Pursuant to prior discussions about the need for a research
policy on Wikipedia, WikiProject Research is drafting a
policy regarding the recruitment of Wikipedia users to
participate in studies.
At this time, we have a proposed policy, and an accompanying
group that would facilitate recruitment of subjects in much
the same way that the Bot Approvals Group approves bots.
The policy proposal can be found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Research
The Subject Recruitment Approvals Group mentioned in the proposal
is being described at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Subject_Recruitment_Approvals_Group
Before we move forward with seeking approval from the Wikipedia
community, we would like additional input about the proposal,
and would welcome additional help improving it.
Also, please consider participating in WikiProject Research at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Research
--
Bryan Song
GroupLens Research
University of Minnesota
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO June 6, 2010
(due to technical problems that caused our website to be unavailable during the original submission deadline)
Direct link to the submission site:
https://www.softconf.com/coling2010/PWNLP2010/
COLING 2010
2nd Workshop on
"The People's Web meets NLP:
Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources"
Beijing
August 28th, 2010
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/scientific-community/coling-2010-workshop/
Keywords:
Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Mechanical Turk, Games with a purpose,
Folksonomies, Twitter, Social Networks
INTRODUCTION
The workshop builds upon the success of the first ACL "The People's Web
meets NLP" Workshop in 2009 that attracted 21 submissions. Accepted
submissions included papers on Wikipedia [1], Wiktionary [2], Mechanical
Turk [3], and game-based construction of semantic resources [4]. This
clearly demonstrates a substantial and growing interest of the NLP
community in collaboratively constructed semantic resources (CSRs),
also evidenced by the increasing number of publications in this area
and the EMNLP 2009 Web 2.0 track. In many works, CSRs have been used
to overcome the knowledge acquisition bottleneck and coverage problems
pertinent to conventional lexical semantic resources. The greatest
popularity in this respect can so far certainly be attributed to
Wikipedia [1]. However, other resources, such as folksonomies or the
multilingual collaboratively constructed dictionary Wiktionary, have
also shown great potential. Thus, the scope of the workshop deliberately
includes any collaboratively constructed resource, not only Wikipedia.
Effective deployment of CSRs to enhance NLP introduces a pressing need
to address a set of fundamental challenges, e.g. the interoperability
with existing resources, or the quality of the extracted lexical
semantic knowledge. Interoperability between resources is crucial as
no single resource provides perfect coverage. The quality of CSRs is
a fundamental issue, as they lack editorial control and entries are
often incomplete. Thus, techniques for link prediction [5] or
information extraction [6] have been proposed to guide the "crowds"
while constructing resources of better quality.
[1] Olena Medelyan, David Milne, Catherine Legg and Ian H. Witten.
Mining meaning from Wikipedia.
In: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. 67(9), 2009.
[2] Torsten Zesch, Christof Mueller and Iryna Gurevych
Extracting Lexical Semantic Knowledge from Wikipedia and Wiktionary
Proceedings of the Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
(LREC), 2008.
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/jwpl/http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/jwktl/
[3] Rion Snow, Brendan O'Connor, Daniel Jurafsky and Andrew Y. Ng.
Cheap and Fast---But is it Good? Evaluating Non-Expert Annotations
for Natural Language Tasks.
Proceedings of EMNLP. 2008.
[4] Luis von Ahn and Laura Dabbish.
General Techniques for Designing Games with a Purpose.
Communications of the ACM, 2008.
[5] Rada Mihalcea and Andras Csomai
Wikify!: Linking Documents to Encyclopedic Knowledge.
Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and
Knowledge Management, CIKM 2007.
[6] Daniel S. Weld et al.
Intelligence in Wikipedia.
Twenty-Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2008.
TOPICS
The workshop will bring together researchers from different worlds, for
example those using collaboratively constructed resources as sources of
lexical semantic information for NLP purposes such as information
retrieval, named entity recognition, or keyword extraction, and those
using NLP techniques to improve the resources or extract and analyze
different types of lexical semantic information from them. We will
especially welcome contributions of interdisciplinary nature, e.g. those
applying discourse analysis techniques from computational linguistics to
the content of CSRs to better understand their properties.
Specific topics include but are not limited to:
* Analysis of collaboratively constructed resources, such as wiki-based
platforms, folksonomies, Twitter, or social networks;
* Using collaboratively constructed resources for NLP purposes such
as information retrieval, text categorization, information
extraction, etc.;
* Using special features of collaboratively constructed resources to
create novel resource types, for example revision-based corpora,
simplified versions of resources, etc.;
* Analyzing the structure of collaboratively constructed resources
related to their use in NLP;
* Interoperability of collaboratively constructed resources with
conventional lexical semantic resources and between themselves;
* Mining social and collaborative content for constructing structured
semantic resources and the corresponding tools;
* Mining multilingual information from collaboratively constructed
resources;
* Quality and reliability of collaboratively constructed semantic
resources.
We especially encourage short papers describing publicly available tools
for accessing or analyzing collaboratively constructed resources that can
serve as a multiplier in the NLP community.
The workshop is intended to be highly interdisciplinary. Thus, we encourage
the participation of researchers working on computational linguistics
aspects (e.g. parsing or discourse analysis) or NLP applications (e.g.
information retrieval, information extraction, question answering, and
knowledge representation) as well as researchers from other areas who
might benefit from collaboratively constructed semantic resources.
Substantially extended versions of the best papers from the workshop can
be submitted to a planned Special Issue in one of the major computational
linguistics journals. The revised papers will have to undergo a separate
reviewing process required for journal publications.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline (full and short): June 6, 2010
Notification of acceptance of papers: June 30, 2010
Camera-ready copy of papers due: July 10, 2010
COLING 2010 Workshop: Aug 28, 2010
ORGANIZERS
Iryna Gurevych
Torsten Zesch
Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Andras Csomai Google Inc.
Anette Frank Heidelberg University
Benno Stein Bauhaus University Weimar
Bernardo Magnini ITC-irst Trento
Christiane Fellbaum Princeton University
Dan Moldovan University of Texas at Dallas
Delphine Bernhard LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay
Diana McCarthy Lexical Computing Ltd
Elke Teich Technische Universität Darmstadt
Emily Pitler University of Pennsylvania
Eneko Agirre University of the Basque Country
Erhard Hinrichs Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Ernesto De Luca Technische Universität Berlin
Florian Laws University of Stuttgart
Gerard de Melo MPI Saarbrücken
German Rigau University of the Basque Country
Graeme Hirst University of Toronto
Günter Neumman DFKI Saarbrücken
György Szarvas Technische Universität Darmstadt
Hans-Peter Zorn European Media Lab, Heidelberg
José Iria University of Sheffield
Laurent Raumary LORIA, Nancy
Magnus Sahlgren Swedish Institute of Computer Science
Manfred Stede Potsdam University
Omar Alonso A9.com, Inc.
Pablo Castells Universidad Autónonoma de Madrid
Paul Buitelaar DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway
Philipp Cimiano Delft University of Technology
Razvan Bunescu University of Texas at Austin
Rene Witte Concordia University Montréal
Roxana Girju University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Saif Mohammad University of Maryland
Samer Hassan University of North Texas
Sören Auer Leipzig University
Tonio Wandmacher CEA, Paris
Does anyone know of any research which demonstrates a correlation between
the quality of an article in Wikipedia and the number of pageviews it
receives?
I'm trying to argue, as part of my work with museums, that if they want to
get people to come to their own website from wikipedia, then instead of
focusing on adding top-level links to the "external links" section, they
should instead focus on adding deep-linked footnotes and encouraging the
improvement of the quality of the article in general. This is on the basis
that "increased quality=increased pageviews=increased clickthroughs". A
win-win situation.
I have some very nice statistics of pageviews (from stats.grok.se) that
match the clickthrough stats from a museum (from their analytics) that
clearly demonstrate a correlation between increased pageviews and increased
clickthroughs. However, I'm still looking for some scientific data to prove
the link between improved article quality and an increase in the number of
views of that article.
Can anyone help?
-Liam
wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love & metadata
(apologies for duplication)
Early registration is closing soon for WikiSym 2010 -- the Sixth
Annual Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, to be held this year
in Gdansk, Poland. The symposium will feature a keynote by Cliff
Lampe, research papers and panels about wikis and open collaboration,
and an open space track for ongoing discussion. The conference will be
held just before Wikimania 2010, the annual community conference of
the Wikimedia Foundation, which will offer an opportunity for wiki
researchers to meet and interact with Wikimedia community members.
Early registration closes May 30. See:
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2010/Registration for more information.
Phoebe Ayers
chair, WikiSym 2010
Due to numerous requests we have extended the submission deadline for
Wikimania 2010 as follows:
* Abstract Registration: May 24, 11.59 p.m. (Pacific Time)
* Notification for workshops: May 29, 11.59 p.m. (Pacific Time)
* Notification for panels, tutorials, presentations: June 3, 11.59
p.m. (Pacific Time)
See the Call for Participation for more details:
http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/CFP
Thank you for helping make Wikimania 2010 a successful event. :-)
See you in Gdansk, July 9-11!
With best regards,
Wikimania Team
--
Casey Brown
Cbrown1023
Greetings wiki researchers,
Looking through the submissions for Wikimania, I see that there is nothing
yet on the subject of researchers in Wikipedia and there could be a good
panel or workshop discussion on this topic. At the moment, the theme would
be something along the lines of "Researchers in my Wikipedia? It's more
likely than you think" and have wiki researchers on the panel who will talk
about ethics, protocols, methodologies, and their relation to community
norms and policies. Topics like the SRAG are especially relevant, and there
are lots of other issues out there with ethnographic research, archival/data
privacy, and more. My idea for the Wikimania panel is to build
a dialog with the community on these issues, but if there is enough
interest, an excellent open space session at WikiSym could easily be
organized to deal with the more academic side of this issue. I'm also open
to other ideas if other people have them.
So if anyone who is going to Wikimania and Wikisym is interested in this,
please let me know today or tomorrow. Sorry for doing this so late, but I
just realized that the deadline is the 20th.
Thanks,
Stuart Geiger
While working on WP:Research and WP:SRAG (research and recruitment policy
working drafts), the need to explain who researchers are and why Wikipedians
should accommodate them became apparent. In response, I've written a couple
of essays about the subject and posted them in the Wikipedia namespace (on
en.wp). I'm posting here to request your your feedback and ideas as well as
help building and refining the essays.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_are_these_researchers_doing_in_…
>From the lead: Expanding articles is not the only way to contribute to
Wikipedia. There is room for many different types of contribution: copy
edits, content edits, template construction, vandal fighting, bot
management, etc. Through the use of the scientific method, researchers
contribute to Wikipedia by extended understanding about the community and
bringing state-of-the-art technologies to editors.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_are_these_researchers_doing_in_…>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_are_these_researchers_doing_in_…>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don't_bite_the_researchers
Nutshell: Please don't bite the researchers. Their work is valuable to the
Wikipedia community, but like anyone else, they should be expected to
not disrupt the editing process.
Thanks!
-Aaron Halfaker
GroupLens Research
University of Minnesota
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 10:26:42 -0700
> From: Guillaume Paumier <guillom.pom(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Analyses of Wikipedia quality
> To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities
> <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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> Greetings,
>
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Adrianne Wadewitz <wadewitz(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> I am looking at submitting a grant so that I can work on an analyses
>> of en.wikipedia's coverage of art, literature, and history articles -
>> their accuracy, etc. I am looking to establish a complete bibliography
>> of all of the "quality" assessments that have been done about
>> Wikipedia - on any language. Could we pool our knowledge?
>
> I would advise to take a look at
> http://www.citeulike.org/group/382/tag/quality
>
> --
> Guillaume Paumier
> [[m:User:guillom]]
> http://www.gpaumier.org
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 13:50:04 -0400
> From: Piotr Konieczny <piokon(a)post.pl>
> Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Analyses of Wikipedia quality
> To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities
> <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Message-ID: <4BE998CC.5060906(a)post.pl>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
>
> Guillaume Paumier wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Adrianne Wadewitz <wadewitz(a)gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> I am looking at submitting a grant so that I can work on an analyses
>>> of en.wikipedia's coverage of art, literature, and history articles -
>>> their accuracy, etc. I am looking to establish a complete bibliography
>>> of all of the "quality" assessments that have been done about
>>> Wikipedia - on any language. Could we pool our knowledge?
>>
>> I would advise to take a look at
>> http://www.citeulike.org/group/382/tag/quality
>
> Also, search this page for the string "quality":
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Academic_studies_of_Wikipedia
>
> --
> Piotr Konieczny
> PhD Candidate
> Dept of Sociology
> Uni of Pittsburgh
>
> "To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on
> one's laurels, is defeat." --J?zef Pi?sudski
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 10:12:19 +0200
> From: Torsten Zesch <zesch(a)tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>
> Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Final CfP COLING 2010 - 2nd Workshop on
> Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources
> To: "'wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org'"
> <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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>
> COLING 2010
>
> 2nd Workshop on
> "The People's Web meets NLP:
> Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources"
>
> Beijing
> August 28th, 2010
> http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/scientific-community/coling-2010-workshop/
>
>
> Keywords:
> Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Mechanical Turk, Games with a purpose,
> Folksonomies, Twitter, Social Networks
>
>
> INTRODUCTION
>
> The workshop builds upon the success of the first ACL "The People's Web
> meets NLP" Workshop in 2009 that attracted 21 submissions. Accepted
> submissions included papers on Wikipedia [1], Wiktionary [2], Mechanical
> Turk [3], and game-based construction of semantic resources [4]. This
> clearly demonstrates a substantial and growing interest of the NLP
> community in collaboratively constructed semantic resources (CSRs),
> also evidenced by the increasing number of publications in this area
> and the EMNLP 2009 Web 2.0 track. In many works, CSRs have been used
> to overcome the knowledge acquisition bottleneck and coverage problems
> pertinent to conventional lexical semantic resources. The greatest
> popularity in this respect can so far certainly be attributed to
> Wikipedia [1]. However, other resources, such as folksonomies or the
> multilingual collaboratively constructed dictionary Wiktionary, have
> also shown great potential. Thus, the scope of the workshop deliberately
> includes any collaboratively constructed resource, not only Wikipedia.
>
> Effective deployment of CSRs to enhance NLP introduces a pressing need
> to address a set of fundamental challenges, e.g. the interoperability
> with existing resources, or the quality of the extracted lexical
> semantic knowledge. Interoperability between resources is crucial as
> no single resource provides perfect coverage. The quality of CSRs is
> a fundamental issue, as they lack editorial control and entries are
> often incomplete. Thus, techniques for link prediction [5] or
> information extraction [6] have been proposed to guide the "crowds"
> while constructing resources of better quality.
>
> [1] Olena Medelyan, David Milne, Catherine Legg and Ian H. Witten.
> Mining meaning from Wikipedia.
> In: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. 67(9), 2009.
> [2] Torsten Zesch, Christof Mueller and Iryna Gurevych
> Extracting Lexical Semantic Knowledge from Wikipedia and Wiktionary
> Proceedings of the Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
> (LREC), 2008.
> http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/jwpl/
> http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/jwktl/
> [3] Rion Snow, Brendan O'Connor, Daniel Jurafsky and Andrew Y. Ng.
> Cheap and Fast---But is it Good? Evaluating Non-Expert Annotations
> for Natural Language Tasks.
> Proceedings of EMNLP. 2008.
> [4] Luis von Ahn and Laura Dabbish.
> General Techniques for Designing Games with a Purpose.
> Communications of the ACM, 2008.
> [5] Rada Mihalcea and Andras Csomai
> Wikify!: Linking Documents to Encyclopedic Knowledge.
> Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and
> Knowledge Management, CIKM 2007.
> [6] Daniel S. Weld et al.
> Intelligence in Wikipedia.
> Twenty-Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2008.
>
>
> TOPICS
>
> The workshop will bring together researchers from different worlds, for
> example those using collaboratively constructed resources as sources of
> lexical semantic information for NLP purposes such as information
> retrieval, named entity recognition, or keyword extraction, and those
> using NLP techniques to improve the resources or extract and analyze
> different types of lexical semantic information from them. We will
> especially welcome contributions of interdisciplinary nature, e.g. those
> applying discourse analysis techniques from computational linguistics to
> the content of CSRs to better understand their properties.
>
> Specific topics include but are not limited to:
> * Analysis of collaboratively constructed resources, such as wiki-based
> platforms, folksonomies, Twitter, or social networks;
> * Using collaboratively constructed resources for NLP purposes such
> as information retrieval, text categorization, information
> extraction, etc.;
> * Using special features of collaboratively constructed resources to
> create novel resource types, for example revision-based corpora,
> simplified versions of resources, etc.;
> * Analyzing the structure of collaboratively constructed resources
> related to their use in NLP;
> * Interoperability of collaboratively constructed resources with
> conventional lexical semantic resources and between themselves;
> * Mining social and collaborative content for constructing structured
> semantic resources and the corresponding tools;
> * Mining multilingual information from collaboratively constructed
> resources;
> * Quality and reliability of collaboratively constructed semantic
> resources.
>
> We especially encourage short papers describing publicly available tools
> for accessing or analyzing collaboratively constructed resources that can
> serve as a multiplier in the NLP community.
>
> The workshop is intended to be highly interdisciplinary. Thus, we
> encourage
> the participation of researchers working on computational linguistics
> aspects (e.g. parsing or discourse analysis) or NLP applications (e.g.
> information retrieval, information extraction, question answering, and
> knowledge representation) as well as researchers from other areas who
> might benefit from collaboratively constructed semantic resources.
>
> Substantially extended versions of the best papers from the workshop can
> be submitted to a planned Special Issue in one of the major computational
> linguistics journals. The revised papers will have to undergo a separate
> reviewing process required for journal publications.
>
>
> IMPORTANT DATES
>
> Paper submission deadline (full and short): May 30, 2010
> Notification of acceptance of papers: June 30, 2010
> Camera-ready copy of papers due: July 10, 2010
> COLING 2010 Workshop: Aug 28, 2010
>
>
> ORGANIZERS
>
> Iryna Gurevych
> Torsten Zesch
>
> Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab
> Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany
>
>
> PROGRAM COMMITTEE
>
> Andras Csomai Google Inc.
> Anette Frank Heidelberg University
> Benno Stein Bauhaus University Weimar
> Bernardo Magnini ITC-irst Trento
> Christiane Fellbaum Princeton University
> Dan Moldovan University of Texas at Dallas
> Delphine Bernhard LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay
> Diana McCarthy Lexical Computing Ltd
> Elke Teich Technische Universit?t Darmstadt
> Emily Pitler University of Pennsylvania
> Eneko Agirre University of the Basque Country
> Erhard Hinrichs Eberhard Karls Universit?t T?bingen
> Ernesto De Luca Technische Universit?t Berlin
> Florian Laws University of Stuttgart
> Gerard de Melo MPI Saarbr?cken
> German Rigau University of the Basque Country
> Graeme Hirst University of Toronto
> G?nter Neumman DFKI Saarbr?cken
> Gy?rgy Szarvas Technische Universit?t Darmstadt
> Hans-Peter Zorn European Media Lab, Heidelberg
> Jos? Iria University of Sheffield
> Laurent Raumary LORIA, Nancy
> Magnus Sahlgren Swedish Institute of Computer Science
> Manfred Stede Potsdam University
> Omar Alonso A9.com, Inc.
> Pablo Castells Universidad Aut?nonoma de Madrid
> Paul Buitelaar DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway
> Philipp Cimiano Delft University of Technology
> Razvan Bunescu University of Texas at Austin
> Rene Witte Concordia University Montr?al
> Roxana Girju University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> Saif Mohammad University of Maryland
> Samer Hassan University of North Texas
> S?ren Auer Leipzig University
> Tonio Wandmacher CEA, Paris
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 15:43:30 -0700
> From: Eric Bloch <Eric.Bloch(a)marklogic.com>
> Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Balisage 2010 Contest - Solve the Modern
> Tower of Babel
> To: "wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org"
> <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Message-ID: <94F9268D-7633-4EC0-A89E-78C4176C0A4A(a)marklogic.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> Just thought I'd share news of a wiki-related contest:
>
> As part of the Balisage 2010 Conference, MarkLogic has put forth a
> challenge in the form of a contest. The goal of the contest is to
> encourage markup experts to review and to research the current state
> of wiki markup languages and to generate a proposal that serves to de-
> babelize the current state of affairs for the long haul.
>
> See
> http://developer.marklogic.com/news/marklogic-sponsors-balisage-2010-contest
> for details.
>
> Best,
> Eric
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 13:27:06 -0400
> From: "R.Stuart Geiger" <sgeiger(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Anyone interested in a Wikimania panel on
> research ethics?
> To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities
> <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Message-ID:
> <AANLkTinkGy12BxQNw8sIDA49IofXGXPBcJK7j4-C25Al(a)mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> Greetings wiki researchers,
>
> Looking through the submissions for Wikimania, I see that there is nothing
> yet on the subject of researchers in Wikipedia and there could be a good
> panel or workshop discussion on this topic. At the moment, the theme
> would
> be something along the lines of "Researchers in my Wikipedia? It's more
> likely than you think" and have wiki researchers on the panel who will
> talk
> about ethics, protocols, methodologies, and their relation to community
> norms and policies. Topics like the SRAG are especially relevant, and
> there
> are lots of other issues out there with ethnographic research,
> archival/data
> privacy, and more. My idea for the Wikimania panel is to build
> a dialog with the community on these issues, but if there is enough
> interest, an excellent open space session at WikiSym could easily be
> organized to deal with the more academic side of this issue. I'm also
> open
> to other ideas if other people have them.
>
> So if anyone who is going to Wikimania and Wikisym is interested in this,
> please let me know today or tomorrow. Sorry for doing this so late, but I
> just realized that the deadline is the 20th.
>
> Thanks,
> Stuart Geiger
>
Hi Folks,
Just thought I'd share news of a wiki-related contest:
As part of the Balisage 2010 Conference, MarkLogic has put forth a
challenge in the form of a contest. The goal of the contest is to
encourage markup experts to review and to research the current state
of wiki markup languages and to generate a proposal that serves to de-
babelize the current state of affairs for the long haul.
See http://developer.marklogic.com/news/marklogic-sponsors-balisage-2010-contest
for details.
Best,
Eric
COLING 2010
2nd Workshop on
"The People's Web meets NLP:
Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources"
Beijing
August 28th, 2010
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/scientific-community/coling-2010-workshop/
Keywords:
Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Mechanical Turk, Games with a purpose,
Folksonomies, Twitter, Social Networks
INTRODUCTION
The workshop builds upon the success of the first ACL "The People's Web
meets NLP" Workshop in 2009 that attracted 21 submissions. Accepted
submissions included papers on Wikipedia [1], Wiktionary [2], Mechanical
Turk [3], and game-based construction of semantic resources [4]. This
clearly demonstrates a substantial and growing interest of the NLP
community in collaboratively constructed semantic resources (CSRs),
also evidenced by the increasing number of publications in this area
and the EMNLP 2009 Web 2.0 track. In many works, CSRs have been used
to overcome the knowledge acquisition bottleneck and coverage problems
pertinent to conventional lexical semantic resources. The greatest
popularity in this respect can so far certainly be attributed to
Wikipedia [1]. However, other resources, such as folksonomies or the
multilingual collaboratively constructed dictionary Wiktionary, have
also shown great potential. Thus, the scope of the workshop deliberately
includes any collaboratively constructed resource, not only Wikipedia.
Effective deployment of CSRs to enhance NLP introduces a pressing need
to address a set of fundamental challenges, e.g. the interoperability
with existing resources, or the quality of the extracted lexical
semantic knowledge. Interoperability between resources is crucial as
no single resource provides perfect coverage. The quality of CSRs is
a fundamental issue, as they lack editorial control and entries are
often incomplete. Thus, techniques for link prediction [5] or
information extraction [6] have been proposed to guide the "crowds"
while constructing resources of better quality.
[1] Olena Medelyan, David Milne, Catherine Legg and Ian H. Witten.
Mining meaning from Wikipedia.
In: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. 67(9), 2009.
[2] Torsten Zesch, Christof Mueller and Iryna Gurevych
Extracting Lexical Semantic Knowledge from Wikipedia and Wiktionary
Proceedings of the Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
(LREC), 2008.
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/jwpl/http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/jwktl/
[3] Rion Snow, Brendan O'Connor, Daniel Jurafsky and Andrew Y. Ng.
Cheap and Fast---But is it Good? Evaluating Non-Expert Annotations
for Natural Language Tasks.
Proceedings of EMNLP. 2008.
[4] Luis von Ahn and Laura Dabbish.
General Techniques for Designing Games with a Purpose.
Communications of the ACM, 2008.
[5] Rada Mihalcea and Andras Csomai
Wikify!: Linking Documents to Encyclopedic Knowledge.
Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and
Knowledge Management, CIKM 2007.
[6] Daniel S. Weld et al.
Intelligence in Wikipedia.
Twenty-Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2008.
TOPICS
The workshop will bring together researchers from different worlds, for
example those using collaboratively constructed resources as sources of
lexical semantic information for NLP purposes such as information
retrieval, named entity recognition, or keyword extraction, and those
using NLP techniques to improve the resources or extract and analyze
different types of lexical semantic information from them. We will
especially welcome contributions of interdisciplinary nature, e.g. those
applying discourse analysis techniques from computational linguistics to
the content of CSRs to better understand their properties.
Specific topics include but are not limited to:
* Analysis of collaboratively constructed resources, such as wiki-based
platforms, folksonomies, Twitter, or social networks;
* Using collaboratively constructed resources for NLP purposes such
as information retrieval, text categorization, information
extraction, etc.;
* Using special features of collaboratively constructed resources to
create novel resource types, for example revision-based corpora,
simplified versions of resources, etc.;
* Analyzing the structure of collaboratively constructed resources
related to their use in NLP;
* Interoperability of collaboratively constructed resources with
conventional lexical semantic resources and between themselves;
* Mining social and collaborative content for constructing structured
semantic resources and the corresponding tools;
* Mining multilingual information from collaboratively constructed
resources;
* Quality and reliability of collaboratively constructed semantic
resources.
We especially encourage short papers describing publicly available tools
for accessing or analyzing collaboratively constructed resources that can
serve as a multiplier in the NLP community.
The workshop is intended to be highly interdisciplinary. Thus, we encourage
the participation of researchers working on computational linguistics
aspects (e.g. parsing or discourse analysis) or NLP applications (e.g.
information retrieval, information extraction, question answering, and
knowledge representation) as well as researchers from other areas who
might benefit from collaboratively constructed semantic resources.
Substantially extended versions of the best papers from the workshop can
be submitted to a planned Special Issue in one of the major computational
linguistics journals. The revised papers will have to undergo a separate
reviewing process required for journal publications.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline (full and short): May 30, 2010
Notification of acceptance of papers: June 30, 2010
Camera-ready copy of papers due: July 10, 2010
COLING 2010 Workshop: Aug 28, 2010
ORGANIZERS
Iryna Gurevych
Torsten Zesch
Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Andras Csomai Google Inc.
Anette Frank Heidelberg University
Benno Stein Bauhaus University Weimar
Bernardo Magnini ITC-irst Trento
Christiane Fellbaum Princeton University
Dan Moldovan University of Texas at Dallas
Delphine Bernhard LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay
Diana McCarthy Lexical Computing Ltd
Elke Teich Technische Universität Darmstadt
Emily Pitler University of Pennsylvania
Eneko Agirre University of the Basque Country
Erhard Hinrichs Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Ernesto De Luca Technische Universität Berlin
Florian Laws University of Stuttgart
Gerard de Melo MPI Saarbrücken
German Rigau University of the Basque Country
Graeme Hirst University of Toronto
Günter Neumman DFKI Saarbrücken
György Szarvas Technische Universität Darmstadt
Hans-Peter Zorn European Media Lab, Heidelberg
José Iria University of Sheffield
Laurent Raumary LORIA, Nancy
Magnus Sahlgren Swedish Institute of Computer Science
Manfred Stede Potsdam University
Omar Alonso A9.com, Inc.
Pablo Castells Universidad Autónonoma de Madrid
Paul Buitelaar DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway
Philipp Cimiano Delft University of Technology
Razvan Bunescu University of Texas at Austin
Rene Witte Concordia University Montréal
Roxana Girju University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Saif Mohammad University of Maryland
Samer Hassan University of North Texas
Sören Auer Leipzig University
Tonio Wandmacher CEA, Paris