- From: Thanh Tran <tran.du.th@googlemail.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:34:57 +0100
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[CFP] SEMSEARCH'11: Final Call for Papers for Semantic Search 2011 Workshop, located at the WWW Conference 2011 Hi all, we are happy to announce that there will be a 4th edition of the Semantic Search workshop at WWW2011 in Hyderabad, India. Semantic Search has attracted much interests, both from industry and academia. After the success of the first three workshops, we decided to bring the community together and discuss hot topics. 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. For the last workshop, we provided guidelines and support for evaluating entity search approaches, a major topic of semantic search. This year, we plan to extend this evaluation benchmark to consider other tasks so please check out the homepage for news concerning this issue. The call for papers and more details can be found below. We are looking forward to see you in at SemSearch11. 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. (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) =================================== 1st Call for Papers SEMSEARCH11 Fourth Semantic Search Workshop SemSearch11 March 29, 2011, Hyderabad, India Homepage: http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/semsearch11 Submission deadline for full papers: February 26th, 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 ----------------------------------- 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 * Pablo Castells, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain * Philipp Cimiano, Semantic Computing Group, Bielefeld University, Germany * Gong Cheng, Nanjing University, China * Mathieu d'Aquin, KMI, Open University, England * Miriam Fernandez, KMI, Open University, England * Blaz Fortuna, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia * Norbert Fuhr, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany * Lise Getoor, University Maryland, 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 * Aidan Hogan, DERI, Galway, Ireland * Guenter Ladwig, Institute AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany * Axel Polleres, Deri, Galway, Ireland * Yuzhong Qu, Nanjing University, China * Danh Lephuoc, Deri, Galway, Ireland * Daniel Schwabe, Departamento de Informática, Brazil * Sergej Sizov, University of Koblenz-Landau, 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 * Yong Yu, Apex Lab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China * Ilya Zaihrayeu, University of Trento, Italy * 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 Submissions must be formatted using the WWW2011 templates. 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 SemSearch11 at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semsearch11 ----------------------------------- Important Dates ----------------------------------- Deadline for submissions: February 26th, 2011 (12.00 AM, GMT) Notification of acceptance: March 6th, 2011 Camera-ready versions: March 16th, 2011 WWW'11 Conference: March 28th - April 1st, 2011 Workshop Day: March 29th, 2011 ----------------------------------- Contact ----------------------------------- The organization committee can be reached using contact data available at their web pages. Workshop website at http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/semsearch11.
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