CFP: AAAI-07 Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb-07)

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C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S


 Sixth International Workshop on Information Integration on the Web
(IIWeb-07)

           to be held at
      July 23, 2007, Vancouver, BC, Canada

      (colocated with AAAI 2007)

        http://research.microsoft.com/users/znie/iiweb07/

    Submission deadline: April 10, 2007

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This workshop will focus on the topic of effectively integrating structured
and unstructured information on the Web. As information integration is
interdisciplinary in nature, its researchers have spanned the related areas
of data mining, machine learning, databases, information retrieval,
semantic Web, Web services, and others.

We invite researchers working in areas related to Web-based information
integration to participate. The topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:

             * Novel integration architectures
             * Source discovery and deep-web crawling
             * Automatic wrapper induction
             * Schema matching
             * Web entity extraction
             * Record linkage and object consolidation
             * Named entity extraction
             * Source descriptions and meta-data learning
             * Web based query execution and optimization
             * DB & IR integration
             * Data mining for integration
             * Applications


IMPORTANT DATES

Manuscripts Due:       April 10, 2007
Notification of acceptance:  April 25, 2007
Final revised manuscript:    May 15, 2007


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We welcome original, unpublished manuscripts (4 - 6 pages) inclusive of all
references and figures. Vision papers and descriptions of work-in-progress
are welcomed as short paper submissions (1-3 pages). Papers must be written
in English, and formatted according to AAAI proceeding formats. Please
submit papers in PDF and send them to the co-chairs via email at ubnambiar
AT in.ibm.com and znie AT microsoft.com.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Ullas Nambiar (Co-Chair),   IBM India Research Lab
Zaiqing Nie (Co-Chair),   Microsoft Research Asia
Alon Halevy,   Google Inc., USA
Kevin Chang,   University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Subbarao Kambhampati,   Arizona State University


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Avigdor Gal, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Andrew McCallum, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Biplav Srivastava, IBM India Research Lab
Bing Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Craig Knoblock, University of Southern California, USA
Chen Li, University of California, Irvine, USA
Felix Naumann, Hasso Plattner Institut, Postdam, Germany
Ganesh Ramakrishnan, IBM India Research Lab
Gautam Das, University of Texas, Arlington, USA
Hasan Davulcu, Arizona State University, USA
Ji-Rong Wen, Microsoft Research Asia
Kamal Karlapalem, IIIT- Hyderabad, India
Louiqa Raschid, University of Maryland College Park, USA
Michael Cafarella, University of Washington Seattle, USA
Misha Bilenko, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
Mong Li Lee, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Nicholas Kushmerick, QL2 Software Inc., USA
Robert Grossman, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Steven Minton, Fetch Technologies, USA
Thomas Y. Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Weiyi Meng, Binghamton University, USA
William Cohen, Carnegie Mellon University, USA