifer Golbeck

Detecting Spam Blogs: A Machine Learning Approach
Pranam Kolari, Akshay Java, Tim Finin, Tim Oates, and Anupam Joshi

Novel Relationship Discovery Using Opinions Mined from the Web
Lun-Wei Ku, Hsiu-Wei Ho, and Hsin-Hsi Chen

Automatically Labeling the Inputs and Outputs of Web Services
Kristina Lerman, Anon Plangprasopchok, and Craig A. Knoblock

Predicting Task-Specific Webpages for Revisiting
Arwen Twinkle Lettkeman, Simone Stumpf, Jed Irvine, and Jonathan Herlocker

Bookmark Hierarchies and Collaborative Recommendation
Ben Markines, Lubomira Stoilova, and Filippo Menczer

Spinning Multiple Social Networks for Semantic Web
Yutaka Matsuo, Masahiro Hamasaki, Yoshiyuki Nakamura, Takuichi Nishimura, Kôiti Hasida, Hideaki Takeda, Junichiro Mori, Danushka Bollegala, and Mitsuru Ishizuka

Model-Based Collaborative Filtering as a Defense against Profile Injection Attacks
Bamshad Mobasher, Robin Burke, and JJ Sandvig

An Investigation into the Feasibility of the Semantic Web
Zhengxiang Pan, Abir Qasem, and Jeff Heflin

Organizing and Searching the World Wide Web of Facts—Step One: The One-Million Fact Extraction Challenge
Marius Pasca, Dekang Lin, Jeffrey Bigham, Andrei Lifchits, and Alpa Jain

Minimally Invasive Randomization fro Collecting Unbiased Preferences from Clickthrough Logs
Filip Radlinski and Thorsten Joachims

Inferring User's Preferences using Ontologies
Vincent Schickel-Zuber and Boi Faltings

WikiRelate! Computing Semantic Relatedness Using Wikipedia
Michael Strube and Simone Paolo Ponzetto

Trust Representation and Aggregation in a Distributed Agent System
Yonghong Wang and Munindar P. Singh

Improve Web Search Using Image Snippets
Xiao-Bing Xue, Zhi-Hua Zhou, and Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang