CFP: PROFILES & DATA:SEARCH - International Workshop on Profiling and Searching Data on the Web

Call for Papers

PROFILES & DATA:SEARCH - International Workshop on Profiling and Searching Data on the Web

In conjunction with TheWebConf 2018
24 April 2018, Lyon, France
https://profiles-datasearch.github.io/2018/

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PROFILES & DATA:SEARCH Overview
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The web of data has seen tremendous growth recently. New forms of structured data have emerged in the form of web markup,
such as schema.org, and a large amount of data in web tables. Considering these rich, heterogeneous and evolving data sources
which cover a wide variety of domains, the exploitation of web data becomes increasingly important in the context of various
applications, including (federated) search, question answering and fact verification.

The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the development of data search
techniques, data profiling, and dataset retrieval on the web. This includes looking at the specifics of data-centric
information seeking behaviour, understanding interaction challenges in data search on the web, and analysing the cognitive
processes involved in the consumption of structured data by users. At the same time we aim to discuss technologies addressing
data search – including semantics, information retrieval for web data (ranking algorithms and indexing), in particular in the
context of decentralised and distributed systems, such as the web. We are interested in approaches to analyse, characterise
and discover data sources. We want to facilitate a discussion around data search across formats and domain-specific applications.

We envision the workshop as a forum for researchers and practitioners to come together and discuss common challenges and
identify synergies for joint initiatives. We welcome contributions describing technical approaches, as well as those related
to Human Computer Interaction research in data discovery, profiling and retrieval.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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PROFILES & DATA:SEARCH ’18 will seek application-oriented papers, as well as more theoretical papers and position papers.
The workshop proposes a multidisciplinary discussion on the following themes, with a focus on RDF, CSV, JSON and other
structured and semi-structured datasets:

1. Search
Dataset retrieval
Search results presentation for datasets
Semantic dataset search
Evaluation of dataset search tools and algorithms
Decentralised and distributed architectures and algorithms in data search
Fusing, cleaning, ranking and refining dataset search results
Approaches to personalisation in dataset search
Scalability and performance of distributed data queries
Query routing taking into account relevance, quality and profiles of distributed datasets

2. Profiling
Dataset profile representation (vocabularies, schemas)
Profiling and assessment of novel forms of entity-centric web data
Data summarisation
Data quality analysis for query routing
Novel applications using dataset profiles
Topic profiling of datasets
Dataset indexing and profiling approaches

3. Human data interaction
Information seeking behaviour for data
User modeling for data search
Analysing behavioral traces during data search
Usability of data portals and data discovery tools
Data search results presentation to support sense making

We are interested in contributions using a variety of methods. This can include, for example, user studies, lab experiments,
system based evaluation, but also experiments using gamification and crowdsourcing.

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND PROCEEDINGS
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We welcome the following types of contributions:

We encourage full papers (8 pages), short papers (4 pages) as well as position papers (2 pages). All submissions must be
written in English and must be formatted according to the ACM format. The  proceedings of the workshop will be included
in the companion proceedings of The WebConf2018. Each submission will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the PC. Papers
will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. Please submit your contributions electronically in PDF format via the Easychair system:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=profiles-datasearch2018

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Workshop paper submissions due: 24 January 2018
Workshop paper notifications sent: 14 February 2018
Camera-ready copies due: 01 March 2018
PROFILES & DATA:SEARCH Workshop: 24 April 2018

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WORKSHOP ORGANISERS
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Laura Koesten, University of Southampton/The Open Data Institute, UK
Elena Demidova, L3S Research Center, Germany
Vadim Savenkov, Vienna University of Economics and Business, AT
John Breslin, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUI Galway, Ireland
Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ES
Stefan Dietze, L3S Research Center, Germany
Elena Simperl, University of Southampton, UK

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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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Charlie Abela (University of Malta)
Alessandro Adamou (The Insight Centre, Ireland)
Marco Antonio Casanova (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Philipp Cimiano (Bielefeld University, Germany)
Enrico Daga (The Open University, UK)
Ruslan Fayzrakhmanov (University of Oxford, UK)
Max Froumentin (Government Digital Service, UK)
Simon Gottschalk (L3S Research Center, Germany)
Michael Gubanov (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
Peter Haase (metaphacts, Germany)
Tom Heath (Arup, UK)
Luis-Daniel Ibáñez (University of Southampton, UK)
Emilia Kacprzak (The Open Data Institute, UK)
Eva Méndez (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain)
Stefano Modafferi (University of Southampton, UK)
Dmitry Mouromtsev (ITMO University, Russia)
Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo (University of Paderborn, Germany)
Natalya Noy (Google, USA)
Andreas Nuernberger (Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany)
Bernardo Pereira Nunes (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Axel Polleres (Vienna University of Economics and Business - WU, Austria)
Muhammad Saleem (University Of Leizpig, Germany)
Emanuel Sallinger (University of Oxford, UK)
Arno Scharl (Modul University, Austria)
Nicolas Tempelmeier (L3S Research Center, Germany)
Thanassis Tiropanis (University of Southampton, UK)
Konstantin Todorov (LIRMM / University of Montpellier, France)
Nicolas Torzec (Yahoo, USA)
Raquel Trillo-Lado (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)
Jürgen Umbrich (Vienna University of Economics and Business - WU, Austria)
Ran Yu (L3S Research Center, Germany)