Program and Online Proceedings of

Workshop on


The Semantic Computing Initiative (SeC 2005)
--- From Semantic Web to Semantic World ---

to be held in conjunction with
The 14th Int'l Conf. on World Wide Web (WWW2005)


Tuesday May 10, 2005
Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan

09:00/09:10 Opening
09:10/10:00 Invited Talk: UNL2005 for Providing Knowledge Infrastructure
Hiroshi Uchida (UNDL Foundation)
10:00/12:30 Session on Semantic Services
10:00/10:30 Semantic Document Processing with xfy Technology
Sunao Takafuji
10:30/11:00 Coffee Break
11:00/11:30 Semantic Structure Transition with Elapsed Time
Katsuaki Tanaka, Mina Akaishi and Koichi Hori
11:30/12:00 Transforming E-Contents into a Storybook World with Animations and Dialogues using Semantic Tags
Kaoru Sumi and Katsumi Tanaka
12:00/12:30 Web Proper Names: Naming Referents on the Web
Harry Halpin and Henry Thompson
12:30/14:00 Lunch Break
14:00/15:30 Session on Semantic Databases
14:00/14:30 OWL Ontology Translation for the Semantic Web
Luis Mota and Luis Botelho
14:30/15:00 Toward Detecting Mapping Strategies for Ontology Interoperability
Jie Tang, Bang-Yong Liang and Juan-Zi Li
15:00/15:30 The DBin Semantic Web Platform: An Overview
Giovanni Tummarello, Christian Morbidoni, Paolo Puliti and Francesco Piazza
15:30/16:00 Coffee Break
16:00/16:50 Invited Talk: CDL (Concept Description Language): A Common Language for Semantic Computing
Toshio Yokoi (Tokyo University of Technology), Hiroshi Yasuhara (Oki Electric), Hiroshi Uchida (UNDL Foundation), Meiying Zhu (UNDL Foundation and ISeC), and Koiti Hasida (AIST and JST)
16:50/17:40 Invited Talk: Semantic Information Processing Revisited
Marvin Minsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)