I would appreciate if you could post the following information on the Events sections and also post it on your mailing list.

Thanks

SAn

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Call for Papers

Special Session on
Web Personalisation

6th International Computer Science Conference on
ACTIVE MEDIA TECHNOLOGY
Kong Kong,  18-20 Dec  2001
www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~amt01/

Papers dealing with all aspects of Web Personalisation are solicited for the special session on this area of growing importance and significance.

Submissions presenting tutorial introduction/overview,  or describing completed or ongoing work, case studies, or positions/perspectives on Web Personalisation are invited. You may submit full manuscript of the paper (limited to 12 pages) or a detailed extended abstract (2 to 3 pages). The first page of the submission must include a title, author's name and affiliation, email address, a list of keywords and
an abstract (150 words max).

Send your submissions (in PDF, RTF, PS or MS Word) electronically, as attachment to email, to the special session chair:  s.murugesan@...

Submission are due by 15 July 2001. You are highly encouraged to send in advance an early version of your paper or an abstract of it.

Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings and as Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer Verlag. Revised version of selected high-quality papers will be considered for publication in a special issue/session of an international journal.

San Murugesan
Chair, Special Session on Web Personalisation
School of Computing and Information Technology
University of Western Sydney

   Campbelltown Campus; Bldg 17
   Locked Bag 1797
   PENRITH SOUTH DC NSW 1797
   Australia
   Phone: +61-2- 4620 3513
   Fax:   +61-2- 4626 6683
   email: s.murugesan@...
--------------------------------------------------
 

Special Session on
Web Personalisation

6th International Computer Science Conference on
ACTIVE MEDIA TECHNOLOGY
Kong Kong,  18-20 Dec  2001
www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~amt01/

Papers dealing with all aspects of Web Personalisation are solicited for the special session on this area of growing importance and significance.

Submissions presenting tutorial introduction/overview,  or describing completed or ongoing work, case studies, or positions/perspectives on Web Personalisation are invited. You may submit full manuscript of the paper (limited to 12 pages) or a detailed extended abstract (2 to 3 pages). The first page of the submission must include a title, author's name and affiliation, email address, a list of keywords and
an abstract (150 words max).

Send your submissions (in PDF, RTF or MS Word) electronically, as attachment to email, to the special session chair:  s.murugesan@...

Submission are due by 15 July 2001. You are highly encouraged to send in advance an early version of your paper or an abstract of it.

Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings and as Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer Verlag. Revised version of selected high-quality papers will be considered for publication in a special issue/session of an international journal.

I look forward to receiving your submissions.

San Murugesan
Chair, Special Session on Web Personalisation
University of Western Sydney, Australia
s.murugesan@...
 

------------------------------------------------
Assoc Prof San Murugesan
School of Computing and Information Technology
University of Western Sydney

   Campbelltown Campus; Bldg 17
   Locked Bag 1797
   PENRITH SOUTH DC NSW 1797
   Australia
   Phone: +61-2- 4620 3513
   Fax:   +61-2- 4626 6683
   email: s.murugesan@...
--------------------------------------------------
 

Dear semanticweb@yahoogroups.com,

This message is an update for the San Francisco Bay Area KM Cluster
[http://www.kmcluster.com] event on Friday, June 22, 2001 in downtown
San Francisco, from 8:30am-4:00pm.

The Summer 2001 Theme is, "The Semantic Web." For further information
visit the event web:

http://www.kmcluster.com.


What is the KM Cluster?
=======================

The Knowledge Management (KM) Cluster is a professional, academic and
institutional community focused on knowledge management and
electronic collaboration in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon
Valley.

The KM Cluster web is: http://www.kmcluster.com.

Summer Keynote Speaker
======================

The KM Cluster is very pleased to announce Stefan Decker will be our
keynote speaker. Stefan is a visiting scholar at Stanford University.
For more information visit: http://semanticweb.org/.

Agenda and Speakers
===================

The summer agenda is complete. To view the agenda, please visit:
http://www.kmcluster.com/Summer_2001_Agenda.htm.

KM Cluster eRegistration & Logistics
====================================

On-line eRegistration is required to attend the Summer KM Cluster.
For the required pre-registration, please visit:

https://www.kmcluster.com/secureorderform.htm


There is a small community sponsorship fee. It covers room rental,
breakfast, refreshments, luncheon, speaker parking, equipment,
website and related costs. The KM Cluster is not-for-profit.

Please contact me directly if you have any questions on the Summer
2001 KM Cluster.


Most sincerely,

John

John Maloney, Sponsor
SF/SV KM Cluster
http://www.kmcluster.com/


kmcluster@...
Cell: 415.902.9676
eFax: 708.810.5343
AIM: Jheuristic

Just to let you all know, I've published a few of my recent Semantic
Web hackings at the following address:-

    http://infomesh.net/2001/05/sw/

There's some new stuff in there, and some old things that didn't have
a solid home before. I thought it would be a good idea to collect it
all in one place...

Highlights include the "RDF Lint" stuff, and "The Simpsons in RDF",
which demonstrates a handful of SW principles.

--
Kindest Regards,
Sean B. Palmer
@prefix : <http://webns.net/roughterms/> .
:Sean :hasHomepage <http://purl.org/net/sbp/> .

Workshop on

                       Knowledge Markup and Semantic Annotation
                         October 21, 2001, Victoria B.C., Canada
                     <http://semannot2001.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/>

                                     in conjunction with the
                 First International Conference for Knowledge Capture
                     <http://sern.ucalgary.ca/ksi/K-CAP/K-CAP2001/>


                                      --- Call for Papers ---

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. Here, knowledge
markup is a major challenge, i.e. the problem is the providing of knowledge
structures for existing syntactic or multimedia resources.  The workshops
intend to bring together researchers and practitioners from such communities
as W3C, MPEG-7, AI, Natural Language technologies and KR to discuss various
aspects of knowledge markup and semantic annotation.


Submission Papers:
Practitioners and researchers interested in participating should submit
either a
full paper (less than 6000 words) or a position paper (less than 1500 words)
addressing relevant issues. Submit before July 15, 2001
in electronic form (postscript or pdf)
to: handschuh@....

Topics of Interest includes, but are not limited to:

* web page annotation
* collaborative, shared annotation
* knowledge markup in the Semantic Web
* ontology-based markup
* using semantic annotations to define knowledge
* tools for supporting knowledge markup
* 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
* evaluation of manual annotation

Although not required for the initial submission, we recommend to follow
the format
guidlines of K-Cap 2001
<http://sern.ucalgary.ca/ksi/K-CAP/K-CAP2001/CFP.html#submission-guidelines>,
as this will be the required format for accepted papers.


Organization Committee:
     Siegfried Handschuh, (University of Karlsruhe)
     Rose Dieng-Kuntz, (INRIA)
     Steffen Staab, (University of Karlsruhe)

Program Committee:
     Ana Belen Benitez (Columbia University)
     Olivier Corby (INRIA)
     Mark Craven (University of Wisconsin)
     Peter Eklund (Griffith University)
     Jeff Heflin (University of Maryland)
     Mark Musen (Stanford University)

(to be extended)


Contact:
     Siegfried Handschuh (handschuh@...)

Praveen,

You might want to take a look at ontology.org.  The site hasn't been updated
for some time, but the resource there is good.  Also, VerticalNet Solutions
(www.verticalnetsolutions.com) are involved in the use of ontologies for B2B
applications (take a look at a white paper of theirs at
http://www.commerce.net/research/ebusiness-strategies/2000/00_09_r_article.p
df).

Hope this helps.

Mike Lees

-----Original Message-----
From: Praveen Nichani [mailto:Praveen@...]
Sent: 01 June 2001 13:17
To: semanticweb@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [semanticweb] semantic web -B2B


Hello everybody,
I am keen to conduct research in the business application area of B2B within
the Semantic Web. Are there any sites which provide information on the
business models available for B2B on Semantic web
thanks
Praveen

-----Original Message-----
From: semanticweb Moderator [mailto:semanticweb-owner@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 5:38 PM
To: Praveen@...
Subject: Welcome to semanticweb



Hello,

welcome to the Semantic Web Mailing List.
The purpose of this mailing list is to relate the different
existing ontology development efforts to each other and to
split of new ones.
To start sending messages to members of this group,
simply send email to
semanticweb@egroups.com

If you do not wish to belong to semanticweb, you may
unsubscribe by sending an email to

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Hello everybody,
I am keen to conduct research in the business application area of B2B within
the Semantic Web. Are there any sites which provide information on the
business models available for B2B on Semantic web
thanks
Praveen

-----Original Message-----
From: semanticweb Moderator [mailto:semanticweb-owner@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 5:38 PM
To: Praveen@...
Subject: Welcome to semanticweb



Hello,

welcome to the Semantic Web Mailing List.
The purpose of this mailing list is to relate the different
existing ontology development efforts to each other and to
split of new ones.
To start sending messages to members of this group,
simply send email to
semanticweb@egroups.com

If you do not wish to belong to semanticweb, you may
unsubscribe by sending an email to

semanticweb-unsubscribe@egroups.com

Regards,
         Stefan Decker, SemanticWeb.org
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Dear Michael,

This message is the Announcement and Invitation for the San Francisco
Bay Area KM Cluster [http://www.kmcluster.com] event on Friday, June
22, 2001 in downtown San Francisco, from 8:30am-4:00pm.

You received this community announcement because you have a
professional interest in knowledge management and electronic
collaboration, or have attended past KM Cluster events.

The Summer 2001 Theme is, "The Semantic Web." For further information
visit the event web:

http://www.kmcluster.com.


What is the KM Cluster?
=======================

Shaped in 1998, The Knowledge Management (KM) Cluster is a
professional, academic and institutional community focused on
knowledge management and electronic collaboration in the San
Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley.

The KM Cluster web is: http://www.kmcluster.com.

What is The Semantic Web?
=========================

The Semantic Web is the next generation of WWW focus and priorities.

The Semantic Web introduces programmability, meaning and rich
interactivity to the mostly static and syntactic WWW constructs of
today. It will unleash yet another revolution of usefulness of the
WWW and the Internet.

Tim Berners-Lee introduced the concept of a "semantic web." The basic
notion is background information stored on the meaning and content of
web resources. The main implementation is through the use of metadata
and interactive components.


What's in it for ME?
====================

By joining your local KM community to examine the Semantic Web you
will gain knowledge and build relationships that will help you master
this rapidly emerging trend.

Research firm IDC estimates the total compound annual growth rate
(CAGR) for KM software and services at 41.6% through 2004. Similar
numbers exists for web collaboration.

A large percentage of this KM growth will be in an area called "Web
Services" by HP, IBM, Sun & Microsoft and scores of related firms.
Web Services are an exponent of the Semantic Web.

It is critical for KM practioners and executives to understand and
contribute to this fundamental change in technology and capability.

Agenda and Speakers
===================

The agenda and speaker line-up is near completion. If you feel you
have a compelling message and want to address our community, please
contact me immediately at kmcluster@....

KM Cluster eRegistration & Logistics
====================================

The KM Cluster on-line eRegistration is open. Please visit:
http://www.kmcluster.com and click-on:

"Secure On-Line eRegistration"

https://www.kmcluster.com/secureorderform.htm


There is a small fee. It covers room rental, breakfast, refreshments,
luncheon, speaker parking, equipment, website and related costs. The
KM Cluster is not-for-profit.

Please mark your calendar and join your local KM community for The
Summer 2001 KM Cluster event to be held on Friday, June 22nd, 2001,
at San Francisco State University - Downtown Campus, 425 Market
Street, San Francisco, California, USA. Check in and coffee begins at
8:30am.


Most sincerely,

John

John Maloney
SF/SV KM Cluster
http://www.kmcluster.com/


kmcluster@...
Cell: 415.902.9676
eFax: 708.810.5343
AIM: Jheuristic

Hi Guillaume:

I'm bootstrapping the project with this special requirement: as soon as
possible, the tool must be built with itself. This includes portal and
collaboration tools. Sure, we get a slow start, because we have to build
these tools. I'm considering to use an existing mailing solution as a
basic tool, to be replaced later.

The project is in the early stages of development, and I'm preparing to
publish material and then I'll setup a mailing list.

[]'s

	 Marcus.
__________________________________
Marcus Maciel
Project Renaissance
marcusm@...
http://www.project-renaissance.org



Guillaume Barreau wrote:
>
> Hi Marcus,
>
> I am interested in knowing more about this project. Do you have a mailing
> list where things are discussed? I work for a company in England which
> promotes open-source software and has strong interest in Knowledge
> Management. Check our website at www.runtime-collective.com
>
> Guillaume Barreau

Marcus,

>It seems the Project Renaissance original knowledge model could be used
>for other languages too. I would like to plug-in SW parsers, and
>persistence and inference engines.

Inference engines is our angle.  We are developing Cerebra (a DAML+OIL
inference engine - derived from the original FaCT reasoner developed at the
University of Manchester).  If you ever need assistance with DAML+OIL, speak
to Peter Crowther (Peter.crowther@...), or Dr Ian Horrocks
(ian.horrocks@...).

>Shouldn't it be? I agree with _enough_, I don't agree with the _complex_
>part. We have this world of data, a most complex world, how do we manage
>it? We map it. We encapsulate complexity. Metadata (mapping) should be
>simple. This is Knowledge Management. Machines do help, they're our
>servants, our agents, but the focus is the human being, not the machine.

Complexity is relative!  There are two extremes as I see it.  At one end,
the 'relatively' simple world of the relational database, and at the other,
the complexity of relationships that constitute human knowledge.  Between
the two lies a compromise; sufficient complexity (expressivity) to be
useful, but simple enough to be widely implemented (fast and decidable).  I
can name endless technologies that claimed to achieve many things, but were
too complicated to implement.  There is a lot of discussion going on within
W3C regarding this point (see RDF discussion list).  A lot of what is being
asked of the Semantic Web by many people is too complex!

See you at SWWS.

rgds

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: Marcus Maciel [mailto:marcusm@...]
Sent: 30 May 2001 12:05
To: semanticweb@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [semanticweb] Project Renaissance: A Java Framework for
Knowledge Management


Hi:

I apologize for the brief description. I'm preparing a position paper
for SWWS.

Michael Lees wrote:
> When you say your project is Semantic Web based, do you mean it uses
> emerging Semantic Web languages (i.e. DAML+OIL), or that it fits in with a
> view of what the Semantic Web will be?

I'm supporting RDF, I like its design, but I'm new to other SW
languages.

> There still appears to be a lot of confusion as to what the Semantic Web
> will be (not least within W3C :-).  I appreciate that a lot of this is the
> usual (and very useful) chaos, prior to the emergence of a unified view.

It seems the Project Renaissance original knowledge model could be used
for other languages too. I would like to plug-in SW parsers, and
persistence and inference engines. Seems complex? It isn't. There are
many design patterns in the Java 2 Platform API. In the case of parsers,
there's JAXP (Java API for XML Parsing), which can accept many parsers.

> However, if a useful Semantic Web is to emerge, then we must be clear that
> what we mean is something different to what is out there already. Whilst
> there are some fantastic tools and technologies emerging, a lot of people
> are using the current wave of interest in the Semantic Web, to generate
> interest in 'old technologies'.  Many of the tools we have seen are little
> different to Semantic Networks or Expert Systems of the 80's and 90's!

I understand. I've seen a lot of this kind of marketing hype, but
Project Renaissance is not a commercial product. It's open-source. It's
free. Use it if you want, collaborate if you please.

> For me and my colleagues, the Semantic Web is about using new, web based
> technologies to reduce the burden of human processing, by allowing
computers
> to understand ENOUGH to assist their users.  This requires giving them
> extra, complex data in a form that they can parse and share. Simple eh?!

Shouldn't it be? I agree with _enough_, I don't agree with the _complex_
part. We have this world of data, a most complex world, how do we manage
it? We map it. We encapsulate complexity. Metadata (mapping) should be
simple. This is Knowledge Management. Machines do help, they're our
servants, our agents, but the focus is the human being, not the machine.

[]'s

	 Marcus.

__________________________________
Marcus Maciel
Project Renaissance
marcusm@...
http://www.project-renaissance.org

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Hi:

I apologize for the brief description. I'm preparing a position paper
for SWWS.

Michael Lees wrote:
> When you say your project is Semantic Web based, do you mean it uses
> emerging Semantic Web languages (i.e. DAML+OIL), or that it fits in with a
> view of what the Semantic Web will be?

I'm supporting RDF, I like its design, but I'm new to other SW
languages.

> There still appears to be a lot of confusion as to what the Semantic Web
> will be (not least within W3C :-).  I appreciate that a lot of this is the
> usual (and very useful) chaos, prior to the emergence of a unified view.

It seems the Project Renaissance original knowledge model could be used
for other languages too. I would like to plug-in SW parsers, and
persistence and inference engines. Seems complex? It isn't. There are
many design patterns in the Java 2 Platform API. In the case of parsers,
there's JAXP (Java API for XML Parsing), which can accept many parsers.

> However, if a useful Semantic Web is to emerge, then we must be clear that
> what we mean is something different to what is out there already. Whilst
> there are some fantastic tools and technologies emerging, a lot of people
> are using the current wave of interest in the Semantic Web, to generate
> interest in 'old technologies'.  Many of the tools we have seen are little
> different to Semantic Networks or Expert Systems of the 80's and 90's!

I understand. I've seen a lot of this kind of marketing hype, but
Project Renaissance is not a commercial product. It's open-source. It's
free. Use it if you want, collaborate if you please.

> For me and my colleagues, the Semantic Web is about using new, web based
> technologies to reduce the burden of human processing, by allowing computers
> to understand ENOUGH to assist their users.  This requires giving them
> extra, complex data in a form that they can parse and share. Simple eh?!

Shouldn't it be? I agree with _enough_, I don't agree with the _complex_
part. We have this world of data, a most complex world, how do we manage
it? We map it. We encapsulate complexity. Metadata (mapping) should be
simple. This is Knowledge Management. Machines do help, they're our
servants, our agents, but the focus is the human being, not the machine.

[]'s

	 Marcus.

__________________________________
Marcus Maciel
Project Renaissance
marcusm@...
http://www.project-renaissance.org

Marcus,

When you say your project is Semantic Web based, do you mean it uses
emerging Semantic Web languages (i.e. DAML+OIL), or that it fits in with a
view of what the Semantic Web will be?

There still appears to be a lot of confusion as to what the Semantic Web
will be (not least within W3C :-).  I appreciate that a lot of this is the
usual (and very useful) chaos, prior to the emergence of a unified view.
However, if a useful Semantic Web is to emerge, then we must be clear that
what we mean is something different to what is out there already. Whilst
there are some fantastic tools and technologies emerging, a lot of people
are using the current wave of interest in the Semantic Web, to generate
interest in 'old technologies'.  Many of the tools we have seen are little
different to Semantic Networks or Expert Systems of the 80's and 90's!

For me and my colleagues, the Semantic Web is about using new, web based
technologies to reduce the burden of human processing, by allowing computers
to understand ENOUGH to assist their users.  This requires giving them
extra, complex data in a form that they can parse and share. Simple eh?!

It's great to see this list being used.  Let's keep it up.

rgds

Mike Lees
CEO, Network Inference
www.networkinference.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Marcus Maciel [mailto:marcusm@...]
Sent: 30 May 2001 09:27
To: semanticweb@yahoogroups.com; hmartin@...
Subject: [semanticweb] Project Renaissance: A Java Framework for
Knowledge Management


Hello Henrique and everyone interested, greetings from Brazil!

I was holding this for a while, and it's kind of a preannouncement, but
couldn't leave to answer. It seems the time is coming to talk about
Project-Renaissance.Org...

Project Renaissance is an open-source effort to build a Java framework
for Semantic Web based, Knowlege Management applications.

I'm developing an API and a pure Java implementation of a Knowledge
Management SDK. At the same time, working to set up the project web
portal. I'm using a kind of bootstrapping approach so that we'll create
the tool with itself...

Please let me know if we can help each others.

[]'s

	 Marcus.

__________________________________
Marcus Maciel
Project Renaissance
marcusm@...
http://www.project-renaissance.org

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Hi Marcus,

I am interested in knowing more about this project. Do you have a mailing
list where things are discussed? I work for a company in England which
promotes open-source software and has strong interest in Knowledge
Management. Check our website at www.runtime-collective.com


Guillaume Barreau

Marcus Maciel wrote:

> Hello Henrique and everyone interested, greetings from Brazil!
>
> I was holding this for a while, and it's kind of a preannouncement, but
> couldn't leave to answer. It seems the time is coming to talk about
> Project-Renaissance.Org...
>
> Project Renaissance is an open-source effort to build a Java framework
> for Semantic Web based, Knowlege Management applications.
>
> I'm developing an API and a pure Java implementation of a Knowledge
> Management SDK. At the same time, working to set up the project web
> portal. I'm using a kind of bootstrapping approach so that we'll create
> the tool with itself...
>
> Please let me know if we can help each others.
>
> []'s
>
>         Marcus.
>
> __________________________________
> Marcus Maciel
> Project Renaissance
> marcusm@...
> http://www.project-renaissance.org
>
> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
> semanticweb-unsubscribe@egroups.com
>
>
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

--
http://www.runtime-collective.com
t: 44 (0) 1273 234293
f: 44 (0) 1273 234291

Whilst my company Network Inference (www.networkinference), is not dealing
directly within Latin America, we are involved in W3C and the Semantic Web.
Our CTO, Dr Ian Horrocks, is one of the three editors for the semantic web
language, DAML+OIL.

You may want to check out the W3C member list
(http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List), it doesn't allow you to search
by country (disappointing), but you may be able to spot some South American
interests.  I will also ask Dr Horrocks whether he has come across anyone
within the W3C.

Regards

--
Michael Lees

Chief Executive Officer
Network Inference Limited
www.networkinference.com

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Inference Limited be means of e-mail communications.

Hello Henrique and everyone interested, greetings from Brazil!

I was holding this for a while, and it's kind of a preannouncement, but
couldn't leave to answer. It seems the time is coming to talk about
Project-Renaissance.Org...

Project Renaissance is an open-source effort to build a Java framework
for Semantic Web based, Knowlege Management applications.

I'm developing an API and a pure Java implementation of a Knowledge
Management SDK. At the same time, working to set up the project web
portal. I'm using a kind of bootstrapping approach so that we'll create
the tool with itself...

Please let me know if we can help each others.

[]'s

	 Marcus.

__________________________________
Marcus Maciel
Project Renaissance
marcusm@...
http://www.project-renaissance.org

Hello,

You could try to contact Tarcisio de Souza Lima at the Federal Univ. of Juiz
de Fora (in Brazil) who maybe could help you on this subject.

Claire


>From: hmartin@...
>Reply-To: semanticweb@yahoogroups.com
>To: <semanticweb@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: [semanticweb] semantic web
>Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 15:43:35 -0300
>
>Hello!
>
>I'm a reporter from The Industry Standard Magazine Brazil and I'm looking
>for projects of Semantic Web in Brazil and Latin America, for an article
>for our July issue. If you know something like this, feel free to write me
>at hmartin@...
>
>Thanks a lot
>
>Henrique Martin
>The Industry Standard
>hmartin@...
>www.thestandard.com.br

_________________________________________________________________________
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I would appreciating receiving a copy of your report when it is ready.

Regards

San
 
 

hmartin@... wrote:

Hello! I'm a reporter from The Industry Standard Magazine Brazil and I'm looking for projects of Semantic Web in Brazil and Latin America, for an article for our July issue. If you know something like this, feel free to write me at hmartin@... Thanks a lot Henrique Martin
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Hello Patrick,

You can find useful information on the Inria webSite : the Exmo project
which is directed by Jérôme Euzenat :
http://www.inria.fr/recherche/equipes/exmo.fr.html
Inria is also engaged in the W3C (chich work on semantic web), and in the
ontoweb Network (European network).

The european Community works also on a projetc called "semantic web
technology".

Hope it will help you
Cheers
Claire

PS : Je suis française aussi ! mais en écrivant anglais toute la liste peux
en profiter .


>From: "Patrick Atlas" <patrick.atlas@...>
>Reply-To: semanticweb@yahoogroups.com
>To: semanticweb@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [semanticweb] Semantic web sources in french?
>Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 13:55:23 -0000
>
>Hello Everybody,
>
>Are there any texts or websites in french about the semantic web?
>
>Dr Patrick Atlas
>Scientific indexing administrator
>www.atmedica.com
>
>

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This is an excellent short RDF Tutorial in english but I bet he has a french
version and a whole host of french semantic interest.

http://www710.univ-lyon1.fr/~champin/

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Hello Everybody,

Are there any texts or websites in french about the semantic web?

Dr Patrick Atlas
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Hello Everybody,

Are there any texts or websites in french about the semantic web?

Dr Patrick Atlas
Scientific indexing administrator
www.atmedica.com

Workshop on

                           SEMANTIC WEB MINING
               http://semwebmine2001.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/



                             in conjunction with the
    12th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML'01)
        5th European Conference on Principles and Practice
           of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD'01)
                September 3-7, 2001, Freiburg, Germany
         http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~ml/ecmlpkdd/


                               --- Call for Papers ---


The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners
from the two fastly developing research areas Semantic Web and
Web Mining. One can improve the results of Web Mining by
exploiting the new semantic structures in the web. Furthermore, Web
Mining can help to build the Semantic Web.

The Semantic Web is based on a vision of Tim Berners-Lee. He
suggests to enrich the web by machine processable information
which is organized on different levels (see
www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Semantic.html). For Web Mining, the
levels from XML and RDF to ontologies and logics are of particular
interest. Web Mining applies data mining techniques on the web.
Three areas can be distinguished: Web usage mining analyzes the
user behavior, web structure mining explores the hyperlink structure,
and web content mining exploits the contents of the documents in
the web.

In the workshop, we want to discuss the use of XML, RDF,
ontologies, and logics for the three web mining areas; and the
support of web mining techniques for building (XML and RDF)
schemes and ontologies. There are quite a number of people from
different communities that approach the field of Semantic Web
Mining from different, interesting angles. The goal of the workshop is
to establish communiction between these communities.


Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Concept Taxonomies (e.g. product hierarchies) and Web Mining
- Using the Syntactic Layer (XML) for Semantic Web Mining
- Using the Vocabulary Layer (e.g. RDF-Schema) for
   Semantic Web Mining
- Using the Logical Layer (e.g. Description Logics/OIL) for
   Semantic Web Mining
- User Profiling, Segmentation and Interpretation with
   Background Knowledge
- Using Background Knowledge for Web Mining
- Metadata-based Text Mining
- Text Mining for Creating Metadata
- Learning Taxonomies and Ontologies from the Web
- Metadata Harvesting
- Information Extraction with Machine Learning

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. Submit before June 8, 2001 in electronic form (strongly
preferred!) in postscript or pdf to: hotho@....
Although not required for the initial submission, we recommend to
use the IJCAI 2001 style (http://ijcai.org/data/), as this will be the
required format for accepted papers.

Alternatively, printed copies can be sent to:
Andreas Hotho
Institute AIFB
University of Karlsruhe
76128 Karlsruhe, Germany

People who want to attend the workshop have to be registered to the
main conference ECML/PKDD-2001. Workshop proceedings will be
distributed among registered participants at the workshop. The
conference will probably provide a joint paper style for the
proceedings. In addition, there will be a joint Web-publication of all
the workshop proceedings after the
conference. Hence, electronic submissions to the workshops are
strongly encouraged.


Schedule

Deadline for paper submission: 8 June 2001
Notification of acceptance: 29 June 2001
Deadline for final contributions: 13 July 2001


Organizing Committee

Gerd Stumme
AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe
D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
email: stumme@...

Andreas Hotho
AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe
D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
email: hotho@...

Bettina Berendt
Abteilung Pädagogik und Informatik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 7
D-10117 Berlin
email: berendt@...


Program Committee

Soumen Chakrabarti (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)
Rosine Cicchetti (Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille)
Stefan Decker (Stanford University, Palo Alto)
Ronen Feldman (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan)
Klaus-Peter Huber (SAS, Heidelberg)
Alexander Mädche (Universität Karlsruhe)
Tom Mitchell (WhizBang! Labs, Pittsburgh)
Bamshad Mobasher (DePaul University, Chicago)
Katharina Morik (Universität Dortmund)
Claire Nedellec (Université Paris Sud)
Myra Spiliopoulou (Universität Leipzig)
Rudi Studer (Universität Karlsruhe)

*********************************************************************
                               Call for Papers:
                           ONTOLOGIES Onto-2001
                             KI-2001 Workshop
                     September 18, 2001, Wien, Austria

                 http://onto2001.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
*********************************************************************

                        DEADLINE EXTENDED: JUNE 25

*********************************************************************


Ontologies serve as a means for establishing a conceptually concise
basis for communicating knowledge for many purposes. They are a
popular research topic in Artificial Intelligence, e.g. knowledge
engineering, natural language processing, intelligent information
integration and multi-agent systems. Recently, ontologies are also
applied outside the AI world, e.g. in the World Wide
Web community that try to represent machine-processable data
on the web using ontologies and formal metadata.

For the workshop we intend to gather a diverse range of participants
interested in development and application of ontologies:

   * Theoretical Issues
        Kinds of ontology: top-level ontologies, domain ontologies,
                           task ontologies, application ontologies
        Interaction between ontology and the lexicon (natural language)
        Cognitive foundations of ontologies, cross-cultural ontologies
   * Development and Engineering of Ontologies:
        Machine Learning for building domain ontologies:
        Ontology Learning
        Foundations for Cooperative & Multi-User Ontology Engineering
        Interaction between Knowledge Representation &
        Ontology Engineering
   * Application of Ontologies
        Knowledge Engineering
        Semantic Web
        Ontologies and Semi-structured Data
        Ontology-based Information Systems: Geographic, Legal and
        Business Information Systems
        Ontologies & Machine Learning / Knowledge Discovery
        E-Business
   * Relationship between research in ontology with similar
     research areas, e.g. formal concept analysis and description logics

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. Submit before May 31, 2001 in electronic form
(strongly preferred!) in postscript or pdf in the Springer
style format to: gst@....

Alternatively, printed copies can be sent to :
Gerd Stumme
Institute AIFB
University of Karlsruhe
76128 Karlsruhe, Germany

People who want to attend the workshop have to be registered
to the main conference KI-2001 (http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/KI2001/)

Important Dates
  Deadline for paper submission: June 25, 2001
  Notification of acceptance: July 17, 2001
  Deadline final contributions: August 17, 2001

Organising Committee:
  Gerd Stumme, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe
  Alexander Maedche, FZI, Karlsruhe
  Steffen Staab, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe

Program Committee:
  Andreas Abecker, DFKI, Kaiserslautern
  Jürgen Angele, Ontoprise GmbH, Karlsruhe
  Dieter Fensel, Free University of Amsterdam
  Christopher Habel, Universität Hamburg
  Udo Hahn, Universität Freiburg
  Heinrich Herre, Universität Leipzig
  Ulrich Reimer, Swiss Life, Zürich
  Heiner Stuckenschmidt, TZI Bremen
  Rudi Studer, Universität Karlsruhe

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Hi,

I am interested in the explicit usage of ontologies in educational
applications, could anybody point me to any work being done in this
direction?

Thanks a lot,

Pablo Castells

Hi Paul,

Better than explain you what a ontology is, I give you a useful links where
you can read about ontologies, semantic web, etc:

Here Ola Lassila explains what semantic web is, what is a ontology, and
concepts related:
ftp://ftp.ksl.stanford.edu/pub/KSL_Reports/KSL-01-02.html

For a more general discussion about Semantic Web and Ontologies:
http://www.sciam.com/2001/0501issue/0501berners-lee.html

A ontology example in DAML+OIL(extension of RDF to define ontologies):
http://www.daml.org/2001/03/daml+oil-ex.daml


I hope this help you.

Rubén Ortiz
Software Engineer
Newknow Network S.A
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www.newknow.com




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Hi,

I am new in ontologies etc. Can some explain me in leamans word what
a ontology is, how it relates to taxonomies and what they do for/in
the semantic web?


Thanks


Paul Snijders

Greetings

My name is Tufani and I've designed web pages/sites for about 6 years now.
Have exposure to XML, and content management by way of such systems as
Interwoven, Quark Avenue and Story Server.  I look forward to learning and
applying more about semantic web, as well as any leading edge career
opportunities that may arise in the process.

I know fnancial companies and other large data driven entities are utilizing
more and more XML to facilitate the flow and diastribution of info. But are
there any other types of companies who are specializing in or heavily using
semantic web elements at this time?

Tufani
http://www.digitalstruc.com