- From: Vanessa Lopez <vanlopez@ie.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:16:06 +0100
- To: public-lod@w3.org
[Apologies if you receive this more than once] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Tutorial on "Searching the City of Knowledge: Challenges and Recent Developments" Held in conjunction with the SIGIR 2013 Conference Sunday 28th July 2013 URL: http://www.dublinked.ie/?q=searchinginthecityofknowledgetutorial ============================================================================ AIM AND SCOPE --------------- Majority of people reside in cities (estimated over 70% of the world population by 2050) - a situation posing several challenges for municipalities, governments, citizens and businesses. In an urbanizing world, cities comprise of different systems ranging from transport, water, and electricity data management infrastructures to social, communication and service networks. The data emerging from these systems is a precious resource to make cities more intelligent, innovative and integrated beyond the boundaries of isolated applications. Today, beyond the classical Web resources (e.g. documents) large amounts of data are retrieved from sensors, mobile devices, social network messages, governmental applications, or service networks. In such a diversity of information, answering the specific information needs of the city inhabitants requires a more holistic IR and data management techniques, capable of harnessing different types of city data and turned it into actionable insights to answer the different queries of the people. In fact, existing local search engines such asGoogle+ Local, Yahoo! Local, ask.com's AskCity or CitySearch already take an initial step to answer some vital information needs such as "What are the good places to eat in Dublin city center?" or "Are there any kid-friendly cafes in South Dublin?". However, when it comes to answering more complex user information needs such as "What are the traffic conditions on M50 motorway now?" or "Is there a park with a skate ramp close to a shopping center in South Dublin?", the existing local search engines have certain limitations in terms of understanding these complex needs and also capturing the required information from different city data sources in response to them. This tutorial will present the deep insights, novel challenges, opportunities and techniques to make city data queryable in three parts: In the first part, we will present what "searching the city data" actually means beyond the current approaches (e.g. local search engines) to answer the possible (even complex) information needs of the city inhabitants and how they differ from searching the Web or enterprise data. In addition, we will give examples of public (and private) sources of information available in different cities of the World today that are consumable by the information seekers. In the second part of the tutorial, we will present the requirements and techniques to manage and uplift the raw city data into a discoverable, connected and meaningful structure to be harnessed by the search engines. In the final part, we will present and give details about how common IR techniques and existing models can be employed and adapted to retrieve the relevant information for the users, and how the relevancy can be improved by considering different city-specific aspects in different stages of search process - e.g. indexing, annotating, linking, query, retrieval, recommending and ranking. Our tutorial will take place on Sunday 28th July 2013, in conjunction with SIGIR 2013 in Dublin, Ireland. For further information on the tutorial, please visit our website at: http://www.dublinked.ie/?q=searchinginthecityofknowledgetutorial PRESENTERS ----------------- * Veli Bicer, IBM Research - Smarter Cities Technology Centre, Dublin, Ireland * Vanessa Lopez, IBM Research - Smarter Cities Technology Centre, Dublin, Ireland CONTACT ----------------- Any questions, comments or suggestions should be directed to velibice@ie.ibm.com or vanlopez@ie.ibm.com Vanessa Lopez Ph.D. Research Engineer IBM Research - Ireland --- IBM Product Distribution Limited ( PDL) Registered in Ireland with number 92815 Registered Office : Oldbrook House, 24 -32 Pembroke Road, Ballsbridge Dublin 4
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