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yahoo.com>Call for Participation: Semantic Web Workshop at the 2002 World-Wide Web Conference The term "Semantic Web" denotes the next evolutionary step of the Web, which establishes a layer of machine-understandable data for automated agents, sophisticated search engines, and information integration and interoperability services. The ultimate goal of the Semantic Web is to allow machines to share and use knowledge worldwide in a scalable, adaptable and extensible manner, without any central authority and just a few basic rules. The Semantic Web workshop at WWW-2002 will complement the Semantic Web track at the main conference by providing a forum for active discussion on the current achievements, pitfalls, and the future research directions of the Semantic Web. Our goal is to provide a forum for fruitful discussion sessions rather than a mini-conference. We solicit papers, but at the workshop itself the emphasis will be on sharing experiences with time for all participants to contribute. The workshop will be structured around group discussions designed to help us achieve greater understanding of the following issues: What are the recent successes in Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Information Integration, and other Computer Science fields that are relevant to the Semantic Web? What are the unique challenges of the Semantic Web that do not allow us to apply that research directly? How do we overcome these challenges? What are new areas of basic research that the Semantic Web needs? What are possible killer applications for the Semantic Web? How can we achieve the critical mass of ontologies, annotated data, tools, and agents to make the Semantic Web as ubiquitous as the regular Web is today? Besides the papers about up-to-date progress of research, we solicit reports from Semantic Web practitioners. We also encourage submissions from researchers in established areas of Computer Science discussing the possibilities and challenges of applying traditional techniques to the Semantic Web, with its de-centralization and scale. Practitioners' reports will give us the opportunity to discuss the gap between the current practices and the visions. The challenge papers will help us achieve a coherent picture of the Semantic Web to come. Relevant workshop topics include but are not limited to: * Language and Representation issues of the Semantic Web (e.g. RDF, OIL, DAML, Topic-Maps, RSS) * Query languages for RDF * Tools, systems and methodologies for engineering of, storing of and reasoning with RDF data * Migrating existing information to be usable for RDF applications * Trust in the Semantic Web * Information integration and Mediation on the Web * Semantic Web applications Organizing Committee Martin Frank, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA Steffen Staab, Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany Program Committee Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Paul Buitelaar, DFKI, Germany Fabio Ciravegna, U Sheffield, UK Peter Crowther, Network Inference, UK Monica Crub�zy, Stanford University, USA Mike Dean, BBN, USA Stefan Decker, Stanford University (DB), USA Jerome Euzenat, INRIA, France Dieter Fensel, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands Tim Finin, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, USA Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK Asun G�mez-P�rez, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands Jeff Heflin, Lehigh University, USA Martin Lacher, Technische Universit�t M�nchen, Germany Fred Lochovsky, HKUST, Hong Kong Alexander Maedche, FZI, Germany Brian McBride, HP Laboratories, UK Sergey Melnik, Stanford University, USA Enrico Motta, The Open University, UK Louiqa Raschid, Univ. of Maryland, USA Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Katia Sycara, CMU, USA Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK Mike Uschold, Boeing, USA Submission procedure We invite three types of submission: research papers, application papers, and position statements. Research and application papers should not exceed 12 pages (including bibliography). Position statements should not exceed 3 pages and address some of the questions in this announcement. Indicate the type of paper in large fonts on the first page of your submission. We will accept only electronic submissions in PDF format. To submit the paper, send the PDF file or the URL where we can download it to noyMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
ua.ac.be>IPrA Research Center - Pragmatics Bibliography Ever since the establishment of the International Pragmatics Association, the IPrA Research Center has been developing projects to help realize the Association's academic goals. In particular, there are two major projects aimed at documenting developments in the field: 1. The Handbook of Pragmatics 2. The Pragmatics Bibliography Being published in annual instalments, the Handbook (edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola =D6stman & Chris Bulcaen, published by John Benjamins Publishing Company) first appeared in 1995 and is available on a subscription basis (at a discount rate for IPrA members). The Bibliography project underwent some drastic changes since the publication of A Comprehensive Bibliography of Pragmatics (Jan Nuyts & Jef Verschueren) in 1987. The original 2197-page annotated bibliography was already converted into an electronic format some ten years ago. Rapid changes in the world of electronic publishing, however, have meanwhile required a re-conversion and have led to a renewed project, fully financed by John Benjamins Publishing Company, that will make a substantially expanded and updated bibliography available in electronic form as early as 2002, with annual or semi-annual expansions and updates from then onwards. CALL FOR INFORMATION In order to assure maximal coverage, we are developing an elaborate network of information sources. One way in which you can help us at this moment is the following: If you are (in contact with) an editor or an active member of the advisory board of a journal or book series that you think needs to be screened on a regular basis for coverage in the bibliography, please fill out the form below and (e-)mail it to the address below as soon as possible. Note that there are no restrictions on the languages of publication!!! My name and address: Journal / Book series: Place of publication and publisher: My function (if any): Name and address of others related to the journal or book series (please specify their relation): Sincerely, Jef Verschueren & Tom Van Hout ***************************** Bibliography Project IPrA Research Center University of Antwerp (UIA-GER) Universiteitsplein 1 B-2610 Wilrijk, Belgium Tel.: +32 3 820 27 84 Fax: +32 3 820 27 62 URL: http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/ E-mail: tom.vanhoutMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue