- From: Yusra Ibrahim <yibrahim@mpi-inf.mpg.de>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 18:53:49 +0200
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8th Workshop on
Exploiting Semantic Annotations for Information Retrieval (ESAIR’15)
in conjunction with CIKM 2015
CALL FOR PAPERS
http://www.esair.org/
23 October 2015, Melbourne, Australia
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IMPORTANT DATES
Regular paper submission: 9 July 2015
Special track for re-submissions of CIKM papers: 8 July 2015
Notification of acceptance: 23 July 2015
AiAT demo track submission: 24 July 2015
AiAT demo track acceptance: 31 July 2015
Camera ready: 7 August 2015
Workshop: 23 October 2015
OVERVIEW
The amount of structured content published on the Web has been growing
rapidly, making it possible to address increasingly complex information
access tasks. Recent years have witnessed the emergence of large scale
human-curated knowledge bases as well as a growing array of techniques
that identify or extract information automatically from unstructured and
semi-structured sources. Yet, the potential of rich document annotations
cannot be fully realized when information needs are expressed only by
short keyword queries. One main open research challenge, and
opportunity, remains on the users’ side: how to encourage and allow
searchers to articulate longer, semantically enriched queries? And,
assuming users’ would be willing to provide additional details, what
type of annotations would benefit retrieval systems the most?
The ESAIR workshop series aims to advance the general research agenda on
this core problem. The eighth edition of ESAIR, with a renewed set of
organizers, sets its focus on
applications. We invite presentations of prototype systems in a
dedicated “Annotations in Action” demo track, in addition to the regular
research and position paper contributions. The desired result of the
workshop is a roadmap and research agenda that guides academic efforts
and aligns them with industrial directions and developments.
SCOPE AND TOPICS
The Workshop will bring together researchers working with semantic
annotations, its use cases, its sources, its users, and its use in DB,
IR, KM, or Web research, and work together on a range of open questions:
By semantic annotations we refer to linguistic annotations (such as
named entities, semantic classes or roles, etc.) as well as user
annotations (such as micro-formats, RDF, tags, etc.). ESAIR’15 will
continue, with a new generation of organizers, on the path set by the
previous edition(s) of the workshop: clarifying the exact role of
semantic annotations in supporting complex search tasks.
Annotations come in a variety of flavors (named entities, temporal
information, geo-positional markers, semantic roles, sentiment, etc.)
and there is a growing repertoire of tools and techniques available for
extracting these annotations automatically from text. The question then
presents itself: what, if anything, is missing? We seek to answer this
question by focusing on applications that are rooted in specific,
real-world use cases; we also provide a number of such use cases, as
motivational examples.
Topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to:
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Applications and use cases
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What are use cases that make obvious the need for semantic
annotation of information?
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What tasks cannot be solved by traditional (bag-of-words)
retrieval approaches?
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Annotations
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What types of annotation are available and what is missing?
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Are there crucial differences between human and
machine-generated annotations?
o
How should we deal with the uncertainty of annotations?
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User interfaces and interaction
o
How to aid users in articulating powerful queries (beyond a few
keywords)?
o
How to present results and interact with users in an
intelligible way?
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Evaluation
o
How to evaluate semantic annotations (component-based vs.
end-to-end)?
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
We solicit/regular research papers/(4+ pages, with an expected mean of 6
pages),/position papers/(2+1 pages),/demo papers/(4 pages), and
resubmission of/CIKM-rejected papers/.
All submissions must be formatted according to the ACM SIG proceedings
format (option 2).
The reviewing process is single-blind, so submissions do not need to be
anonymized. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to
present their work at the workshop.
Please submit your paper through the submission website:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esair15
Regular and position papers
What’s a 2+1 page paper? We like short and focused contributions
highlighting your main point, claim, observation, finding, experiment,
project, etc, (roughly 2 pages of mainly text) but we also like clear
tables, graphs, and full citations (that’s the “+1″ page). So your
submission can up three pages, as long as max. 2 of them are narrative text.
* Submission deadline: July 9, 2015
* Acceptance notification: July 23, 2015
* Camera-ready version: 7 Aug, 2015
Demo papers
We invite researchers and practitioners to present their innovative
prototypes in a dedicated“Annotation in Action” demo track
<http://esair.org/annotations-in-action-track/>at the workshop. Demo
submissions must be based on an implemented system that pursues one or
more aspects relevant to the interest areas of the workshop. A Best
Demonstration Award, $500 USD and a certificate, sponsored by Google,
will be presented to the authors of the most outstanding demo at the
workshop.
* Submission deadline: July 24, 2015
* Acceptance notification: July 31, 2015
* Camera-ready version: 7 Aug, 2015
CIKM-rejected papers
Authors of papers submitted to the CIKM full and short paper tracks, but
not accepted for publication in the main CIKM conference as a result of
that reviewing process, are invited to submit their work for this
workshop. The complete text and all scores of all of the reviews
returned from the CIKM paper review process should be included, as an
appendix to the re-submitted paper. Those reviews will be taken in to
account when these papers are considered for workshop inclusion.
* Submission deadline: July 8, 2015
* Acceptance notification: July 23, 2015
* Camera-ready version: 7 Aug, 2015
ORGANIZERS
Krisztian Balog, University of Stavanger, Norway
Jeffrey Dalton, Google Research, USA
Antoine Doucet, University of La Rochelle, L3i Laboratory, France
Yusra Ibrahim, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany
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