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From: Kevin Koidl <kevin.koidl@scss.tcd.ie>
Date: Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 5:31 PM
Subject: 1st CfP: UMAP Workshop on Comparative Evaluation in User Modeling,
Adaptation and Personalization (EvalUMAP 2016)
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======================== CALL FOR PAPERS =======================

EvalUMAP 2016 Workshop

Towards comparative evaluation in user modeling, adaptation and
personalization

http://evalumap.adaptcentre.ie/

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To be held in conjunction with the 24th Conference on User Modeling,
Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2016, July 2016, Halifax, Canada

Call for Papers
Submission deadline: May 7, 2016

Research in the areas of User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization
faces a number of significant scientific challenges. One of the most
significant of these challenges is the issue of comparative evaluation. It
has always been difficult to rigorously compare different approaches to
personalization, as the function of the resulting systems is, by their
nature, heavily influenced by the behaviour of the users involved in
trialling the systems. To-date this topic has received relatively little
attention. Developing comparative evaluations in this space would be a huge
advancement as it would enable shared comparison across research, which
to-date has been very limited.
Taking inspiration from communities such as Information Retrieval and
Machine Translation, the first EvalUMAP Workshop seeks to propose and
design one or more shared tasks to support the comparative evaluation of
approaches to User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization. The workshop
will solicit presentations from key practitioners in the field on
innovative approaches to evaluating such systems and will provide a forum
to start scoping and designing tasks for the following year. The resulting
shared task(s) will be accompanied by appropriate models, content,
metadata, user behaviours, etc., and can be used to comprehensively compare
how different approaches and systems perform. In addition, a number of
metrics and observations will be outlined, that participants would be
expected to perform in order to facilitate comparison.

The planned outcome of the EvalUMAP Workshop 2016 will be a roadmap to
develop initial shared task(s) that will be published well in advance of
UMAP 2017, giving an opportunity for participants to test and tune their
systems and complete the task in order for comparative results and
associated publications to be prepared for and presented at the EvalUMAP
Workshop in 2017. We envision that EvalUMAP 2017 will be the starting point
for an annual comparative evaluation challenge at future UMAP conferences.

*Workshop topics are evaluation focused and include, but are not limited
to:*

- Understanding UMAP evaluation
- Defining tasks and scenarios for evaluation purposes
- Identification of potential corpora for shared tasks
- Interesting target tasks and explanations of their importance
- Critiques or comparisons of existing evaluation metrics and methods
- How we can combine existing evaluation metrics and methods
- Improving on previously suggested metrics and methods
- Reducing the cost of evaluation
- Proposal of new evaluation metrics and methods
- Technical challenges associated with design and implementation
- Privacy, Ethics and security issues
- Legal and ethical issues
- Workshop format:

This will be an interactive workshop structured to encourage group
discussion and active collaboration among attendees. The workshop will
feature a keynote talk, lightning round presentation session for position
papers, multiple (parallel) breakout sessions, and a final discussion
session to wrap up the event.

*Paper Submissions*

The workshop is now accepting paper submissions. Position papers (max 2
pages) describing approaches or ideas / challenges on the topics of the
workshop are invited. Submissions should be in ACM SIGS format. LaTeX and
Word templates are available at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates.

Papers should be submitted in pdf format through the EasyChair system
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evalumap2016 no later than midnight
Pacific Daylight Time on May 7, 2016. Submissions will be reviewed by
members of the workshop program committee. Accepted papers will be included
in the UMAP 2016 EvalUMAP workshop proceedings, which will be indexed with
CEUR. Authors of select papers may be invited to contribute to a journal
publication which describes the outcomes of the workshop.

*Important Dates*

May 7, 2016: Deadline for paper submission (midnight Pacific Daylight Time)
June 1, 2016: Notification to authors
June 7, 2016: Camera-ready paper due
July, 2016: Full-day Workshop during UMAP

*Further Information*

Further information is available on the workshop website at
http://evalumap.adaptcentre.ie/ or by emailing the workshop organizers at
evalumap@adaptcentre.ie.

*Workshop Organizers*

Owen Conlan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Liadh Kelly, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Kevin Koidl, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Séamus Lawless, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Killian Levacher, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Athanasios Staikopoulos, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland