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
Hi all,
Phoebe Ayers and I are leading a workshop at WikiSym this year,
"WikiLit: Collecting the Wiki and Wikipedia Literature". We would love
to have your participation!
This workshop has three key goals. First, we will examine existing and
proposed systems for collecting and analyzing the research literature
about wikis. Second, we will discuss the challenges in building such a
system and will engage participants to design a sustainable
collaborative system to achieve this goal. Finally, we will provide a
forum to build upon ongoing wiki community discussions about problems
and opportunities in finding and sharing the wiki research literature.
For more details, please see:
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2011/workshop:wikilit
Please do not hesitate to ask questions, either by replying here on the
list or by contacting me or Phoebe (psayers(a)ucdavis.edu) directly.
Looking forward to seeing you at WikiSym!
Reid
Hi, researchers! I know some of you use the MediaWiki API for your
work. I thought you might want to know about the new query sandbox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox
which lets you use a GUI to create an API call, play around, and figure
out how to use the API in your tool or application.
Also, we're looking to improve the documentation, so I want to
encourage you to update or critique the instructions here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Quick_start_guide
and on related pages. Thanks!
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
2011/11/29 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>
> On 29 November 2011 21:51, emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear all;
> >
> > We have heard many times that most Wikipedians are male, but have you
> heard
> > about gender and fundraising? Some data from a 2010 study[1] and a 2011
> > German study[2] (question 20th of 22). People have said that Wikipedia
> is a
> > sexist place which excludes women to edit. Looks like women neither are
> > interested on editing nor funding free knowledge.
> >
> > Is WMF working to increase female donors just like female editors?
>
> I think the first step would be to try and figure out if women are
> visiting the site and not donating or just not visiting at all.
>
>
So, the first step would be to try and figure out if women are visiting the
site and not editing or just not visiting at all, before saying nonsense
about sexism and Wikipedia community.
> You would also want to make sure there really is a significant
> imbalance and that it's not just that men are more likely to fill out
> the survey form.
>
>
That affects to all surveys, again.
Looks like people only care about surveys which say what they want to read.
> _______________________________________________
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> foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
>
Dear all;
We have heard many times that most Wikipedians are male, but have you heard
about gender and fundraising? Some data from a 2010 study[1] and a 2011
German study[2] (question 20th of 22). People have said that Wikipedia is a
sexist place which excludes women to edit. Looks like women neither are
interested on editing nor funding free knowledge.
Is WMF working to increase female donors just like female editors?
Regards,
emijrp
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2010FR_Donor_survey_report.pdf
[2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detailed_results.pdf
apologies for cross-postings
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Edited Volume "The People's Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Language
Resources"
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/scientific-community/edited-book-the-peoples…
-meets-nlp
Springer book series: "Theory and Applications of Natural Language
Processing", E. Hovy, M. Johnson and G. Hirst (eds.)
===Editors===
Iryna Gurevych and Jungi Kim
===Description===
The application of collective intelligence in the domain of language yielded
collaboratively constructed language resources (CCLR) that can be used in a
variety of ways. For example, Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and other language
resources constructed through crowdsourcing such as Games with a Purpose and
Mechanical Turk have been used in many ways in NLP. Researchers started using
such resources to substitute for or supplement conventional lexical semantic
resources such as WordNet or linguistically annotated corpora in different NLP
tasks. Another research direction is to utilize NLP techniques to enhance the
collaboration process and its outcome. Overall the emergence of CCLRs has
generated new challenges to the research field that are to be addressed in the
present book. As the research field of CCLRs matures, it has become necessary to
summarize a set of results to advance and focus the further research effort.
The aim of this book is to capture the state-of-the-art in the emerging area of
research on "Collaboratively constructed language resources." Thus, a point of
reference on the topics of construction, mining, using and interconnecting
collaboratively constructed language resources for natural language processing,
knowledge discovery and other intelligent applications will be created
Specific topics include but are not limited to:
* Using CCLRs and the information mined from them for NLP tasks, such as word
sense disambiguation, semantic role labeling, information retrieval, text
categorization, information extraction, question answering, etc.;
* Mining social and collaborative content for constructing structured lexical
semantic resources, annotated corpora and the corresponding tools;
* Analyzing the structure of CCLRs related to their use in NLP;
* Computational linguistics studies of CCLRS, such as wiki-based platforms or
folksonomies;
* Structural and semantic interoperability of CCLRs with conventional semantic
resources and between themselves;
* Mining multilingual information from CCLRs;
* Using special features of CCLRs to create novel resource types, for example
revision-based corpora, simplified versions of resources, etc.;
* Quality and reliability of collaboratively constructed lexical semantic
resources and annotated corpora.
Further interactions can be spanned across the disciplinary boundaries, for
example constructing language resources from user-generated contents through the
collaborations with the research of discourse and social network analysis.
Given the appropriateness of the topics, preliminary versions of contributions
may be submitted in parallel to the 3rd workshop of "The People's Web meets NLP:
Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources and their Applications to NLP."
Please refer to the workshop homepage shown below:
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/scientific-community/acl-2012-workshop
Please note: if accepted to the workshop, the papers will have to be
substantially extended for the publication with Springer.
===Preliminary Book Structure===
Part 1: Approaches to Collaboratively Constructed Language Resources (CCLRs)
Part 2: Mining Knowledge from CCLRs
Part 3: Application of CCLRs in NLP tasks
Part 4: Interconnecting and managing CCLRs
===Publication Schedule===
* December 1st, 2011 – call for contributions published
* January 8th, 2012 – deadline for abstract submission
* January 13th, 2012 – notification of abstract acceptance
* April 15th, 2012 – submission of book chapters
* May 31st, 2012 – first reviewing round
* June 8th, 2012 – notification of chapter acceptance
* June 30th, 2012 – submission of revised book chapters
* July 31st, 2012 – second reviewing round
* August 31st, 2012 – final submission of book chapters
* November - December 2012 – publication by Springer
===Submission Format===
The abstract is limited to 1000 words and has to be submitted by January 8th,
2012 using the Springer submission system:
http://senldogo0039.springer-sbm.com/ocs/home/PWMNLP2012
Contributions must use a Latex template from Springer; refer to
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/scientific-community/edited-book-the-peoples…
-meets-nlp for detailed instructions. Images will be black-and-white.
apologies for cross-postings
CALL FOR PAPERS
ACL 2012 Third Workshop
The People's Web meets NLP:
Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources and their Applications to NLP
Jeju, Republic of Korea
July 12-13, 2012
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/scientific-community/acl-2012-workshop
===Introduction===
Recent recognition of Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources (CSRs) such
as Wikipedia [1], Wiktionary [2], Linked Open Data [3], and other resources
developed using crowdsourcing such as Games with a Purpose [4] and Mechanical
Turk [5] has substantially contributed to the research in natural language
processing (NLP).
Researchers started to use such resources to substitute for or supplement
conventional lexical semantic resources such as WordNet or linguistically
annotated corpora in different NLP tasks. Another research direction is to
utilize NLP techniques to enhance the collaboration process and its outcome.
This improves the overall quality of the CSRs [6,7]. Overall, the emergence of
CSRs has generated new challenges to the research field that are to be addressed
in the proposed workshop.
The preceding "The People's Web meets NLP" workshops at ACL-IJCNLP 2009 and
COLING 2010 have successfully gathered researchers from different areas, and
enabled an interdisciplinary exchange of research outcomes and ideas. Such
collaboration has contributed to the creation of valuable semantic resources and
tools based on CSRs, such as word sense alignments between WordNet, Wikipedia,
and Wiktionary [8,9,10], folksonomy and named entity ontologies [11,12],
multiword terms [13], ontological resources [14,15], annotated corpora [16], and
Wikipedia and Wiktionary APIs.
The obvious next step in this area is to intensify research that demonstrates
the effectiveness of the resources mined from CSRs as listed above in a variety
of NLP tasks. This is why the 3rd workshop "The People's Web meets NLP" will
especially welcome submissions that utilize resources and tools for CSRs. We
invite both long and short papers and especially encourage to show the benefit
of CSRs in diverse NLP tasks, for example word sense disambiguation [17] and
semantic role labeling [18], in addition to further exploration of various
aspects of CSRs. We also welcome tutorial-like submissions on using the software
for CSRs to facilitate their wide adoption by the NLP community.
[ 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 Müller and Iryna Gurevych. Extracting Lexical
Semantic Knowledge from Wikipedia and Wiktionary. In: Proceedings of the
Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2008.
[ 3] Yuan Ni, Lei Zhang, Zhaoming Qiu, and Chen Wang. Enhancing the open-domain
classification of named entity using linked open data. In: Proceedings of
the 9th international semantic web conference (ISWC'10), 566-581, 2010.
[ 4] Luis von Ahn and Laura Dabbish. General Techniques for Designing Games with
a Purpose. Communications of the ACM, 2008.
[ 5] 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.
[ 6] Rada Mihalcea and Andras Csomai. Wikify!: Linking Documents to Encyclopedic
Knowledge. In: Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information
and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2007.
[ 7] Daniel S. Weld, Fei Wu, Eytan Adar, Saleema Amershi, James Fogarty, Raphael
Hoffmann, Kayur Patel and Michael Skinner. Intelligence in Wikipedia. In:
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(AAAI-08), 2008.
[ 8] Elisabeth Niemann and Iryna Gurevych. The People's Web meets Linguistic
Knowledge: Automatic Sense Alignment of Wikipedia and WordNet. In:
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Semantics
(IWCS), pp. 205-214, 2011.
[ 9] Christian M. Meyer and Iryna Gurevych. What Psycholinguists Know About
Chemistry: Aligning Wiktionary and WordNet for Increased Domain Coverage.
In: Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Natural
Language Processing (IJCNLP), 2011.
[10] Roberto Navigli and Simone Paolo Ponzetto. BabelNet: Building a very large
multilingual semantic network. In: Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting
of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2010.
[11] Noriko Tomuro and Andriy Shepitsen. Construction of Disambiguated
Folksonomy Ontologies Using Wikipedia. In: Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop
on The People's Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic
Resources, 2009.
[12] Yumi Shibaki, Masaaki Nagata and Kazuhide Yamamoto. Constructing
Large-Scale Person Ontology from Wikipedia. In: Proceedings of the 2nd
Workshop on The People's Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed
Semantic Resources, 2010.
[13] Silvana Hartmann, Gyuri Szarvas and Iryna Gurevych. Mining Multiword Terms
from Wikipedia. In M.T. Pazienza & A. Stellato (Eds.): Semi-Automatic
Ontology Development: Processes and Resources, 2011.
[14] Christian M. Meyer and Iryna Gurevych. OntoWiktionary — Constructing an
Ontology from the Collaborative Online DictionaryWiktionary. In M. T.
Pazienza and A. Stellato (Eds.): Semi-Automatic Ontology Development:
Processes and Resources, 2011.
[15] Vivi Nastase, Michael Strube, Benjamin Börschinger, Cäcilia Zirn, and Anas
Elghafari. WikiNet: A very large scale multi-lingual concept network. In:
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and
Evaluation (LREC), 2010.
[16] Jon Chamberlain, Udo Kruschwitz and Massimo Poesio. Constructing an
Anaphorically Annotated Corpus with Non-Experts: Assessing the Quality of
Collaborative Annotations. In: Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on The
People's Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources,
2009.
[17] Simone Paolo Ponzetto and Roberto Navigli. Knowledge-rich Word Sense
Disambiguation rivaling supervised systems. In: Proceedings of the 48th
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL),
2010.
[18] Ana-Maria Giuglea and Alessandro Moschitti. Semantic role labeling via
FrameNet, VerbNet and PropBank. In: Proceedings of the 21st International
Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 44th annual meeting of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2006.
===Topics===
Specific topics include but are not limited to:
* Using collaboratively constructed resources and the information mined from
them for NLP tasks (cf. Section "References"), such as word sense
disambiguation, semantic role labeling, information retrieval, text
categorization, information extraction, question answering, etc.;
* Mining social and collaborative content for constructing structured lexical
semantic resources, annotated corpora and the corresponding tools;
* Analyzing the structure of collaboratively constructed resources related to
their use in NLP;
* Computational linguistics studies of collaboratively constructed resources,
such as wiki-based platforms or folksonomies;
* Structural and semantic interoperability of collaboratively constructed
resources with conventional semantic resources and between themselves;
* Mining multilingual information from collaboratively constructed resources;
* Using special features of collaboratively constructed resources to create
novel resource types, for example revision-based corpora, simplified versions
of resources, etc.;
* Quality and reliability of collaboratively constructed lexical semantic
resources and annotated corpora;
* Hands-on practical knowledge on utilization of CSR APIs and tools or designing
crowdsourcing procedures for high quality outcomes.
Though the workshop welcomes any CSRs-related topics, preference will be given
to submissions on CSRs' application to NLP tasks, which is the special interest
of this workshop edition. Thereby, we encourage the participation of researchers
with various backgrounds: from computational linguistics (e.g. parsing and
discourse analysis) to NLP applications and other areas that might benefit from
collaboratively constructed semantic resources. Given that we receive a
sufficient number of tutorial-like submissions, a dedicated presentation session
for those will be scheduled.
Extended versions of the papers may be submitted in parallel for publication in
an edited volume "The People's Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed
Language Resources." The book will be published in fall - winter 2012 as part
of the Springer book series: "Theory and Applications of Natural Language
Processing", E. Hovy, M. Johnson and G. Hirst (eds.). Please refer to the open
call for contributions shown below:
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/scientific-community/edited-book-the-peoples…
-meets-nlp
===Submission Information===
The following is to be confirmed
Full paper submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL 2012
proceedings without exceeding eight (8) pages of content plus one extra page for
references. Short paper submissions should also follow the two-column format of
ACL 2012 proceedings, and should not exceed four (4) pages, including
references. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft
Word Style files tailored for this year's conference, which are available on
the conference website (http://www.acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp). All submissions
must conform to the official ACL 2012 style guidelines announced in the
conference website and they must be electronic in PDF.
As the reviewing will be blind, the paper must not include the authors' names
and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's
identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", must be avoided.
Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...".
Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without
review.
Submission will be electronic using submission software
(https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/people-web-2012). All accepted papers will be
presented orally and published in the workshop proceedings.
===Important dates===
March 18, 2012 Paper submission deadline (full and short)
April 16, 2012 Notification of acceptance
April 30, 2012 Camera-ready version due
July 12-13, 2012 ACL 2012 Workshops
The exact date for the workshop "The People's Web meets NLP: Collaboratively
Constructed Semantic Resources and their Applications to NLP" is yet to be
announced.
===Organizers===
Iryna Gurevych Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab, TU Darmstadt
Nicoletta Calzolari Zamorani Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR
Jungi Kim Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab, TU Darmstadt
===Program Committee===
Andras Csomai Google Inc.
Andreas Hotho Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Anette Frank Heidelberg University
Benno Stein Bauhaus University Weimar
Christian Meyer Technische Universität Darmstadt
David Milne University of Waikato
Delphine Bernhard University of Strasbourg
Diana McCarthy Lexical Computing Ltd, UK
Donald Metzler Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern
California
Emily Pitler University of Pennsylvania
Ernesto William De Luca Technische Universität Berlin
Florian Laws University of Stuttgart
Gerard de Melo UC Berkeley
German Rigau University of the Basque Country
Graeme Hirst University of Toronto
Günter Neumann DFKI Saarbrücken
Ido Dagan Bar Ilan University
John McCrae University of Bielefeld
Jong-Hyeok Lee Pohang University of Science and Technology
Judith Eckle-Kohler Technische Universität Darmstadt
Key-Sun Choi Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Magnus Sahlgren Swedish Institute of Computer Science
Manfred Stede Universität Potsdam
Massimo Poesio University of Essex
Omar Alonso Microsoft Bing
Paul Buitelaar DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway
Rene Witte Concordia University Montréal
Roxana Girju University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Saif Mohammad National Research Council Canada
Shuming Shi Microsoft Research
Sören Auer Leipzig University
Tat-Seng Chua National University of Singapore
Tonio Wandmacher SYSTRAN, Paris, France
Zornitsa Kozareva Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern
California
Dear all,
wikis are excellent platforms for prototyping and actually developing
mashups – how about some intelligent, wiki-based mashups in 2012?
Cheers,
Christoph
------------------------------------------------------------
***** Call for Submissions and Papers *****
------------------------------------------------------------
AI Mashup Challenge 2012
https://sites.google.com/site/aimashup12/
of the
9th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC)
http://2012.eswc-conferences.org/
May 27 - 31, 2012, Heraklion, Greece
Topics of interest
A mashup is a lightweight (web) application that offers new
functionality by combining, aggregating and transforming resources and
services available on the web.
The AI mashup challenge accepts and awards "intelligent" mashups that
use AI technology, including but not restricted to
• machine learning and data mining
• machine vision
• natural language processing
• reasoning
• ontologies and the semantic web.
The emphasis is not on providing and consuming semantic markup, but
rather on using intelligence to mashup these resources in a more
powerful way.
Some examples:
• Information extraction or automatic text summarization to create a
task-oriented overview mashup for mobile devices.
• Semantic Web technology and data sources adapting to user and
task-specific configurations.
• Semantic background knowledge (such as ontologies, WordNet or Cyc) to
improve search and content combination.
• Machine translation for mashups that cross language borders.
• Machine vision technology for novel ways of aggregating images, for
instance mixing real and virtual environments.
• Intelligent agents taking over simple household planning tasks.
• Text-to-speech technology creating a voice mashup with intelligent and
emotional intonation.
• The display of Pub Med articles on a map based on geographic entity
detection referring to diseases or health centers.
You find more detail on the website of the 2011 challenge:
http://sites.google.com/a/fh-hannover.de/aimashup11/.
Awards
• € 1750 sponsored by Elsevier
• Speech outfit from Linguatec
• 10 O'Reilly e-books
• 10 books from Addison-Wesley
Submission and deadline
The challenge tries to mediate between a grassroot bar-camp style and
standard conference organization. This means for submitters:
• You announce your mashup as soon as you are ready, simply sending an
email to the organizers (address below).
• The deadline is March 31, 2012.
• At a subpage of the mashup website provided by the organizers, you
explain your work and refer to its URL.
• Your mashup stays at your URL and under your control. You can go on
improving it.
• At review time (March 31, 2012), reviewers need a 5 page paper (LNCS
format) that explains the mashup.
• The reviewers select the most interesting mashups for presentation and
vote during the conference.
• Vote is public for all conference participants, but the reviewer quota
makes up 40%.
• Be prepared to a give a brief talk and a demo during the conference.
• Awards will be handed over during the conference, and everybody will
congratulate the winners!
Organizers
• Brigitte Endres-Niggemeyer, Hannover, Germany
• Krzysztof Janowicz, Santa Barbara, USA
Program Committee
• Luis M. Vilches Blázquez, Madrid, Spain
• Christoph Lange, University of Bremen & Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany
• Emilian Pascalau, University of Potsdam, Germany
• Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, AT&T Labs, Florham Park NJ, USA
• Jevon Wright, Massey University, Palmerston North, NZ
• Aidan Hogan, DERI Galway, Ireland
• Alexandre Passant, DERI Galway, Ireland
• Emanuele Della Valle, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Tomi Kauppinen, Muenster, Germany
• Thorsten Liebig, Univ. of Ulm & derivo GmbH, Germany
Main Contact
• brigitteen(a)googlemail.com
-----------------------------
Brigitte Endres-Niggemeyer
Heidegrün 36
30179 Hannover
brigitteen(a)googlemail.com
https://sites.google.com/site/brigitteen/http://sites.google.com/a/fh-hannover.de/brigitte-endres-niggemeyer/home
0511 8441690 (Festnetz)
015154726114 (mobil)
Skype: brigitte30179
--
Christoph Lange, Jacobs University Bremen
http://kwarc.info/clange, Skype duke4701
My up-to-date presentations: http://www.slideshare.net/langec