- From: Duc Thanh Tran <tran.du.th@googlemail.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 15:41:07 +0100
- To: semantic-web@w3.org, public-lod@w3.org
(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) Final Call for Papers SEMSEARCH10 =================================== Fellow Researcher, We are glad to announce the 3rd edition of the International Semantic Search workshop to be held at World Wide Web (WWW 2010) in Raleigh, USA. In the past years, Semantic Search has attracted much interests, both from industry and academia. After the success of the first the two workshops held at ESWC 2008 and at WWW 2009, we are delighted to have the opportunity to bring together the Information Retrieval and Semantic Web communities once again to discuss both theoretical and practical issues in implementing semantic search systems. As with the previous events, the main directions of semantic search under investigation are Semantic-driven Document Retrieval, Semantic Data Retrieval, Interaction Paradigms for Semantic Search and Semantic Search Evaluation. Since we believe that the lack of benchmarks is one of the major stumbling blocks to advances in the field of semantic applications and semantic search in particular, this workshop will also offer an evaluation challenge, focusing on answering entity queries over structured data in RDF. The Call for Papers and more details on the Evaluation of Entity Search is found below. For news and discussions related to SemSearch and evaluation at SemSearch, please register at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/semsearcheval/. We are looking forward to see you at SemSearch10 in Raleigh, NC! Cheers, Marko Grobelnik, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain Thanh Tran Duc, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany Haofen Wang, Apex Lab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. =================================== Call for Papers SEMSEARCH10 Third International Semantic Search Workshop SemSearch10 April 26, 2010, Raleigh, NC, USA Homepage: http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/semsearch10 Submission deadline for full papers: March 6th, 2010 (12.00 AM, GMT) =================================== In recent years we have witnessed substantial exploitation of search technologies, both at web and enterprise scale. However, the representation of user queries and information in existing search appliances is still almost exclusively achieved by simple syntax-based descriptions (i.e. keyword queries matched against bag-of-words document representation). While these systems have shown to work well for many common search needs, they work on the basis of rough approximations and usually fail to address more complex tasks such as aggregation and information analytics. On the other hand, recent advances in the field of semantic technologies have resulted in tools and standards that allow for the articulation of domain knowledge at a high level of expressivity. Semantic repositories and reasoning engines have now advanced to a state where querying and processing of this knowledge can scale to large-scale scenarios. As such, semantic technologies are posed to provide significant contributions to IR problems. More expressive descriptions of resources are achieved through the representation of the resource content in terms of concepts and structured data (OWL, RDF). The recent media interest around Wolfram Alpha, PowerSet (acquired by Microsoft Bing) and Yahoo SearchMonkey show the expectations regarding the impact of semantic search. The other way around, we have also seen the successful adoption of ideas from IR to the problem of search in semantic (Web) data, which is due to the increasing size of the Semantic Web. Popular examples include the Linking Open Data project, the large body of data in forms of Microformats and RDFa data associated with text. Common to these scenarios is that the search is focused not on a document collection, but on semantic data (which may be possibly linked to or embedded in textual information). Search and ranking large amount of semantic data on the Web is another key topic addressed by this workshop. ----------------------------------- Challenges ----------------------------------- In this context, challenges for Semantic Search research will include, among others: - How can semantic technologies be applied to the IR problems? - How to address scalability and effectiveness of data Web search (by applying IR technologies)? - How to allow web user to exploit the expressiveness of the semantic data on the Web? I.e. how to lower the technical barriers for users to ask complex questions and to interact with web data to obtain concrete answers for complex needs? - And most importantly, how can this new generation of search systems that successfully exploit semantics for IR or for data Web search can be evaluated and compared (with standard IR systems or semantic repositories)? ----------------------------------- Topics of Interest ----------------------------------- Semantic Search is defined through two main directions. First is Semantic-driven IR, the application of semantic technologies to the IR problem. The second is Semantic Data Search, which mainly deals with the retrieval of semantic data. Main topics of interest for the envisioned workshop contributions include (but are not limited to) the following: Semantic-driven IR - Expressive Document Models - Knowledge Extraction for Building Expressive Document Representation - Matching and Ranking based on Expressive Document Representation - Infrastructure for Semantic-driven IR Semantic Data Search - Crawling, Storage and Indexing of Semantic Data - Semantic Data Search and Ranking - Data Web Search: Search in Multi-Data-Source, Multi-Repository Scenarios - Dealing with Vague, Incomplete and Dirty Semantic Data - Infrastructure for Searching Semantic Data on the Web Interaction Paradigms for Semantic Search - Natural Language Interfaces - Keyword-based Query Interfaces - Hybrid Query Interfaces (A Combination of NL, Keywords, Forms, Facets, and Formal Queries) - Visualization of Semantic Data and Expressive Document Representation on the Web Evaluation of semantic search - Evaluation Methodologies for Semantic Search - Standard Datasets and Benchmarks for Semantic Search - Infrastructure for Semantic Search Evaluation ----------------------------------- Evaluation for Entity Search Track ----------------------------------- Our ultimate goal is to develop benchmarks for analysing and comparing semantic search systems in a systematic fashion. Clearly, semantics can be used for different tasks (document vs. data retrieval) and can be exploited throughout the search process (for more usable query construction, for better matching and ranking, for richer results presenation etc). Hence, such a suite of benchmarks should eventually allow to study separately different aspects of semantic search systems. For this workshop, we will intially focus on the task of matching and ranking in the semantic data search scenario. In particular, we aim to analyze the effectiveness, efficiency and robustness of the most basic functionality of semantic search systems that is ready to be applied to the Web today: the capability to answer queries related to real world entities. The details of the evaluation will be posted soon on our website at http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/semsearch10/#eva ----------------------------------- Organizers ----------------------------------- * Marko Grobelnik, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia * Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain * Thanh Tran Duc, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany * Haofen Wang, Apex Lab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. ----------------------------------- Program Committee ----------------------------------- * Bettina Berendt, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium * Paul Buitelaar, DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany * Wray Buntine, NICTA Canberra, Australia * Pablo Castells, Universidad Autónonoma de Madrid, Spain * Gong Cheng, Nanjing University, China * Mathieu D'aquin, KMI, Open University, England* Miriam Fernandez, KMI, Open University, England * Blaz Fortuna, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia * Norbert Fuhr, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany * Lise Getoor, University Maryland, USA * Rayid Ghani, Accenture Labs, USA * Peter Haase, Fluid Operations, Waldorf, Germany * Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh, Scotland * Andreas Harth, Institute AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany * Michiel Hildebrand, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science Amsterdam, Netherlands * Guenter Ladwig, Institute AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany * Alexander Löser, SAP Research, CEC Dresden, Germany * Yuzhong Qu, Nanjing University, China * Sergej Sizov, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany * Nenad Stojanovic, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany * Rudi Studer, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Kavitha Srinivas, IBM Research, Hawthorne, USA * Cao Hoang Tru, HCMC University of Technology, HCMC, Vietnam * Giovanni Tummarello, Deri, Galway, Ireland * Michael Witbrock, Cycorp, USA and Cycorp Europe, Slovenia * Yong Yu, Apex Lab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China * Ilya Zaihrayeu, University of Trento, Italy * Valentin Zacharias, FZI, Germany * Hugo Zaragoza, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain ----------------------------------- Submission and Proceedings ----------------------------------- For submissions, the following rules apply: 1. Full technical papers: up to 10 pages in ACM format 2. Short position or demo papers: up to 5 pages in ACM format 3. Short Entity Search System description: up to 5 pages in ACM format For the Entity Search Track at SemSearch, participants can choose to submit a short system description that will considered for the proceeding. This submission is optional and also, is not required to contain experimental results. Results together with the system description can be submitted at a later stage. However, the system description can no longer be considered for the proceeding in this case. Submissions must be formatted using the WWW2010 templates available at http://www2010.org/www/authors/submissions/formatting-guidelines/. Submissions will be peer reviewed by three independent reviewers. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and included in the workshop proceedings. We will pursue a journal special issue with the topics of the workshop if we receive an appropriate number of high-quality submissions. Details on the proceedings and camera-ready formatting will be announced upon notification of the authors. Please use the following link to the submission system to submit your paper: Easychair Submission System for SemSearch10 at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semsearch10 ----------------------------------- Important Dates ----------------------------------- Deadline for standard paper submissions: March 6th, 2010 (12.00 AM, GMT) Optional deadline for Entity Search system description submissions: April 10th, 2010 (12.00 AM, GMT) Notification of acceptance standard papers: March 28th, 2010 Notification of acceptance for Entity Search system papers: April 18th, 2010 Camera-ready versions of standard papers: April 6nd, 2010 Camera-ready versions of Entity Search system papers: April 24th, 2010 WWW'10 Conference: April 26th-30th, 2010 Workshop Day: April 26th, 2010 ----------------------------------- Contact ----------------------------------- For news and discussions related to SemSearch and Evaluation at SemSearch, please register at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/semsearcheval/. The organization committee can be reached using contact data available at their web pages (or semsearch10@easychair.org). See website http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/semsearch10.
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