Call for Participation: Web of Linked Entities (WoLE2012) @ ISWC2012

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Web of Linked Entities (WoLE2012)
- http://wole2012.eurecom.fr

In conjunction with the 11th International Semantic Web Conference 
(ISWC2012), Boston, November 11th 2012


OVERVIEW
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The WoLE 2012 workshop envisions the Semantic Web as a Web of Linked 
Entities (WoLE), which transparently connects the World Wide Web (WWW) 
and the Giant Global Graph (GGG) using methods from Information 
Retrieval (IR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). The focus of this 
workshop is to reconcile the communities of Information Retrieval, 
Semantic Web and NLP. The primary goal is to strengthen research 
techniques that provide access to textual information published on the 
Web to further improve the adoption of Semantic Web technology.


PROGRAMME
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14:00 – 14.10 Workshop Introduction

14:10 – 14.40 Keynote speaker: Fabian M. Suchanek

Paper Session 1 -
14:40 - 14:50 : Bringing Newsworthiness into the 21st Century, Tom De 
Nies, Evelien D'Heer, Sam Coppens, Davy Van Deursen, Erik Mannens, Steve 
Paulussen and Rik Van De Walle
14:50 - 15:00 : Underspecified Scientific Claims in Nanopublications, 
Tobias Kuhn
15:00 - 15:10 : Facetted Browsing on Extracted Fusion Tables Data for 
Digital Cities, Gianluca Quercini, Jochen Setz, Daniel Sonntag and 
Chantal Reynaud
15:10 - 15:20 : Discovering Names in Linked Data Datasets, Bianca De O. 
Pereira, João Carlos Pereira Da Silva and Adriana Vivacqua
15:20 - 15:30 : Enabling Russian National Knowledge with Linked Open 
Data (LOD Russia), Daniel Hladky, Grigory Drobyazko and Victor Klintsov

15.30 – 16.00 Coffee Break

Paper Session 2 -
16:00 - 16:20 : Classifying the Wikipedia Articles into the OpenCyc 
Taxonomy , Aleksander Pohl
16:20 - 16:40 : A Semantic Best-Effort Approach for Extracting 
Structured Discourse Graphs from Wikipedia, Andre Freitas, Danilo 
Carvalho, João Carlos Silva, Sean Oriain and Edward Curry
16:40 - 17:00 : Entity Extraction: From Unstructured Text to DBpedia RDF 
triples, Peter Exner and Pierre Nugues
17:00 - 17:20 : Can entities be friends?, Bernardo Pereira Nunes, 
Ricardo Kawase, Stefan Dietze, Davide Taibi, Marco Antonio Casanova and 
Wolfgang Nejdl
17:20 - 17:40 : Query Segmentation and Resource Disambiguation 
Leveraging Background Knowledge, Saeedeh Shekarpour, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga 
Ngomo and Soren Auer
17:40 - 18:00 : Finding Good URLs: Aligning Entities in Knowledge Bases 
with Public Web Document Representations, Christian Hachenberg and 
Thomas Gottron

18:00 - 18:10 : closing remarks


KEYNOTE
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Fabian M. Suchanek – “From Big Data to Good Data”

Abstract - Recent years have seen great progress in making data 
available in structured form on the Web. The Linked Open data 
initiative, notably, as well as advances in information extraction,
have contributed to larger and larger amounts of knowledge available on 
the Semantic Web. But is what we are all doing really good? In this 
talk, I will go beyond the quantity of the data, and look at the quality 
instead. I will discuss challenges and open issues on the path from "big 
data" to "good data".


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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* Caroline Barriere, Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montréal, DETI, 
Canada
* Frédéric Béchet, Université d'Aix-Marseille, LIF, France
* Andreas Blumauer, Semantic Web Company
* Paul Buitelaar, DERI/National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
* Philipp Cimiano, CITEC, University of Bielefeld, Germany
* Eric de la Clergerie, INRIA, France
* Christian Dirschl, Wolters Kluwer, Germany
* Benoit Favre, Université d'Aix-Marseille, LIF, France
* Michel Gagnon, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
* Daniel Gerber, AKSW, Universität Leipzig, Germany
* Claudio Giuliano, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
* Jiafeng Guo, Institute of Computing Technology, China
* Daniel Hladky, Ontos AG
* Guy Lapalme, Université de Montréal, RALI-DIRO, Canada
* Paul McNamee, Johns Hopkins University, USA
* Marie-Jean Meurs, Semantic Software Lab, CSFG, Concordia University, 
Canada
* Meenakshi Nagarajan, IBM Research, USA
* Axel-C Ngonga Ngomo, AKSW, Universität Leipzig, Germany
* Cartic Ramakrishnan, ISI, University of Southern California, USA
* Ganesh Ramakrishnan, IIT Bombay, India
* Harald Sack, HPI, University of Potsdam, Germany
* Benoit Sagot, INRIA, France
* Felix Sasaki, DFKI-LT, German Research Center for Artificial 
Intelligence (DFKI), Germany
* Tomas Steiner, Universitat de Catalunya, Spain
* Fabian Suchanek, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, 
Germany
* Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague
* Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan , Wright State University, USA
* Andraz Tori, Zemanta
* Ruben Verborgh, IBBT, Ghent University, Belgium
* Mateja Verlic, Zemanta
* Wouter Weerkamp, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
* Gerhard Weikum, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany
* René Witte, University of Montréal, Canada
* Feiyu Xu, DFKI-LT, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence 
(DFKI), Germany


WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
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* Giuseppe Rizzo, EURECOM, France
* Pablo N. Mendes, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany,
* Eric Charton, Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montréal, Canada
* Sebastian Hellmann, Universität Leipzig, Germany
* Aditya Kalyanpur, IBM, USA


For further questions please contact the organisers via 
wole2012@easychair.org.

Received on Tuesday, 16 October 2012 07:11:29 UTC