Andreas Abecker

Special Track on

Ontologies and Metadata for Knowledge Retrieval

Track Description

On the other hand, several research communities-like digital libraries, information retrieval, intelligent information integration, and Internet information access-developed methods and tools which seem to converge in some points which can also be found (or have their roots) in the knowledge-based systems, and knowledge sharing community, resp. Ontologies for automatically processable, knowledge-rich content characterization of information sources and metadata as the set of all meta-level characterizations easing information source description, evaluation, and access, play an outstanding role in all intelligent access scenarios. It  also turned out that methods and tools coming from AI-like logic-based inferences, powerful representation mechanisms, case-based reuse, agent technology, etc.-are important enablers for these scenarios.

However, the diversity of goals, approaches, and achievements across these different research communities makes it difficult to get an overall picture of the current state of the art, and thus hinders reasonable reuse of results as well necessary "standardization" efforts to agree on generally accepted insights and techniques. Especially the issues of interoperability with and influence on existing and coming standards in the world-wide Internet business seem crucial for leveraging as well as killing of developments. So, our main aim in this Special Track is to promote sort of a "cross-fertilization" between different research communities working on the problem areas sketched.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Standards for Metadata (e.g. Dublin Core) and  Metadata-Representation (e.g. RDF, XML), and Ontologies
•  Metadata-annotation and generation
•  Ontologies for Knowledge Annotation
•  Interoperability of ontology based retrieval systems and ontologies,
•  Building and Maintanance Issues of Ontologies for Knowledge Retrieval
•  Expressiveness of Ontology Languages

Track Organizers

Additional Track Reviewers

• Dan Brickley, University of Bristol, UNITED KINGDOM
• R.V. Guha, Netscape Communications, USA
• James Hendler, University of Maryland, USA
• Vipul Kashyap, Bellcore, USA
• Robert E. Kent, Washington State University, USA
• Bertin Klein, GMD-IPSI, Darmstadt, GERMANY
• Patrick Lambrix, Linköpings Universitet, SWEDEN
• Eduardo Mena, Universidad de Zaragoza, SPAIN
• Aris M. Ouksel, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
• Franz Schmalhofer, DFKI, Kaiserslautern, GERMANY
• Chris Welty, Vassar College, USA
• Bin Yu, North Carolina State University, USA

 

Submission of Papers

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Authors should indicate appropriate sessions/minitracks for each submission. If there is uncertainty regarding the optimum track for a paper, authors should contact the chairs of the track that seems closest, preferably in advance of the submission deadline. Depending on the range of papers received, some tracks may be collapsed whereas other tracks may be added in advance of the workshop.
 

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