CFP: WICOW@JSAI2007 (Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web)

[Yoshikiyo Kato <ykato [at] nict.go.jp>]

日本データベース学会の皆様

NICTの加藤と申します．

先日，人工知能学会全国大会併設の国際ワークショップWorkshop on
Information Credibility on the Web (WICOW)の論文募集について案内させて頂
きましたが，期日が近づいて参りましたので，再び案内させて頂きます．

ブログやSNSの普及による情報発信コストの低下に伴い，User Generated
Contentと呼ばれる情報が大量に流通するようになるなかで，Webで得られる情報
の信頼性の問題はますます重要になってきています．本ワークショップでは，
「情報の信頼性」の問題について様々なアプローチで取り組んでいる内外の研究
者が一堂に会して，議論を深める場に出来ればと考えております．

招待講演として，Microsoft Research AsiaのYunbo Cao博士を招いて，特定のト
ピックの専門家を検索するというExpert Searchの研究について講演して頂く予
定にしております．

皆様の投稿をお待ちしております．

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                        CALL FOR PAPERS
                             for
    The 1st Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web (WICOW)

                      in conjunction with
 The 21st Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial
Intelligence


          June 18 and/or 19, 2007, Miyazaki, Japan

                   http://kc.nict.go.jp/wicow/

                         Cohosted by
          The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
                             and
 The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology


<Description>

As computers and computer networks become more sophisticated, a huge
amount of text-based information, such as that found in web documents,
emails, and business related documents has been accumulated and
circulated.  Such information gives people a framework for organizing
their daily life.  Moreover, this information is starting to have a
strong influence on governmental policy, and how businesses are
managed.  A well-functioning society needs technology that can be used
to manage this wealth of text-based information.  This technology
would be able to handle a wide range of tasks: extracting credible
information related to a given topic (particularly when the query has
returned answers from large documents); organizing this information;
clarifying the background, the facts, and the various opinions and the
distribution of them, and so on.  The aim of this workshop is to
provide a forum for discussion on issues related to information
credibility criteria.


<Areas of Interest>

The workshop will focus on how to evaluate the credibility of
information.  In particular, contributions will be solicited
which address, but are not limited to, the following areas of
interest:

  * Information content analysis for credibility evaluation (topic
    extraction, opinion analysis, etc.).
  * Identification and characterization of the sender to enable the
    user to evaluate their credibility.
  * Information credibility evaluation based on superficial
    characteristics of information.
  * Information credibility evaluation based on reputation.
  * Information credibility evaluation for user-generated content
    (blogs, SNSs, etc.).
  * The relationship between information credibility evaluation and
    the concepts of trust and credibility.
  * Sociological aspects of information credibility.
  * Psychological aspects of information credibility.
  * Utilization of social networks for information credibility
    evaluation.
  * Issues concerning credibility of grassroots/citizen journalism.
  * Establishing information dissemination processes that promote the
    dissemination of credible information.


<Important Dates>

  * March 30, 2007
    Deadline for paper submissions
  * April 13, 2007
    Notification
  * April 27, 2007
    Deadline for camera-ready versions


<Workshop Chairs>

  Sadao Kurohashi
  Department of Intelligence Science and Technology
  Kyoto University
  Sakyo, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan
  kuro (at) i.kyoto-u.ac.jp
  http://nlp.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~kuro/

  Kentaro Inui
  Graduate School of Information Science
  Nara Institute of Science and Technology
  Keihanna, Nara, 630-0192, Japan
  inui (at) is.aist-nara.ac.jp
  http://cl.aist-nara.ac.jp/~inui/

  Yoshikiyo Kato
  Knowledge Creating Communication Research Center
  National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
  3-5 Hikaridai, Seika, Soraku, Kyoto 619-0289, Japan
  ykato (at) nict.go.jp
  http://kc.nict.go.jp/ykato/

<Program Committee>

  * Kentaro Inui (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
  * Yoshikiyo Kato (National Institute of Information and Communications
Technology, Japan)
  * Sadao Kurohashi (Kyoto University, Japan)
  * Hang Li (Microsoft Research Asia)
  * Yutaka Matsuo (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science
    and Technology, Japan)
  * Hisashi Miyamori (National Institute of Information and
Communications Technology, Japan)
  * Manabu Okumura (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
  * Noboru Sonehara (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
  * Hideaki Takeda (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
  * Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan)
  (List not yet complete)