IIWeb 2007: Call for Participation and Preliminary program

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C A L L   F O R   P A R T I C I P A T I O N


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

     July 23, 2007, Vancouver, BC, Canada

      (colocated with AAAI 2007)

     http://research.microsoft.com/users/znie/iiweb07/ 
 
     Sponsors: Microsoft Research, Yahoo!
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IIWeb 2007, is being held as a 1-day workshop at AAAI 2007. The day
long workshop will consist 
of presentations (12 full and 6 short), invited talk and/or panel
discussion. 

Workshop attendance is open to the public. 


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                     REGISTRATION DETAILS (Workshop Only registration
feasible)
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Online Registration:
https://www.aaai.org/Forms/aaai-registration-form.html (Fees quoted in
US dollars)


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		 		 		 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
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Novel Integration Architectures and Web Applications
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Data Integration Support for Mashups
Andreas Thor, David Aumueller, Erhard Rahm (University of Leipzig,
Germany)

Exploiting Social Annotation for Automatic Resource Discovery
Anon Plangprasopchok and Kristina Lerman (USC Information Sciences
Institute)

A Platform for Scalable, Collaborative, Structured Information Integration
Kurt Bollacker, Robert Cook, Patrick Tufts (Metaweb Technologies, Inc.)

Citepack: A Zero-input Agent for Discovering and Integrating Research
Sources
Christopher H. Brooks, Yeh Fang, Ketaki Joshi, Papanii Okai, Xia Zhou
(University of San Francisco)


Online Information Integration
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Information Integration for the Masses
James Blythe,Dipsy Kapoor,Craig A. Knoblock,Kristina Lerman (USC
Information Sciences Institute) and 
Steven Minton (Fetch Technologies)

Answering Top K Queries Efficiently with Overlap of Answers in Sources
or Source Paths
Louiqa Raschid (University of Maryland), Mar'?a Esther Vidal
(Universidad Sim'on Bolivar), 
Yao Wu (University of Maryland), Felix Naumann, Jens Bleiholder
(Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Potsdam)

BioFederator: A Data Federation System for Bioinformatics on the Web
Ahmed Radwan, Akmal Younis (University of Miami), Mauricio A.
Hernandez, Howard Ho, Lucian Popa, 
Shivkumar Shivaji (IBM Almaden Research Center), Sawsan Khuri
(University of Miami)


Name Disambiguation and Entity Resolution
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Author Disambiguation using Error-driven Machine Learning with a
Ranking Loss Function
Pallika Kanani; Rob Hall; Michael Wick; Andrew McCallum (University of
Massachusetts)

Efficient Strategies for Improving Partitioning-Based Author
Coreference by Incorporating Web Pages as Graph Nodes
Pallika Kanani and Andrew McCallum (University of Massachusetts)

Name Disambiguation Using Web Connection
Yiming Lu (University of California, Irvine), Zaiqing Nie (Microsoft
Research Asia), Taoyuan Cheng, 
Ying Gao (Renmin University of China), Ji-Rong Wen (Microsoft Research
Asia)

Mining Heterogeneous Transformations for Record Linkage
Matthew Michelson and Craig A. Knoblock (USC Information Sciences
Institute)


Semantic Data Integration and Schema Matching
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On the Stable Marriage of Maximum Weight Royal Couples
Anan Marie, Avigdor Gal (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)

Semantic Data Integration Environment for Biomedical Research
Vadim Astakhov, Jeffrey S. Grethe, Edward Ross, David Little, Brian
Sanders, 
Amarnath Gupta (University of California San Diego)

Query Rewriting for Semantic Web Information Integration
Dave Kolas (BBN Technologies)


Web Information Extraction
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Putting Semantic Information Extraction on the Map
Chris Pal, Gideon Mann, Richard Minerich (University of Massachusetts)

Using Regulatory Instructions for Information Extraction
Thomas Lee (University of Pennsylvania)

Probabilistic Representations for Integrating Unreliable Data Sources
David Mimno, Andrew McCallum and Gerome Miklau (University of
Massachusetts)

Learning Extractors from Unlabeled Text using Relevant Databases
Kedar Bellare and Andrew McCallum (University of Massachusetts)

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With Regards

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