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SEMANTiCS - 17th International Conference on Semantic Systems, September
6 - 9, 2021
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
https://2021-eu.semantics.cc/
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= Important Dates (specific track dates are given below)
* Abstract Submission Deadline: March 22, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Paper Submission Deadline: March 29, 2021 (11:59 pm,Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: May 17, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: June 06, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
= Read a detailed description of all available calls online:
https://2021-eu.semantics.cc/cfp
= Submission via Easychair on
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sem21eu#
Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2021 EU are planned to be published by Springer
LNCS & CEUR. All proceedings will be made available open access.
SEMANTiCS 2021 EU particularly welcomes submissions on the following key
topics:
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* 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
* Semantics in Blockchain environments
* 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: Distributed and Decentralized Knowledge Graphs
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://2021-eu.semantics.cc/cfp
== 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: March 22, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Paper Submission Deadline: March 29, 2021 (11:59 pm,Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: May 17, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: June 06, 2021 (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://2021-eu.semantics.cc/cfp
== 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: May 24, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: June 21, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: July 05, 2021 (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 Services, Thesaurus and/or Ontology Management, Text
Mining, Data Mining and any related fields. All submissions should have
a strong focus on real-world applications beyond the prototypical stage
and demonstrate the power of semantic systems!
= Important Dates:
* Presentation Submission Deadline: April 26, 2021 (11:59 p.m.,Hawaii
time)
* Notification of Acceptance: May 17, 2021 (11:59 p.m., Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Presentation: July 26, 2021 (11:59 p.m.,
Hawaii time)
Submit your presentations here:
http://2021-eu.semantics.cc/submission-industry-presentations
== Workshops and Tutorials ==
Workshops and Tutorials at SEMANTiCS 2018 allow your organisation or
project to advance and promote your topics and gain increased
visibility. The workshops and tutorials will provide a forum for
presenting widely recognised contributions and findings to a diverse and
knowledgeable community. Furthermore, the event can be used as a
dissemination activity in the scope of large research projects or as a
closed format for research and commercial project consortia meetings.
= Important Dates for Workshops:
* Proposals WS Deadline: March 01, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
= Important Dates for Tutorials (and other meetings, e.g. seminars,
show-cases, etc., without call for papers):
* Proposals Tutorial Deadline: June 07, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: June 21, 2021 (11:59 pm,
Hawaii time)
== Special Calls ==
Special calls or sub-topics are dedicated towards specific topics that
are of special interest to the SEMANTiCS community. IN case we receive a
sufficient amount of high quality submissions these topics will become
special tracks within the conference program. For 2021 SEMANTiCS
Amsterdam encourages submissions to the following sub-topics:
* Special Sub-Topic: Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
* Special Sub-Topic: LegalTech
* Special Sub-Topic: Distributed and Decentralized Knowledge Graphs
Each sub-topic is managed by a distinct committee and encourages
submissions from the scientific or industrial domain. Scientific
submissions will undergo a thorough review process and will be published
in the conference proceedings in case of acceptance. Industrial
submissions will be evaluated and selected according to the quality
criteria of the industry track. WE are looking forward to your submissions!
== SEMANTiCS 2021 EU Organizing Committee ==
The program committee is announced on the conference website
https://2021-eu.semantics.cc/committee
= Read a detailed description of all available calls online:
https://2021-eu.semantics.cc/cfp
Some of you on this list may be interested in Google Summer of Code or
Outreachy programs with the Wikimedia Foundation which are, in a
nutshell, initiatives through which you can have short-term paid
positions to work on the Wikimedia projects. Please read on if you're
interested.
Leila
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From: Gopa Vasanth <gopavasanth1999(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 3:53 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to apply to Outreachy and Google
Summer of Code program with Wikimedia!
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Hello folks,
We would like to invite you to apply to the Outreachy and Google
Summer of Code program with the Wikimedia Foundation (a non-profit
organization behind Wikipedia)!
About the Outreachy program
Wikimedia will be mentoring ~3 projects in the Outreachy program in
the May to August 2021 round. The initial applications are due
February 22nd at 4 pm UTC.
Apply today: https://www.outreachy.org/apply/ [1]
Outreachy offers three-month internships to work remotely in Free and
Open Source Software (FOSS) projects with experienced mentors. The
internships may include programming, user experience, documentation,
illustration, and graphic design, or data science.
Outreachy internships run twice a year – from May to August and
December to March. Interns are paid a stipend of $5,500 USD for the
three months of work. They also have a $500 USD stipend to travel to
conferences and events. Interns often find employment after their
internship with Outreachy sponsors or in jobs that use the skills they
learned during their internship.
Outreachy is open to both students and non-students. Outreachy
expressly invites the following people to apply:
Women (both cis and trans), trans men, and genderqueer people.
Anyone who faces under-representation, systematic bias, or
discrimination in the technology industry in their country of
residence is invited to apply.
Residents and nationals of the United States of any gender who are
Black/African American, Hispanic/Latin@, Native American/American
Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander.
About the Google Summer of Code program
Wikimedia is planning to mentor 8-10 projects in 2021’s Google Summer
of Code (GSoC) program. Beginning March 9th, pending Wikimedia’s
acceptance as a mentoring organization, applicants can begin
discussing ideas with the mentors!
The student application will be due on April 13, 2021:
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ [2]
Google Summer of Code, now in its 17th year, is Google's summer
program for candidates participating in any academic programs who want
to get involved in open-source software. Over 6,626 students from 121
countries have already participated in the last year’s round i.e 2020
<https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/06/google-summer-of-code-2020-statis…>
[3]. Google Summer of Code is a unique program that pairs students
with mentors who introduce them to the open-source community and
provide guidance while they work on real-world open-source projects
during their summer break from university.
This year there are some new breaking changes in the GSoC program, including:
Smaller project size ~175 hr project (previously 350 hr)
Shortened coding period ~10 weeks long (previously 3 months)
Eligibility criteria redefined; the program is now open to candidates
participating in a variety of academic programs (previously accredited
university programs only)
Projects cover a wide range of fields including Cloud, Operating
Systems, Graphics, Medicine, Programming Languages, Robotics, Science,
Security and many more. It's a highly competitive program (and this
year is expected to be even bigger than last year), so don't wait
until the last minute to prepare!
About the Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that hosts and
operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects.
Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential
to contribute something to our shared knowledge and that everyone
should be able to access that knowledge, free of interference. We host
the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading,
contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer
communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for
policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive.
Resources
* Browse through the participants’ guides, to learn more about the
application process steps:
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Participants> [4]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Participants> [5]
* All the projects will be showcased here:
<https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/wikimedia/> [6]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2021> [7]
We hope you will help us spread the word about Wikimedia’s
participation in these programs (by sharing this email)
Looking forward to your participation!
Cheers,
Gopa, Srishti, Pavithra, Ankit & Mahveotm (Wikimedia organization
administrators for GSoC & Outreachy)
[1] https://www.outreachy.org/apply/
[2] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/
[3] https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/06/google-summer-of-code-2020-statis…
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Participants
[5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Participants
[6] https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/wikimedia/
[7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2021
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Gopa Vasanth
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Hi all,
The Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation has officially started 2 new
collaborations to work with us as part of the Addressing Knowledge Gaps
program [1]. We are thankful to them for agreeing to spend their time and
expertise on these projects in the coming 5 months.
Ai-jou (Aiko) Chou started as a contractor with the Research team on
February 1st. Based in Taiwan, she will be working on improving the Image
Recommendation algorithm [2], to find good images for unillustrated
Wikipedia articles, and support its productization. She will additionally
work on longer-term projects related to image recommendations, such as the
development of image classifiers trained on Commons categories [3].
Marc Miquel started as a contractor with the Research team on January 26th.
He will be working on the taxonomy of knowledge gaps [4], specifically in
developing metrics for gaps related to content (gender, geography, etc.)
[5]. Marc brings extensive experience in this space from his work on the
Cultural Diversity Observatory [6].
We aim to keep the research documentation for these projects in the
corresponding research pages on meta [3,5]. Miriam Redi and I will act as
the point of contact for these projects in the Wikimedia Foundation. Please
feel free to reach out to us if you have comments or questions about the
project (directly, if it cannot be shared publicly) .
Best,
Miriam and Martin
[1] https://research.wikimedia.org/knowledge-gaps.html
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Personalized_first_day/Structured_tas…
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Prototypes_of_Image_Classifiers_Tr…
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Knowledge_Gaps_Index/Taxonomy
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Developing_Metrics_for_Content_Gap…
[6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Diversity_Observatory
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Martin Gerlach
Research Scientist
Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi everyone,
WikiCred Demo Hour is hosting a special Q&A Session with Mark Graham,
Director at Internet Archive and the WayBack Machine on Feb 12th EST.
This is everything you always wanted to ask about the Internet Archive, and
the Wayback Machine, but were too afraid to ask. Mark Graham will give a
quick overview of some of the Internet Archive's projects and priorities
and engage with questions, suggestions, requests, and constructive
criticism about the work of this nearly 25 year old non-profit. Mark is
especially interested in learning about how the organization can evolve its
services to be of most benefit to more people.
In addition to Mark's Q&A, we will host a hands-on demo on how to query
bibliographical data from WikiData and extract visual graphics for
academic research by Wikipedia editor and WikiData expert
Houcemeddine Turki.
The call is open to the public, but we require that you sign up on this form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeEpva_wwZA9xIjtTni7-y0tZ_VgXW8nzV…>
in
order to receive the Zoom link.
Find our agenda here
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Blz4OAXypJe8yqMHFt4nQDufan2ZcmTWvHs5uXW…>
.
*About WikiCred Demo Hour*
WikiCred Demo Hour is an initiative of the WikiCredibility Grant Initiative
<http://wikicred.org/> which supports wikipedia and wikimedia projects with
the goal of strengthening information reliability and credibility on the
internet. It is a regular monthly online meetup that brings together
members of the Wikimedian community, open-data and open-knowledge
enthusiasts, academics, journalists, researchers, and professionals from
the online credibility space.
Best regards,
Ahmed Medien
hackshackers.comwikicred.org
Partners <https://www.wikicred.org/#who-we-are> / Projects
<http://wikicred.org/#projects> / WikiCred Demo Videos
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyA_FVf2mGM&list=PLQO0eq9qkTnNTtk4WIA1cx-5Y…>
Hi everyone,
WikiCred Demo Hour is hosting a special Q&A Session with Mark Graham,
Director at Internet Archive and the WayBack Machine on Feb 12th EST.
This is everything you always wanted to ask about the Internet Archive, and
the Wayback Machine, but were too afraid to ask. Mark Graham will give a
quick overview of some of the Internet Archive's projects and priorities
and engage with questions, suggestions, requests, and constructive
criticism about the work of this nearly 25 year old non-profit. Mark is
especially interested in learning about how the organization can evolve its
services to be of most benefit to more people.
In addition to Mark's Q&A, we will host a hands-on demo on how to query
bibliographical data from WikiData and extract visual graphics for
academic research by Wikipedia editor and WikiData expert
Houcemeddine Turki.
The call is open to the public, but we require that you sign up on this form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeEpva_wwZA9xIjtTni7-y0tZ_VgXW8nzV…>
in order to receive the Zoom link.
Find our agenda here
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Blz4OAXypJe8yqMHFt4nQDufan2ZcmTWvHs5uXW…>
.
*About WikiCred Demo Hour*
WikiCred Demo Hour is an initiative of the WikiCredibility Grant Initiative
<http://wikicred.org> which supports wikipedia and wikimedia projects with
the goal of strengthening information reliability and credibility on the
internet. It is a regular monthly online meetup that brings together
members of the Wikimedian community, open-data and open-knowledge
enthusiasts, academics, journalists, researchers, and professionals from
the online credibility space.
Best regards,
Ahmed Medien
hackshackers.comwikicred.org
Partners <https://www.wikicred.org/#who-we-are> / Projects
<http://wikicred.org/#projects> / WikiCred Demo Videos
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyA_FVf2mGM&list=PLQO0eq9qkTnNTtk4WIA1cx-5Y…>
Dear Wiki Community,
My name is Mackenzie Lemieux and I am a neuroscience researcher at the Salk
Institute for Biological Studies and I am interested in exploring biases on
Wikipedia.
My research hypothesis is that gender or ethnicity mediate the rate of
flagging and deletion of pages for women in STEM. I hope to
retrospectively analyze Wikipedia's deletion history, harvest the
biographical articles about scientists that have been created over the past
n years and then confirm the gender and ethnicity of a large sample.
It appears that we can identify deleted pages with Wikipedia's deletion log
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_log>, but to actually see
the page that was deleted we need to be members of one of these Wikipedia
user groups: Administrators
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators>, Oversighters
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Oversight>, Researchers
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Researchers>, Checkusers
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CheckUser>.
Does anyone have advice on how to obtain researcher status or is there
anyone willing to collaborate who has access to the data we need?
Warmly,
Mackenzie Lemieux
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Mackenzie Lemieux
mackenzie.lemieux(a)gmail.com
cell: 416-806-0041
220 Gilmour Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M6P 3B4
Hi all,
Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly
Office hours next week on 2021-02-02 at 17:00-18:00 PM UTC (9am PT/6pm
CET).
To participate, join the video-call via this Wikimedia-meet link [2]. There
is no set agenda - feel free to add your item to the list of topics in the
etherpad [3] (You can do this after you join the meeting, too.), otherwise
you are welcome to also just hang out. More detailed information (e.g.
about how to attend) can be found here [4].
Through these office hours, we aim to make ourselves more available to
answer some of the research related questions that you as Wikimedia
volunteer editors, organizers, affiliates, staff, and researchers face in
your projects and initiatives. Some example cases we hope to be able to
support you in:
-
You have a specific research related question that you suspect you
should be able to answer with the publicly available data and you don’t
know how to find an answer for it, or you just need some more help with it.
For example, how can I compute the ratio of anonymous to registered editors
in my wiki?
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You run into repetitive or very manual work as part of your Wikimedia
contributions and you wish to find out if there are ways to use machines to
improve your workflows. These types of conversations can sometimes be
harder to find an answer for during an office hour, however, discussing
them can help us understand your challenges better and we may find ways to
work with each other to support you in addressing it in the future.
-
You want to learn what the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation
does and how we can potentially support you. Specifically for affiliates:
if you are interested in building relationships with the academic
institutions in your country, we would love to talk with you and learn
more. We have a series of programs that aim to expand the network of
Wikimedia researchers globally and we would love to collaborate with those
of you interested more closely in this space.
-
You want to talk with us about one of our existing programs [5].
Hope to see many of you,
Martin (WMF Research Team)
[1] https://research.wikimedia.org/team.html
[2] https://meet.wmcloud.org/ResearchOfficeHours
[3] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Research-Analytics-Office-hours
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours
[5] https://research.wikimedia.org/projects.html
--
Martin Gerlach
Research Scientist
Wikimedia Foundation