[ ARCHIVE ] 1st International Workshop on Quantitative Semantic methods for the Internet

Monterrey, Mexico, Nov 9 - 14, 2008

Proceedings published by Springer Verlag

MOTIVATION

As the limitations of current internet became clear, some proposals for taking meaning into account began to appear, mainly the so-called “Semantic web”, which includes a set of technologies like RDF, based on new markup languages. Though these technologies could be technically sound, practical limitations, such as the high training level required to construct semantic web pages, and the small proportion of current semantic web pages –which, circularly produces low commercial interest in RDF, end up making the semantic web marginal today and also in the near foreseeable future.

So, other options for taking into account semantics of today’s internet were proposed. From “latent” semantics to fuzzy techniques and many others, they have in common their interest in modeling in a quantitative and often approximate way the meaning of online documents, at least for identifying their subject or topic. Extensive use of counting, statistical methods can bring to front many semantic “hidden” regularities of the web. Some researchers have proposed to measure “semantic” distances by counting joint keyword occurrences in web pages, by clustering related keywords, by using approximate matching, and many other quantitative or approximate methods.

In this workshop we are interested in gathering the emerging scientific and practitioners community for sharing and discussing all those quantitative and approximate methods for dealing with internet semantics.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Semantic distances calculation;
• Automatic topic discovery;
• Semantic algorithms scalability;
• Quantitative semantics compatibility with current search technology;
• Applications of quantitative semantics;

  
ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

Ramon F. Brena
Tec de Monterrey
Mexico
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Francisco Cantu-Ortiz
Tec de Monterrey
Mexico

PUBLICITY CHAIRS

Hector Ceballos
Tecnologico de Monterrey
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Yolanda Castillo
Tecnologico de Monterrey
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Program Committee Members

Miguel A. Alonso Pardo, U. de la Coruña, Spain
Ernesto Damiani, U. of Milan, Italy
Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France
Sara Garza, Tec de Monterrey, Mexico
Randy Goebel, U. of Alberta
Adolfo Guzman, CIC, Mexico
Graeme Hirst, U. of Toronto
Fakhri Karray, U. of Waterloo, Canada
Richard Kittredge, U. de Montréal
Ana Maguitman, U. Nacional del Sur, Argentina
Trevor Martin, U. of Bristol, England
Antonio Moreno Ortiz, U. de Málaga
Vivi Nastase, EML Research
Eduardo Ramirez, Tec de Monterrey, Mexico
Vasile Rus, U. of Memphis
Elie Sanchez, U. of Aix-Marseille, France
Juan M. Torres Moreno, U. of Avignon, France
Manuel Vilares, U. of Vigo, Spain
Hugo Zaragoza, Yahoo Research Barcelona, Spain