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
Reminder: the research paper deadline for WikiSym is **March 7**.
Please don't hesitate to contact myself, Felipe Ortega, or the
appropriate track chair (listed below) with questions.
====== CALL FOR PAPERS ======
W I K I S Y M 2 0 1 0
The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
http://wikisym.org/ws2010/Call+for+Papers
July 7-8-9 in Gdańsk, Poland.
Co-located with Wikimania 2010 (Intl. Conference on Wikimedia
Foundation projects, http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org).
Peer-reviewed and archived in the ACM Digital Library.
SUMMARY
WikiSym, the International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration,
will be held this summer in Gdansk, Poland. Starting this year, WikiSym
aims to explicitly broaden its scope, exploring not only the thriving
wiki community, but also other open movements and open collaboration
initiatives. This includes related areas such as open online communities,
collaborative creation of multimedia content (with or without wikis),
and open journalism and publishing, just to list a few examples.
Furthermore, our goal is to establish WikiSym as a venue for the exchange
of information, experiences and practices among an interdisciplinary
audience, including researchers, practitioners, industry representatives
and experts with a wide variety of different backgrounds.
As a result, WikiSym has established 3 complementary tracks to merge the
contributions from such a diverse community:
* Wiki track: Focused on research in wiki technology,
wiki websites, wiki communities, and in general any kind
of initiative pivoting around wiki software.
* Industry track: This new track will focus on the specific
needs of enterprises and private companies interested in sharing
and promoting their experiences around wikis and open collaboration
projects/products/initiatives.
* Open collaboration track: This track is a dedicated venue for
sharing research results and experiences in initiatives that may not
be built specifically on wiki software, but share the "wiki way"
of organization. These may include open collaborations, open communities,
and open movements that allow the interchange of ideas and contributions
from participants with a range of interests and motivations.
Research manuscripts may be sent to any of these tracks.
However, submitting the same manuscript to more than one
track at the same time is not allowed. Therefore, please
select the most appropriate track for the topic covered in
your manuscript before submitting.
IMPORTANT DATES
* March 7th: Submission deadline for research papers.
* March 21st: Submission deadline for Doctoral Symposium
proposals, posters, demonstrations, workshops, panels, tutorials.
* May 4th: Notification of acceptance for research papers.
* May 11th: Notification of acceptance for Doctoral Symposium
proposals, posters, workshops, tutorials, panels.
* July 7-9: WikiSym 2010!
Given the interdisciplinary nature of wikis and open
collaboration initiatives, WikiSym invites contributions in
a wide range of fields.
TOPICS OF INTEREST: WIKI TRACK
* Wiki user experiences, usability, and discourse analysis
* Reputation systems and quality assurance processes
* Scalability -- social and technical
* Wiki technologies and implementations
* Translation and multilingual wiki content
* Educational applications
* Wikis for non-textual media (images, video, audio)
* Content dynamics and wiki evolution
* Wiki archiving and versioning
* Wiki administration: dealing with abuse and resolving conflict
* Wikis and the semantic web, knowledge management and tacit knowledge
* Wikis for small audiences (departmental and family wikis)
* Legal issues (copyright, licensing)
* Visualization of wiki structure
TOPICS OF INTEREST: INDUSTRY TRACK
* Business opportunities around wikis and open collaboration
* Best practices to adopt wikis and open collaboration in industry
* Information disclosure: practices and experiences
* Community building and support
* Open publishing and open licensing in the industry
* Wikis and open collaboration entrepreneurship
* Coopetition: best practices
* Interaction and synergies between industries and open communities
* Open innovation: strategies and experiences for leaders/followers
* Promotion, support and funding of open collaboration initiatives
* Knowledge management
TOPICS OF INTEREST OPEN COLLABORATION TRACK
* Social software for collaboration and work group processes
* Open online communities
* Technologies for networked collaboration
* Social interactions on the web
* Open and citizen journalism
* Social networks
* Collaborative content creation
* Distributed development of software
* Cooperation for problem resolution
* Information disclosure strategies
* Open call working environments
* Crowdsourcing and information synthesis
* Collaborative multimedia collections
* Distributed content categorization/tagging
* Open publishing
* Commons projects and repositories
* Distributed selection of content
RESEARCH PAPERS
Research papers present integrative reviews or original
reports of substantive new work: theoretical, empirical,
or in the development or deployment of novel systems.
We encourage emphasizing lessons learned and providing a
clear concise message to the audience about the relevance
of the work. The paper must place your work in context
within the field, citing related work and indicating clearly
what aspects of the work are new.
Research papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee
to meet rigorous academic standards of publication.
They should be written in English and must not exceed 10 pages
(for full papers) or 4 pages (for short papers). Papers will
be reviewed both with respect to conceptual quality and
clarity of presentation. Authors of accepted papers are
expected to attend the conference in order to present the paper.
Accepted submissions will be published in the WikiSym
proceedings and archived in the ACM Digital Library.
Submitted papers should use the ACM SIG Proceedings Format, see:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM
The Doctoral Symposium is an interactive forum for doctoral
students to receive present and discuss their doctoral work.
Students who are at least one year away from dissertation
completion are invited to submit to the Doctoral Symposium.
Students beginning their research are especially invited to attend.
To submit a proposal send a 2-3 page description of your
dissertation research, including:
* A description of your work
* The goals---what contributions will your research generate?
* The approach---what is being performed to achieve
the goals? How will results be validated?
Additionally, your adviser must send a brief statement
of your dissertation progress to date and a statement of
recommendation to the Doctoral Symposium chair.
WORKSHOPS
Workshops provide an opportunity for researchers and
practitioners to discuss and learn about topics that require
extended engagement such as new systems, research methods,
standards and formats. A workshop should require participants
to engage with each other for at least half a day. For shorter
sessions, please consider WikiSym's open space format.
A workshop proposal should consist of approximately two
pages describing what you intend to do and how your session
will meet the criteria described above. It should include a
concise abstract, proposed time frame (half-day, full-day)
and one-paragraph biographies of all people relevant to the
submission. Workshop proposals will be reviewed and selected
for their interest to the community. Each workshop will be
allocated a half-day or a full-day and a room.
PANELS
Panels provide an interactive forum for bringing together
people with interesting points of view to discuss compelling
wiki issues. Panels involve participation from both the
panelists and audience members in a lively discussion.
Proposals for panels should consist of approximately two pages
describing what you intend to do and how your session will
meet the criteria described above. It should include a concise
abstract and one-paragraph biographies of all panelists. A panel
submission will be reviewed and selected for their interest to
the community. Each panel will be given a 90-minute time slot.
POSTERS
Poster presentations enable researchers to present late-breaking
results, significant work in progress, or work that is best communicated
in conversation. WikiSym's lively poster sessions let conference attendees
exchange ideas one-on-one with authors, and let authors discuss their
work in detail with those attendees most deeply interested in the topic.
Poster proposals may describe original research, engineering, or
experience reports. Submissions should consist of a two-page extended
abstract outlining the content of the poster. Successful applicants will
be invited to display a poster, 1x2m in size, at a special plenary
session of the Symposium.
DEMONSTRATIONS
Wikis are intended to be used, and no format is better suited for
demonstrating the utility of new wiki research and technology than showing
and using it. If you would like to demonstrate new features or products,
this is the place! Demonstrations give presenters an opportunity to show
running systems and gather feedback. Demo submissions will be reviewed
based on their relevance to the community. A submission should be one
page in length, with a title and a short description of the demo.
The description should include what you plan to demonstrate, what you
hope to get out of demoing, and how the audience will benefit. A short
note of any special technical requirements may be included.
HOW TO SUBMIT
Please submit your research papers in PDF format through our research
paper submission system
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wikisym2010).
For all other papers and proposals, please email the respective
chair (see below).
All accepted submissions will be published in the proceedings and
archived in the ACM Digital Library.
Submitted work in all categories should use the ACM SIG Proceedings
Format, see: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
Questions regarding submissions may be directed at the respective chair
using the following email addresses:
* Workshops: workshops(a)wikisym.org
* Demonstrations/Tutorials: demos(a)wikisym.org
* Posters: posters(a)wikisym.org
* Doctoral Symposium: docsym(a)wikisym.org
General questions should be directed at chair(a)wikisym.org.
SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE
* Phoebe Ayers, University of California at Davis, USA; Symposium Chair
* Felipe Ortega, GSyC/Libresoft, University Rey Juan Carlos,
Spain; Programme Chair
* Dirk Riehle, Friedrich Alexander University of
Erlangen-Nuremberg; Treasurer
* Felipe Ortega, GSyC/Libresoft, University Rey Juan Carlos,
Spain; Wiki Track Chair
* Martin Cleaver, Blended Perspectives, Canada; Industry Track Chair
* Giota Alevizou, Institute of Educational Technology, Open
University, UK; Open Collaboration Track Chair
* Pattarawan Prasarnphanich, Sasin Graduate Institute of Business
Administration, Thailand; Posters Chair
* Andreea Gorbatai, Harvard University, USA; Workshops Chair
* Stuart Geiger, Georgetown University; Wikimedia Liason
* Stuart Geiger, Georgetown University; Publicity Co-Chair (Academia-US)
* Yoshifumi Masunaga, Aoyama Gakuin University; Publicity Co-Chair
(Asia-Pacific)
* Philipp Schmidt, University of the Western Cape, South Africa;
Publicity Co-Chair (Africa)
* Mayo Fuster Morell, European University Institute, Italy;
Publicity Co-Chair (Open Collaboration)
* Ward Cunningham, AboutUs.org and Cunningham & Cunningham, USA;
Honorary Member
* James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand;
Honorary Member
* Ted Ernst, AboutUs.org, USA; Open Space Facilitator
* Marc Laporte, TikiWiki CMS/Groupware, Canada; Webmaster
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Please visit http://wikisym.org/ws2010 to obtain the most up-to-date
list of reviewers and collaborators included in our Programme
Committee.
***Final Call for Papers***
Fifth Workshop on Semantic Wikis
Linking Data and People [SemWiki2010]
co-located with ESWC 2010, Heraklion, Crete
May 31, 2010
http://www.semwiki.org/
*** DEADLINE EXTENSION: 7th March! ***
Goals and Motivation
====================
Semantic wikis as social semantic software have the mission to gather
humans and computers in order to build together the next wave of ontology
driven collaboration platforms. The research has shifted from proofs of
concept towards foundational research in large projects, commercially sold
enterprise systems and real world use cases. Besides evaluations of such
use cases, technical innovation and foundational research are still needed,
as the large-scale application of semantic wikis has unveiled a number of
research questions. The aim of this fifth SemWiki workshop is to exchange
ideas, to discuss pressing research questions arising from practical usage
of semantic wikis, and to explore integrations of wikis with other semantic
web technologies.
Topics
======
We address researchers working on (but not limited to):
* Applications of semantic wikis in the fields of:
- e-science and e-learning
- software and knowledge engineering
- enterprise workflows
- knowledge management or personal knowledge management
* Integration and reuse of semantic wikis or (semantic) wiki content:
- integrations with other semantic applications and mashups
- browsing and navigating
- visualizing
- editing linked open data
- scaling wikis to the web
- giving semantics to non-semantic wikis (e.g. Wikipedia)
- reusing semantics gained from wikis (e.g. DBpedia)
- interlinked and distributed semantic wikis
- innovative plugins/extensions for existing systems (e.g. Semantic
MediaWiki)
* Human and social factors of semantic wikis:
- usability studies
- empirical studies
- analyses of semantic wiki contributors and their contributions;
- overcoming entrance barriers
- giving incentives for contributing
- connecting knowledge and social interaction
- community building
- from asynchronous interactions to real-time/multi-synchronous
interactions in semantic wikis
- privacy: permissions, trust, licensing, access control
* Knowledge representation and reasoning in semantic wikis:
- combining formal and informal knowledge
- multimodal reasoning/strong reasoning support
- transforming informal to formal knowledge
- making formal knowledge accessible
- on-line knowledge evaluation
- coping with inconsistencies
- change management, truth maintenance, versioning, and undoing semantic
changes
- utilizing emerging knowledge models
- rapid prototyping of schema-driven applications
- collaborative ontology engineering
Organisation Committee
======================
* Christoph Lange, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
ch.lange(a)jacobs-university.de
* Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research, Austria
sebastian.schaffert(a)salzburgresearch.at
* Hala Skaf-Molli, INRIA-Nancy University, France
skaf(a)loria.fr
* Jochen Reutelshöfer, University of Würzburg, Germany
reutelshoefer(a)informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
Programme Committee
===================
# Sören Auer, Universität Leipzig (DE)
# David Aumüller, Universität Leipzig (DE)
# Joachim Baumeister, Universität Würzburg (DE)
# Tobias Bürger, STI Innsbruck (AT)
# Amélie Cordier, LIRIS, Université de Lyon (FR)
# Björn Decker, Fraunhofer IESE (DE)
# Alicia Díaz, La Plata University (AR)
# Sebastian Dietzold, Universität Leipzig (DE)
# Fred Durão, University of Aalborg (DK)
# Michael Erdmann, Ontoprise (DE)
# Fabian Gandon, INRIA - Edelweiss (FR)
# Tudor Groza, DERI (IE)
# Siegfried Handschuh, DERI (IE)
# Martin Hepp, UniBW München (DE)
# Guoqian Jiang, Mayo Clinic (US)
# Malte Kiesel, DFKI (DE)
# Jakub Kotowski, University of Munich (DE)
# Markus Krötzsch, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)
# Tobias Kuhn, Universität Zürich (CH)
# Thomas Kurz, Salzburg Research (AT)
# Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center Graz (AT)
# Pascal Molli, Nancy University, INRIA (FR)
# Christine Müller, Jacobs University Bremen (DE)
# Claudia Müller-Birn, Carnegie Mellon University (US)
# Grzegorz Nalepa, AGH University Krakow (PL)
# Amedeo Napoli, CNRS, LORIA (FR)
# Viktoria Pammer, Know-Center Graz (AT)
# Alexandre Passant, DERI (IE)
# Jean Rohmer, Thales (FR)
# Marek Schmidt, Technical University of Brno (CZ)
# Matthias Samwald, Semantic Web Company (AT)
# Daniel Schwabe, University of Rio de Janeiro (BR)
# Elena Simperl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (AT)
# Rolf Sint, Salzburg Research (AT)
# Katharina Siorpaes, STI Innsbruck (AT)
# Harold Solbrig, Mayo Clinic (US)
# Stephanie Stroka, Salzburg Research (AT)
# Max Völkel, FZI Karlsruhe (DE)
# Friedel Völker, European Regiowiki Society
# Klara Weiand, University of Munich (DE)
Submission and Proceedings
==========================
We invite the following different kinds of contributions:
* full research or application papers (15 pages) describing recent research
outcomes, mature work, prototypes, applications, or methodologies; authors
of accepted full papers will be able to present their work in a 15 minute
talk at the workshop
* short position papers (5-10 pages) describing early work and new ideas
that
are not yet fully worked out; authors of short papers will be able to
present their work in a 5-10 minute lightning talk at the workshop
* demo outlines (5 pages) describing the demonstration of a software
prototype
in the poster and demo session during the workshop
* poster descriptions (2 pages) outlining a poster to be presented in the
poster and demo session during the workshop
* *wiki submissions*: A set of wiki pages explaining/demonstrating the
addressed topic or presenting a system. A Confluence space (on this site)
will be provided on request but also own wikis can be used. Additionally,
we require such submissions to be exported to PDF or HTML. Primarily, the
wiki space will be reviewed, but the export serves as a backup for the
reviewing in case of technical problems and is used to verify that the
submission complies to the guidelines, e.g., does not exceed the page
limit of the respective type of contribution. Where the exported PDF
or HTML is not comparable to LNCS (see below), we estimate 400 words
per page.
All submissions except Wiki submissions should be formatted according to the
Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format. For complete
details on this issue see Springer's Author Instructions:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0
Papers will be submitted using the EasyChair system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semwiki2010
In addition to ordinary submissions, all attendees of the workshop are
encouraged to informally present their work in an open space session
during the workshop if they are not (yet) able to submit a description
of their work or to also discuss more recent work that has been done
after the submission deadline of the workshop.
Important Dates
===============
Paper Submission EXTENDED TO: 7th March 2010
Author Notification: 5th April 2010
Camera ready: 18th April 2010
Workshop: May 31, 2010
In case of questions, feel free to contact any of the organisers:
chair(a)semwiki.org
--
Jochen Reutelshöfer
Department of Intelligent Systems
University of Würzburg, Germany
http://www.is.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/
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 University of Sussex
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
***2nd Call for Papers***
Fifth Workshop on Semantic Wikis
Linking Data and People [SemWiki2010]
co-located with ESWC 2010, Heraklion, Crete
May 30 or May 31, 2010
http://www.semwiki.org/
Goals and Motivation
====================
Semantic wikis as social semantic software have the mission to gather
humans and computers in order to build together the next wave of ontology
driven collaboration platforms. The research has shifted from proofs of
concept towards foundational research in large projects, commercially sold
enterprise systems and real world use cases. Besides evaluations of such
use cases, technical innovation and foundational research are still needed,
as the large-scale application of semantic wikis has unveiled a number of
research questions. The aim of this fifth SemWiki workshop is to exchange
ideas, to discuss pressing research questions arising from practical usage
of semantic wikis, and to explore integrations of wikis with other semantic
web technologies.
Topics
======
We address researchers working on (but not limited to):
* Applications of semantic wikis in the fields of:
- e-science and e-learning
- software and knowledge engineering
- enterprise workflows
- knowledge management or personal knowledge management
* Integration and reuse of semantic wikis or (semantic) wiki content:
- integrations with other semantic applications and mashups
- browsing and navigating
- visualizing
- editing linked open data
- scaling wikis to the web
- giving semantics to non-semantic wikis (e.g. Wikipedia)
- reusing semantics gained from wikis (e.g. DBpedia)
- interlinked and distributed semantic wikis
- innovative plugins/extensions for existing systems (e.g. Semantic
MediaWiki)
* Human and social factors of semantic wikis:
- usability studies
- empirical studies
- analyses of semantic wiki contributors and their contributions;
- overcoming entrance barriers
- giving incentives for contributing
- connecting knowledge and social interaction
- community building
- from asynchronous interactions to real-time/multi-synchronous
interactions in semantic wikis
- privacy: permissions, trust, licensing, access control
* Knowledge representation and reasoning in semantic wikis:
- combining formal and informal knowledge
- multimodal reasoning/strong reasoning support
- transforming informal to formal knowledge
- making formal knowledge accessible
- on-line knowledge evaluation
- coping with inconsistencies
- change management, truth maintenance, versioning, and undoing semantic
changes
- utilizing emerging knowledge models
- rapid prototyping of schema-driven applications
- collaborative ontology engineering
Organisation Committee
======================
* Christoph Lange, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
ch.lange(a)jacobs-university.de
* Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research, Austria
sebastian.schaffert(a)salzburgresearch.at
* Hala Skaf-Molli, INRIA-Nancy University, France
skaf(a)loria.fr
* Jochen Reutelshöfer, University of Würzburg, Germany
reutelshoefer(a)informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
Programme Committee
===================
# Sören Auer, Universität Leipzig (DE)
# David Aumüller, Universität Leipzig (DE)
# Joachim Baumeister, Universität Würzburg (DE)
# Tobias Bürger, STI Innsbruck (AT)
# Amélie Cordier, LIRIS, Université de Lyon (FR)
# Björn Decker, Fraunhofer IESE (DE)
# Alicia Díaz, La Plata University (AR)
# Sebastian Dietzold, Universität Leipzig (DE)
# Fred Durão, University of Aalborg (DK)
# Michael Erdmann, Ontoprise (DE)
# Fabian Gandon, INRIA - Edelweiss (FR)
# Tudor Groza, DERI (IE)
# Siegfried Handschuh, DERI (IE)
# Martin Hepp, UniBW München (DE)
# Guoqian Jiang, Mayo Clinic (US)
# Malte Kiesel, DFKI (DE)
# Jakub Kotowski, University of Munich (DE)
# Markus Krötzsch, AIFB Karlsruhe (DE)
# Tobias Kuhn, Universität Zürich (CH)
# Thomas Kurz, Salzburg Research (AT)
# Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center Graz (AT)
# Pascal Molli, Nancy University, INRIA (FR)
# Christine Müller, Jacobs University Bremen (DE)
# Claudia Müller-Birn, Carnegie Mellon University (US)
# Grzegorz Nalepa, AGH University Krakow (PL)
# Amedeo Napoli, CNRS, LORIA (FR)
# Viktoria Pammer, Know-Center Graz (AT)
# Alexandre Passant, DERI (IE)
# Jean Rohmer, Thales (FR)
# Marek Schmidt, Technical University of Brno (CZ)
# Matthias Samwald, Semantic Web Company (AT)
# Daniel Schwabe, University of Rio de Janeiro (BR)
# Elena Simperl, STI Innsbruck (AT)
# Rolf Sint, Salzburg Research (AT)
# Katharina Siorpaes, STI Innsbruck (AT)
# Harold Solbrig, Mayo Clinic (US)
# Stephanie Stroka, Salzburg Research (AT)
# Max Völkel, FZI Karlsruhe (DE)
# Klara Weiand, University of Munich (DE)
Submission and Proceedings
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We invite the following different kinds of contributions:
* full research or application papers (15 pages) describing recent research
outcomes, mature work, prototypes, applications, or methodologies; authors
of accepted full papers will be able to present their work in a 15 minute
talk at the workshop
* short position papers (5-10 pages) describing early work and new ideas
that
are not yet fully worked out; authors of short papers will be able to
present their work in a 5-10 minute lightning talk at the workshop
* demo outlines (5 pages) describing the demonstration of a software
prototype
in the poster and demo session during the workshop
* poster descriptions (2 pages) outlining a poster to be presented in the
poster and demo session during the workshop
* *wiki submissions*: A set of wiki pages explaining/demonstrating the
addressed topic or presenting a system. A Confluence space (on this site)
will be provided on request but also own wikis can be used. Additionally,
we require such submissions to be exported to PDF or HTML. Primarily, the
wiki space will be reviewed, but the export serves as a backup for the
reviewing in case of technical problems and is used to verify that the
submission complies to the guidelines, e.g., does not exceed the page
limit of the respective type of contribution. Where the exported PDF
or HTML is not comparable to LNCS (see below), we estimate 400 words
per page.
All submissions except Wiki submissions should be formatted according to
the
Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format. For complete
details on this issue see Springer's Author Instructions:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0
Papers will be submitted using the EasyChair system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semwiki2010
In addition to ordinary submissions, all attendees of the workshop are
encouraged to informally present their work in an open space session
during the workshop if they are not (yet) able to submit a description
of their work or to also discuss more recent work that has been done
after the submission deadline of the workshop.
Important Dates
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Paper Submission: 26th February 2010
Author Notification: 5th April 2010
Camera ready: 18th April 2010
Workshop: May 30 or May 31, 2010
In case of questions, feel free to contact any of the organisers:
chair(a)semwiki.org
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Jochen Reutelshöfer
Department of Intelligent Systems
University of Würzburg, Germany
http://www.is.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/