Hi everyone,
The call for papers for the 11th Wiki Workshop in 2024 is out:
https://wikiworkshop.org/2024/call-for-papers
Submit your 2-page extended abstracts by April 22 (all submissions are
non-archival).
The workshop will take place virtually as a standalone event on June 20,
2024. For more information, see the workshop website
https://wikiworkshop.org/2024/
If you have questions about the workshop, please let us know on this list
or at wikiworkshop(a)googlegroups.com.
Looking forward to seeing many of you in this year's edition.
On behalf of the PC-chairs,
Pablo Beytía, Catholic University of Chile
Martin Gerlach, Wikimedia Foundation
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Martin Gerlach (he/him) | Senior Research Scientist | Wikimedia Foundation
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SEMANTiCS - 20th International Conference on Semantic Systems
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
September 17 - 19, 2024
https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/
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The Research and Innovation track at SEMANTiCS 2024 welcomes papers on
novel scientific research and innovations relevant to the Semantic Web,
Semantic Technologies, and semantic-enabled AI. We also welcome
submissions at the intersection between this field and other scientific
disciplines. Submissions should be original and should not have been
published elsewhere in any form or language. Papers must adhere to the
instructions given in the submission guidelines, including references
and optional appendices. Each submission will receive at least three
independent reviews and will be evaluated based on their novelty,
technical quality, reproducibility, and practical significance.
SEMANTiCS 2024 calls for submissions of excellent quality addressing the
following topics in the Semantic Web area, from both theoretical and
practical perspectives.
= Topics of Interest =
* Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data
* Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management
* Machine Learning Techniques for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g.
reinforcement learning, deep learning, data mining and knowledge discovery)
* Interplay between generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (e.g., RAG approach)
* Knowledge Management (e.g. acquisition, capture, extraction,
authoring, integration, publication)
* Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management, Ontology engineering
* Reasoning, Rules, and Policies
* Natural Language Processing for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. entity
linking and resolution using target knowledge such as Wikidata and
DBpedia, foundation models)
* Crowdsourcing for/using Knowledge Graphs
* Data Quality Management and Assurance
* Mathematical Foundation of Knowledge-aware AI
* Multimodal Knowledge Graphs
* Semantics in Data Science
* Semantics in Blockchain environments
* Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies
* IoT, Stream Processing, dealing with temporal data
* Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems
* Provenance and Data Change Tracking
* Semantic Interoperability (via mapping, crosswalks, standards, etc.)
* Linked Data storage, triple stores, graph databases
* Robust and scalable management, querying and analysis of semantics and
data
* User interfaces for the Semantic Web & its management
* Explainable and Interoperable AI
* Decentralised and Federated Knowledge Graphs (e.g., Federated
querying, link traversal)
Application of Semantically-Enriched and AI-Based Approaches, such as,
but not limited to:
* Knowledge Graphs in Bioinformatics, Medical AI and preventive healthcare
* Clinical Use Case of semantic-enabled AI-based Approaches
* AI for Environmental Challenges
* Semantics in Scholarly Communication and Scientific Knowledge Graphs
* AI and LOD within GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums)
institutions
* Knowledge Graphs & hybrid AI for predictive maintenance and Industry
4.0/5.0
* Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
* LegalTech, AI Safety, EU AI Act
* Economics of Data, Data Services, and Data Ecosystems
= Important Dates =
* Abstract Submission Deadline: April 22, 2024 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Paper Submission Deadline: April 29, 2024 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: June 11, 2024 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: July 09, 2024 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Submissions will be through Easychair. Stay tuned for the submission link.
= Author Guidelines and Submission =
* The Research and Innovation Track welcomes long and short papers. Long
papers should have 12-15 pages of content (excluding references) and
short papers of a maximum length of 6 pages of content (excluding
references). Since references are excluded from page counting, it is
fine to have one or more additional pages for references if they are
relevant to the study submitted.
* Submissions should follow the guidelines of IOS Press. Details are
available at https://www.iospress.com/book-article-instructions.
* Abstract submission for all papers is a strict requirement. To
facilitate bidding, we strongly suggest the authors submit structured
abstracts.
* All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via
EasyChair.
* Submissions must be in English.
* Submissions must adhere to the fair use of Large Language Models.
Please refer to the SEMANTiCS full policy for more
details.https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/page/llm-policy
* Submissions must be anonymous; the reviewing process is double-blind,
but reviewers will be able to disclose their identities if they wish, by
signing their reviews.
* Accepted papers will be published in open access proceedings by IOS
Press, and the text of all the reviews (excluding the scores) of all the
accepted papers will be posted on the conference website and will be
archived on Zenodo as publicly available material.
* At least one author of each accepted paper must present it in person
and therefore register for the conference at the ONSITE rate.
* All authors are strongly suggested to provide optional links to code,
materials, and datasets during the submission process - we will have
specific optional fields in the EasyChair submission form - the review
process will take these into account when provided. To anonymise
resources for the reviewing process, authors can use services like
Anonymous GitHub https://anonymous.4open.science/ or figshare/Zenodo as
described here.
* The Research and Innovation Track will not accept papers that, at the
time of submission, are under review or have already been published in
or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference.
* All authors will have the opportunity to provide an ORKG comparison in
the Open Research Knowledge Graph (https://orkg.org) during the
submission process - we will have a specific optional field in the
EasyChair submission form.
= Review and Evaluation Criteria =
Each submission will be reviewed by at least three Programme Committee
members. The reviewing process is double-blind. However, reviewers can
disclose their identity by signing their reviews and/or adding one of
their persistent identifiers (e.g. their ORCID).
The text of all the reviews (excluding the scores) of all the accepted
papers will be posted on the conference website with the basic
bibliographic metadata of the reviewed submission (i.e. title and
authors), and it will be archived on Zenodo as publicly available
material. All the signed reviews of the accepted papers will be licensed
using a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY, the copyright
holder will be the reviewer), except the anonymous ones that will be
released in CC0.
Papers submitted to this track will be evaluated according to the
following criteria:
* Appropriateness
* Originality, novelty, and innovativeness
* Impact of results
* Technical quality of the methods
* Soundness of the evaluation
* Proper comparison to related work
* Clarity and quality of writing
* Reproducibility of results and resources
For details please go to: https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/
<https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/>
We are looking forward to your contribution!
Mehwish Alam, Femke Ongenae & Angelo Salatino
Research and Innovation Track Chairs
Hi all,
The Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation has officially started a new
Formal Collaboration [1] with Dr. Michael Zimmer (Marquette University) to
work collaboratively on Wikimedia Research Best Practices Around Privacy
White Paper [2]. We prioritized responding to this request from the
Arbitration Committee [3] as part of our mission to strengthen Wikimedia
research communities and to support the policy (broadly defined) needs of
the Wikimedia Movement.[4]
Here are a few pieces of information about this collaboration that we would
like to share with you:
* We aim to keep the research documentation for this project in the
corresponding research page on meta.[2] Please note the link on that
project page to the Phabricator task, which contains additional details and
timeline information.
* Research tasks are hard to break down and track in task-tracking
systems. This being said, the page on meta is linked to an Epic level
Phabricator task and all tasks related to this project that can be captured
on Phabricator will be captured there.[5]
* The following formal collaborator (cc-ed) will contribute to this
project: Dr. Michael Zimmer, Marquette University.[6] We are thankful to
them for agreeing to spend their time and expertise on this project, and to
those of you who have already worked with us as we were shaping the
proposal for this project and are planning to continue your contributions
to this program.
* I act as the point of contact for this research in the Wikimedia
Foundation. Please feel free to reach out to me (directly, if it
cannot be shared publicly) if you have comments or questions about the
project.
Best,
Eli
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Eli Asikin-Garmager
Principal Design Researcher (he/him)
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> | Iowa City
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_City,_Iowa> (UTC -6/-5)
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Formal_collaborations
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_Research_Best_Practices_…
[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/World_War…
[4] https://research.wikimedia.org/
[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T337883
[6] https://www.marquette.edu/computer-science/directory/michael-zimmer.php
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Second Call for Papers
formal papers - doctoral programme
17th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
- CICM 2024 -
August 5���9, 2024
Montr��al, Canada
https://cicm-conference.org/2024/
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More and more mathematical information is digitally processed, generated,
communicated, stored and curated.
CICM brings together the many separate communities that have developed
theoretical and practical solutions for mathematical applications such as
computation, deduction, knowledge management, and user interfaces. It offers a
venue for discussing problems and solutions in each of these areas and their
integration.
CICM 2024 invites submissions in all topics relating to intelligent computer
mathematics, in particular but not limited to
* theorem proving and computer algebra
* mathematical knowledge management
* digital mathematical libraries
*** Important Dates ***
Formal submissions
- Abstract deadline: March 25, 2024
- Full paper deadline: April 1, 2024
- Reviews sent to authors: May 7, 2024
- Rebuttals due: May 10, 2024
- Notification of acceptance: May 24, 2024
- Camera-ready copies due: June 7, 2024
- Conference: August 5-9, 2024
Doctoral programme applications
- Submission deadline: June 13, 2024
- Notification of acceptance: June 28, 2024
*** Programme committee ***
The program committee is listed at
https://cicm-conference.org/2024/cicm.php?event=&menu=pc
The program committee is chaired by Andrea Kohlhase (https://www.hnu.de/andrea-kohlhase)
and Laura Kov��cs (http://lkovacs.com/).
The CICM community appreciates the varying nature of the relevant research in
computer mathematics and invites submissions of two different forms:
*** Formal Paper Submissions ***
Formal submissions will be reviewed rigorously and accepted papers will be
published in a volume of Springer LNAI:
* regular papers (up to 15 pages + bibliography) present novel research
results
* project and survey papers (up to 15 pages + bibliography) summarize
existing results
* system and dataset descriptions (4 to 5 pages + bibliography) present
digital artifacts
*** Doctoral Symposium: Two-Page Abstracts***
The doctoral programme provides PhD students a forum to present early results to
receive constructive feedback and mentoring. To attend, submissions of two-page
abstracts are expected in which the focus and research questions of the expected
PhD theses are described; details on completed research tasks and remaining
research plans should be given. In addition to these abstract, a two-pages CV of
the applicant should also be submitted, detailing background information (name,
university, supervisor), education (sought degree, previous degrees),
employments and relevant research experience (publications, attended
conferences/workshops).
*** Submissions ***
All submissions should be made via EasyChair at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2024
using the Springer LNCS style files
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…
CICM 2024 proceedings, containing the accepted formal submissions, will be
published in the Springer LNAI series.
*** Participation - Physical Event ***
CICM 2024 will be held as a physical event and participation is possible only
on-site. At least one of the authors of accepted papers is expected to register
to CICM 2024 and present the work(s) on-site.
*** Best Papers ***
CICM 2024 honors the best paper and best student paper with respect to reviews
and program committee discussions with an award.
Hi all,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, January 17,
at 9:30 AM PST / 17:30 UTC. Find your local time here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1705512600>. The theme for this showcase is
*Connecting Action with Policy*.
You are welcome to watch via the YouTube stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUuC6Q1SIoM. As usual, you can join the
conversation in the YouTube chat as soon as the showcase goes live.
This month's presentations:
Presenting the report "Unreliable Guidelines"By *Amber Berson and Monika
Jones*The goal behind the report Unreliable Guidelines: Reliable Sources
and Marginalized Communities in French, English and Spanish Wikipedias was
to understand the effects of the set of reliable source guidelines and
rules on the participation of and the content about marginalized
communities on three Wikipedias. Two years following the release of their
report, researchers Berson and Sengul-Jones reflect on the impact of their
research as well as the actionable next steps.Why Should This Article Be
Deleted? Transparent Stance Detection in Multilingual Wikipedia Editor
DiscussionsBy *Lucie-Aimée Kaffee and Arnav Arora*The moderation of content
on online platforms is usually non-transparent. On Wikipedia, however, this
discussion is carried out publicly and the editors are encouraged to use
the content moderation policies as explanations for making moderation
decisions. However, currently only a few comments explicitly mention those
policies. To aid in this process of understanding how content is moderated,
we construct a novel multilingual dataset of Wikipedia editor discussions
along with their reasoning in three languages. We demonstrate that stance
and corresponding reason (policy) can be predicted jointly with a high
degree of accuracy, adding transparency to the decision-making process.
Best,
Kinneret
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Kinneret Gordon
Lead Research Community Officer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals
17th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
- CICM 2024 -
August 5 - 9, 2024
Montr��al, Qu��bec, Canada
https://www.cicm-conference.org/2024
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More and more mathematical information is digitally processed, generated,
communicated, stored and curated. CICM brings together the many separate
communities that have developed theoretical and practical solutions for
mathematical applications such as computation, deduction, knowledge management,
and user interfaces. It offers a venue for discussing problems and solutions in
each of these areas and their integration.
CICM covers
- all aspects of mathematics such as formalization, computation, deduction,
mathematical databases, and mathematical documents,
- all kinds of tool support such as theorem provers, computer algebra systems,
knowledge management tools, and user interfaces
- the whole spectrum from theoretical foundations to practical tools and from
challenge problems to case studies.
Workshops typically feature presentations of ongoing research that is not ready
yet for formal publication, and tutorials present extended demos of a particular
software.
However, the CICM organizers strongly encourage a broad interpretation of these
concepts and welcome proposals for any kind of event that benefits the CICM
community.
A proposal should include the following information:
- title of the event
- names and affiliations of the organizers
- brief description of the event (e.g., 1-2 paragraphs)
- proposed workshop duration (typically half a day up to two days)
- style (in person-only, hybrid)
- previous instances of the event (if any)
- preferred or excluded dates within the CICM dates (if any)
- if the format of the event relies on contributed talks, a brief outline of a
"backup plan" in case of low submission rates to allow for more reliable
scheduling/planning efforts by the organizers.
Important Dates
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Proposal submission: February 29, 2024
Notication: March 15, 2024
Conference: August 5-9, 2024
Earlier submissions are encouraged and will receive notifications on a rolling
basis.
All proposals should be submitted via email to dennis.mueller(a)fau.de.
More details on the conference are available at
https://www.cicm-conference.org/2024
Hi everyone,
If you are interested in one/some/all of the projects and initiatives that
the Research team [1] at the Wikimedia Foundation is driving or is heavily
involved with, our bi-annual Research Report is a good place for you to get
a high level update about our work.
We have published our 9th bi-annual report at https://research
.wikimedia.org/report.html which captures the work of the team, our
contractors, and our formal collaborators [2] during July to December 2023.
In the report you can also find information about upcoming events which may
be of interest to you, changes in our team, and trends we watch.
We hope you enjoy reading parts or all of the report. If you prefer to
print the report, ctrl+p/cmd+p remain your friends. And if you have follow
up questions about an item in the report, you're welcome to follow-up
through the usual channels, including our public office hours [3].
Best,
Leila,
[1] https://research.wikimedia.org/team.html
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Collaborators
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours#Schedule
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Leila Zia
Head of Research
Wikimedia Foundation