LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
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Special Session
TR-WEB2.0: Tags and Recommendations in Web 2.0
(http://ailab.dimi.uniud.it/en/events/2009/tr-web20/)
in connection with
ISDA 2009, November 30 - December 2, 2009, Pisa, Italy
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!!! Paper submission deadline: June 20th, 2009!!!
DESCRIPTION
Motivation
The Web 2.0 world provides users with tools for generating a growing and
meaningful part of Web contents; in fact, everyday an increasing number
of users collaborates by sharing/publishing resources, associating tags
on documents, and remixing existing contents. This process of
information and knowledge construction increases the amount of resources
making hard manual tasks such as the retrieval of interesting contents,
or the selection of meaningful tags for classifying documents.
Collaborative tagging systems, such as del.icio.us or bibsonomy, are
popular examples of tools, which allow users to conceptualize, describe,
and share resources. Users can assign a set of tags simplifying the
search of bookmarked resources and providing indications to other peers.
But, actually there is not effective usage of tags: typically tags are
applied just for a personal consumption and people associate different
meaning to the same tag; tagging systems are not based on well defined
vocabularies, and so many tags do not provide any help to a user.
Recommender systems aim at reducing the effort required to users, by
modeling users’ preferences and goals. The Web 2.0 philosophy creates a
new role for the user which can be modeled both as a consumer of
information and as a producer of new contents. But the development of
recommendation frameworks based on the analysis of tags is still an open
challenge.
This special session aims at discussing the state-of-art, open problems,
challenges and innovative approaches in designing and developing
intelligent mechanism for personalized collaborative tagging systems. In
particular, we are interested in algorithms and frameworks able to
model users in social tagging environment and provide user with tags for
simplifying the organization of interesting resources and with
suggestions concerning resources filling the users information needs.
Objectives
This special session aims at discussing the state-of-the-art, open
problems, challenges and innovative research approaches in recommending
tags and resources in social tagging systems.
Examples of stimulating application fields are recommendation in social
bookmarking environments, publication sharing systems, or, more in
general, digital libraries 2.0.
Three specific questions motivate this special session:
1. How users’ interests, goals and preferences can be modeled in social
tagging systems?
2. What models, techniques, and tools are the most adequate in order to
overcome folksonomies’ limitations and to provide plausible and useful
recommendations?
3. How much the usage of tags for generating recommendations can improve
results of other existing recommender systems?
TOPICS
The topics of interest for the workshop are listed below. All them have
to be considered in the context of social tagging systems.
Topics not explicitly listed below, which anyway adhere to the goals of
the special session, will be considered as well.
General
* Intelligent tag recommendation in social tagging systems
* Recommending new contents using tags
* Algorithms and metrics for recommendation in social tagging systems
* Personalized ranking
* User profile construction based on tagging and annotations
* Automatic tagging
* Collaborative filtering in social tagging systems
* Social navigation support
* Social search and browsing
* Ontology-based computer supported tagging
* Hybrid recommender systems for tagging
* Evaluating tag recommender systems
* Explanation and evaluation in recommender systems
* Web 2.0 technologies for tag recommender systems
* Scalability problems in tag recommender systems
Interesting application fields
* Publication sharing systems
* Digital libraries 2.0
* Social networks
* Collaborative search engines
* E-Learning and knowledge management environments
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Proceedings
All papers, accepted for this special session, will be included in the
proceedings of ISDA'09 and in the IEEE Xplore digital library (IEL,
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/). Before publishing your final work at IEL,
we need your kind help to ensure the availability and the compatibility
of your camera-ready paper.
Formating Instructions
Formating instructions can be foundhere and also templates for Word and
LaTeX .
Submission
Authors should submit papers using our EasyChair associated site:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isda09
Deadlines
Paper submission deadline: June 20th, 2009
Notification of acceptance: July 25th, 2009
Camera-ready copy of accepted paper: September 15th, 2009
COMMITTEES
Program Chairs
Antonina Dattolo - Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of
Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Udine, Italy.
Carlo Tasso - Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science, University of Udine, Italy.
Program Committee
Robin Burke, DePaul University, Chicago
Peter Dolog, Aalborg University, Denmark
Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany
Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany
Gilles Hubert, IRIT, Toulouse, France
Styliani Kleanthous - University of Leeds, UK
Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
PierGiuseppe Rossi, University of Macerata, Italy
Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari, Italy
Fabio Vitali, University of Bologna, Italy
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