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SEMANTiCS - 19th International Conference on Semantic Systems
Leipzig, Germany
Workshops and Tutorials
September 20 - 22, 2023
https://2023-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_ws
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SEMANTiCS 2023 is a major venue for research and industrial innovation
and features a workshop and tutorial program addressing the diverse
practical interests of its audience. This program is intended to offer a
rich diversity of topics to conference attendees and local participants
seeking to pick up new skills and stay up-to-date regarding the latest
developments in the community. We encourage submissions of proposals on
all topics in the general areas of SEMANTiCS 2023 and proposals bridging
or introducing new perspectives in these areas. Workshops and tutorials
may incorporate panel discussions, lightning talks, meetings, networking
or hands-on sessions, hackathons and other practical formats where
applicable. Rooms for business or project meetings are available upon
request as well.
=Important Dates for Workshops=
* Proposals WS Deadline: March 07, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: March 14, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
=Important Dates for Tutorials (and other meetings, e.g. seminars,
show-cases, etc., without call for papers)=
* Proposals Tutorial Deadline: June 06, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: June 20, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Submission via Easychair on https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sem23
=Scope & Goals=
Workshops and tutorials at SEMANTiCS 2023 allow your organisation or
project to advance and promote your topics and gain increased
visibility. The workshops and tutorials will be announced on the
SEMANTiCS website and they will be seen by all participants. SEMANTiCS
2023 workshops and tutorials can be incubators for industrial and
scientific communities that form and share a particular research and
development agenda. They provide a forum for presenting 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.
=Setup and Requirements=
SEMANTiCS 2023 workshops and tutorials may be either half or full day
long. Workshops and tutorials take place on the days before and/or after
the main SEMANTiCS 2023 EU conference (20th, 21st, and/or 22nd of
September 2023). Details will be communicated on time.
Organizers of workshops and tutorials will be granted three free tickets
(only for the workshop & tutorial day) for organization purposes or
keynotes. Participants of workshops and tutorials will be charged a
marginal fee to cover the basic costs.
Workshop and tutorials proposals must include the following information:
* outline of the themes and goals of the event, including a title and a
brief abstract (less than 200 words) intended for the SEMANTiCS 2023 website
* a statement addressing why the event is important, why the event is
timely, how it is relevant to SEMANTiCS 2023 and the field of semantic
web. For the tutorials, why the presenters are qualified for a
high-quality introduction of the topic
* related workshops and conferences, i.e., specifying if this is a
continuation of a workshop series or is a new workshop to address an
emerging issue. Please provide information about past versions of this
workshop and other related workshops (including URLs and
submission/acceptance counts, if available).
* a statement addressing the quality assurance criterion that will be
used by the event organizers to select the papers for the workshops and
the presenters for the tutorials (e.g., peer review or review/evaluation
by event organizers). If a peer review process is chosen as a quality
assurance criterion for the workshops, the organizers will be
responsible for their own reviewing process. Workshop organizers will be
responsible also for their own publicity (e.g., website, timelines and
call for papers) and proceedings production.
* structure of the event and plans for generating and stimulating
discussion; how will the interaction be organized in case of a hybrid event
* desired minimum and maximum number of event participants, expected
number of participants, and (in case of previously held events) number
of registered attendees and web site for previous editions of the event
* a description of the intended audience and the expected learning outcomes
* desired prerequisite knowledge of the audience
* proposed duration of the event (i.e., half or full day), different
sessions if applicable (final time slot will be assigned in accordance
with the SEMANTiCS program)
* any equipment, room capacity, or other logistic constraints
* full contact information of all organizers of the event and main
contact person; a brief description of each organizer's background,
including relevant past experience in organizing events
Proposals for workshop and tutorial proposals must be submitted via
Easychair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sem23
=Review and Evaluation Criteria=
Workshop and tutorial proposals will be reviewed by the SEMANTiCS 2023
Workshop Chairs, as well as by the SEMANTiCS 2023 organizing committee,
according to the following criteria:
* The potential to advance the state of semantic web research and practice
* The quality assurance criterion proposed by the organizers to select
high-quality papers for workshops and presenters for tutorials
* The organizers' experience and ability to lead a successful event
* Timeliness and expected interest in the event topics
* The balance and synergy between all SEMANTiCS 2023 events
=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
* Reasoning, Rules and Policies
* Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics
* Social and Human aspects of Semantic Web
* Data Quality Management and Assurance
* Explainable Artificial Intelligence
* Semantics in Data Science
* Semantics of Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies
* Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies
* Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems
* Applications of Semantic Web technologies in domains such as law,
medicine, life sciences, digital humanities, mobility and smart cities, etc.
We especially invite contributions that illustrate the applicability of
the topics mentioned above for industrial purposes and/or illustrate the
business relevance of their contribution for specific industries.
Workshop proposals on emerging themes for the topics listed above are
encouraged.
In case you have additional questions concerning the submission process,
please do not hesitate to contact us via Easychair.
We are looking forward to your contribution!
Jennifer D’Souza - jennifer.dsouza(a)tib.eu
Anisa Rula - anisa.rula(a)unibs.it
Workshop & Tutorial Chairs
Hi all,
If you have recommendations or wishes for keynote speaker(s) for Wiki
Workshop 2023, please share them with me or Bob West off-list by February
13th, 11:59 AM UTC. It will be really helpful if you provide 1-2 sentence
descriptions of why you're suggesting a particular person. If you don't
have a person in mind but have a topic in mind that you think we should
consider inviting a keynote speaker for, you can share that as well.
Context:
As many of you know, we are co-organizing Wiki Workshop 2023. Expect
https://wikiworkshop.org/2023/ to come to life in the coming couple of days
and more communications about it. And mark your calendars: May 11th, 2023
it is.
Best,
Leila
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Leila Zia
Head of Research
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi all,
We invite you to nominate one or more scholarly research publications
to be considered for the Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the
Year. Learn more below.
=Purpose of the award=
Recognize recent research on or about the Wikimedia projects or recent
research that is of importance to the Wikimedia projects. Recognize
the researchers behind the research.
You can learn more about previous winners at
https://research.wikimedia.org/awards.html.
=Eligibility criteria=
Your nomination must meet the following criteria:
* The research must be on, about, using data from, and/or of
importance to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons or
other Wikimedia projects.
* The publication must be available in English.
* The research must have been published between January 1, 2022 and
December 31, 2022.
=Nomination process=
Submit your nominations by February 6, 2023 through
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wmfray2022. We will ask you
to provide the following information in your nomination:
* Title of the manuscript
* A copy of the manuscript you are nominating
* A summary of the research and a clear justification for why the work
merits the award (in 350 words or fewer in English).
Note that self-nominations and nominations of others' work are both welcome.
==Winner(s)==
The winner(s) will be announced in a ceremony as part of Wiki Workshop
2023.
If you have any questions, please contact us at
wmf-ray-2022(a)easychair.org.
Warm regards,
Emily Lescak, on behalf of Benjamin Mako Hill (University of Washington)
and Leila Zia (Wikimedia Foundation)
--
Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
[Apologies for multiple postings.]
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Second Call for Papers: 28th International Conference on Conceptual
Structures (ICCS 2023)
September 11th-13rd, 2023, Berlin, Germany
Website: https://iccs-conference.org
Twitter: @iccs_confs
Contact us: contact(a)iccs-conference.org
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About ICCS:
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The International Conferences on Conceptual Structures (ICCS) focus on
the formal analysis and representation of conceptual knowledge at the
crossroads of artificial intelligence, human cognition, computational
linguistics, and related areas of computer science and cognitive
science. The ICCS conferences evolved from seven annual workshops on
conceptual graphs, starting with an informal gathering hosted by John F.
Sowa in 1986. Recently, graph-based knowledge representation and
reasoning (KRR) paradigms have been getting more and more attention.
With the rise of quasi-autonomous AI, graph-based representations
provide a vehicle for making machine cognition explicit to human users.
ICCS 2023 will take place in Berlin, Germany, in September 2023.
Scholars, students and industry participants from different disciplines
will meet for several weeks of conferences, workshops, summer schools,
and public events to engage with the broad topics, issues and challenges
related to knowledge in the 21st century.
Submissions are invited on significant, original, and previously
unpublished research on the formal analysis and representation of
conceptual knowledge in artificial intelligence (AI). All papers will
receive mindful and rigorous reviews that will provide authors with
useful critical feedback. The aim of the ICCS 2023 conference is to
build upon its long-standing expertise in graph-based KRR and focus on
providing modelling, formal and application results of graph-based
systems. In particular, the conference welcomes contributions that
address graph-based representation and reasoning paradigms (e.g.
Bayesian Networks (BNs), Semantic Networks (SNs), RDF(S), Conceptual
Graphs (CGs), Formal Concept Analysis (FCA), CP-Nets, GAI-Nets, Graph
Databases, Diagrams, Knowledge Graphs, Semantic Web, etc.) from a
modelling, theoretical and application viewpoint.
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Topics:
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Topics include but are not limited to:
Existential and Conceptual Graphs
Graph-based models for human reasoning
Social network analysis
Formal Concept Analysis
Conceptual knowledge acquisition
Data and Text mining
Human and machine reasoning under inconsistency
Human and machine knowledge representation and uncertainty
Automated decision-making
Argumentation
Constraint satisfaction
Preferences
Contextual logic
Ontologies
Knowledge architecture and management
Semantic Web, Web of Data, Web 2.0, Linked (Open) Data
Conceptual structures in natural language processing and linguistics
Metaphoric, cultural or semiotic considerations
Resource allocation and agreement technologies
Philosophical, neural, and didactic investigations of conceptual,
graphical representations
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Important Dates:
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- Abstract registration deadline: March 19th, 2023
- Submission deadline: March 26th, 2023
- Paper Reviews Sent to Authors: May 14th, 2023
- Rebuttals Due: May 21th, 2023
- Notification to authors: May 31th, 2023
- Camera-ready papers due: June 14th, 2023
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Submission Details:
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We invite scientific papers of up to fourteen pages, short contributions
of up to eight pages, and extended poster abstracts of up to three
pages. Papers and poster abstracts must be formatted according to
Springer’s LNCS style guidelines and not exceed the page limit. Papers
will be subject to double-blind peer review, in which the reviewers do
not know the author's identity. We recommend using services like
https://anonymous.4open.science/ to anonymously share code or data.
Anonymized works that are available as preprints (e.g., on arXiv or
SSRN) may be submitted without citing them. Submission should be made
via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccs2023. All
paper submissions will be refereed, and authors will have the
opportunity to respond to reviewers’ comments during the rebuttal phase.
Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings,
published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series. Poster submissions will
also be refereed, and selected poster abstracts might be included in
the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper
or poster must register for the conference and present the paper or
poster there. Proceedings will be indexed by DBLP.
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Submission Details:
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Organizers:
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General Chair:
Robert Jäschke, Information Processing and Analytics, Humboldt
University of Berlin, Germany
Program Chairs:
Manuel Ojeda Aciego, Dept. Applied Mathematics, University of Málaga, Spain
Kai Sauerwald, Artificial Intelligence Group, FernUniversität in Hagen,
Germany
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[Apologies for multiple postings.]
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Call for Workshops and Tutorials at the 28th International Conference on
Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2023)
September 11 - 13, 2023, Berlin, Germany
Website: https://iccs-conference.org
Twitter: @iccs_confs
Contact us: contact(a)iccs-conference.org
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About ICCS
**********
The International Conferences on Conceptual Structures (ICCS) focus on
the formal analysis and representation of conceptual knowledge at the
crossroads of artificial intelligence, human cognition, computational
linguistics, and related areas of computer science and cognitive
science. The ICCS conferences evolved from seven annual workshops on
conceptual graphs, starting with an informal gathering hosted by John F.
Sowa in 1986. Recently, graph-based knowledge representation and
reasoning (KRR) paradigms have been getting more and more attention.
With the rise of quasi-autonomous AI, graph-based representations
provide a vehicle for making machine cognition explicit to human users.
ICCS 2023 will take place in Berlin, Germany, in September 2023.
Scholars, students and industry participants from different disciplines
will meet for several weeks of conferences, workshops, summer schools,
and public events to engage with the broad topics, issues and challenges
related to knowledge in the 21st century.
Submissions are invited on significant, original, and previously
unpublished research on the formal analysis and representation of
conceptual knowledge in artificial intelligence (AI). All papers will
receive mindful and rigorous reviews that will provide authors with
useful critical feedback. The aim of the ICCS 2023 conference is to
build upon its long-standing expertise in graph-based KRR and focus on
providing modelling, formal and application results of graph-based
systems. In particular, the conference welcomes contributions that
address graph-based representation and reasoning paradigms (e.g.
Bayesian Networks (BNs), Semantic Networks (SNs), RDF(S), Conceptual
Graphs (CGs), Formal Concept Analysis (FCA), CP-Nets, GAI-Nets, Graph
Databases, Diagrams, Knowledge Graphs, Semantic Web, etc.) from a
modelling, theoretical and application viewpoint.
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Call for Workshops/Tutorials
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We invite proposals for workshops or tutorials to be held on the first
day of ICCS 2023 (September 11, 2023) in Berlin, Germany. Proposals
should address current and emerging topics related to the formal
analysis and representation of conceptual knowledge (cf. also the list
of topics in the CfP). Workshops and tutorials provide an opportunity to
discuss novel topics in an interactive atmosphere. They can concentrate
in-depth on research topics, but can also be devoted to application issues.
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Duration and Format
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We welcome both full- and half-day workshop/tutorial proposals and
encourage a program that is both varied and interesting. We specifically
encourage innovative formats for workshops that go beyond traditional
paper presentations, for example, including a challenge for participants
to solve, or jointly working on a specific problem or document at the
venue. Combinations of half-day tutorial and workshop are also possible,
thus providing the option to introduce a topic and then to discuss
relevant research.
ICCS 2023 will be an on-site conference, thus all contributors are
required to present their work locally in Berlin.
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Important Dates
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- Proposal deadline: May 5, 2023
- Notification of acceptance: May 12, 2023
- Tutorial/Workshop day: September 11, 2023
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Proposal/Submission Details
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Proposals for workshops/tutorials should (at least) provide the
following information:
- A brief description of
* the specific issues that will be addressed,
* the reasons why the workshop/tutorial is of relevance,
* the main research areas involved,
* and what the workshop/tutorial will add to the conference (e.g., do
you expect papers of a theme that would not fit the main conference?).
- Specifically for workshops,
* information on the workshop chairs and the expected program committee,
* a draft of the Call for Papers, including information on accepted
formats (e.g., regular papers, extended abstracts, oral-only
presentations of relevant recently published or submitted contributions,
etc.)
* and the expected format of the workshop (e.g., invited talks,
presentations, poster sessions, panel discussions, challenge sessions,
or other ideas for ensuring an interactive atmosphere).
- Specifically for tutorials, please add some details on the person(s)
who gives the tutorial and the expected length.
- In the case of a combined tutorial-workshop, please clearly indicate
the format.
- Any special requirements regarding logistics (e.g., poster stands,
audio equipment), if applicable.
Please send your applications or questions to Robert Jäschke
(contact(a)iccs-conference.org). We are looking forward to your proposals.
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Hi
We recently got awarded a grant from the WikiCred Initiative to develop
metrics for source controversiality in Wikipedia.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCred/2022_CFP/WiSCoM_-_Wikipedia_Source…
and are looking for an applicant to the Lagrange Fellowships (deadline Feb.
10)
to work on this project.
Project and grant duration will be 1 year and the successful candidate will
be hosted by the ISI Foundation in Turin (Italy)
https://isi.it/en/home
More details, requirements and the application form can be found here:
https://sites.google.com/view/lagrange-call-2022/home
Kind regards
Andreas Kaltenbrunner