State Key Lab of Software Engineering (
The field of Semantic Computing (SC) brings together those
disciplines concerned with connecting the
(often vaguely formulated) intentions of humans with computational
content. This connection can go both ways: retrieving, using and manipulating
existing content according to user's goals ("do what the user means");
and creating, rearranging, and managing content that matches the author's
intentions ("do what the author means").
The content addressed in SC includes, but is not limited to,
structured and semi-structured data, multimedia data, text, programs, services
and, even, network behavior. This
connection between content and the user is made via (1) Semantic Analysis, which analyzes
content with the goal of converting it to meaning (semantics); (2) Semantic
Integration, which integrates content and semantics from multiple sources; (3)
Semantic Applications, which utilize content and semantics to solve problems;
and (4) Semantic Interfaces, which attempt to interpret users' intentions
expressed in natural language or other communicative forms. Example areas of SC
include (but, again, are not limited to) the following:
ANALYSIS AND UNDERSTANDING OF CONTENT
Natural-language
processing
Image
and video analysis
Audio
and speech analysis
Analysis
of behavior of software, services, and networks
INTEGRATION OF MULTIPLE SEMANTIC
REPRESENTATIONS
Database
schema integration
Ontology integration
SEMANTIC INTERFACES
Natural-Language
interface
APPLICATIONS
Semantic
Web and other search technologies
Question
answering
Semantic
Web services
Multimedia
databases
Engineering
of software, services, and networks based on
natural-language
specifications
Context-aware
networks of sensors, devices, and/or applications
The workshop consists of invited lectures, paper
presentations and panel discussions on semantic computing especially on
interdisciplinary research from natural language processing, multimedia,
semantic web, data and knowledge engineering, software engineering, computer
systems and networks, etc.
Authors
are invited to submit full papers (in double column IEEE format; 6-8 pages) and short papers (in double column IEEE format;
no more than 3 pages) in PDF form to the
Publication Chair (shuw@uci.edu). Distinguished full papers presented at the workshop will be
recommended for publication in International Journal of Semantic Computing.
Submission of Papers: May 2, 2008 (extended to May 25, 2008)
Notification of Acceptance: May 23, 2008 (extended to May 28, 2008)
Camera Ready Papers: May 30, 2008 (All accepted papers will be notified and
processed by the IEEE Computer Society.)
Registration: June 6, 2008 (Registration Form)
Registration (wire transfer instruction): Since some authors can only pay the registration fee through
wire transfer, here is the wire transfer information.
But you also need to send or fax registration form according to the instruction
on the form, and indicate on the form that you want to pay the fee through wire
transfer.
General Co-Chairs
Phillip Sheu, Institute for Semantic
Computing,
Heather
Yu, Huawei Technologies,
Program
Co-Chairs
Dan
Bikel,
Enhong
Chen,
Shu-Ching
Chen, Florida International University, USA
Gerald Friedland, International Computer Science Institute,
Atsushi
Kitazawa, NSE Soft,
Leonid Kof, Technsche
Juanzi Li,
Xiao-Fong
Meng,
Xiaolong
Wang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Mark Wood, Eastman Kodak Company,
Jinhua
Xiong, Institute of Computing Technology,
Baowen
Xu,
Shi
Ying, State Key Lab of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, China
Li Zhang, Beihang University, China
Finance and Registration Chair
George Wang,
Publication and Registration Chair
Shu Wang,