- From: Tran Thanh <Tran@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de>
- Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:58:33 +0100
- To: <public-lod@w3.org>
Call for PARTICIPATION Semantic Search Challenge 2011 (sponsored by Yahoo!) http://km.aifb.kit.edu/ws/semsearch11#challenge http://semsearch.yahoo.com (will go online within the next days). ====================================================== Fellow Researcher, Building on the success of previous year's Semantic Search evaluation, we call for participation in the Semantic Search Challenge 2011, a competition that requires participants to answer queries of varying complexity based on a set of structured data collected from the Web.This year's competition will consists of two tracks. Please refer to the call below for more details. The first "Entity Search Track" consists of queries that refer to one particular entity. The second "List Search Track" consists of complex queries with multiple possible answers. The winners of each track will receive a prize of $500 dollars (sponsored by Yahoo!). Please refer to the website for details. The results of the evaluation will be presented at the 4th International Semantic Search Workshop (SemSearch 2011), co-located with the World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2011) in Hyderabad, India. However, you don't need to attend the workshop to participate in the Challenge. For further news and discussions related to SemSearch 2011 and the Semantic Search Challenge, please register at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/semsearcheval/ We are looking forward to having you participate! Cheers, the Organizing CommitteeRoi Blanco (Yahoo! Research) Harry Halpin (University of Edinburgh) Daniel M. Herzig (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Peter Mika (Yahoo! Research) Henry S. Thompson (University of Edinburgh) Thanh Tran Duc (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) ----------------------------------- Important Dates ----------------------------------- Contest entry period starts: 12:00:00 AM PT on March 1, 2011 Contest entry period ends: 11:59:59 PM PT on March 15, 2011 WWW 2011 Conference: March 28 - April 1, 2011 SemSearch 2011 Workshop Day: March 29, 2011 ----------------------------------- Contact ----------------------------------- For news and discussions related to SemSearch and Evaluation at SemSearch, please register at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/semsearcheval/. See the website http://semsearch.yahoo.com for further details (will go online beginning next week, 21st February).
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