AGROSEM 2013

CFP CIKM'13 Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations: NEW Deadline July 19

Sixth Workshop on
Exploiting Semantic Annotations for Information Retrieval (ESAIR'13)

CIKM 2013, October 28, San Francisco
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~kamps/esair13/

Submissions due: July 19 (extended!)

* Call for Papers

There is an increasing amount of structure on the Web as a result of 
modern Web languages, micro-formats and linked data, user tagging and 
annotation, and emerging robust NLP tools. These meaningful, semantic, 
annotations hold the promise to significantly enhance information 
access, by increasing the depth of analysis of today's systems. 
Currently, we have only started exploring the possibilities and only 
begin to understand how these valuable semantic cues can be put to 
fruitful use. To complicate matters, standard text search excels at 
shallow information needs expressed by short keyword queries, and here 
semantic annotation contributes very little, if anything.

The main questions for the workshop are: How to make use of the 
currently emerging knowledge resources (such as DBpedia, Freebase) as 
underlying semantic model giving access to an unprecedented scope and 
detail of factual information? How to include annotations beyond the 
topical dimension (think of reading level, prerequisite level, content 
credibility, transaction trustworthiness, freshness, genre, sentiment, 
etc) that contain vital cues for matching the specific needs and profile 
of the searcher at hand?

* Many Open Questions

The Workshop will bring together researchers working with semantic 
annotations, its use cases, its sources (authoring to NLP tools), its 
users, and its use in DB, IR, KM, or Web research, and work together on 
a range of open questions:

Application/Use Case: What are use cases that make obvious the need for 
semantic annotation of information? What tasks cannot be solved by 
document retrieval using the traditional bag-of-words? What is keeping 
searchers from exploring these powerful search request? What impact has 
the web of data with more and more information in preprocessed form?

- Annotations: What types of annotation are available? Are there crucial 
differences between author-, software-, user-, and machine-generated 
annotations? Do we annotate types/classes/categories ("person") or 
instances ("Albert Einstein")? How similar or different are linked data 
and annotated text? What are the limitations of the current annotations 
schemes, and how to overcome them?

- Rich Context: Do we annotate text? Or also search requests and 
interactions, and their broader context? Besides personalization and 
geo-positional information, mobiles have a wide and growing range of 
locational, mechanical and even biometrical sensor data available to 
them. Can kick-start the query by inferring task and situational context 
in the mobile use case?

- (Un)certainty: How should we interpret the annotations? Can we 
reliably link textual annotations to known entity catalogs? Can expect a 
messy world to be captured in a clean set of meaningful categories? Or 
is all information fundamentally uncertain and only partly known? How 
can we fruitfully combine information retrieval and semantic web approaches?

These and other related questions will be discussed at this open format 
workshop -- the aim is to provide paths for further research to change 
the way we understand information access today!

* We Need Your Help!

Help us shape the future of information access by increasing the depth 
of analysis of today's systems:

- Submit a short 2+1-page research or position paper explaining your key 
wishes or key points,

- and take actively part in the discussion at the Workshop.

What's a 2+1 page paper?  We like short and focused contributions 
highlighting your main point, claim, observation, finding, experiment, 
project, etc, (roughly 2 pages of mainly text) but we also like clear 
tables, graphs, and full citations (that's the "+1" page). So your 
submission can up three pages, as long as max. 2 of them are narrative text.

The deadline is Friday July 19, 2013, further submission details are on 
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~kamps/esair13/

We are looking forward to a productive, stimulating and fruitful 
workshop day in the tradition of previous ESAIR workshops -- come join 
the discussion!

Paul N. Bennett, Microsoft Research
Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Google
Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam
Jussi Karlgren, Gavagai Stockholm

Deadline Extension: Linked Data in Linguistics II (LDL-2013, Sep 23rd 2013, Pisa)

Dear colleagues,

we would like to announce that the deadline for submissions to the 2nd
Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL-2013), to be held in Pisa,
Italy, Sep 23rd, 2013, has been extended to July 7th, 2013. Please
find the second call for papers / deadline extension attached.

The goal of the workshop is to assemble researchers from various
fields of linguistics, natural language processing, and information
technology to present and discuss principles, case studies, and best
practices for representing, publishing and linking linguistic data
collections, including corpora, dictionaries, lexical networks,
translation memories, thesauri, etc., infrastructures developed on
that basis, their use of existing standards, and the publication and
distribution policies that were adopted.

We particularly invite contributions discussing the application of the
Linked Open Data paradigm to linguistic data as it might provide an
important step towards making linguistic data: i) easily and uniformly
queryable, ii) interoperable and iii) sharable over the Web using open
standards such as the HTTP protocol and the RDF data model. Recent
research in this direction has lead to the emergence of a Linked Open
Data cloud of linguistic resources, the Linguistic Linked Open Data
(LLOD) cloud, where Linked Data principles were applied to language
resources, allowing them to be published and linked in a principled
way. Although not restricted to lexical resources, these play a
particularly prominent role in this context.

The intended audience includes computational linguists and NLP
engineers interested in the application of Semantic Web formalisms and
related technologies to language data, empirically-working linguists
and lexicographers interested in the representation, exchange and
interlinking of linguistic data and metadata, and developers of
infrastructures for linguistic data and other researchers with an
interest in both aspects.

LDL-2013 is organized in the context of two recent community efforts,
the Open Linguistics Working Group of the Open Knowledge Foundation
(OWLG), and the W3C Ontology-Lexica Community Group. The Open
Linguistics Working Group has spearheaded the creation of new data and
the republishing of existing linguistic resources as linked open data.
Similarly, the W3C Ontology-Lexica Community Group is seeking to
develop standard models for representing and publishing (ontology-)
lexica and other lexical resources as RDF.

We particularly invite contributions related (but not limited) to the
following topics:
1. Use cases and project proposals for the creation, maintenance and
publication of linguistic data collections that are linked with other
resources
2. Modelling linguistic data and metadata with OWL and/or RDF
3. Ontologies for linguistic data and metadata collections
4. Applications of such data, other ontologies or linked data from any
subdiscipline of linguistics (may include work in progress or project
descriptions)
5. Descriptions of data sets, ideally following Linked Data principles
6. Legal and social aspects of Linguistic Linked Open Data

We accept submission of both long (up to 8 pages plus 2 pages for
references) and short papers (up to 4 pages plus 2 pages for
references) to be presented as long or short oral presentation at the
workshop. The papers of the workshop will be published as CEUR
proceedings. In addition, we aim for a journal special issue as
post-conference proceedings in which a selected amount of papers
presented at the workshop will be published.
For stylesheets and up to date submission and workshop details, please
consult our website: http://www.ldl2013.org.

Submission deadline:	July 7th, 2013 		(new)
Notification of acceptance:	July 25th, 2013 	(new)
Camera-ready paper:	August 30th, 2013
Workshop: 	September 23rd, 2013

Organizers

Philipp Cimiano 	(Universität Bielefeld, Germany)
Christian Chiarcos 	(Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
John McCrae 	(Universität Bielefeld, Germany)
Thierry Declerck 	(Deutsches Forschungsinstitut für Künstliche
Intelligenz, Germany)

Program Committee

Guadalupe Aguado (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
María Blume (University of Texas in El Paso)
Peter Bouda (Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language
Documentation, Portugal)
Steve Cassidy (Macquarie University, Australia)
Damir Cavar (Eastern Michigan University)
Michael Cysouw (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, Germany)
Ernesto William De Luca (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany)
Gerard de Melo (University of California at Berkeley)
Dongpo Deng (Institute of Information Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Alexis Dimitriadis (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Judith Eckle-Kohler (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)
Jeff Good (University at Buffalo)
Jorge Gracia (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Harald Hammarström (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Yoshihiko Hayashi (Osaka University, Japan)
Sebastian Hellmann (Universität Leipzig, Germany)
Dominic Jones (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Lutz Maicher (Universität Leipzig, Germany)
Pablo Mendes (Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland, Germany)
Elena Monsiel-Ponsoda (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Steven Moran (Universität Zürich, Switzerland/Ludwig Maximilian
University, Germany)
Sebastian Nordhoff (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany)
Antonio Pareja-Lora (Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain)
Felix Sasaki (Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, Germany)
Andrea Schalley (Griffith University, Australia)
Marieke van Erp (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Menzo Windhouwer (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics,
Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (Universität Zürich, Switzerland)

All the best, and apologies for cross-posting,
Christian
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Christian Chiarcos
Applied Computational Linguistics
Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt a. M.
60054 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

office: Robert-Mayer-Str. 10, #401b
mail: chiarcos <at> informatik.uni-frankfurt.de
web: http://acoli.cs.uni-frankfurt.de
tel: +49-(0)69-798-22463
fax: +49-(0)69-798-28931

[CfP] Call for Participation ORE 2013: 2nd OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (with DL)

[CfP] Call for Systems and Ontologies ORE 2013: 2nd OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (with DL)

1st CfP: Semantic Audio conference

CfP: 3rd international Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives

[DMoLD] DEADLINE EXTENSION for Data Mining on Linked Data (DMoLD'13) workshop, with Linked Data Mining Challenge <at> ECML/PKDD 2013

                           DEADLINE EXTENSION
                                for
              Data Mining on Linked Data (DMoLD'13) workshop
                   with Linked Data Mining Challenge

collocated with the European Conference on Machine Learning and
Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML/PKDD 2013,
23-27 September 2013, Prague, Czech Republic (http://www.ecmlpkdd2013.org/)

The workshop consists of an Open Track and of a Challenge Track.
The Open Track expects submission of regular research papers, describing
novel approaches to applying Data Mining techniques on the Linked Data sources.
Participation in the Challenge Track requires the participants to download a
real-world RDF dataset from the domain of Public Contract Procurement, and
accomplish at least one of the three pre-defined tasks on it using their own or
publicly available data mining tool.

DEADLINE EXTENSION (BY ONE WEEK):
* June 28, 2013 - Deadline for Challenge Track results
* July 5, 2013 - Deadline for paper submissions (both Open Track and Challenge Track)

For more info about the workshop, visit
http://keg.vse.cz/dmold2013

Claudia díAmato, Petr Berka, Vojtech Svatek & Krzysztof Wecel
Workshop organizers

[ANN] The NanJing Vocabulary Repository (NJVR)

Dear All,

We are pleased to let you know that the NanJing Vocabulary Repository (NJVR) version 1 has been
downloadable [1] for a period of time. Derived from the index of the Falcons search engine [2], the
repository is devoted to providing the research community a representative sample of the real Semantic
Web for conducting experiments and evaluations about all kinds of vocabulary-oriented problems.
Details can be found in the paper [3].

At present, NJVR consists of:
- 2,996 vocabularies crawled from 261 pay-level domains, and
- their instantiations found in 4.1 billion RDF triples distributed in 15.9 million RDF documents crawled
from 5,805 pay-level domains.

Although the repository may contain low-quality and near-duplicate vocabularies, which we will try to
remove in the future, we believe that the current version is still valuable to a broad range of research topics.

Feel free to download the repository [1] and we hope it helps your research.

Cheers,
Gong Cheng

[1] http://ws.nju.edu.cn/njvr/
[2] http://ws.nju.edu.cn/falcons/
[3] http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6880-6_23

2nd CfP - 2nd International Workshop on Ordering and Reasoning (OrdRing2013) <at> ISWC2013

2nd CFP: Workshop on Society, Privacy and the Semantic Web - Policy and Technology (PrivOn 2013) at ISWC 2013

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.

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1st International Workshop on Society, Privacy and the Semantic Web - Policy and Technology (PrivOn 2013) 
at the 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 
October 21st-25th, 2013, Sydney, Australia 

http://privon.semanticweb.org/ 
Twitter:  <at> privonws #privon2013

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Bruce Schneier's recent article "The Internet is a surveillance state" summarises the state of Internet
privacy in its concluding paragraphs: 
"So, we're done. Welcome to a world where Google knows exactly what sort of porn you all like, and more about
your interests than your spouse does. Welcome to a world where your cell phone company knows exactly where
you are all the time. Welcome to the end of private conversations, because increasingly your
conversations are conducted by e­mail, text, or social networking sites. And welcome to a world where
all of this, and everything else that you do or is done on a computer, is saved, correlated, studied, passed
around from company to company without your knowledge or consent; and where the government accesses it at
will without a warrant. Welcome to an Internet without privacy, and we've ended up here with hardly a
fight." 

While Schneier's article indicates his opinion, we see supporting evidence all around us. It is time to
accept reality and think about implications and necessary actions. It is time to open our eyes, to review
the situation we are in, to identify the societal and economic forces at work ­ on a national and
international level ­and define a way forward as a society. 

We (the Semantic Web community) are responsible for the conception of technologies that enable large
scale integration and mining of personal and public information in all domains of society. This brings
unprecedented advantages, assists humans, organisations and systems with problem solving, enables
innovation and increases productivity. It makes everything more transparent. However this
transparency comes at a price: the loss of our privacy. There has been growing awareness within the
community of the need to address privacy and security concerns. To date the focus has been on researching
specific privacy and security models and frameworks, for example for access control, obfuscation,
anonymization, aggregation, licensing, etc. However we are "putting the cart before the horse", we need
to identify clear privacy and security requirements before proposing technical solutions. 

With this workshop we aim at the following goals: 
* First, raise awareness that the technologies the community are working on have global societal
consequences. Vice versa, our research can be guided by determining a road map for desirable privacy
goals. We aim to determine first steps towards identifying desirable goals. 
* Second, raise awareness of interconnections between the different communities that are involved in Web
privacy and security ­ e.g., policy makers, users, social sciences and computer scientists and provide
a platform for interconnection and communication. 
* Third, determine the next steps that need to be conducted in order to broaden the level of engagement
between the relevant parties

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Topics Of Interest 

The topics of this workshop are different from previous workshops and events, which were usually focused
on technology. This workshop aims to capture the intersection between society, policy and technology.
Therefore we structure the topics in three main areas as follows. 

Society and privacy 
* Case studies: what are the societal privacy implications of semantic technologies? 
* What is the impact of semantic technologies on privacy in specific domain? 
* What are appropriate societal conventions to protect privacy? 
* What are desirable privacy situations? 
* When do we want to control information flow? 
* Privacy awareness in social communities 

Legal and policy perspective of privacy 
* Managing personal information disclosure 
* What laws support privacy management and enforcement? 
* What new legislation might be necessary? 
* Privacy legislation compliance 
* How to influence policy making? 
* How to synchronise policies of different legal domains? 
* Personal data and the role of the data controller/processor 

Technology perspective 
* How can societal conventions be supported by technologies? 
* Anonymity and identity discovery 
* Techniques for anonymity, pseudonymity and unlinkability 
* Privacy implications of data integration and data linking 
* Protecting against pattern/behaviour discovery and community mining 
* Protecting against data falsification 
* Non-repudiation and digital signatures 
* Usage control and accountability 
* Data provenance and trustworthiness of knowledge sources 

You can also join our discussion page to make suggestions, and coordinate the discussion pre-workshop.

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Format and Submission Procedure

Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of papers and reports as well as position papers
addressing different issues of the stated topics of interest. 

Papers and reports should not be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style. Papers and report
contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted (no later than July 12th, 2013)
through the workshop submission site at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=privon2013

Position contributions are accepted as position posts or position videos in the associated PrivOn Google
Community. Position contributions should not exceed 1000 words and should be handled according to the
guidelines for technical papers as much as possible. Position videos should not exceed 5 minutes.

Papers and reports will be reviewed and a limited number of those will be selected for presentation. 

Position contributions that generate interesting discussions in the Google Community will be selected
for short presentations. Position statements may be used to select participants based on available
capacity to ensure an heterogeneous audience during the
Workshop.

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Important Dates 

July 12, 2013 : Paper Submission Deadline 
August 9, 2013 : Notification of Accepted Technical Papers (and Position Papers) 
September 9, 2013 : Final Version Due 
October 21st or 22nd, 2013 : PrivOn 2013 Workshop

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Organising Committee 

Stefan Decker, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland 
Email:first.last <at> deri.org 
Web: http://www.stefandecker.org 

Jim Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA 
Email: last <at> cs.rpi.edu 
Web: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~hendler/ <http://www.cs.rpi.edu/%7Ehendler/>  

Sabrina Kirrane, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland 
Email:first.last <at> deri.org 
Web: http://www.sabrinakirrane.com/ 

For questions regarding the workshop, please contact Sabrina.Kirrane <at> deri.org or use the discussion
facilities at the PrivOn Google Community.