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Date: 13-Jun-2009
From: Siegfried Handschuh < Siegfried.Handschuh at deri.org >
Subject: Semantic Authoring, Annotation and Knowledge Markup
 

	
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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:48:13
From: Siegfried Handschuh [Siegfried.Handschuh at deri.org]
Subject: Semantic Authoring, Annotation and Knowledge Markup

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Full Title: Semantic Authoring, Annotation and Knowledge Markup 
Short Title: SAAKM 

Date: 01-Sep-2009 - 01-Sep-2009
Location: Redondo Beach, California, USA 
Contact Person: Siegfried Handschuh
Meeting Email: Siegfried.Handschuh at deri.org
Web Site: http://saakm2009.semanticauthoring.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2009 

Meeting Description:

Capturing knowledge by using markup techniques and by supporting semantic
annotations is a major technique for creating metadata. It is beneficial in a
wide range of content-oriented intelligent applications. One important
application for instance is the Semantic Web. The research about the WWW
currently strives to augment syntactic information already present in the Web by
semantic metadata in order to achieve a Semantic Web that human and software
agents can understand. Here, one of the most urgent challenges now is a
knowledge-capturing problem, i.e., how one may turn existing syntactic resources
into knowledge structures. A solution is to markup web documents in order to
create metadata on the web or to author new documents in a way that they contain
markup directly.

Another application is the indexing and searching of multimedia (and
multilingual) data. It is difficult to completely process the content of
multimedia data, even with technologies based on natural language processing,
image processing, machine vision and speech recognition. Therefore, semantic
annotation is one of the promising methodologies to define semantic structures
on the content.

Workshop Goals:

This workshop aims at bringing together members of different overlapping
communities that share the interest on semantic authoring and annotation for
developing methods and tools:

-Semantic Web researchers who use semantic authoring and annotation to enrich
the web with distributed relational meta-data in order to enable a
machine-readable web.
-Members of the human language technology community, developing information
extraction systems for the generation of meta-data
-People from the multimedia content domain, indexing and searching of multimedia
(and multilingual) data.
-Researchers who address innovative topics and applications by semantic
annotation (semantic annotation of databases, annotation of web/grid services,
semantic hypertext, etc.) This will give an opportunity to push further the
discussion upon the potential of semantic annotation across these communities.

Semantic Authoring, Annotation and Knowledge Markup (SAAKM 2009)
http://saakm2009.semanticauthoring.org/
1 September 2009

co-located with the 5th International Conference on
Knowledge Capture (K-Cap 2009)
Redondo Beach, California, USA, 1-4 September 2009
http://kcap09.stanford.edu/ 

Call for Papers:

2 days left!

Topics of Interest:

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

-Semantic authoring and publishing
-Document engineering
-Deriving semantics from document structure and content
-Ontology-based authoring and markup
-Knowledge markup in the Semantic Web
-Standards for supporting knowledge markup, e.g., RDFa, microformats, GRDDL
-Using semantic annotations to define knowledge
-Integrated software architecture based on semantic annotation
-Multimedia annotation (e.g., by using MPEG-7)
-Annotation of software components
-Linguistic aspects of semantic annotation
-Capturing knowledge through Information Extraction and NLP
-Text mining for creating knowledge markup
-Mining semantic information from blogs, forums or news sources.
-Evaluation of annotation frameworks
-Semantic annotation in Semantic Wikis
-Semantic annotation of multilingual web sources
-Deriving formal semantics from (flat or hierarchical) tagging systems
-Vocabularies and ontologies for semantic authoring and annotation
-Tools for supporting knowledge markup, semantic annotation, semantic authoring

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: June 15, 2009
Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2009
Camera-ready paper submission: July 27, 2009
Workshop date: September 1, 2009

Organizing Committee:

-Siegfried Handschuh, DERI Galway, Ireland
-Michael Sintek, DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany
-Nigel Collier, NII, Japan
-Anita de Waard, University of Utrecht, Netherlands

Submission Guidlines:

We invite submissions of full technical papers and short position papers.
Authors of accepted technical and position papers will be invited to present
their papers in the workshop.

Format requirements for submissions of technical papers are:

-Full papers should not exceed 8 pages in length (including references)
-Position papers are expected up to 3 pages.

Papers must be submitted as PDF and strictly adhere to ACM proceedings format
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates).

For submissions, the authors are expected to use the following link: 

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=saakm09





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