From: Jeff Heflin (heflin@cse.lehigh.edu)
Date: 09/11/03
The 17th International FLAIRS Conference Special Track on AI and the Web http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~heflin/conf/flairs/ The Palms South Beach Hotel Miami Beach, Florida May 17-19, 2004 Call for Papers --------------- The World Wide Web has made a wealth of digital information available on demand, impacting AI in two ways. First, it allows traditional AI techniques to be evaluated with large amounts of real-world data. This introduces complexities not found in toy problems, while at the same time avoiding many of the difficulties inherent in the physical world. As such, the Web makes for a good testbed for AI researchers. Second, the Web proposes new problems and challenges for AI. The sheer size and distributed nature of the Web has fueled novel research in extracting information from Web pages, efficiently integrating information from distributed sources, and extending the Web with ontologies to enable the Semantic Web. The focus of this special track is on what the Web can do for AI research and what AI research can do for the Web. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: - Information extraction - Information integration - Intelligent Web search - Intelligent Web services - Machine learning for classifying Web documents - NLP for understanding Web documents - Question answering from Web documents - Semantic Web - User modeling and adaptation for the Web - Web-based agents Submission Instructions ----------------------- Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should not exceed 6 pages and are due by October 24, 2003. The papers should not identify the author(s) in any manner. All submissions will be done electronically via the FLAIRS web submission system, which will be available through the conference web site (see the link under General Conference, below). Authors should indicate "AI and the Web" as the special track when submitting their papers. General Conference ------------------ FLAIRS 2004 promises to be an especially exciting conference. Invited speakers include Justine Cassell from MIT, Edward Feigenbaum from Stanford University, Jim Hendler from the University of Maryland, and Tom Mitchell from Carnegie Mellon University. For more information on FLAIRS and this year's conference, please see the following web sites: FLAIRS: http://www.flairs.com/ FLAIRS 2004: http://www.flairs.com/flairs2004/ Important Dates --------------- - Paper submissions due: October 24, 2003 - Notification letters sent: January 7, 2004 - Camera ready copy due: February 6, 2004 Program Committee ----------------- Larry Birnbaum Northwestern University Stefan Decker USC ISI AnHai Doan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Tim Finin University of Maryland, Baltimore County Gary Flake Overture Services Paolo Frasconi University of Florence Lee Giles Penn State University Siegfried Handschuh University of Karlsruhe Pat Hayes University of West Florida Jeff Heflin (chair) Lehigh University Ian Horrocks University of Manchester Eduard Hovy USC ISI Vipul Kashyap National Library of Medicine Craig Knoblock USC ISI Nick Kushmerick University College Dublin Marco Maggini University of Siena Dunja Mladenic J. Stefan Institute Ion Muslea University of California, Irvine Natasha Noy Stanford University Bijan Parsia University of Maryland Dragomir Radev University of Michigan Sarah Zelikovitz College of Staten Island Further Information ------------------- Specific questions regarding the AI and the Web track may be addressed to: Jeff Heflin Computer Science and Engineering Lehigh University 19 Memorial Drive West Bethlehem, PA 18034 E-mail: jeh3@lehigh.edu Phone: 610-758-6533
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