Enhancing Semantic Web by Semantic Annotation: Experiences in Building an Automatic Conference Calendar

In this paper, we describe a Semantic Web application that builds a customizable conference calendar. In contrast to previous works aiming at manually creating a list of upcoming/current and past conferences, in this work we aim at providing a semantic conference calendar which automatically extracts information from the web using semantic annotation. In this system, to build a calendar, the user simply needs to specify what conferences he/she is interested in. The system finds, extracts, and updates the semantic information from the Web. We propose a unified approach for semantic annotation of the conference calendar. We also present evaluations of our approach on real-world data.