[CfP] PROFILES & DATA:SEARCH @ TheWebConf 2018: International Workshop on Profiling and Searching Data on the Web

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Call For Papers

PROFILES & DATA:SEARCH - International Workshop on Profiling and Searching
Data on the Web

In conjunction with TheWebConf 2018

24 April 2018, Lyon, France

https://profiles-datasearch.github.io/2018/


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PROFILES & DATA:SEARCH Overview

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The web of data has seen tremendous growth recently. New forms of
structured data have emerged in the form of web markup, such as schema.org,
and a large amount of data in web tables. Considering these rich,
heterogeneous and evolving data sources which cover a wide variety of
domains, the exploitation of web data becomes increasingly important in the
context of various applications, including (federated) search, question
answering and fact verification.

The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners interested in the development of data search techniques, data
profiling, and dataset retrieval on the web. This includes looking at the
specifics of data-centric information seeking behaviour, understanding
interaction challenges in data search on the web, and analysing the
cognitive processes involved in the consumption of structured data by
users. At the same time we aim to discuss technologies addressing data
search – including semantics, information retrieval for web data (ranking
algorithms and indexing), in particular in the context of decentralised and
distributed systems, such as the web. We are interested in approaches to
analyse, characterise and discover data sources. We want to facilitate a
discussion around data search across formats and domain-specific
applications.

We envision the workshop as a forum for researchers and practitioners to
come together and discuss common challenges and identify synergies for
joint initiatives. We welcome contributions describing technical
approaches, as well as those related to Human Computer Interaction research
in data discovery, profiling and retrieval.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST

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PROFILES & DATA:SEARCH ’18 will seek application-oriented papers, as well
as more theoretical papers and position papers. The workshop proposes a
multidisciplinary discussion on the following themes, with a focus on RDF,
CSV, JSON and other structured and semi-structured datasets:

1. Search

Dataset retrieval

Search results presentation for datasets
Semantic dataset search

Evaluation of dataset search tools and algorithms

Decentralised and distributed architectures and algorithms in data search

Fusing, cleaning, ranking and refining dataset search results

Approaches to personalisation in dataset search
Scalability and performance of distributed data queries

Query routing taking into account relevance, quality and profiles of
distributed datasets

2. Profiling

Dataset profile representation (vocabularies, schemas)

Profiling and assessment of novel forms of entity-centric web data

Data summarisation

Data quality analysis for query routing

Novel applications using dataset profiles
Topic profiling of datasets
Dataset indexing and profiling approaches

3. Human data interaction

Information seeking behaviour for data

User modeling for data search

Analysing behavioral traces during data search

Usability of data portals and data discovery tools

Data search results presentation to support sense making

We are interested in contributions using a variety of methods. This can
include, for example, user studies, lab experiments, system based
evaluation, but also experiments using gamification and crowdsourcing.

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND PROCEEDINGS

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We welcome the following types of contributions:

We encourage full papers (8 pages), short papers (4 pages) as well as
position papers (2 pages). All submissions must be written in English and
must be formatted according to the ACM format. The  proceedings of the
workshop will be included in the companion proceedings of The WebConf2018.
Each submission will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the PC. Papers
will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical
content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. Please submit your
contributions electronically in PDF format via the Easychair system:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=profiles-datasearch2018

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IMPORTANT DATES

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Workshop paper submissions due: 24 January 2018

Workshop paper notifications sent: 14 February 2018

Camera-ready copies due: 01 March 2018

PROFILES & DATA:SEARCH Workshop: 24 April 2018

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WORKSHOP ORGANISERS

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Laura Koesten, University of Southampton/The Open Data Institute, UK

Elena Demidova, L3S Research Center, Germany

Vadim Savenkov, Vienna University of Economics and Business, AT

John Breslin, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUI Galway, Ireland

Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ES

Stefan Dietze, L3S Research Center, Germany

Elena Simperl, University of Southampton, UK

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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

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Charlie Abela (University of Malta)
Alessandro Adamou (The Insight Centre, Ireland)
Marco Antonio Casanova (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil)
Philipp Cimiano (Bielefeld University, Germany)
Enrico Daga (The Open University, UK)
Ruslan Fayzrakhmanov (University of Oxford, UK)
Max Froumentin (Government Digital Service, UK)
Simon Gottschalk (L3S Research Center, Germany)
Michael Gubanov (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
Peter Haase (metaphacts, Germany)
Tom Heath (Arup, UK)
Luis-Daniel Ibáñez (University of Southampton, UK)
Emilia Kacprzak (The Open Data Institute, UK)
Eva Méndez (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain)
Stefano Modafferi (University of Southampton, UK)
Dmitry Mouromtsev (ITMO University, Russia)
Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo (University of Paderborn, Germany)
Natalya Noy (Google, USA)
Andreas Nuernberger (Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany)
Bernardo Pereira Nunes (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil)
Axel Polleres (Vienna University of Economics and Business - WU, Austria)
Muhammad Saleem (University Of Leizpig, Germany)
Emanuel Sallinger (University of Oxford, UK)
Arno Scharl (Modul University, Austria)
Nicolas Tempelmeier (L3S Research Center, Germany)
Thanassis Tiropanis (University of Southampton, UK)
Konstantin Todorov (LIRMM / University of Montpellier, France)
Nicolas Torzec (Yahoo, USA)
Raquel Trillo-Lado (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)
Jürgen Umbrich (Vienna University of Economics and Business - WU, Austria)
Ran Yu (L3S Research Center, Germany)

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Best regards,

*Laura Koesten*

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