CALL FOR PAPERS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE WEB a special track of technical conference papers at AAAI-06 : 21ST NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center, Boston, 16-20 July 2006 http://www.cs.umbc.edu/aaai06/ Co-Chairs: Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan Dates: February 16, 2006 = Abstracts due February 21, 2006 = Full papers due July 16-20, 2006 = AAAI 2006 in Boston, Massachusetts Contact information: aiweb06@cs.umbc.edu 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 semi-structured 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 ubiquitously available from wired, wireless and mobile devices. Oh, and did we mention that it's free? 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" invites technical papers on the use of AI techniques, systems and concepts involving the Web. We are especially interested in receiving papers in two active research areas: (i) using text and language analysis to interpret and understand natural language text found on the web and (ii) 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 definitely encouraged also. The AAAI-06 track on AI and the Web welcomes submissions on all topics relevant to the track, including: SEMANTIC WEB Information integration New/better/different KR languages for the Semantic Web (e.g., RuleML) Semantic Web grounded policy languages Semantic web and agents Semantic web in mobile and pervasive computing Semantic web ontologies Semantic web services Social aspects of web semantics Tags and folksonomies Proof, trust and provenance for web information Applications NLP AND THE WEB Cross-language IR for the web Enhancing IR and web search Information extraction on the web Knowledge acquisition from the Web NLP for automating markup Machine translation for and using the Web Opinion extraction Question answering on the web Text summarization Applications OTHER AI AND THE WEB RELATED TOPICS AI and web-based ecommerce AI for P2P and GRID environments Intelligent information retrieval Intelligent user interfaces for Web systems Multi-agent systems on the Web Ontologies for the Web (not semantic web related) Mining web logs, query logs, blogs Recognizing web spam (e.g., link farms, blog spam) Recommendation systems Social networking and community identification Trend spotting Link-analysis and graph mining on the Web Graph based methods for analyzing Web information Web personalization and user modeling Prospective submitters unsure if their paper is relevant to this track may send queries to aiweb06@cs.umbc.edu. Papers for this special track should be prepared and submitted following the general technical conference paper submission guidelines. Submitted papers will be reviewed by qualified reviewers drawn from a special track committee as well as the general program committee, with the final selections determined by the track co-chairs in conjunction with the AAAI-06 co-chairs. Submissions to this special track that are deemed not to be relevant may be considered for review for the general technical papers track at the discretion of the chairs. Additional information including the names of the program committee members is available at http://www.cs.umbc.edu/aaai06/.