Final Call for Papers: Interacting with Linked Data

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                  FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
             Interacting with Linked Data (ILD)

http://www.sc.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/ild

Workshop co-located with the Extended Semantic Web Conference 2012
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We welcome the submission of research papers on all aspects of 
interaction with Linked Data, system descriptions of systems 
participating in the open challenge, and short papers on preliminary 
research.

The following topics are of special interest:

- Question answering and natural language interfaces to Linked Data
- HCI and Linked Data
- Faceted browsing and exploration
- New interaction metaphors for Linked Data
- Multimodal interfaces to Linked Data
- Disambiguation and inferencing across multiple sources and domains
- Natural language generation
- Discovery on the fly of relevant Linked Data sources
- Efficiency and performance aspects
- Dealing with data and schema heterogeneity
- Summarization and aggregation
- Providing justifications of answers and conveying trust
- Personalization in accessing Linked Data
- User feedback and interaction
- Habitability and usability aspects


* Important Dates *

Deadline for workshop papers: March 4
Notification of acceptance: April 1
Deadline for camera-ready version: April 15


* Submission details *

Research papers should not exceed 12 pages in length (excluding 
references), system descriptions should not exceed 8 pages (excluding 
references). Short papers describing preliminary research or positions 
can also be submitted and should not exceed 4 pages in length. All 
papers have to be submitted in PDF format; camera-ready versions must be 
formatted according to the LNCS guidelines.

Submission and reviewing will be via EasyChair: 
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ild2012


* Open Challenge *

The workshop is accompanied by an open challenge on Question Answering 
over Linked Data, which is currently running. For training we provide 
two datasets (DBpedia and MusicBrainz), together with 100 annotated 
questions each. The test phase will start on March 25. For more 
information please consult the workshop website or subscribe to the ILD 
mailing list: 
https://lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/cit-ec/mailman/listinfo/ild


* Organizing Committee *

Christina Unger (CITEC, Bielefeld University)
Philipp Cimiano (CITEC, Bielefeld University)
Vanessa Lopez (IBM Research, Dublin)
Enrico Motta (KMi, Open University)
Paul Buitelaar (DERI, National University of Ireland Galway)
Richard Cyganiak (DERI, National University of Ireland Galway)

Received on Thursday, 23 February 2012 17:24:35 UTC