============================================================================================= C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N Sixth International Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb-07) July 23, 2007, Vancouver, BC, Canada (colocated with AAAI 2007) http://research.microsoft.com/users/znie/iiweb07/ Sponsors: Microsoft Research, Yahoo! ============================================================================================ IIWeb 2007, is being held as a 1-day workshop at AAAI 2007. The day long workshop will consist of presentations (12 full and 6 short), invited talk and/or panel discussion. Workshop attendance is open to the public. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION DETAILS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Early Registration: until May 25, 2007 (Workshop Only registration feasible) *** Online Registration: https://www.aaai.org/Forms/aaai-registration-form.html (Fees quoted in US dollars) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRELIMINARY PROGRAM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Novel Integration Architectures and Web Applications ---------------------------------------------------- Data Integration Support for Mashups Andreas Thor, David Aumueller, Erhard Rahm (University of Leipzig, Germany) Exploiting Social Annotation for Automatic Resource Discovery Anon Plangprasopchok and Kristina Lerman (USC Information Sciences Institute) A Platform for Scalable, Collaborative, Structured Information Integration Kurt Bollacker, Robert Cook, Patrick Tufts (Metaweb Technologies, Inc.) Citepack: A Zero-input Agent for Discovering and Integrating Research Sources Christopher H. Brooks, Yeh Fang, Ketaki Joshi, Papanii Okai, Xia Zhou (University of San Francisco) Online Information Integration --------------------------------- Information Integration for the Masses James Blythe,Dipsy Kapoor,Craig A. Knoblock,Kristina Lerman (USC Information Sciences Institute) and Steven Minton (Fetch Technologies) Answering Top K Queries Efficiently with Overlap of Answers in Sources or Source Paths Louiqa Raschid (University of Maryland), Mar'?a Esther Vidal (Universidad Sim'on Bolivar), Yao Wu (University of Maryland), Felix Naumann, Jens Bleiholder (Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Potsdam) BioFederator: A Data Federation System for Bioinformatics on the Web Ahmed Radwan, Akmal Younis (University of Miami), Mauricio A. Hernandez, Howard Ho, Lucian Popa, Shivkumar Shivaji (IBM Almaden Research Center), Sawsan Khuri (University of Miami) Name Disambiguation and Entity Resolution ------------------------------------------ Author Disambiguation using Error-driven Machine Learning with a Ranking Loss Function Pallika Kanani; Rob Hall; Michael Wick; Andrew McCallum (University of Massachusetts) Efficient Strategies for Improving Partitioning-Based Author Coreference by Incorporating Web Pages as Graph Nodes Pallika Kanani and Andrew McCallum (University of Massachusetts) Name Disambiguation Using Web Connection Yiming Lu (University of California, Irvine), Zaiqing Nie (Microsoft Research Asia), Taoyuan Cheng, Ying Gao (Renmin University of China), Ji-Rong Wen (Microsoft Research Asia) Mining Heterogeneous Transformations for Record Linkage Matthew Michelson and Craig A. Knoblock (USC Information Sciences Institute) Semantic Data Integration and Schema Matching --------------------------------------------- On the Stable Marriage of Maximum Weight Royal Couples Anan Marie, Avigdor Gal (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology) Semantic Data Integration Environment for Biomedical Research Vadim Astakhov, Jeffrey S. Grethe, Edward Ross, David Little, Brian Sanders, Amarnath Gupta (University of California San Diego) Query Rewriting for Semantic Web Information Integration Dave Kolas (BBN Technologies) Web Information Extraction --------------------------- Putting Semantic Information Extraction on the Map Chris Pal, Gideon Mann, Richard Minerich (University of Massachusetts) Using Regulatory Instructions for Information Extraction Thomas Lee (University of Pennsylvania) Probabilistic Representations for Integrating Unreliable Data Sources David Mimno, Andrew McCallum and Gerome Miklau (University of Massachusetts) Learning Extractors from Unlabeled Text using Relevant Databases Kedar Bellare and Andrew McCallum (University of Massachusetts) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With Regards ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Ullas Nambiar (Co-Chair), IBM India Research Lab Zaiqing Nie (Co-Chair), Microsoft Research Asia Alon Halevy, Google Inc., USA Kevin Chang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Subbarao Kambhampati, Arizona State University