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Call for Presentations and Participation
Fourth Workshop on the Future of Web Search: Semantic Search
Ibiza, April 17-18, 2009
http://grupoweb.upf.es/fows09/
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This workshop is a follow-up of the highly successful workshops that
took place before in Barcelona, Bertinoro and Andorra. This year the
workshop will be held at the Congress Palace of Ibiza, at Santa Eularia
des Riu, 20 Kms from Ibiza's international airport.
The workshop will bring together several well-known researchers in the
field to discuss interesting problems at the frontier of current web
(re)search. The workshop represents a unique opportunity for Ph.D.
students to be exposed to the current trends in the area of web search.
This year the workshop will focus on semantic search. Semantic search is
the collective name of methods that look at information available on the
Web or within organizations beyond the level of individual words or
phrases. An understanding of content at the semantic level promises to
facilitate the tasks of existing information retrieval engines but it
also makes it possible to aggregate, compare and reason with content as
structured data. In turn this opens up the possibility to provide
entirely new services such as analyzing facts and opinions across
collections, making personalized recommendations by matchings interests
with content, finding experts or predicting events. The methods of
semantic search are diverse and cover a range of disciplines including
Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, the Semantic Web,
Databases, Information Extraction, Information Visualization and many
others.
If you want to participate please send email to g...@yahoo-inc.com until
March 29, with a short statement of what is your relation with Web
Search and why you want to talk or attend. If you want to give a talk
send also a title and abstract for a 25 minutes presentation.
The registration fee for the workshop will be announced later, but would
include two lunches and one dinner. As usual the registration will be
just to cover the direct costs of the workshop and there will be special
hotel prices at a walking distance.
For more information you may consult the workshop Web site (in
construction):
http://grupoweb.upf.es/fows09/
Organizers: Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates & Dr. Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research
Co-located event:
VoCampIbiza 2009, http://vocamp.org/wiki/VoCampIbiza2009
