Sixth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing September 19-21, 2012 Palermo, Italy
ICSC 2012
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Conference Program

 

Registration will start 8.00 am.

 

Wednesday, September 19th 2012

Room: Ducroit

08:50

Welcome Message from Conference Organizers

 

 

09:00

Keynote

ART Framework for Ontology Management

Maria Teresa Pazienza

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

Special Session on Semantics and Sociolinguistics in Social Media (Part I)

David Bracewell, Marc Tomlinson and Hui Wang:

A Motif Approach for Identifying Pursuits of Power in Social Discourse

 

David Bracewell and Marc Tomlinson:

The Social Actions of Successful Groups

 

Sarah Taylor, Tomek Strzalkowski, Aaron Broadwell, Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Samira Shaikh, Ting Liu, Umit Boz, Xiaoai Ren and Jingsi Wu:

Chinese and American Leadership Characteristics - Discovery and Comparison in Multi-party On-line Dialogues

12:30

Lunch Break (on your own)

14:00

Session: Natural Language I

Cem Akkaya, Janyce Wiebe and Rada Mihalcea:

Utilizing Semantic Composition in Distributional Semantic Models for Word Sense Discrimination and Word Sense Disambiguation

 

Arianna Pipitone and Roberto Pirrone:

Cognitive Linguistics as the Underlying Framework for Semantic Annotation

 

Anita Miller, James Johnson, Latifur Khan and Bhavani Thuraisingham:

Expanded Semantic Graph Representation for Matching Related Information of Interest Across Free Text Documents

 

Fedor Bakalov, Bahar Sateli, René Witte, Marie-Jean Meurs and Birgitta König-Ries:

Natural Language Processing for Semantic Assistance in Web Portals

16:00

Coffee Break

16:30

Special Session on Semantics and Sociolinguistics in Social Media (Part II)

Swabha Swayamdipta and Owen Rambow:

The Pursuit of Power and its Manifestation in Written Dialog

 

Sara Rosenthal and Kathleen McKeown:

Detecting Opinionated Claims in Online Discussions

 

Alex Baron, Vasin Punyakanok and Marjorie Freedman:

Using Signals from Text to Identify Roles within a Group

 

 

 

Thursday, September 20th 2012

 

Room: Ducroit

09:00

Keynote

Beyond Jeopardy! Adapting Watson to the Medical Domain

Alfio Gliozzo

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

Short Presentations: Data Mining & Natural Language

Ali Shariq Imran, Laksmita Rahadianti, Faouzi Alaya Cheikh and Sule Yildirim Yayilgan:

Semantic Tags for Lecture Videos

 

Aylin Caliskan and Rachel Greenstadt:

Translate once, translate twice, translate thrice and attribute: Identifying authors and machine translation tools in translated text

 

Chunchen Liu and Jianqiang Li:

Semantic-based Composite Document Ranking

 

Dat Tien Nguyen, Tam Duc Hoang and Son Bao Pham:

A Vietnamese Natural Language Interface to Database

 

Leonidas Ioannidis and Jean-Luc Rouas:

Exploiting Semantic Content for Singing Voice Detection

12:30

Lunch Break (on your own)

14:00

Industry Session

 

Giovanni Pilato, Agnese Augello, Michele Missikoff and Francesco Taglino:

Integration of Ontologies and Bayesian Networks for Maritime Situation Awareness

 


David Ostrowski:

Semantic Social Network Analysis for Trend Identification

 

Agnese Augello, Giovanni Pilato, Alberto Machì and Salvatore Gaglio:

An Approach to Enhance Chatbot Semantic Power and Maintainability: Experiences within the FRASI Project

 

Roberto Basili, Daniele Previtali, Paolo Salvatore, Armando Stellato and Jorg Wurzer:

Innovation-related Enterprise Semantic Search: the INSEARCH experience

16:00

Coffee Break

16:30

Short presentations: Reasoning & Misc

Egoitz Laparra and German Rigau:

Exploiting Explicit Annotations and Semantic Types for Implicit Argument Resolution

 

Naushad Uzzaman, Hector Llorens and James Allen:

Evaluating Temporal Information Understanding with Temporal Question Answering

 

Petri Kivikangas and Mitsuru Ishizuka:

Improving Semantic Queries by Utilizing UNL Ontology and a Graph Database

 

Geoffrey Absalom, Arthur Absalom and Dap Hartmann. Durham Zoo:

A collaborative-classification-based concept search engine for prior art and solution search

 

 

 

Thursday, September 20th 2012

Room: Caronia

11:00

Session: Reasoning I

Benoit Christophe:

Managing massive data of the Internet of Things through cooperative semantic nodes

 

Hajer Chebil, Christophe Courtin and Jean-Jacques Girardot:

An ontology-based approach for sharing and analyzing learning trace corpora

 

Kim Viljanen, Jouni Tuominen, Eetu Mäkelä and Eero Hyvönen:

Normalized Access to Ontology Repositories

12:30

Lunch Break (on your own)

14:00

Session: Natural Language II

Noriaki Kawamae:

Hierarchical Approach to Sentiment Analysis

 

Piero Molino, Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Pasquale Lops and Giovanni Semeraro:

Exploiting Distributional Semantic Models in Question Answering

 

Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo and Giovanni Semeraro:

A Study on Compositional Semantics of Words in Distributional Spaces

 

Vincenzo Moscato, Antonio Picariello, Fabio Persia, Antonio D'Acierno and Antonio Penta:

iWIN: a Summarizer System based on a semantic analysis of Web Documents

16:00

Coffee Break

16:30

Session: Reasoning II

Sajjad Hussain and Jos De Roo:

Proof-based Ontology Matching: Finding semantic similarities between ancestor graph structures

 

Yoones A. Sekhavat and Jeffrey Parsons:

Semantic Schema Mapping in Presence of Property Precedence Relations

 

 

Thursday, September 20th 2012

Foyer

17:30

Poster Session

Damires Souza, Marcello Freitas, Ana Carolina Salgado, Jimmy Silva, Davi Bandeira
and Antonio Mendonça.

A User Context Management Approach for Query Personalization Settings

 

Wolfgang Tannebaum and Andreas Rauber

Acquiring lexical knowledge from Query Logs for Query Expansion in Patent Searching

 

Francisco Tacoa, Danushka Bollegala and Mitsuru Ishizuka

A Context Expansion Method for Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation

 

Giuseppe Russo, Antonio Gentile, Roberto Pirrone, Francesca Anastasio and Arianna Pipitone:

VEBO: Validation of E-R diagrams through ontologies and WordNet

 

Michele Ruta, Floriano Scioscia and Eugenio Di Sciascio

Enabling the Semantic Web of Things: framework and architecture

 

 

There will be a social dinner on Thursday, September 20th 2012, 20.00 at Grand Hotel Piazza Borsa

 

Friday, September 21st 2012

Room: Ducroit

09:00

Keynote

Managing Online Business Communities

Steffen Staab

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

DQMST-Workshop

Anisa Rula, Matteo Palmonari, Andrea Maurino:

Capturing the Age of Linked Open Data: Towards a Dataset-independent Framework

 

Ahmad Assaf, Aline Senart:

Data Quality Principles in the Semantic Web

 

Daniel Ritter, Stephanie Rupprich:

A Data Quality Approach to Conformance Checks for Business Network Models

 

Ricardo Almeida, Paulo Oliveira, Lu Braga, Jo Barroso:

Ontologies for Reusing Data Cleaning Knowledge

13:00

Lunch Break (on your own)

14:30

Session: Data Mining & Misc

Aalap Tripathy, Suneil Mohan and Rabi Mahapatra:

Optimizing a Collaborative Filtering Recommender for Many-Core Processors

 

Jagatheesan Senthilkumar and Subramanian Karthikeyan:

Web Service Based Feature Selection and Discretization with Efficiency

 

Percy E. Rivera Salas, Michael Martin, Fernando Maia Da Mota, Sen Auer, Karin Breitman and Marco A. Casanova:

Publishing Statistical Data on the Web

 

Michal Szczerbak, Ahmed Bouabdallah, François Toutain and Jean-Marie Bonnin:

Generalizing contextual situations

 

 

Friday, September 21st 2012

Room: Caronia

11:00

DiDas-Workshop

Danilo Croce, Valerio Storch, Paolo Annesi, Roberto Basili:

Distributional Compositional Semantics and text Similarity

 

Don Tuggener, Manfred Klenner:

Non-negative Matrix Factorisation-Based Verb Semantics for 3rd Person Pronoun Resolution

 

Nur Aini Rakhmawati and Michael Hausenblas:

On the Impact of Data Distribution in Federated SPARQL Queries

13:00

Lunch Break (on your own)

14:30

Session: Machine Learning

Florent Berthaut, David Janin and Benjamin Martin:

Advanced synchronization of audio or symbolic musical patterns

 

Jianqiang Li and Chunchen Liu:

A Cooperative Co-learning Approach for Concept Detection in Documents

 

Martin Garbe, Christian B�nig, Anne Gutschmidt and Clemens Cap:

Moving Type Detection without Time Information

 

Nicola Fanizzi, Claudia D'Amato and Floriana Esposito:

Towards Numeric Prediction on OWL Knowledge Bases through Terminological Regression Trees

 

Nicola Fanizzi, Claudia D'Amato and Floriana Esposito:

Mining Linked Open Data through Semi-supervised Learning Methods based on Self-training