QSI 2008

1st International Workshop on Quantitative Semantic methods for the Internet (QSI'08) in conjunction with the federated "OnTheMove" 2008 Conferences Monterrey, Mexico, Nov 9 - 14, 2008 http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/index.html?page=qsi2008cfp --

MOTIVATION -- As the limitations of current internet for information retrieval and other tasks became clear, some proposals for taking meaning into account began to appear, mainly the so-called "Semantic web", which includes a set of technologies like RDF, based on new markup languages. Though these technologies could be technically sound, practical limitations, such as the high training level required to construct semantic web pages, and the small proportion of current semantic web pages �??which, circularly produces low commercial interest in RDF, end up making the semantic web marginal today and also in the near foreseeable future. So, other options for taking into account semantics of today's internet were proposed. From "latent" semantics to fuzzy techniques and many others, they have in common their interest in modeling in a quantitative and often approximate way the meaning of online documents, at least for identifying their subject or topic. Extensive use of counting, statistical methods can bring to front many semantic "hidden" regularities of the web. Some researchers have proposed to measure "semantic" distances by counting joint keyword occurrences in web pages, by clustering related keywords, by using approximate matching, and many other quantitative or approximate methods.

TOPICS OF INTEREST -- In this workshop we are interested in gathering the emerging scientific and practitioners community for sharing and discussing all those quantitative and approximate methods for dealing with internet semantics.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to: - Information Retrieval enhanced with approximate semantics - Semantic distances calculation - Automatic topic discovery - Semantic algorithms scalability - Quantitative semantics compatibility with current search technology - Applications of quantitative semantics

IMPORTANT DATES -- Abstract Submission Deadline June 22, 2008 Paper Submission Deadline July 7, 2008 Acceptance Notification August 15, 2008 Camera Ready Due August 25, 2008 Registration Due August 25, 2008 OTM Conferences November 9 - 14, 2008

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -- Papers submitted to this workshop must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference.

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All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity of expression. All submissions must be in English. Submissions should be made in PDF format and must not exceed 10 pages in the final camera- ready format. Detailed formatting instructions will be announced.

ORGANIZERS -- Ramon F. Brena, (ramon.brena@itesm.mx) Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico Francisco Cantu-Ortiz, (fcantu@itesm.mx) Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Publicity chairs: Hector Ceballos, Yolanda Castillo

PROGRAM COMMITTEE -- Miguel A. Alonso Pardo, U. de la Coruña, Spain Ernesto Damiani, U. of Milan, Italy Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France Sara Garza, Tec de Monterrey, Mexico Randy Goebel, U. of Alberta Adolfo Guzman, CIC, Mexico Graeme Hirst, U. of Toronto Fakhri Karray, U. of Waterloo, Canada Richard Kittredge, U. de Montréal Ana Maguitman, U. Nacional del Sur, Argentina Trevor Martin, U. of Bristol, England Antonio Moreno Ortiz, U. de Málaga Vivi Nastase, EML Research Eduardo Ramirez, Tec de Monterrey, Mexico Vasile Rus, U. of Memphis Elie Sanchez, U. of Aix-Marseille, France Juan M. Torres Moreno, U. of Avignon, France Manuel Vilares, U. of Vigo, Spain Hugo Zaragoza, Yahoo Research Barcelona, Spain

Best regards,

Héctor Ceballos, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico. Publicity Chair ceballos@itesm.mx

Yolanda Castillo, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico. Publicity Chair yolizca@itesm.mx

If you have some questions concerning QSI'08 please send us a email. This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP