The AAAI-98 Workshop on Textual Case-Based Reasoning - Call for Participation - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Contents 1. Description of the workshop 2. Organizing Committee 3. Topics 4. Format of workshop 5. Attendance 6. Submission requirements 7. Deadlines 8. Submission address 9. More information * Back to the workshops main page ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Description of the workshop In recent years, there has been a growing interest of CBR researchers in dealing with textual representations of cases. In particular, many CBR applications now require the handling of only semi-structured or even full-text cases rather than the highly structured cases of more traditional CBR systems. This workshop aims at bringing together the research groups active in this area in order to identify major problems to be solved, alternative approaches to this task, and specific properties which distinguish "Textual CBR" from other areas, such as Information Retrieval. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Organizing Committee * Mario Lenz, Humboldt Uni, Berlin, * Kevin D Ashley, University of Germany (Co-Chair) Pittsburg, USA (Co-Chair) * Ralph Barletta, Inference Corp., USA * Stefan Wess, tecInno GmbH, Germany * Yoshio Nakatani, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan * Mike Brown, Siemens AG, Germany, ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topics The overall theme of the workshop will be handling of textual documents within CBR systems. In particular, possible topics include (but are not limited to): * Representation: o How should texts be mapped into cases? o What types of document exist that contain usful information that should be reused? o How should the different pieces of texts in a document be distinguished? o How can non-textual document information be retrieved and reused? * System development and maintenance: o How can domain knowledge be used thus making CBR superior to other technologies? o What kind of knowledge is required to build a textual CBR system? o How should this knowledge be acquired and maintained? * Evaluation: o How should textual CBR systems be evaluated? * Integration issues: o How does "Textual CBR" relate to other technologies? o What can CBR provide for these, and what should be learned? * Case Studies: o Applications built and lessons learned ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Format of workshop The format of the workshop will combine short presentations and group discussion. As discussed below, each potential participant is asked to submit a "Position Paper" dealing with one or more of the above topics or related ones. From the papers submitted, the Workshop Chairs will select for oral presentation a relatively small number of papers staking out interesting positions. After the oral presentations, the Workshop will break down into a number of small discussion groups on important topics suggested by the "Position Papers" and oral presentations. After the discussions, the small groups will report back to the workshop as a whole, followed by general discussion. David L. Waltz, Vice President, Computer Science Research, NEC Research Institute and President of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence, will deliver an invited talk on a topic related to the Workshop (title to be announced.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Attendance Each potential participant should submit a "Position Paper" on the above topics. Based on these, the Workshop Chairs will select participants. Papers that stake out positions and make recommendations will facilitate more interesting small group discussions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission requirements Potential participants are invited to submit "Position Papers" which should be at most 2500 words (five pages) in length. The accepted papers will be made available to the workshop participants as either AAAI Workshop Notes or AAAI Technical Reports. Submissions should preferably be made via electronic mail as UNIX printable PostScript. If this causes problems, please, contact Mario Lenz to clarify what other formats are possible. Only if electronic submission is not possible at all, 3 hard copies should be sent to the address below. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Deadlines * Submission deadline: March 11, 1998 * Notification date: April 1, 1998 * Camera-ready copies to organizers: April 22, 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission address Mario Lenz Dept. of Computer Science Humboldt University Berlin Unter den Linden 6 D-10099 Berlin Germany Tel. +49 30 20181-212 Fax +49 30 20181-221 lenz@informatik.hu-berlin.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------ More information Up-to-date information can be found at http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~lenz/AAAI98-WS/workshop.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mario Lenz Last change on December, 1st 1997.