Call for Papers
formal papers - informal papers - doctoral programme
11th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
- CICM 2018 -
August 13-17, 2018
RISC, Hagenberg, Austria
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2018
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Digital and computational solutions are becoming the prevalent means
for the generation, communication, processing, storage and curation of
mathematical information.
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 2018 will feature 3 invited speakers
* Akiko Aizawa, National Institute of Informatics, University of Tokyo
* Bruno Buchberger, Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, Johannes Kepler University
* Adri Olde Daalhuis, University of Edinburgh
and 5 affiliated workshops
* Computer Algebra in the age of Types
* Computer Mathematics in Education - Enlightenment or Incantation
* Formal Mathematics for Mathematicians
* Formal Verification of Physical Systems
* Mathematical Models and Mathematical Software as Research Data
We invite 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
CICM appreciates the varying nature of the relevant research in this area and
invites submissions of very different forms:
1) Formal submissions will be reviewed rigorously and accepted papers will be
published in a volume of Springer LNAI:
* regular papers (up to 15 pages) present novel research results
* project and survey papers (up to 15 pages + bibliography) summarize
existing results
* system and dataset descriptions (up to 5 pages) present digital artifacts
2) Informal submissions will be reviewed with a positive bias and selected for
presentation based on their relevance for the community.
* informal papers may present work-in-progress, project announcements,
position statements, etc.
* posters, mini-tutorials, and system demos will be presented in special sessions
3) The doctoral programme provides PhD students a forum to present early results
receive constructive feedback and mentoring.
* Important Dates *
Formal submissions
- Abstract deadline: April 22 (Extended)
- Full paper deadline: April 29 (Extended)
- Reviews sent to authors: May 23
- Rebuttals due: May 28
- Notification of acceptance: June 4
- Camera-ready copies due: June 8
- Conference: August 13-17
Informal submissions and doctoral programme
Two separate submission rounds are offered so that some authors can make early
travel plans while others submit spontaneously.
- First round submission deadline: April 29
- Second round submission deadline: July 15
All submissions should be made via easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2018
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From: Sébastien Santoro <dereckson(a)espace-win.org>
Date: Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 1:59 PM
Subject: Code of Conduct for Wikimedia technical spaces - Code of Conduct
Committee - Candidates
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Hi all. I was wondering if anyone would be interested in discussing a paper
I've been working on, which uses Wikipedia to assess questions on
authorship and authority in Ancient Historiography.
I don't know where is the best place to upload the draft, though... There's
the Academia.edu "sessions" draft, and of course Google docs, but maybe you
know some better option?
Here's the current paper:
Title: Is Livy a good Wikipedian? Authority and authorship in ancient
historiography through the lenses of contemporary anonymous writing
Abstract: In this paper, I present an experiment conducted in an online
environment akin to Wikipedia, where proficient Wikipedia editors evaluate
three texts from Livy, presented to them without their knowledge and with
different authorship attributions, in order to assess whether Livy's
writing would conform to the standards of notability and impartiality on
Wikipedia, while aiming also to understand how the influence of different
attributions of authorship affects the recognition of authority in history
texts. The ultimate goal of this experiment is to demonstrate the
interconnection between modes of presentation of literary authority and the
construction and need for an authorial persona. The choice of Livy as
evaluated author sheds light on traditional topics of Livian scholarship,
such as his use of sources and self-presentation, while also indicating
differences and similarities in ancient and contemporary historiographical
parameters.
Although I use Livy as the author for my experiment, my main focus is
really on theoretical aspects related to authority and authorship. I've
written quite a substantial part on the workings of Wikipedia because I
intend to publish for academic readers which are not very knowledgeable
about it. I've already detected some methodological issues, so I'm eager to
see what others have to say. My current discussion with fellow classicists
has been a bit difficult, for as you may imagine, the field is very
traditional - to put it nicely.
Thank you all,
Juliana
--
www.domusaurea.org
Hey all,
(apologies for cross-posting)
We’re sharing a proposed program
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Annual_Plans/FY2019/CDP…>
for the Wikimedia Foundation’s upcoming fiscal year
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2018-2019/…>
(2018-19) and *would love to hear from you*. This plan builds extensively
on projects and initiatives driven by volunteer contributors and
organizations in the Wikimedia movement, so your input is critical.
Why a “knowledge integrity” program?
Increased global attention is directed at the problem of misinformation and
how media consumers are struggling to distinguish fact from fiction.
Meanwhile, thanks to the sources they cite, Wikimedia projects are uniquely
positioned as a reliable gateway to accessing quality information in the
broader knowledge ecosystem. How can we mobilize these citations as a
resource and turn them into a broader, linked infrastructure of trust to
serve the entire internet? Free knowledge grounds itself in verifiability
and transparent attribution policies. Let’s look at 4 data points as
motivating stories:
- Wikipedia sends tens of millions of people to external sources each
year. We want to conduct research to understand why and how readers leave
our site.
- The Internet Archive has fixed over 4 million dead links on Wikipedia.
We want to enable instantaneous archiving of every link on all Wikipedias
to ensure the long-term preservation of the sources Wikipedians cite.
- #1Lib1Ref reaches 6 million people on social media. We want to bring
#1Lib1Ref to Wikidata and more languages, spreading the message that
references improve quality.
- 33% of Wikidata items represent sources (journals, books, works). We
want to strengthen community efforts to build a high-quality, collaborative
database of all cited and citable sources.
A 5-year vision
Our 5-year vision for the Knowledge Integrity program is to establish
Wikimedia as the hub of a federated, trusted knowledge ecosystem. We plan
to get there by creating:
- A roadmap to a mature, technically and socially scalable, central
repository of sources.
- Developed network of partners and technical collaborators to
contribute to and reuse data about citations.
- Increased public awareness of Wikimedia’s vital role in information
literacy and fact-checking.
5 directions for 2018-2019
We have identified 5 levers of Knowledge Integrity: research,
infrastructure and tooling, access and preservation, outreach, and
awareness. Here’s what we want to do with each:
1. Continue to conduct research to understand how readers access sources
and how to help contributors improve citation quality.
2. Improve tools for linking information to external sources, catalogs,
and repositories.
3. Ensure resources cited across Wikimedia projects are accessible in
perpetuity.
4. Grow outreach and partnerships to scale community and technical
efforts to improve the structure and quality of citations.
5. Increase public awareness of the processes Wikimedians follow to
verify information and articulate a collective vision for a trustable web.
Who is involved?
The core teams involved in this proposal are:
- Wikimedia Foundation Technology’s Research Team
- Wikimedia Foundation Community Engagement’s Programs team (Wikipedia
Library)
- Wikimedia Deutschland Engineering’s Wikidata team
The initiative also spans across an ecosystem of possible partners
including the Internet Archive, ContentMine, Crossref, OCLC, OpenCitations,
and Zotero. It is further made possible by funders including the Sloan,
Gordon and Betty Moore, and Simons Foundations who have been supporting the
WikiCite initiative to date.
How you can participate
You can read the fine details of our proposed year-1 plan, and provide your
feedback, on mediawiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/
wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Annual_Plans/FY2019/CDP3:_Knowledge_Integrity
We’ve also created a brief introductory slidedeck about our motivation and
goals: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Knowledge_Integrity_
CDP_proposal_%E2%80%93_FY2018-19.pdf
WikiCite has laid the groundwork for many of these efforts. Read last
year’s report: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiCite_2017_
report.pdf
Recent initiatives like the just released citation dataset foreshadow the
work we want to do: https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-
knowledge/what-are-the-ten-most-cited-sources-on-
wikipedia-lets-ask-the-data-34071478785a
Lastly, this April we’re celebrating Open Citations Month; it’s right in
the spirit of Knowledge Integrity: https://blog.wikimedia.org/
2018/04/02/initiative-for-open-citations-birthday/
--
*Dario Taraborelli *Director, Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter
<http://twitter.com/readermeter>
Due to several requests Semantics 2018 extends the deadlines of the
Research & Innovation Track and the Data Science Track as follows:
* Abstract Submission Deadline: April 15, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii
time)
* Extended: Abstract Submission Deadline: April 29, 2018 (11:59
pm, Hawaii time)
* Paper Submission Deadline: April 22, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Extended: Paper Submission Deadline: May 6, 2018 (11:59 pm,
Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: June 4, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: August 6, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
For details please go to: https://2018.semantics.cc/calls
With kind regards,
The Semantics Organization Team
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Apologies for cross-posting
Call for Papers, Posters & Workshops and Tutorials
SEMANTiCS 2018 - The Linked Data Conference
14th International Conference on Semantic Systems
Vienna, Austria
September 10 -13, 2018
http://2018.semantics.cc
Important Dates (Research & Innovation incl. Data Science Track)
Abstract Submission Deadline: April 15, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Paper Submission Deadline: April 22, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Notification of Acceptance: June 4, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Camera-Ready Paper: August 6, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Submission via Easychair on
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2018
SEMANTiCS’18 proceedings will be published as Open Access by Elsevier
Procedia Computer Science.
The annual SEMANTiCS conference is the meeting place for professionals
who make semantic computing work, understand its benefits, and encounter
its limitations. Every year, SEMANTiCS attracts information managers,
IT-architects, software engineers and researchers from a wide spectrum
of organisations ranging from SMEs and non-profit organizations, to
public administration bodies, to the largest companies in the world.
Attendees learn from industry experts and top researchers about emerging
trends and topics in the fields of semantic software, including
enterprise data, linked data & open data strategies, methodologies in
knowledge modelling and text & data analytics. The SEMANTiCS community
is highly diverse; attendees routinely interlinking areas such as
knowledge management, technical documentation, e-commerce, big data
analysis, enterprise search, document management, business intelligence
and enterprise vocabulary management.
Given the success of last year’s conference in Amsterdam, which
attracted more than 370 attendees from 28 countries, SEMANTiCS 2018 is
bound to continue a long tradition of bringing together a community from
around the world. There will be presentations on industry
implementations, use case prototypes, best practices, panels, papers and
posters to discuss semantic systems in a broad range of regular as well
as informal settings. SEMANTiCS addresses problems common among
information managers, software engineers, IT-architects and various
specialist departments working to develop, implement and evaluate
semantic software systems.
The SEMANTiCS program will provide a rich mix of technical talks, panel
discussions on emerging topics and presentations by people who make
things work - just like you. In addition, attendees will have a unique
opportunity to network with experts in a variety of fields. These
relationships provide great value to organisations as they encounter
technical challenges in any stage of implementation. The expertise
gained by SEMANTiCS attendees has a long-term impact on their careers
and organisations. These factors make SEMANTiCS the key event across
Europe for a diverse community of industry leaders and academic experts
alike.
Following the success of the previous year, this year’s SEMANTiCS will
also again feature a special Data Science track, which offer a unique
opportunity to bring together researchers and practitioners interested
in the intersection of Semantic Technologies, Linked Data and Data
Science and provide a platform to present their ideas and discuss the
most important scientific, technical and socio-economic challenges in
this emerging field.
SEMANTiCS 2018 particularly welcomes submissions on the following key
topics:
*Web Semantics, Linked (Open) Data & schema.org
*Corporate Knowledge Graphs
*Knowledge Integration and Language Technologies
*Data Quality Management
*Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems
*Ethics and Explainable AI
*Data Science (special track, see below)
Following the success of previous years, we welcome any submissions
related, but not limited to, the following ‘horizontal’ (research) and
‘vertical’ (industries) topics:
Horizontals
*Enterprise Linked Data & Data Integration
*Knowledge Discovery & Intelligent Search
*Business Models, Governance & Data Strategies
*Semantics in Big Data
*Text Analytics
*Data Portals & Knowledge Visualization
*Semantic Information Management
*Document Management & Content Management
*Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management
*Smart Connectivity, Networking & Interlinking
*Smart Data & Semantics in IoT
*Semantic Services
*Semantics for IT Safety & Security
*Semantic Rules, Policies & Licensing
*Community, Social & Societal Aspects
Verticals
*Industry & Engineering
*Life Sciences & Health Care
*Public Administration
*e-Science
*Digital Humanities
*Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums (GLAM)
*Education & eLearning
*Media & Data Journalism
*Publishing, Marketing & Advertising
*Tourism & Recreation
*Financial & Insurance Industry
*Telecommunication & Mobile Services
*Sustainable Development: Climate, Water, Air, Ecology
*Energy, Smart Homes & Smart Grids
*Food, Agriculture & Farming
*Safety, Security & Privacy
*Transport, Environment & Geospatial
We invite contributions to the following tracks:
# Research and Innovation Track
The Research & 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 not exceed 12 pages in
length for full papers and 6 pages for short papers, including
references and optional appendices.
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline: April 15, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Paper Submission Deadline: April 22, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Notification of Acceptance: June 4, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Camera-Ready Paper: August 6, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Author instructions: Proceedings should follow the guidelines of the
Elsevier Procedia Computer Science format. Details will be provided soon.
# Data Science Track
Following the success of last year’s inaugural edition, SEMANTiCS will
again feature a Data Science track that provides a unique opportunity to
bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the
intersection between data science and Semantic Technologies. Semantics
will provide a forum to present their ideas and discuss the most
important scientific, technical and socio-economic challenges of this
emerging field. The detailed Call for Data Science papers is available
here: https://2018.semantics.cc/calls
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline: April 15, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Paper Submission Deadline: April 22, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Notification of Acceptance: June 4, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Camera-Ready Paper: August 6, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Author instructions: Proceedings should follow the guidelines of the
Elsevier Procedia Computer Science format. Details will be provided soon.
# Posters and Demos Track
The Posters & Demonstrations Track invites innovative work in progress,
late-breaking research and innovation results, and smaller contributions
in all fields related to the Semantic Web 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. The detailed Call for Poster & Demos papers is
available here: https://2018.semantics.cc/calls
Important Dates:
Paper Submission Deadline: June 11, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Notification of Acceptance: July 2, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Camera-Ready Paper: August 6, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Author instructions: Proceedings should follow the guidelines of the
CEUR Workshop proceedings format. Details will be provided soon.
# Industry and Use Case Track
Focusing strongly on industry needs, SEMANTICS invites presentations on
enterprise solutions that deal with semantic processing of data and/or
information in areas like Linked Data, Data Publishing, Semantic Search,
Recommendation Services, Sentiment Detection, Search Engine Add-Ons,
Thesaurus and/or Ontology Management, Text Mining, Data Mining and any
related fields. All submissions have a strong focus on real world
applications beyond the prototypical stage and demonstrate the power of
semantic systems! The detailed Call for Industry and Use Case
Presentations is available here: https://2018.semantics.cc/calls
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline: May 6, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Paper Submission Deadline: May 28, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Notification of Acceptance: August 22, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
# 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 recognized 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/commercial project consortia meetings. A
detailed call for workshops and tutorials is available here:
https://2018.semantics.cc/calls
Important Dates for Workshops:
Workshop Proposals due: extended: April 13, 2018 (23:59 Hawaii Time)
Notification of Acceptance: extended: April 18, 2018 (23:59 Hawaii
Time)
Important Dates for Tutorials (and other meetings, e.g. seminars,
show-cases, etc., without call for papers):
Submission deadline: July 1, 2018 (23:59 Hawaii Time)
Notifications: July 10, 2018 (23:59 Hawaii Time)
# Vocarnival
Bootstrap your new Vocabulary project: At the carnival you can present
your ideas and early stage vocabs to find the right people to get the
Vocab discussion going. For this event we use a very open definition of
what a vocabulary is. Ontologies, classifications, thesauri, concept and
metadata schemes, whatever their format, in RDF or not, are all welcome.
We require at least a project website. Details to follow.
The detailed calls will be available on the conference website
http://2018.semantics.cc
Research and Innovation Chairs:
Anna Fensel, University of Innsbruck
Victor de Boer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Data Science Track Chairs:
Bernhard Haslhofer, Austrian Institute of Technology
Laura Hollink, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Alexander Schindler, Vienna University of Technology
Industry and Use case Presentations
Tobias Bürger, BMW
Christian Dirschl, Wolters Kluwer
Andreas Blumauer, Semantic Web Company
Workshops and Tutorials Chairs:
Javier D. Fernández, WU Vienna
Tobias Kuhn, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Posters and Demos
Ali Khalili, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Maria Koutraki, FIZ Karlsruhe
Conference Chairs:
Elmar Kiesling, TU Wien
Tassilo Pellegrini, UAS St. Pölten
The program committee will be announced on the conference website
http://2018.semantics.cc
Call for Papers
formal papers - informal papers - doctoral programme
11th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
- CICM 2018 -
August 13-17, 2018
RISC, Hagenberg, Austria
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2018
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Digital and computational solutions are becoming the prevalent means
for the generation, communication, processing, storage and curation of
mathematical information.
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 2018 will feature 3 invited speakers
* Akiko Aizawa, National Institute of Informatics, University of Tokyo
* Bruno Buchberger, Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, Johannes Kepler University
* Adri Olde Daalhuis, University of Edinburgh
and 5 affiliated workshops
* Computer Algebra in the age of Types
* Computer Mathematics in Education - Enlightenment or Incantation
* Formal Mathematics for Mathematicians
* Formal Verification of Physical Systems
* Mathematical Models and Mathematical Software as Research Data
We invite 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
CICM appreciates the varying nature of the relevant research in this area and
invites submissions of very different forms:
1) Formal submissions will be reviewed rigorously and accepted papers will be
published in a volume of Springer LNAI:
* regular papers (up to 15 pages) present novel research results
* project and survey papers (up to 15 pages + bibliography) summarize
existing results
* system and dataset descriptions (up to 5 pages) present digital artifacts
2) Informal submissions will be reviewed with a positive bias and selected for
presentation based on their relevance for the community.
* informal papers may present work-in-progress, project announcements,
position statements, etc.
* posters, mini-tutorials, and system demos will be presented in special sessions
3) The doctoral programme provides PhD students a forum to present early results
receive constructive feedback and mentoring.
* Important Dates *
Formal submissions
- Abstract deadline: April 15
- Full paper deadline: April 22
- Reviews sent to authors: May 21
- Rebuttals due: May 27
- Notification of acceptance: June 4
- Camera-ready copies due: June 8
- Conference: August 13-17
Informal submissions and doctoral programme
Two separate submission rounds are offered so that some authors can make early
travel plans while others submit spontaneously.
- First round submission deadline: April 22
- Second round submission deadline: July 31
All submissions should be made via easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2018
Hello Ziko,
Thanks for your mail! I responded inline below.
On 6 April 2018 at 03:04, Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A most interesting thread, as it touches the topic from different angles. I
> agree that it needs actually a study among readers about their preferences.
>
As I mentioned to Leila, the ESWC paper does work with editors, but I
agree, more thought and work should be done on actual Wikipedia readers.
>
> Personally, I may have some doubt whether it improves an ArticlePlaceholder
> to create sentences from the data (as they did in the geographical
> "articles" created by bots). The data itself is most suitable for
> databases, to be looked up in a table. Reading "Berlin has 3,500,000
> million inhabitants" is not really an improvement compared to "Berlin /
> inhabitants: 3,500,000".
>
> Sentences have the most power when they combine information to knowledge,
> like in "Berlin's population, currently 3,500,000, has been much different
> during the Cold War because of the declining attractiveness for
> businesses".
>
> In general, I would advise against one-sentence-summaries; a reader might
> be disappointed when he comes via Google to a website and then only finds
> one sentence.
>
Just to clarify: the summaries do generate information from multiple
triples. Basically means, the sentences are a bit more complex than just
verbalizing one triple per sentence. However, even with a neural network,
there is a limit to how much context we can produce for each sentence.
Therefore, we integrated the question of how editors work with the data, as
we see it an important aspect of the workflow. Basically,
ArticlePlaceholder can be a better option than no information at all, but
still the ideal would be an actual editor picking up a topic and writing
and maintaining a full article.
Furthermore, in our current (theoretical) design we still keep all the
information available from Wikidata in forms of triples. Therefore, we
don't replace any information, we just add a sentence that's more reader
friendly and gives a first overview, before looking at pure triples.
>
> (I hope I understood the question well; I cannot follow the math in your
> article. Is there anywhere an example of your "summaries" to read?)
>
The summaries are learned from the first sentence of Wikipedia, therefore
they contain the same kind of structure and content. If you're able to read
Arabic or Esperanto, generated sentences can be found here:
https://github.com/pvougiou/Mind-the-Language-Gap/tree/master/Results/Our%2…
Cheers,
Lucie
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 2018-04-05 22:50 GMT+02:00 Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org>:
>
> > Hi Lucie-Aimée,
> >
> > Nice to see work in this direction is progressing. Some comments in-line.
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 7:49 AM, Lucie-Aimée Kaffee <kaffee(a)soton.ac.uk>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Therefore, we worked on producing sentences from the information on
> > > Wikidata in the given language. We trained a neural network model, the
> > > details can be found in the preprint of the NAACL paper here:
> > > https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07116
> >
> > It would be good to do human (both readers and editors, and perhaps
> > both sets) evaluations for this research, too, to better understand
> > how well the model is doing from the perspective of the experienced
> > editors in some of the smaller languages as well as their readers. (I
> > acknowledge that finding experienced editors when you go to small
> > languages can become hard.)
> >
> > > Furthermore, we would love to hear your input: Do you believe, one
> > sentence
> > > summaries are enough, can we serve the communities needs better with
> more
> > > than one sentence?
> >
> > This is a hard question to answer. :) The answer may rely on many
> > factors including the language you want to implement such a system in
> > and the expectation the users of the language have in terms of online
> > content available to them in their language.
> >
> > > Is this still true if longer abstracts would be of lower
> > > text quality?
> >
> > same as above. You are signing yourself up for more experiments. ;)
> >
> > I would be interested to know:
> > * What is the perception of the readers of a given language about
> > Wikipedia if a lot of articles that they go to in their language have
> > one sentence (to a good extent accurate), a few sentences but with
> > some errors, more sentences with more errors, versus not finding the
> > article they're interested in at all?
> > * Related to the above: what is the error threshold beyond which the
> > brand perceptions will turn negative (to be defined: may be by
> > measuring if the user returns in the coming week or month.)? This may
> > well be different in different languages and cultures.
> > * Depending on the result of the above, we may want to look at
> > offering the user the option to access that information, but outside
> > of Wikipedia, or inside Wikipedia but very clearly labeled as Machine
> > Generated as you do to some extent in these projects.
> >
> > > What other interesting use cases for such a technology in the
> > > Wikimedia world can you imagine?
> >
> > The technology itself can have a variety of use-cases, including
> > providing captions or summaries of photos even without layers of image
> > processing applied to them.
> >
> > Best,
> > Leila
> >
> > > [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticlePlaceholder and
> > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Generating_Article_
> > Placeholders_from_Wikidata_for_Wikipedia_-_Increasing_
> > Access_to_Free_and_Open_Knowledge.pdf
> > > [2]
> > > https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/413433/1/Open_Sym_Short_Paper_
> > Wikidata_Multilingual.pdf
> > >
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> > > Web and Internet Science Group
> > > School of Electronics and Computer Science
> > > University of Southampton
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