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BOEMIE 2008 Workshop on Ontology Evolution and Multimedia Information Extraction <http://www.boemie.org/boemie2008> http://www.boemie.org/boemie2008 held next to <http://samt2008.uni-koblenz.de/> SAMT 2008 – 3rd International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies December 2, 2008, Koblenz, Germany Call for participation Participation in the workshop is free of charge but subject to prior registration and confirmation. Delegates will have to pay for their own travel and accommodation expenses. It is not required to pay the registration fee for the SAMT conference. To obtain an invitation, please send e-mail to Irma Sofia Espinosa Peraldi, <sofia dot espinosa at tuhh dot de> with the following information: - Name - Affiliation - Country - Why are you interest in participating? Send this information no later than November 28th. For more specific details please refer to: <http://www.boemie.org/boemie2008> http://www.boemie.org/boemie2008 Motivation and Scope BOEMIE 2008 focuses on the automation of the process of knowledge acquisition from multimedia content, using evolving multimedia ontologies which will be used for the extraction of information from multimedia content in networked sources. The goal is to develop synergistic approaches that combine multimedia extraction and ontology evolution in a bootstrapping process involving, on the one hand, the continuous extraction of semantic information from multimedia content in order to populate and enrich the ontologies and, on the other hand, the deployment of these ontologies to enhance the robustness of the extraction process. The workshop is tightly coupled with the <http://www.boemie.org/> BOEMIE project, aiming to initiate a new research activity on the automation of knowledge acquisition from multimedia content, through computer-aided ontology evolution. The resulting technology will have a wide range of applications in commerce, tourism, e-science, publishing, etcetc. During the project, the technology will beis evaluated through the development of an automatic content collection and annotation service for public events in a number of major European cities. The extracted semantic information will enriches the underlying ontology as well as a digital map, which will provides a friendly interface to the end user. Topics The workshop includes contributions to all research topics related to the BOEMIE project. We expectanticipate significant and fruitful discussions owing to differences in potential approaches in handling the issues above. The detailed topics of the workshop include but are not limited to the following: * Knowledge driven multimedia analysis * Multimedia ontologies * Multimedia reasoning * Ontology learning * Ontology evolution * Ontology matching and coordination * Combining Handling multiple vocabularies * Interoperability among current multimedia and Semantic Web standards * Automatic and semi-automatic content annotation tools * Bridging the gap between multimedia features and semantics Speakers Welcome and introduction to Workshop Silvana Castano, Dipartimento di Informatica e Communicazione (DICO), University of Milano (UNIMI), Italy Ralf Möller, Software, Technology and Systems (STS), Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany Introduction to BOEMIE project George Paliouras, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications (IIT) National Center of Scientific Research (NCSR “Demokritos”), Greece Multimedia Information Extraction Jerry R. Hobbs and Rutu Mulkar-Mehta Information Sciences Institute (ISI), University of Southern California, USA Sergios Petridis, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications (IIT) National Center of Scientific Research (NCSR “Demokritos”), Greece Multimedia Ontologies Steffen Staab, Information Systems and Semantic Web (ISWeb), University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Stamatia Dasiopoulou, Informatics and Telematics Institute (ITI), Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Greece Multimedia and Reasoning Umberto Straccia, Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI), National Research Council (CNR), Italy Sofia Espinosa, Atila Kaya and Ralf Möller, Software, Technology and Systems (STS), Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany Ontology Learning and Evolution Giorgios Flouris, Giorgos Konstantinidis, Vassilis Christophides and Grigoris Antoniou Institute of Computer Science Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, (FORTH), Greece Alfio Ferrara, Dipartimento di Informatica e Communicazione (DICO), University of Milano (UNIMI), Italy Organizers and Chairs Silvana Castano, <castano at dico dot unimi dot it> University of Milano, Italy Alfio Ferrara, <ferrara at dico dot unimi dot it> University of Milano, Italy Ralf Möller, <r dot f dot moeller at tuhh dot de> Hamburg University of Technology, Germany George Paliouras, <paliourg at iit dot demokritos dot gr> NCSR Demokritos, Greece Irma Sofia Espinosa Peraldi, <sofia dot espinosa at tuhh dot de> _______________________________ Irma Sofia Espinosa Peraldi http://www.sts.tu-harburg.de/people/s.espinosa/ Hamburg University of Technology Institute for Software Systems PhD candidate
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