[CfP] 1st International Workshop on Semantic Methods for Events and Stories (SEMMES 2023)

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Semantic Methods for Events and Stories (SEMMES 2023) – Call for Papers

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Website: https://anr-kflow.github.io/semmes/ 
<https://anr-kflow.github.io/semmes/>


Workshop co-located with the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC)

Submission deadline: March 9th, 2023


Scope

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An important part of human history and knowledge is made of events, 
which can be aggregated and connected to create stories, be they real or 
fictional. These events as well as the stories created from them can 
typically be inherently complex, reflect societal or political stances 
and be perceived differently across the world population. The Semantic 
Web offers technologies and methods to represent these events and 
stories, as well as to interpret the knowledge encoded into graphs and 
use it for different applications, spanning from narrative understanding 
and generation to fact-checking.


The aim of our workshop on Semantic Methods for Events and Stories 
(SEMMES) is to offer an opportunity to discuss the challenges related to 
dealing with events and stories, and how we can use semantic methods to 
tackle them. We welcome approaches which combine data, methods and 
technologies coming from the Semantic Web with methods from other 
fields, including machine learning, narratology or information 
extraction. This workshop wants to bring together researchers working on 
complementary topics, in order to foster collaboration and sharing of 
expertise in the context of events and stories.


Topics

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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Ontologies and data models for representing events, event relations, 
and narratives;

- Event extraction, co-reference and linking;

- Event Relation extraction and linking (e.g. temporal, causal, modal 
relationships);

- Fake events detection and event verification;

- Event-centric question answering;

- Event information visualisation;

- Event-centric knowledge graphs and vocabularies;

- Completion of event-centric knowledge graphs and reasoning;

- Event summarisation;

- Automatic narrative understanding and generation;

- Storytelling Applications/Demos.


Submission Guidelines

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We welcome the following types of contributions.


- Long papers (10-15 pages including references)

- Short papers (5-9 pages including references)


We welcome any types of research, resource and application papers, as 
well as (short only) demonstration submissions.


Submissions must be written in English and formatted using the template 
for submissions to CEUR Workshop Proceedings 
(https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw 
<https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw>) 
(one column).


All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via 
EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semmes2023 
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semmes2023>.

Each accepted paper needs to be presented by one of the authors, who 
agrees to register and participate in SEMMES.


Important Dates***************

- Submission deadline: March 9th, 2023

- Notifications: April 13th, 2023

- Camera-ready version: April 20th, 2023

- Workshop day: May 29th, 2023 (afternoon)

All deadlines are 23:59 anywhere on earth (UTC-12).

Proceedings

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The complete set of papers will be published with the CEUR Workshop 
Proceedings (http://CEUR-WS.org <http://ceur-ws.org>), listed by the DBLP.