[Wiki-research-l] The December 2019 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:

2020-01-07 Thread Mohammed Sadat Abdulai
The December 2019 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2019/December

In this issue:

1 Using Wikipedia to promote acoustics knowledge for the International Year of 
Sound 2020
2 Wiki Workshop 2019
2.1 Thanks" feature has "strong positive effect on short-term editor activity
2.2 What’s in the Content of Wikipedia’s Article for Deletion Discussions? 
Towards a Visual Analytic Approach
2.3 An awareness campaign in India did not affect Wikipedia pageviews, but a 
new software feature did
2.4 How Partisanship and Perceived Political Bias Affect Wikipedia Entries of 
News Sources
2.5 A Graph-Structured Dataset for Wikipedia Research
2.6 Searching News Articles Using an Event Knowledge Graph Leveraged by Wikidata
2.7 Inferring Advertiser Sentiment in Online Articles using Wikipedia Footnotes
2.8 Learning to Map Wikidata Entities To Predefined Topics
2.9 English Wikipedia's medical articles are of higher quality than those of 
Portuguese Wikipedia
2.10 Understanding Travel from Web Queries Using Domain Knowledge from 
Wikipedia"
2.11 Open Personalized Navigation on the Sandbox of Wiki Pages
3 Briefly
4 Other recent publications
4.1 In its war coverage, "Wikipedia shows greater conciliatory potential" than 
museums
4.2 The Global Popularity of William Shakespeare in 303 Wikipedias
4.3 Mapping the backbone of the Humanities through the eyes of Wikipedia

*** 15 recent publications were covered or listed in this issue ***
  
Masssly and Tilman Bayer
 
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[Wiki-research-l] 2nd CfP: SEMANTiCS 2020 EU || Sep 7 - 10, 2020 || Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2020-01-07 Thread Sebastian Hellmann

Apologies for cross-posting


SEMANTiCS - 16th International Conference on Semantic Systems, September 
7 - 10, 2020

Amsterdam, The Netherlands
https://2020-eu.semantics.cc/


= Important Dates (specific track dates are given below)
* Abstract Submission Deadline:    April 18, 2020 (11:59 pm, Hawaiitime)
* Paper Submission Deadline:    April 25, 2020 
(11:59pm,Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: June 08, 2020 (11:59 
pm,Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: July 06, 2020 
(11:59pm, Hawaii time)


= Read a detailed description of all available calls online: 
https://2020-eu.semantics.cc/calls


= Submission via Easychair on 
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sem20eu#


Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2020 EU are planned to be published by Springer 
LNCS & CEUR. All proceedings will be made available open access.



SEMANTiCS 2020 EU particularly welcomes submissions on the following key 
topics:

* Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data
* Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management and Deep Semantics
* Machine Learning & Deep Learning Techniques
* Semantic Information Management & Knowledge Integration
* Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management
* Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
* Reasoning, Rules and Policies
* Natural Language Processing
* Data Quality Management and Assurance
* Explainable Artificial Intelligence
* Semantics in Data Science
* Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies
* Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems
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* Special Sub-Topic: Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
* Special Sub-Topic: LegalTech
* Special Sub-Topic: Blockchain and Semantics

We especially encourage contributions that illustrate the applicability 
of the topics mentioned above for industrial purposes and/or illustrate 
the business relevance of their contribution for specific industries.


We invite contributions to the following tracks:

= Read a detailed description of all available calls online: 
https://2020-eu.semantics.cc/calls


== Research and Innovation Track ==
The Research and Innovation track at SEMANTiCS welcomes papers on novel 
scientific research and/or innovations relevant to the topics of the 
conference. Submissions must be original and must not have been 
submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must follow the guidelines 
given in the author instructions, including references and optional 
appendices. Each submission will be reviewed by several PC members who 
will judge it based on its innovativeness, appropriateness, and impact 
of results in terms of effectiveness at solving real problems.


= Important Dates:
* Abstract Submission Deadline:    April 18, 2020 (11:59 pm, Hawaii 
time)
* Paper Submission Deadline:    April 25, 2020 (11:59 pm, 
Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: June 08, 2020 (11:59 pm, 
Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: July 06, 2020 (11:59 
pm, Hawaii time)


Author instructions: Reviews will be carried out in a single-blind mode. 
Long papers should have a maximum length of 15 pages and short papers of 
6 pages. Submissions should follow the guidelines of the Springer LNCS 
format. The detailed Call for Research and Innovation papers is 
available here: https://2020-eu.semantics.cc/calls


== Posters and Demos Track ==
The Posters and Demonstrations Track invites innovative work in 
progress, late-breaking research and innovation results, and smaller 
contributions in all fields related to the Semantic Web and Linked Data 
in a broader sense. These include submissions on innovative applications 
with impact on end users, such as demos of solutions that users may test 
or that are yet in the conceptual phase but are worth discussing, and 
also applications or pieces of code that may attract developers and 
potential research or business partners.


= Important Dates:
* Paper Submission Deadline:    June 22, 2020 (11:59 pm, 
Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: July 22, 2020 (11:59 pm, 
Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: August 01, 2020 (11:59 
pm, Hawaii time)


Author instructions: Proceedings are planned to be published via CEUR 
Workshop Proceedings and should follow the guidelines of the Springer 
LNCS format. The detailed Call for Poster and Demos papers is available 
online.


== Industry and Use Case Track ==
Focusing strongly on industry needs and ground breaking technology 
trends SEMANTICS invites presentations on enterprise solutions that deal 
with semantic processing of data and/or information. A special focus of 
Semantics 2019 will be on the convergence of machine learning techniques 
and knowledge graphs. Additional topics of interest are Enterprise 
Knowledge Graphs, Semantic AI & Machine Learning, Enterprise Data 
Integration, Linked Data & Data Publishing, Semantic Search, 
Recommendation