Sixth International Workshop on

Information Integration on the Web

(IIWeb-07)

 

in conjunction with AAAI-07

July 23, 2007, Vancouver,  Canada

 
Important Dates  |  Submission Guidelines  |  Organizing Committee  |  Program Committee   |  Past Workshops |  Sponsors | Accepted Papers  

 

IIWeb 2007 Program

 

The explosive growth of the World Wide Web has amassed a huge number of information sources on the Internet with unprecedented potential for information access. Information originating from different sources needs to be integrated in order to gain full advantage of having that information available.  Information integration techniques enable the interaction between users and data sources through a centralized access point and uniform query interfaces that give users the illusion of querying a homogeneous system. Most integration solutions have assumed structured sources with the heterogeneity being introduced by the variety in source schemas and data models.  But a large portion of the Web consists of pages that contain information presented as unstructured text e.g. blogs, wikis, reviews etc. Therefore, integration systems that can match entities/objects across both structured and unstructured sources are the need of the hour.  Recent research in web object extraction, record linkage and named entity recognition have generated some initial solutions. However, many challenges remain in developing such a system.

This workshop, sixth in the Information Integration series, will focus on the topic of effectively integrating information from structured sources with that available in relevant unstructured sources.  Specifically, we will provide a platform to discuss research directions, share experience and insights from both academia and industry.  The anticipated outcome of the workshop is to assess the state of the art in the area, as well as to identify critical next steps to pursue in this topic. 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 and search

·         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

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 format. Please submit papers in PDF and send them to the co-chairs via email at ubnambiar AT in DOT ibm DOT com and znie AT microsoft DOT com

 

Organizing Committee

Dr. Ullas Nambiar (Co-Chair)

IBM India Research Lab, New Delhi, India,

http://www.research.ibm.com/people/u/ubnambiar/

 

Dr. Zaiqing Nie (Co-Chair)

Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, P.R. China.

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

 

Dr. Alon Halevy

Google Inc. Mountain View, USA

http://alonhalevy.googlepages.com/

 

Prof. Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

http://www-sal.cs.uiuc.edu/~kcchang/

 

Prof. Subbarao Kambhampati

Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu

 

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

Vanja Josifovski, Yahoo! Research, USA

Weiyi Meng, Binghamton University, USA

William Cohen, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

 

Past Workshops

IIWeb-07 follows the tradition established by the following five workshops held at premier venues across related communities.

 

AI and Information Integration, held at AAAI 1998

      Co-chairs: Craig Knoblock and Alon Levy

       http://www.aaai.org/Library/Workshops/ws98-14.php

 

Intelligent Information Integration (III99), held at IJCAI 1999

      Co-chairs: D. Fensel, C.A. Knoblock, N. Kushmerick and M.C. Rousset

       http://www.sigmod.org/dblp/db/conf/ijcai/ijcai99iii.html

 

IIWeb-03, held at IJCAI 2003

      Co-chairs: Craig Knoblock and Subbarao Kambhampati

       http://www.isi.edu/info-agents/workshops/ijcai03/iiweb.html

 

IIWeb-04, held at VLDB 2004

       Co-chairs: Hasan Davulcu and Nick Kushmerick 

       http://cips.eas.asu.edu/iiweb.htm

 

IIWeb-06, held at  WWW 2006

       Co-chairs: Kevin Chang and Avigdor Gal  

       http://iiweb2006.cs.uiuc.edu/

 

Sponsors

 

Updated: June 20, 2007.