Advances in web technology have led to vast amounts of user generated web content in the form of blogs, emails, reviews and opinions. Increasingly people search and browse other people's experiences on travel, medicine, retail, entertainment etc. Although treated as documents this forms a rich source of untapped experience data, a valuable asset that can be used to generate web experience bases through Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) technology.
Proliferation of web content invariably also means significant increases in web usage. Typically many users will have similar searching and browsing needs and should ideally benefit from this commonality. Currently user behaviour remains mostly un-captured but its potential to facilitate reuse of web usage experiences creates an exciting opportunity for CBR research.
This workshop promotes CBR as a means to advance web technology in two ways. Firstly by enabling better capture and representation of explicit yet unstructured experiential web content and secondly by harnessing web usage experiences to improve browsing and searching.
Aims and Objectives
The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for the discussion of trends, research issues and practical experiences on the role of CBR in reasoning with web-related experiential content. To achieve this we propose to incorporate the following activities in the workshop:
- Presentation of peer-reviewed (application/research) papers;
- Presentation of short position papers;
- Panel discussion on web-CBR synergies; and
- An invited talk (in a related area).
