AI Mashup Challenge 2009
at the Annual (German) AI conference <http://ki2009.uni-paderborn.de/>
in Paderborn, Germany, September 15th, 2009
Deadline: July 15, 2009 (but contact us asap about your intention to
participate)
Prizes for the best mashups, sponsored by Liguatec, O'Reilly, T3N.
For more details, see <http://www.ki09.de> and the long text below.
See you in Paderborn!
Brigitte Endres-Niggemeyer
Valentin Zacharias
Pascal Hitzler
- co-organisers
AI 2009 Mashup Challenge
Mashups
A mashup is a lightweight (web) application that offers new
functionality by combining, aggregating and transforming data and
services available on the web. For example the prototypical mashup
iMusicMash <http://www.japaninyourpalm.com/cgi-bin/itunes/#_home> brings
together data on artists from Yahoo Search, Eventful, Twitter and
Wikipedia for a music reference that can be accessed from iPhones and
Android phones. Another well known mashup
<http://chicago.everyblock.com/> combines real estate listings with all
kinds of data about a city and displays them jointly on a map - allowing
prospective house buyers to quickly gauge an area where a particular
house is located. See <http://www.ki09> for more examples on mashups.
AI Mashup Challenge - Topics Of Interest
The AI mashups challenge accepts mashups that use AI technology,
including but not restricted to machine learning and data mining,
machine vision, natural language processing, reasoning, ontologies and
the semantic web.
Imagine for example:
* The use of information extraction or automatic text summarization
to create a task-oriented overview mashup for mobile devices.
* The use of Semantic Web technology and data sources to make use
of the large amounts of structured data available on the web.
* The use of existing background knowledge (such as ontologies,
WordNet or Cyc) to improve search and content combination.
* The use of machine translation technology for the creation of
mashups that cross language borders.
* The use of machine vision technology for novel ways of
aggregating images (e.g. a map of the world with the most recent happy
faces for all countries).
* The planning of whole travel itineraries from available hotels
and transport offers.
* The use of text-to-speech technology to create a voice mashup
that speaks with intelligent and emotional intonation.
* The display of Pub Med articles on a map based on geographic
entity detection (e.g. showing where tropical diseases like dengue are
studied and where the diseases occur).
Dates
* Immediately - contact us at [log in to unmask] to discuss your idea.
* July 15.: At the latest - submit the URL of your mashup and a
short description, detailing in particular the use of AI technology.
Submit by just sending everything to [log in to unmask]
* August 1.: Feedback on your submission (at the latest, we strive
to give feedback as soon as we get your submission)
* September 15.: Conference - lightning talks, presentations,
prizes and PARTY
'The Process'
* There will be no formal review process, only a check by the
organization committee whether a particular mashup is within the scope
of the challenge. Please send us a description of your intended mashup
(max. 1 page, in English) as soon as possible. Explain its AI
components, state the technology you want to apply and tell us your
future mashup's URL. Submit by just sending everything to [log in to unmask]
* Prepare the mashup and submit it until 15.7.2009. The organizers
expect a note containing the URL of the finished mashup.
* By Aug 1st, the accepted mashups will be made available to the
participants of the KI-2009 conference.
* You will present your mashup in a lightning talk at the conference.
* The prizes of the mashup challenge will be determined through a
vote of the participants of the KI 2009 conference.
Sponsors and Prizes
There will be prizes for the best mashups. Linguatec, O'Reilly and T3N
have generously already agreed to sponsor this challenge. However, we
have not yet settled on the final prizes ... stay tuned.
The winners will be determined by the participants themselves: one
person, one vote.
For up-to-date information, see <http://www.ki09.de/>.
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PD Dr. Pascal Hitzler
Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH), 76128 Karlsruhe
email: [log in to unmask] fax: +49 721 608 6580
web: http://www.pascal-hitzler.de phone: +49 721 608 4751
Springer Lehrbuch: http://www.semantic-web-grundlagen.de
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