[Corpora-List] Extended deadline (March 16th): Second IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2008)

[Torsten Zesch]

CALL FOR PAPERS
***Deadline extended until March 16th*** 
 
Second IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing  
IEEE ICSC2008   
August 4th-7th,  2008, Santa Clara, CA, USA 
http://icsc.eecs.uci.edu/ 
 
Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society 
 
The field of Semantic Computing (SC) brings together those disci- 
plines concerned with connecting the  (often  vaguely-formulated) 
intentions  of humans with computational content. This connection 
can go both ways: retrieving,  using  and  manipulating  existing 
content according to user's goals ("do what the user means"); and 
creating, rearranging, and managing content that matches the  au- 
thor's intentions ("do what the author means"). 
 
The  content  addressed  in  SC  includes, but is not limited to, 
structured and semi-structured data, multimedia data, text,  pro- 
grams, services and, even, network behavior.  This connection be- 
tween content and the user is made  via  (1)  Semantic  Analysis, 
which  analyzes content with the goal of converting it to meaning 
(semantics); (2) Semantic Integration, which  integrates  content 
and  semantics  from multiple sources; (3) Semantic Applications, 
which utilize content and semantics to solve  problems;  and  (4) 
Semantic Interfaces, which attempt to interpret users' intentions 
expressed in natural language or other communicative forms. 
 
Example areas of SC include (but, again, are not limited to) the 
following: 
 
ANALYSIS AND UNDERSTANDING OF CONTENT 
 Natural-language processing 
 Image and video analysis 
 Audio and speech analysis 
 Analysis of structured and semi-structured data 
 Analysis of behavior of software, services, and networks 
 
INTEGRATION OF MULTIPLE SEMANTIC REPRESENTATIONS 
 Database schema integration 
 Ontology integration 
 Interoperability and Service Integration 
 
SEMANTIC INTERFACES 
 Natural-Language Interface 
 Multimodal Interfaces 
 
APPLICATIONS 
 Semantic Web and other search technologies 
 Question answering 
 Semantic Web services 
 Multimedia databases 
 Engineering of software, services, and networks based on 
   natural-language specifications 
 Context-aware networks of sensors, devices, and/or applications 
 
The second IEEE International Conference  on  Semantic  Computing 
(ICSC2008)  builds on the success of ICSC2007 as an international 
interdisciplinary forum  for  researchers  and  practitioners  to 
present  research that advances the state of the art and practice 
of Semantic Computing, as well as identifying  the  emerging  re- 
search topics and defining the future of Semantic Computing.  The 
conference particularly welcomes interdisciplinary research  that 
facilitates the ultimate success of Semantic Computing. 
 
The  event  is  located  in Santa Clara, California, the heart of 
Silicon Valley.  The technical program of ICSC2008 includes tuto- 
rials,  workshops, invited talks, paper presentations, panel dis- 
cussions, demo sessions, and an industry track.   Submissions  of 
high-quality  papers  describing  mature results or on-going work 
are invited. 
 
In addition to Technical Papers, the conference will feature 
    * Tutorials, 
    * Workshops, 
    * Demo Sessions, 
    * Special Sessions, 
    * Panels, 
    * and an Industry Track. 
 
Please  refer  to the conference website for further information: 
http://icsc.eecs.uci.edu/ 
 
SUBMISSIONS  
Authors are invited to submit an 8-page technical paper manuscript 
in double-column IEEE format following the guidelines available on the 
ICSC2008 web page under "submissions". 
 
The Conference Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer 
Society Press.  Distinguished quality papers presented at the con- 
ference will be selected for publications in internationally renowned 
journals. 
 
There will be a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award for 
the best submitted paper and the best submitted student paper. The 
award winners will be announced at the conference banquet. 
 
IMPORTANT DATES  
Regular Paper Submission (extended): March 16th, 2008  
Notification: April 24th, 2008  
Camera-Ready Papers: May 16th, 2008  
Conference: August 4th-7th, 2008 

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