1. Conference and Workshop Tracker Andy Carlson Vitor Carvalho Kevin Killourhy Mohit Kumar

2. Overview We intend to find and gather the salient details about upcoming and past conferences and workshops. Submission Deadline Date Location Meta-area (e.g., Machine Learning, Wireless Networks, or 12 th Century Architecture) Organizing committee Home page Call for papers Other details… We expect that some of these details will be difficult to extract, and may initially focus on deadlines, dates, and locations.

3. Belief Rules ConferenceURL(, ) DeadlineFor(, ) DateOf(, ) LocationOf(, ) (note: “conference” is being used to denote workshops as well)

4. Redundancies Expect to exploit redundancies between: Official conference/workshop homepage Lists of upcoming conferences maintained by research groups Similar lists by professional societies (e.g., IEEE and ACM) Calls for papers archived from mailing lists Text before/after/inside links to conference homepage

5. Extraction Rules (1) Example for conference URLs and submission deadlines: If page title for matches “… Conference on …” then believe ConferenceURL(, ) –ConferenceURL(“8th Annual Conference on Computational Genomics”, “http://www.jax.org/courses/events/coursedetails.do?id=137”)http://www.jax.org/courses/events/coursedetails.do?id=137 –ConferenceURL(“3rd International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics”, “http://www.icinco.org/”)http://www.icinco.org/ –ConferenceURL(“Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence”, “http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai06.php”)http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai06.php

7. Extraction Rules (2) If string=“Abstract Submission: ” at and ConferenceURL(, ) then believe DeadlineFor(, ) - DeadlineFor(“Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence”, “February 16”)

9. Extraction Rules (3) If table has column X=“Deadline” and column Y=“Conference” then for each row extract DeadlineFor(Y,X) From http://l2r.cs.uiuc.edu/~cogcomp/conference_schedule.phphttp://l2r.cs.uiuc.edu/~cogcomp/conference_schedule.php –DeadlineFor(“NIPS 2005”, “June 03, 2005”) –DeadlineFor(“HLT-NAACL 2006”, “December 16, 2005”) –DeadlineFor(“AAAI 2006”, “February 16, 2006”) –(and 9 others)