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2nd Call for Papers
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1st Joint Intl. Workshop on
Entity-oriented and Semantic Search (JIWES)
August 16th, Portland, Oregon, USA
Workshop at ACM SIGIR 2012 Conference
http://km.aifb.kit.edu/ws/jiwes2012/
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WORKSHOP THEME
The workshop encompasses various tasks and approaches that go beyond the
traditional bag-of-words paradigm and incorporate an explicit representation of
the semantics behind information needs and relevant content. This kind of
semantic search, based on concepts, entities and relations between them, has
attracted attention both from industry and from the research community. The
workshop aims to bring people from different communities (IR, SW, DB, NLP, HCI,
etc.) and backgrounds (both academics and industry practitioners) together, to
identify and discuss emerging trends, tasks and challenges. This joint workshop
is a sequel of the Entity-oriented and Semantic Search Workshop series held at
different conferences in previous years.
TOPICS
The workshop aims to gather all works that discuss entities along three
dimensions: tasks, data and interaction. Tasks include entity search (search
for entities or documents representing entities), relation search (search
entities related to an entity), as well as more complex tasks (involving
multiple entities---spatiotemporal relations inclusive---, involving multiple
queries). In the data dimension, we consider (web/enterprise) documents
(possibly annotated with entities/relations), LOD, as well as user generated
content. The interaction dimension gives room for research into user
interaction with entities, also considering how to display results, as well as
whether to aggregate over multiple entities to construct entity profiles.
The workshop especially encourages submissions on the interface of IR and other
disciplines, such as the Semantic Web, Databases, Computational Linguistics,
Data Mining, Machine Learning, or Human Computer Interaction. Examples of topic
of interest include (but are not limited to):
Data acquisition and processing (crawling, storage, and indexing)
Dealing with noisy, vague and incomplete data
Integration of data from multiple sources
Identification, resolution, and representation of entities (in documents and in
queries)
Retrieval and ranking
Semantic query modeling (detecting, modeling, and understanding search intents)
Novel entity-oriented information access tasks
Interaction paradigms (natural language, keyword-based, and hybrid interfaces)
and result representation
Test collections and evaluation methodology
Case studies and applications
We particularly encourage formal evaluation of approaches using previously
established evaluation benchmarks.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
We invite submissions of regular research papers (max. 6 pages), position
papers (max. 3 pages), and demo descriptions (max. 3 pages). All submissions
will be reviewed by at least two program committee members, and will be
assessed based on their novelty, technical quality, potential impact, and
clarity of writing. Selection uses a standard double blind procedure. All
accepted papers will be published as part of the SIGIR workshop proceedings and
will be indexed in the ACM Digital Library.
Please, submit in PDF format to:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jiwes2012
Using the ACM SIG Proceedings style (for LaTeX, use the "Option 2" style):
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates
BEST CONTRIBUTION AWARD
The best contribution (paper/presentation) will receive an award sponsored by
Yandex.
WORKSHOP FORMAT
The workshop will comprise of invited talks, oral presentations, and open-forum
discussions.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submissions due: July 2, 2012
Notification of acceptance: July 23, 2012
Camera-ready submission: Aug 1, 2012
Workshop date: Aug 16, 2012
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Krisztian Balog (NTNU, Norway)
David Carmel (IBM Research Haifa)
Arjen P. de Vries (CWI/TU Delft, The Netherlands)
Daniel M. Herzig (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Peter Mika (Yahoo! Research, Barcelona)
Haggai Roitman (IBM Research Haifa)
Ralf Schenkel (Saarland University/MPII)
Pavel Serdyukov (Yandex, Russia)
Thanh Tran Duc (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Wojciech M. Barczynski (SAP Research)
Roi Blanco (Yahoo! Research)
Pablo Castells (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Kevin Chang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Gianluca Demartini (University of Fribourg)
Norbert Fuhr (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Michiel Hildebrand (VU University Amsterdam)
Arnd Christian König (Microsoft Research)
Oren Kurland (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology)
Edgar Meij (University of Amsterdam)
Einat Minkov (University of Haifa)
Kavitha Srinivas (IBM Research)
Martin Theobald (Max-Planck-Institut Informatik)
Sivan Yogev (IBM)
Ilya Zaihrayeu (Università degli Studi di Trento)
CONTACT
[email protected]
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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB)
Daniel M. Herzig
Institut AIFB
Kollegiengebäude am Ehrenhof (Geb. 11.40)
Englerstr. 11
D-76131 Karlsruhe
Germany
Phone.:+49 (721) 608 46108
Fax: +49 (721) 608 46580
[email protected]
www.aifb.kit.edu/web/Daniel_M._Herzig/en
KIT - University of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg and National Laboratory of
the Helmholtz Association
