Position Papers

Author	Title	Affiliation
Alex Acero	The Role of Semantics for Natural Language Interfaces	Microsoft Research
Scott Counts	Leveraging the Long Tail for Goal-Directed Recommender Systems	Microsoft Research
Li Ding	Provenance and Search Issues in RDF Data Warehouse	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
John Domingue	How to Author and Consume Semantics at Internet Scale? How Can Semantics Enable Data Confidentiality?	Open University
Tim Finin	Computational Policies in a Need to Share Environment	University of Maryland Baltimore County
Jonathan Grudin	Approaches to Sharing Digital Information	Microsoft Research
Harry Halpin	Evolving the Web Through Open Data	University of Edinburgh
Kevin W. Hamlen and Bhavani Thuraisingham	Relationship between Ontology and Security	The University of Texas at Dallas
Frank van Harmelen	From (Organised) Semantic Islands to (Self-Organising) Continents	Free University
Manfred Hauswirth, Stefan Decker	Semantic Reality–Connecting the Real and the Virtual World	National University of Ireland
Vasant Honavar	Collaborative Development, Selective Sharing and Reuse of Ontologies	Iowa State University
Jim Hendler	Semantics and the Network Effect: A Little Semantics Goes a Long Way	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Michael N. Huhns	Consensus Data, Ontologies, and Services	University of South Carolina
Lalana Kagal	Semantic Web Technologies for Data Condentiality	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Craig A. Knoblock	Exploiting Mashups to Create a Semantically-Enabled Web	University of Southern California
Milena Mihail	Platforms Supporting the Long Tail of Web Statistics and Intelligent Data Collection	Georgia Institute of Technology
Natasha Noy	What Users Want: Collaborative Development of Ontologies	Stanford University
Amit P. Sheth	Relationship Web: Realizing the Memex Vision With the Help of Semantic Web	Wright State University
Munindar P. Singh	Tools for Pragmatics: Metadata for Nothing; Ontologies for Free?	North Carolina State University
Flávio Soares Corrêa da Silva	On the Meaning of Meaning	University of Sao Paulo
Robert Stevens	Social Effects in Building Ontologies on the Web	University of Manchester
Kristin M. Tolle	The Need for Domain Auto-detection, Dynamic Ontologies and Web-based Data Confidentiality for Personally Sensitive Data	Microsoft Research
Lucy Vanderwende	Creating Ontologies: Is the NLP Experience Relevant?	Microsoft Research
Evelyne Viegas	Embracing the New Information Age	Microsoft Research
Daniel J. Weitzner	End-to-End Information Accountability	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yan Xu	A RDF-Based Research Development Kit	Microsoft Research