1st International Workshop on

Quantitative Semantic methods for the Internet
(QSI'08)

Monterrey, Mexico, Nov 9 - 14, 2008

http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf

MOTIVATION

As the limitations of current internet 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.

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.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Possible topics include, but are not limited to::

  • Semantic distances calculation;
  • Automatic topic discovery;
  • Semantic algorithms scalability;
  • Quantitative semantics compatibility with current search technology;
  • Applications of quantitative semantics;

IMPORTANT DATES


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

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

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 can be found at:

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS. Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings.

The paper submission site is located at:

http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/qsi/2008/papers/


ORGANISATION COMMITTEE 

  • Ramon F. Brena
    Tec de Monterrey
    Mexico
    Tel: (+52) 81 8328-4380
    Email: ramon.brena@itesm.mx


  • Francisco Cantu-Ortiz
    Tec de Monterrey
    Mexico


PUBLICITY CHAIRS


Program Committee Members (to be extended to 20 members)

  • 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