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*********** Call for Papers: Ontology Learning ******************
******************** IJCAI-2001 Workshop *************************
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******************** August 4, 2001, Seattle **********************
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Comprehensive information to be found at
http://ol2001.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
Workshop Summary
Ontologies serve as a means for establishing a conceptually concise
basis for communicating knowledge for many purposes. In recent years,
we have seen a surge of interest that deals with the discovery and
automatic creation of complex, multirelational knowledge structures.
For example, the natural language community tries to acquire word
semantics from natural language texts, database researchers tackle
the problem of schema induction, and people building intelligent
information agents research the learning of complex structures from
semi-structured input (HTML, XML). All the while, efforts in the
machine learning community pursue the induction of more concise and
more expressive knowledge structures (e.g., relational learning) in
general.
For the workshop we intend to gather a diverse range of participants
interested in the machine learning of ontologies. In particular, we
are also interested in the maintenance (revision, incrementality) and
integration (from various sources) aspects of learning ontologies.
Topics of interest include, e.g.:
Text mining for building ontologies
Learning from machine-readable dictionaries
Lexical acquisition
Learning selectional restrictions
Semi-automatic extending of ontologies (WordNet)
Multi-relational learning / Inductive Logic Programming
A-Box Mining
Learning ontologies with inferences (e.g. description logics)
Learning ontologies from the Web (from DTDs, XML, RDF)
Cooperative learning of ontologies
Learning translation rules between ontologies
Reverse Engineering relational schemas to ontologies
Besides of the common digital presentations, we intend that
participants give live system demonstrations.
An invited talk "Learning to translate between ontologies" will be
given by Alon Halevy (up until recently: Alon Levy), University
of Washington.
Important Dates
Deadline for paper submission 21 February 2001
Notification of acceptance 21 March 2001
Deadline final contributions 30 April 2001
All accepted papers will be published in the IJCAI-2001 workshop
proceedings.
Submission Information
We invite contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in topics
related to the purpose of the workshop. Persons interested in
participating should submit either a technical paper (less than
6000 words) or a position paper (less than 1500 words) addressing
new research issues. In addition, we solicit proposals for panel
discussions and break-out groups that work towards visions for
ontology learning. Submit before February 21, 2001 in electronic form
(strongly preferred!) in postscript or pdf in the final
IJCAI style format to:
or send three hard copies of your submission to:
"Ontology Learning OL2001"
Steffen Staab and Alexander Maedche
Institute AIFB,
Karlsruhe University,
D-76128 Karlsruhe,
Germany
Organizing Committee
Steffen Staab (Contact),
AIFB, Karlsruhe University,
76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
email: sst@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
phone: +49-721-608 4751
fax: +49-721-693 717
Alexander Maedche, AIFB, Karlsruhe University
Claire Nedellec, Inference and Machine Learning Group,
LRI, Université Paris Sud
Ed Hovy, Information Sciences Institute,
University of Southern California
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