2007 Artificial Intelligence and the
Web
a special track of technical conference papers at AAAI-07
22-26 July 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Web has evolved from a simple hypertext standard into a ubiquitous, global 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,
sensor data, composable services and communities of people. It offers an open and decentralized
environment in which anyone can publish information and services coupled with powerful search
engines and agents to discover them. All of this is ubiquitously available from wired, wireless
and mobile devices. 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 invites research papers on AI techniques, systems and concepts
involving or applied to the Web. Papers should either describe Web related research
or clearly explain how the work addresses problems, opportunities or issues underlying
the Web or Web-based systems. Relevant topics include:
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AI
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- AI for Web services: semantic descriptions, planning, matching
and coordination
- AI for Web-based collaboration and cooperation
- Agents and multiagent systems on the Web
- Enhancing Web search and information retrieval
- Human language technologies for Web systems, including information
extraction, question answering, text summarization, machine translation
and NLP.
- Information integration on the Web
- Intelligent user interfaces for Web systems
- Knowledge acquisition from the Web
- Languages, tools and methodologies for representing, managing
and visualizing Semantic Web data
- Link-analysis and graph mining on the Web
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- Machine learning and the Web
- Mining web logs, query logs, blogs
- Ontologies and the Web: creation, extraction, evolution, mapping,
merging, and alignment; tags and folksonomies
- Recognizing Web spam such as link farms and splogs
- Representing, reasoning and using provenance, trust, privacy,
and security on the Web
- Searching, querying, visualizing and interpreting the Semantic
Web
- Social networking and community identification
- Web personalization and user modeling
- Web-based opinion extraction and trend spotting
- Web-based recommendation systems
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Prepare and submit papers following the guidelines for general
technical conference papers. Papers will be reviewed by qualified
reviewers drawn from a special track committee as well as the general
program committee. 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 track and conference co-chairs.
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AI and the
Web Track Chairs |
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AI and the
Web Track Senior Program Committee |
- Eric Brill, Microsoft Research
- Oren Etzioni, University of Washington
- Jim Hendler, University Maryland College Park
- Lalana Kagal, MIT
- Ora Lassila, Nokia Research Center
- David Martin, SRI
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- James Mayfield, Johns Hopkins U. APL
- Andrew McCallum, UMASS
- Tim Oates, UMBC
- Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan
- Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam
- Carig Knoblock, U. of Southern California, ISI
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AI and the
Web Track Program Committee |
- Steve Abney, University of Michigan
- Lada Adamic, University of Michigan
- Jose Luis Ambite, U.Southern California, ISI
- Rie Ando, IBM
- Budak Arpinar, U Georgia
- Danny Ayers
- Branimir K Boguraev, IBM Research
- Chris Brew, Ohio State University
- Mark Burstein, BBN
- Harry Chen, Image Matters
- Junghoo Cho, UCLA
- Ken Church, Microsoft Research
- Robin Cohen, U. Waterloo
- Ido Dagan, LingoMotors
- Robert Dale, Macquarie University
- Mike Dean, BBN
- Thierry Declerck, DFKI
- Larry Birnbaum, Northwestern U
- Jos de Bruin, DERI
- Robin Burke, Depaul U
- Kevin C. Chang , U of Illinois Urbana Champaign
- Hasan Davulcu, Arizona State U
- Dennis deCoste, Microsoft Live Labs
- Grit Denker, SRI
- Brian Dennis, Lockheed Martin ATL
- Ian Dickinson, HP
- Chris Diehl, Johns Hopkins U. APL
- Li Ding, Stanford University
- Jerome Euzenat, INRIA
- Dennis Fetterly, Microsoft Research
- David Ferrucci, IBM Research
- Richard Fritzson
- Lee Giles, Penn State University
- Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento
- Eric Glover, Ask
- Richard Goodwin, IBM Research
- Mark Greaves, Vulcan
- Tom Gruber, RealTravel
- Peter Haase, Karlsruhe U
- Sandro Hawke, W3C
- Jeff Heflin, Lehigh University
- Jingpeng Huai, Beijing University of A&A
- Matthew Hurst, Nielsen BuzzMetrics
- Nancy Ide, Vassar College
- Zach Ives, U of Pennsylvania
- Anupam Joshi, UMBC
- David Karger, MIT
- Vipul Kashyap, Partners HealthCare system
- Frank Keller, University of Edinburgh
- Richard Keller, NASA
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- Deepali Khushraj, Nokia Research Center
- Paul Kogut, Lockheed-Martin
- Ragu Krishnapuram, I.B.M. India
- Ravi Kumar, Yahoo
- Nicholas Kushmerick, QL2
- Yannis Labrou, Fujitsu Labs of America
- Kevin Lang, Yahoo
- Henry Lieberman, MIT
- Dekang Lin, University of Alberta
- Bing Liu, U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Cynthia Matuszek, Cycorp
- Kathleen McCoy, U Delaware
- Robin McEntire, GlaxoSmithKline
- Fil Menczer, Indiana University
- Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas
- Prasenjit Mitra, Penn State
- Vibhu Mittal, Google
- Riichiro Mizoguchi, U. Osaka
- Dunja Mladenic, J. Stefan Institute
- Manabu Okumura, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Daniel Olmedilla, L3S Research & Hannover U
- Miles Osborne, University of Edinburgh
- Wolfgang Nejdl, U. Hannover
- Hwee Tou Ng, N. University of Singapore
- Sergei Nirenburg, UMBC
- Natasha Noy, Stanford University
- Patrick Pantel, U. of Southern California ISI
- Terry Payne, University of Southhampton
- Yun Peng, UMBC
- Filip Perich, Shared Spectrum
- Tom Potok, Oak Ridge National Lab
- Line Catherine Pouchard, Oak Ridge National Lab
- Anand Ranganathan, IBM Research
- Kent Seamons, BYU
- Amit Sheth, University of Georgia
- Lynn Andrea Stein, Olin College
- Michael Strube, EML Research
- Katia Sycara, CMU
- Marty Tenenbaum, Commerce Net
- Bhavani Thuraisingham, U Texas at Dallas
- Andrew Tomkins, Yahoo
- Walt Truszkowski, NASA
- Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit
- David Waltz, Columbia University
- Christopher Welty, I.B.M. Research
- Steve Willmott, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
- Ji-Rong Wen, Microsoft Research Asia
- Dekai Wu, Hong Kong U. Science & Technology
- Shi Zhongzhi, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Lina Zhou, UMBC
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