Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 567.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 06:47:15 +0000
From: Hamish Cunningham <H.Cunningham@DCS.SHEF.AC.UK>
Subject: Call for papers: HLT for the semantic web and web
services at ISWC 2003
CALL FOR PAPERS
Human Language Technology for the Semantic Web and Web Services
http://gate.ac.uk/conferences/iswc2003/index.html
Workshop at ISWC 2003
International Semantic Web Conference
Sanibel Island, Florida, 20-23 October 2003
Hamish Cunningham
Atanas Kiryakov
Ying Ding
The Semantic Web aims to add a machine tractable, re-purposeable layer to
compliment the existing web of natural language hypertext. In order to
realise this vision, the creation of semantic annotation, the linking of
web pages to ontologies, and the creation, evolution and interrelation of
ontologies must become automatic or semi-automatic processes.
In the context of new work on distributed computation, Semantic Web
Services (SWSs) go beyond current services by adding ontologies and formal
knowledge to support description, discovery, negotiation, mediation and
composition. This formal knowledge is often strongly related to informal
materials. For example, a service for multi-media content delivery over
broadband networks might incorporate conceptual indices of the content, so
that a smart VCR (such as next generation TiVO) can reason about programmes
to suggest to its owner. Alternatively, a service for B2B catalogue
publication has to translate between existing semi-structured catalogues
and the more formal catalogues required for SWS purposes. To make these
types of services cost-effective we need automatic knowledge harvesting
from all forms of content that contain natural language text or spoken data.
Other services do not have this close connection with informal content, or
will be created from scratch using Semantic Web authoring tools. For
example, printing or compute cycle or storage services. In these cases the
opposite need is present: to document services for the human reader using
natural language generation.
This workshop will provide a forum for workers in the field of human
language technology for the Semantic Web and for Semantic Web Services to
present their latest results. The aim is to provide a snapshot of the state
of the art, dealing with a wide range of issues, including but not limited to:
* automatic and semi-automatic annotation of web pages;
* semantic indexing and retrieval of documents, combining the strengths
of IE and IR;
* integration of data about language in language processing components
with ontological data;
* robustness across genres and domains;
* ease of embedding in Semantic Web applications;
* ontology learning, evolving and merging;
* automatic web service description augmentation;
* automatic semantic structure documentation;
* language technology for automatic Web service discovery;
* adaptation of generation techniques to SWS applications.
The themes of the workshop have partly emerged from the Special Interest
Group on Language Technologies and the Semantic Web (SIG5), part of the
OntoWeb thematic network.
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