Second Call for Papers Natural-Language Interfaces Workshop @ ISWC 2014

=== Apologies for cross-postings ===

     Natural Language Interfaces for Web of Data
     Workshop at ISWC 2014
     October 19th or 20th
     Riva del Garda, Trentino, Italy
     **Best Paper Award** sponsored by the ExoBrain WiseKB project 
(http://exobrain.kr/twoconsortium).

     Workshop homepage: http://www.nliwod.org
     ISWC homepage: http://iswc2014.semanticweb.org

Important Dates
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* Submission date: July 7th, 2014
* Author notifications: July 30th, 2014
* Camera-ready proceedings: August 20th, 2014
* Workshop: October 19th or 20th, 2014

Overview
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While the amount of Linked Open Data (LOD) increases rapidly, it is 
still used mostly by Semantic Web experts. There are two main obstacles 
to making the billions of RDF triples already available accessible for 
common Web users: (1) the need to learn the query language SPARQL, and 
(2) the need to know the schemas underlying the datasets. Approaches to 
ease the acess to the Web of Data include graphical query interfaces, 
agent-based systems, and natural language interfaces. Amongst them, 
natural language interfaces are receiving an increasing interest due to 
its high expressive power and low cost for educational purposes. Recent 
progresses in speech recognition technologies (e.g., Siri and Google 
Voice) also demonstrate the usefulness of a natural language interface. 
The goal of this workshop is to bring together experts on the use of 
natural-language interfaces (NLI) for accessing the Web of Data. This 
includes amongst others experts on question answering, graphical query 
interfaces, lexicon generation, information extraction, and 
natural-language generation. Consequently, the topics of interest 
include but are not limited to:

* Natural language query parsing
* Natural language dialog systems
* Term matching and entity disambiguation
* Indexing
* Query template generation
* Query pattern generation
* SPARQL query generation
* Discovery of Linked Data sources
* Endpoint profiling
* Dealing with data and schema heterogeneity
* Answer aggregation
* Answer rendering
* Providing justifications of answers and conveying trust
* Knowledge base design for QA
* Language resources (data & open source software) for QA
* Reasoning for QA
* Natural Language querying of RDF exposed as linked data
* Natural Language querying of Web Services
* User feedback and interaction

Submission Instructions
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NLIWoD 2014 solicits the submission of original research papers in two 
types:
* Full paper submissions (up to 16 pages) must describe substantial and 
original work.
* Short paper submissions (up to 8 pages) must describe an original work 
which may present a small, focused contribution, a work in progress, or 
an interesting application case.

All submissions must be in English and in PDF formatted the style of the 
Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science 
(LNCS). For details on the LNCS style, see Springer's Author 
Instructions. All papers are to be submitted via EasyChair at 
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nliwod2014. All submissions 
will be peer-reviewed by the Program Committee of the workshop. 
Submissions do not need to be anonymous.

Received on Monday, 16 June 2014 17:46:09 UTC