[Corpora-List] Call for Papers: Interacting with Linked Data, workshop at ESWC 2012

[Christina Unger]

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               Interacting with Linked Data (ILD)

           http://www.sc.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/ild

  Workshop co-located with the Extended Semantic Web Conference 2012
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* Motivation and Scope *

While more and more semantic data is published on the Web, the question 
of how typical Web users can access this body of knowledge becomes of 
crucial importance. There is now a growing amount of research on 
interaction paradigms that allow end users to profit from the expressive 
power of Semantic Web standards while at the same time hiding the 
complexity behind an intuitive and easy-to-use interface. These 
paradigms range from keyword search, faceted browsing and exploration to 
natural language question answering.

Despite different goals and different kinds of interaction, the main 
challenge involved in interacting with Linked Data is the same for all 
approaches: dealing with a heterogeneous, distributed and very large set 
of highly interconnected data. The availability of such an amount of 
open and structured data has no precedents in computer science and 
approaches that can deal with the specific character of Linked Data are 
urgently needed.

The workshop is aimed at all researchers and practitioners working on 
the interaction with Linked Data and related topics. Its goal is to 
bring together expertise from different communities, including NLP, HCI 
and Semantic Web, and to encourage communication across interaction 
paradigms.


* Open Challenge *

The workshop will be accompanied by an open challenge on a particular 
interaction paradigm: Question Answering over Linked Data. We will 
provide two datasets together with a set of training questions of 
different complexity levels with manually specified SPARQL queries and 
answers for each dataset. Participating systems will then be evaluated 
on similarly annotated test questions with respect to precision and 
recall. For more information please consult the workshop website.


* Call for Papers *

We welcome the submission of research papers on all aspects of 
interaction with Linked Data, system descriptions of systems 
participating in the open challenge, and short papers on preliminary 
research.

The following topics are of special interest:

- Question answering and natural language interfaces to Linked Data
- HCI and Linked Data
- Faceted browsing and exploration
- New interaction metaphors for Linked Data
- Multimodal interfaces to Linked Data
- Disambiguation and inferencing across multiple sources and domains
- Natural language generation
- Discovery on the fly of relevant Linked Data sources
- Efficiency and performance aspects
- Dealing with data and schema heterogeneity
- Summarization and aggregation
- Providing justifications of answers and conveying trust
- Personalization in accessing Linked Data
- User feedback and interaction
- Habitability and usability aspects


* Important Dates *

Deadline for workshop papers: March 4
Notification of acceptance: April 1
Deadline for camera-ready version: April 15

Release of training dataset and instructions: January 31
Release of test set: March 28
Submission of results by participants: April 1
Evaluation of results to participants: April 10


* Submission details *

Research papers should not exceed 12 pages in length (excluding 
references), system descriptions should not exceed 8 pages (excluding 
references). Short papers describing preliminary research or positions 
can also be submitted and should not exceed 4 pages in length. All 
papers have to be submitted in PDF format; camera-ready versions must be 
formatted according to the LNCS guidelines.

Submission and reviewing will be via EasyChair: 
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ild2012

For detailed information and updates on the open challenge, there is an 
ILD mailing list: 
https://lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/cit-ec/mailman/listinfo/ild

With best regards,
Christina Unger,
Philipp Cimiano,
Vanessa Lopez,
Enrico Motta,
Paul Buitelaar,
Richard Cyganiak

-- 
Christina Unger, PhD
Semantic Computing Group
CITEC, Bielefeld University
http://www.sc.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/

Phone: +49 521 106 12224
Office: H1-124, Morgenbreede 39


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