[CFP] Special Issue on Knowledge Graphs and Information Retrieval

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***Call for Papers***

The Journal of Web Semantics invites submissions for a special issue on Knowledge Graphs and Information Retrieval.

Submission Due: 30th November 2021

There is a strong connection between Knowledge Graph (KG) and Information Retrieval (IR) research, but their communities (e.g., ISWC and SIGIR) have not been fully connected. Within the Semantic Web community, KGs are well known to be useful for IR, due to the use of KG in Google in 2012, helping its search engine to find the right things and get better summaries. Recently, there is an increased interest in KGs in the IR community too. Indeed, modern IR systems can benefit from KGs in many different ways. On the other hand, IR can be useful for KG related tasks too.
 
Topics for this special issue include but are not limited to:

* IR over KG
-- Retrieval and Ranking Models for KG
-- Entity and KG (Dataset) Search
-- Domain-Specific Search over KG
-- Question Answering and Conversational Search over KG
-- Entity and KG Summarization
-- KG Exploration, Recommendation, and Analytics
-- KG Crawling, Indexing, and Compression
-- Human Factors in IR over KG
-- Visualization of Retrieval Results over KG
* KG for IR
-- KG Construction for IR Tasks
-- KG-Driven Retrieval and Ranking Models
-- KG for Web Search
-- KG for Domain-Specific Search
-- KG-Enhanced Question Answering and Conversational Search
-- KG for Web Browsing and Recommendation
-- KG for User Modelling
-- Profiling the KG for various IR Tasks
-- Other KG-Enhanced IR Methods and Applications
* Application of KG+IR Methods
* Evaluation of KG+IR Systems

Types of Submission:

* Research papers describing well-identified scientific contributions which are thoroughly evaluated. Those papers are typically 15-20 pages long.
* System and Resource papers that focus on the description of systems or resources relevant to this special issue where the authors fully detail the design, construction, implementation and usage as well as demonstrate its usefulness. Those papers are expected to be 6-8 pages long.

Guest Editors:

* Zhifeng Bao, RMIT University
* Gong Cheng, Nanjing University
* Jeff Z. Pan, The University of Edinburgh

Importance Dates:

* Submission deadline: 30 Nov 2021
* Author notification (1st round): 17 Feb 2022
* Publication: Q3 2022

Submission System:

https://www.editorialmanager.com/jows/default.aspx
(Please select “VSI: KGIR” when reaching the Article Type selection.)

Author Guidelines:

https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-web-semantics/1570-8268/guide-for-authors