CFP - SumPre 2016 - 2nd International Workshop on Summarizing and Presenting Entities and Ontologies

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Call for Papers
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2nd International Workshop on Summarizing and Presenting Entities and 
Ontologies (SumPre 2016)
co-located with the 13th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2016)


http://km.aifb.kit.edu/ws/sumpre2016/
Anissaras, Greece, May 30, 2016


OBJECTIVES
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  The Open Data and Semantic Web efforts have been promoting and 
facilitating the publication and integration of data from diverse 
sources, giving rise to a large and increasing volume of 
machine-readable data available on the Web. Even though such raw data 
and its ontological schema enable the interoperability among Web 
applications, problems arise when exposing them to human users, as to 
how to present such large-scale, structured data in a user-friendly 
manner. To meet the challenge, we invite research contributions on all 
aspects of ranking, summarization, visualization, and exploration of 
entities, ontologies, knowledge bases and Web Data, with a particular 
focus on their summarization and presentation. We also welcome 
submissions on novel applications of these techniques. The workshop is 
expected to be a forum that brings together researchers and 
practitioners from both academia and industry in the areas of Semantic 
Web, information retrieval, data engineering, and human-computer 
interaction, to discuss high-quality research and emerging applications, 
to exchange ideas and experience, and to identify new opportunities for 
collaboration.

  TOPICS OF INTEREST
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  Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:


* Ranking and summarizing entities, ontologies, knowledge bases and Web data
  - Task and context-specific entity summarization
   - Summarization of graphs and knowledge bases
   - Ontology ranking, summarization, modularization, and search
   - Fact ranking, retrieval, and question answering over the Web
   - Evaluation of ranking and summarization methods
  * Visualizing and exploring entities, ontologies, knowledge bases and 
Web data
   - Verbalizing and visualizing entity-centric data
   - Ontology visualization and exploration
   - Navigation, faceted browsing, and exploratory search
   - Entity/link/ontology recommendation
   - Novel presentation methods and interaction paradigms for ontologies 
and Web data
   - User studies with visualization and exploration methods
  * Novel applications of the above techniques


ENTITY SUMMARIZATION EVALUATION CAMPAIGN
 
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We are organizing a campaign this year for entity summarization and fact 
ranking. More details about this event and the dataset will be revealed 
soon.

  IMPORTANT DATES
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  * Submission deadline: March 4, 2016 (23:59 Hawaii Time)
  * Notifications: April 1, 2016 (23:59 Hawaii Time)
  * Camera-ready version: April 15, 2016 (23:59 Hawaii Time)
  * Workshop day: May 30, 2016

  SUBMISSIONS
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  We seek the following kinds of submissions:
  * Full research papers: up to 12 pages in Springer LNCS format
  * Short research/in-use/demo papers: up to 5 pages in Springer LNCS format
  * Pitch notes (novel/original ideas): up to 2 pages in Springer LNCS 
format

  Papers should be submitted in EasyChair:
  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sumpre2016

  Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and included in a 
volume of the CEUR workshop proceedings. Best papers will be included in 
the supplementary proceedings of ESWC 2016. At least one author of each 
accepted paper is expected to register for the workshop and attend to 
present the paper.

  ORGANIZERS
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  * Gong Cheng, Nanjing University, China
  * Kalpa Gunaratna, (Kno.e.sis) Wright State University, USA
  * Andreas Thalhammer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany