Artificial Intelligence and the Web Special Track
The web has quickly grown from a modest hypertext system of interest to computer researchers to a ubiquitous information system including virtually all of human knowledge. Today’s Web provides ready access to not only text, images, and audio files, but also to structured and semistructured information, services and people. It offers an open, decentralized (and uncontrollable!) environment in which anyone can publish information and services coupled with powerful search engines and agents to find and rank results. All of this is available from wired, wireless, and mobile devices.
The result is an environment enormously useful to people for research, learning, commerce, socializing, communication, and entertainment. We have just begun to explore how this vast amount of machine accessible knowledge can be exploited and used by machines—to better serve human needs as well as to discover new knowledge.
The special track on “AI and the Web” features technical papers on the use of AI techniques, systems, and concepts involving the Web. The emphasis is on papers in two active research areas: (1) using text and language analysis to interpret and understand natural language text found on the web and (2) developing and exploiting “Semantic Web” languages and systems that explicitly encode knowledge using languages such as RDF and OWL. Innovative papers in other areas describing research involving both AI and the Web are included.
The list of papers to be presented at AAAI-06 can be found in the AAAI-06 proceedings.
Cochairs:
Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan
Reviewers
Steve Abney, University of Michigan
Lada Adamic, School of Infromation, Univeristy of Michigan
Jose Luis Ambite, Information Sciences Institute
Rie Ando, IBM Research
Ron Brachman, Yahoo! Research
Jeff Bradshaw, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
Chris Brew, Linguistics, The Ohio State University
Eric Brill, Microsoft Research
Mark Burstein, BBN Technologies
Junghoo Cho, University of California, Los Angeles
Ken Church, Microsoft
Ido Dagan
Robert Dale, Macquarie University
Umesh Dayal, Hewlett-Packard Labs
Jos de Bruijn, University of Innsbruck
Mike Dean, BBN Technologies
Stefan Decker, National University of Ireland, Galway
Grit Denker, SRI International
Ian Dickinson, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
AnHai Doan, University of Illinois, Urbana
Oren Etzioni, University of Washington
Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rhùne-Alpes
Dieter Fensel, Digital Enterprise Research Institute
Gary Flake, Microsoft Corporation
Victoria Fossum, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
C. Lee Giles, The Pennsylvania State University
Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento
Eric Glover, Ask Jeeves
Mark Greaves, Vulcan
Benjamin Grosof, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ramanathan V. Guha, Google Inc.
Alon Halevy, Google Inc.
Pat Hayes, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
Jeff Heflin, Lehigh University
Thomas Hoffman, Brown University
Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Corporation
Todd Hughes, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories
Mike Huhns, University of South Carolina
Nancy Ide, Vassar College
Rosie Jones, Yahoo! Research
Anupam Joshi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Lalana Kagal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CSAIL
Frank Keller, University of Edinburgh
Michael Kifer, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Paul Kogut, Lockheed Martin
Yannis Labrou, Fujitsu Labs of America
Mirella Lapata, University of Edinburgh
Ora Lassila, Nokia
Henry Lieberman, MIT Media Laboratory
Dekang Lin, University of Alberta
Lluis Marquez, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
David Martin, SRI International
Ryusuke Masuoka, Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc.
James Mayfield, JHU/APL
Sheila McIlraith, University of Toronto
Fil Menczer, Indiana University
Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas
Vibhu Mittal, Google Inc.
Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University
Dunja Mladenic, J. Stefan Institute
Mark Musen, Stanford University
Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S and University of Hannover
Hwee Tou Ng, National University of Singapore
Sergei Nirenburg, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Peter Norvig, Google Inc.
Tim Oates, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Miles Osborne, University of Edinburgh
Patrick Pantel, Information Sciences Institute
Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Laboratories
Terry Payne, University of Southampton
Yun Peng, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
David Pennock, Yahoo! Research
Tom Potok, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo! Research
Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University
Amit Sheth, University of Georgia
Steffen Staab, University Koblenz
Lynn Andrea Stein, Olin College
Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe
Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University
Ben Taskar, University of California, Berkeley
Marty Tenenbaum, CommerceNet
Simone Teufel, University of Cambridge
Walt Truszkowski, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Mike Uschold, The Boeing Company
Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
David Waltz, Columbia University
Chris Welty, IBM Watson Research Center
Jan Wiebe, University of Pittsburgh
Steve Willmott, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Dekai Wu, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology