Dear all,
due to several requests we decided to extend the deadlines for the R&I
track.
The new dates are as follows:
Abstract Submission Deadline: May 16, 2022 (11:59 pm, Hawaii
time - originally May 9 – non-mandatory)
Paper Submission Deadline: May 23, 2022 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time
- originally May 16)
Notification of Acceptance: June 20, 2022 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Camera-Ready Paper: July 04, 2022 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
SEMANTiCS 2022 especially invites contributions that target the
intersections between computational semantics and neighboring research
areas such as machine learning, language technologies, sensor
technologies, distributed ledgers and beyond.
For details please go to: https://2022-eu.semantics.cc/cfp
Looking forward to your submissions! Stay tuned and stay safe!
With kind regards,
Anastasia Dimou & Sebastian Neumaier
-- R&I Track Chairs --
Hi all,
Really exciting new special issue on semantic media that may be of interest
to Wikipedia/Wikidata researchers. See below and let me know if you have
any questions! Abstract deadline is July 15.
All best,
Heather (and Andrew)
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them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.
*Call for Papers*
*Social Media + Society** Special Issue: Semantic Media*
*Editors: Andrew Iliadis and Heather Ford*
This special issue focuses on “semantic media,” which we define as media
technologies that primarily orchestrate and convey facts, answers,
meanings, and “knowledge” about things directly in media products, rather
than lead people to other sources. Search engines and virtual assistants
respond directly to questions based on textual or verbal searches (e.g.,
“Things to do in Philadelphia?” or “What is the capital of Israel?”). The
special issue is thus dedicated to the often-invisible ways (to the
non-specialist) that internet companies are now actively involved in
constructing “knowledge” about the world. Organizations like Apple, Google,
Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon extract, curate, and store facts served to
users in new and emerging media products. Such processes have significant
implications for the politics of knowledge sharing in the future.
We seek papers that examine how design decisions “bake” these facts into
the apps and platforms people use daily while focusing on the
infrastructures dedicated to orchestrating and presenting this information.
The goal is to understand the technologies that will drive social and
political outcomes when large internet companies become a primary conduit
through which people directly acquire an understanding of facts about the
world. We also seek to understand how governments, nonprofit, and
nongovernmental organizations engage these media technologies. Semantic
media are less about searching for keywords and matches on different
websites that are then ranked for people to choose. Instead, they deal with
identifying and describing entities (things like people, products, and
places) and directing interactions with those entities (actions like
purchasing, scheduling, and contacting). How do semantic media identify
concepts and connect related information about them? How do companies and
organizations produce facts and organize the data? From where does the data
originate? What do these semantic processes mean for web users and
administrators? What types of gatekeeping or safety checks do companies and
organizations perform concerning these facts?
Today’s semantic media have a long history reaching back to the “Semantic
Web” project initiated by web inventor Tim Berners-Lee. Yet, media
researchers do not adequately cover how companies and organizations
implement semantic technologies on platforms relative to their central
role. These semantic technologies are in proprietary and open source
products, and extensive media platforms are now using them to provide facts
and represent knowledge to various publics. Google’s Knowledge Graph is a
database of facts that Google uses to provide quick answers to the public,
and such graphs are in use at other companies. At the same time, Wikipedia
has a product called Wikidata that similarly stores facts about the world
in data formats through which various apps can retrieve the data.
Researchers and journalists also use semantic technologies for search
engine optimization, fact-checking practices, and data sharing and
organization. This special issue thus focuses on such platformized versions
of fact production and examines the underlying infrastructures, histories,
and modeling techniques used in knowledge representation systems.
We are interested in quantitative, qualitative, and critical approaches and
papers that propose new methods, theories, and frameworks.
*Areas of interest:*
• The creation or transmission of facts, answers, meanings,
definitions, and “knowledge” across media systems and their platforms
• Answers from virtual assistants such as Alexa, Siri, Cortana,
Bixby, etc.
• Answers from search engines such as Google, Bing, Baidu,
Yandex, etc.
• Products like knowledge panels, infoboxes, carousels, rich
results, maps, etc.
• Open-source semantic technologies such as Schema.org, Wikidata,
etc.
• Proprietary semantic technologies such as Google’s Knowledge
Graph, etc.
• Fact-checking practices for misinformation and disinformation
across semantic media platforms
• Search engine optimization and semantic search practices
• Semantic infrastructure projects such as the semantic web,
linked data, etc.
• Semantic governance organizations such as the World Wide Web
Consortium, etc.
• Semantic technologies such as metadata, markup languages,
knowledge bases, knowledge graphs, web schemas, applied ontologies, and
enterprise semantic software
• Semantic, linguistic, and conceptual theories involving rules
and logic, theories of meaning, ontology, taxonomy, ideas of truth, social
ontology, etc.
*Timeline:*
• Extended 1000-word abstracts due Fri July 15
• Decisions out to authors Fri Aug 19
• Full 8000-word manuscript due Fri Nov 18
• Final decisions January 2023
• Submit to journal February 2023
• Publication spring 2023
*Send submissions to andrew.iliadis(a)temple.edu
<andrew.iliadis(a)temple.edu> and heather.ford(a)uts.edu.au
<heather.ford(a)uts.edu.au> with the subject header “Social Media + Society
Special Issue: Semantic Media”*
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We at CopeNLU and the Digital Democracies Institute are currently running
an online survey on the potential harms and misuses of Natural Language
Processing technologies and research. We, therefore, ask researchers in the
field of natural language processing to fill the following survey to give
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We would really appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to fill out
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Call for Research & Innovation Papers -- SEMANTiCS 2022
18th International Conference on Semantic Systems
Vienna, Austria
September 13 - 15, 2022
https://2022-eu.semantics.cc/
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Just 14 days to go!! Submission deadline May 16!
The Research and Innovation track at SEMANTiCS 2022 EU welcomes papers
on novel scientific research and/or innovations relevant to the topics
of the conference. We especially invite papers that target the
intersection between computational semantics and neighboring research
areas such as machine learning, language technologies and beyond.
Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for
publication elsewhere unless available as preprint. Papers must follow
the guidelines given in the author instructions, including references
and optional appendices. Each submission will be reviewed by several PC
members who will judge it based on its innovativeness, technical merits,
and effectiveness at solving real problems.
Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2022 EU will be made available open access and
planned to be published with IOS Press.
= Topics of Interest =
* Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data
* Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management, and Deep Semantics
* Machine Learning & Deep Learning Techniques
* Semantic Information Management & Knowledge Integration
* Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management
* Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
* IoT and Stream Processing
* Reasoning, Rules, and Policies
* Natural Language Processing
* Data Quality Management and Assurance
* Explainable Artificial Intelligence
* Semantics in Data Science
* Semantics in Blockchain environments
* Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies
* Economics of Data, Data Services, and Data Ecosystems
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* Special Sub-Topic: Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
* Special Sub-Topic: LegalTech
* Special Sub-Topic: Distributed and Decentralized Knowledge Graphs
= Important Dates =
* Abstract Submission Deadline: May 09, 2022 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Paper Submission Deadline: May 16, 2022 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: June 20, 2022 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: July 04, 2022 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Submission via Easychair on https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sem22#
= Author Guidelines and Submission =
* The Research and Innovation Track welcomes long and short papers. Long
papers should have a maximum length of 15 pages (including references)
and short papers of 6 pages (including references).
* Submissions should follow the guidelines of IOS Press. Details are
available here: https://www.iospress.com/book-article-instructions
* Abstract submission for all papers is a strict requirement.
* All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via
Easychair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sem22#
* Submissions must be in English.
* Submissions are not anonymous.
* Accepted papers will be published in open access proceedings by IOS Press.
* At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the
conference and present the paper.
* 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.
= Review and Evaluation Criteria =
Each submission will be reviewed by several PC members. The reviewing
process is single-blind. Papers submitted to this track will be
evaluated according to the following criteria:
* Appropriateness
* Originality, novelty, and innovativeness
* Impact of results
* Soundness of the evaluation
* Proper comparison to related work
* Clarity and quality of writing
* Reproducibility of results and resources
Check out additional submission opportunities at Semantics conference:
https://2022-eu.semantics.cc/cfp
We are looking forward to your contribution!