[CfP] ISWC 2019 - Natural Language Interfaces for the Web of Data workshop 2019

5th International Workshop on Natural Language Interfaces for Web of Data (NLIWOD) 

# Website: http://2019.nliwod.org/ 
# Date: October 26-27, 2019, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

The primary goal of this workshop is to bring together experts on the use of natural-language interfaces (NLI) for answering questions especially over the Web of Data. 

# Topics 
The workshop topics include but are not limited to
 • NEW focus! Conversation Information Retrieval
 • NEW focus! Combining Deep Learning and Knowledge Graphs for NL interfaces
 • NEW focus! NL interfaces for the whole LOD cloud
 • NEW focus! Industrial NL interfaces
 • Focus! Keyword search on structured data
 • Focus! Dialogue systems
 • Focus! Personal assistants
 • Focus! Chatbots (over Linked Data)
 • Focus! Question answering over Linked Data
 • Self-wiring systems natural language systems
 • Benchmarking natural language interfaces
 • Term matching and entity disambiguation
 • Browsing Linked Data
 • Indexing for question answering
 • SPARQL query pattern generation
 • Schema-agnostic query generation
 • Discovery of Linked Data sources
 • Dealing with data and schema heterogeneity NL interfaces
 • Providing justifications of answers and conveying trust
 • Knowledge base design for question answering
 • Language resources and NLP software for question answering
 • Reasoning for question answering
 • Natural language querying of Web services
 • User feedback and interaction

# Important dates
 • Workshop papers due: June 28, 2019
 • Notification of accepted workshop papers: July 24, 2019
 • Materials for the USB sticks: September 2, 2019
 • Publication of workshop proceedings: After ISWC
 • Workshops held: October 26-27, 2019

# Submission Instructions

NLIWOD solicits the submission of original research articles in two types:
 • Full articles submissions (up to 16 pages) must describe substantial and original work.
 • Short articles 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.
 • Demos and posters presentations (5 pages)
 • All submissions must be in English and in 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 articles are to be submitted via EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nliwod5 
 • All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the Program Committee of the workshop. 
 • Submissions do not need to be anonymous.
We encourage HTML submissions but are currently bound to the ISWC proceedings decision, which is still open and thus demands a PDF of your HTML page as well which needs to be formatted according to LNCS. For useful information about HTML submissions, please see https://2018.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers/ .

# Organizers

 • Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, KR)
 • Jin-Dong Kim (Database Center for Life Science, ROIS, JP)
 • Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo (Paderborn University, DE)
 • Ricardo Usbeck  (Fraunhofer IAIS, DE)

# Contact Information
In case of questions, please contact nliwod5@easychair.org 


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Dr. Ricardo Usbeck
Lead Research Engineer Conversational AI
Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS
Schloss Birlinghoven, 53757 Sankt Augustin, Germany
Phone +49 351 477 222 91 
ricardo.usbeck@iais.fraunhofer.de
www.iais.fraunhofer.de