Web Mining 2006 (WebMine)

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                        CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                   *** Web Mining 2006 (WebMine) ***

                  Workshop at ECML/PKDD 2006 in Berlin

                         September 18th 2006

  Program: http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/webmine2006/#Program

We invite researchers and practitioners interested in Web Mining and related topics to attend the workshop. Hope to see you in Berlin!

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Accepted Papers:


- XPath-Wrapper Induction by generalizing tree traversal patterns (Tobias Anton, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany)

- An Analysis of Bloggers and Topics for a Blog Recommender System (Conor Hayes, Paolo Avesani, Sriharsha Veeramachaneni, ITC-IRST, Trento,
Italy)

- Web Usage Mining and XML Mining: a real case study (Federico Michele Facca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

- Semi-Supervised Learning to Extract Attribute-Value Pairs from Product Descriptions on the Web (Katharina Probst, Rayid Ghani, Marko Krema, Andy Fano, Yan Liu, Accenture Technology Labs, Chicago, USA/Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)

- Mining Associations from Web Query Logs (Benjamin Rey, Pradhuman Jhala, Yahoo! Research, Burbank, USA)

- Collaborative Filtering: Fallacies and Insights in Measuring Similarity (Panagiotis Symeonidis, Alexandros Nanopoulos, Apostolos N. Papadopoulos, and Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

- Discovering User Profiles from Papers by Using Word Sense Disambiguation (G. Semeraro, P. Basile, M. Degemmis, and P. Lops, Universita di Bari, Italy)

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With kind regards
  Andreas Hotho on behalf of the organizing committee

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