Dear Wikipedia editors,
It is our pleasure to invite you to join a study at the University of
Minnesota! The objective of the study is to understand how large language
models (LLMs) impact the collaborative knowledge production process, by
investigating knowledge contributors’ interactions with LLMs in practice.
If you have used LLMs (e.g., GPT, Llama, Claude...) when you contribute to
Wikipedia (eg. Editing Wikipedia articles with LLMs, using LLMs when
interacting with other contributors), we’d love to join the study! You will
be engaging in a 45-60 min interview, talking and reflecting about your
experience with Wikipedia and your perception/usage of LLMs in Wikipedia.
Your valuable input will not only help us understand practical ways to
incorporate LLMs into the knowledge production process, but also help us
generate guardrails about these practices. All participation would be
anonymous.
To learn more and sign up, please visit <
https://umn.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bqIjhNRg9Zqsuvs>, or if you have any
questions, feel free to email <zhou0972(a)umn.edu>.
All the best,
LLMs and knowledge production Research Team
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The 9th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning (RuleML+RR
2025)
== Call for Papers ==
*** RuleML+RR 2025 ***
*** 22-24 September 2025 ***
*** İstanbul, Türkİye ***
Abstract: June 2nd, 2025
Paper: June 9th, 2025
Homepage: https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr
RuleML+RR 2025 is part of Declarative AI 2025
(https://2025.declarativeai.net/)
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RuleML+RR 2025 is a leading international joint conference in the field
of rule-based reasoning. One of the main goals of RuleML+RR is to build
bridges between academia and industry in the area of semantic reasoning.
RuleML+RR 2025 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners
interested in the foundations and applications of rules and reasoning.
It provides a forum for stimulating cooperation between different
communities focused on the research, development, and applications of
rule-based systems. We solicit high-quality papers related to
theoretical advances, novel technologies, and applications that involve
rule-based representation and reasoning or other declarative forms of
artificial intelligence.
The RuleML+RR 2025 conference is part of the event “Declarative AI:
Rules, Reasoning, Decisions, and Explanations”
(https://2025.declarativeai.net/) and is co-located with DecisionCAMP
2025 and the Reasoning Web Summer School. Apart from the main track, it
features:
* Rule Challenge
(https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/rule-challenge),
* Doctoral Consortium
(https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/doctoral-consortium),
* Industry Track
(https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/industry-track),
* Project Networking Session
(https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/networking-session)
*** Topics ***
RuleML+RR welcomes research from all areas of Rules and Reasoning. The
topics of the conference include, but are not limited to:
* Ontology/Semantic Web
* Rules for AI and AI for Rules
* Rules and Reasoning / Logics
* Rules-Based Systems
* Rules and Interoperability
* Constraints and Schema
* System Descriptions, Applications and Experiences of Ontologies and Rules
See the conference homepage for more details on the topics:
https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/cfp
*** Important Dates ***
Main track:
Abstract submission: June 2, 2025
Paper submission: June 9, 2025
Notification: July 28, 2025
Conference: September 22–24, 2025
Associated events (Rule Challenge, Doctoral Consortium, Industry Track,
and ProjectNetworking Session)
- July 10, 2025: Paper submission deadline
- July 31, 2025: Notification of acceptance
For each of these deadlines, a cut-off point of 23:59 AOE applies.
**Submission and Publication**
High-quality papers related to theoretical advances, novel technologies,
and artificial intelligence applications concerning explainable
algorithmic decision-making that involve rule-based representation and
reasoning are solicited.
We accept the following submission formats for papers:
- Long papers (up to 15 pages in LNCS style excluding references, plus 2
additional pages for references)
- Short papers (up to 8 pages in LNCS style excluding references, plus 1
additional page for references)
Long papers should present original and significant research and/or
development results. Short papers should concisely describe general
results or specific applications, systems, or position statements. All
submissions must be prepared in Springer's LNCS style
(http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/authors.html).
Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have
been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a
conference/workshop with formal proceedings. Double submission to a
workshop with informal proceedings is allowed. Papers put on arXiv are
also allowed as long as they are not refereed (i.e., formally reviewed
by peers).
Submissions to the RuleML+RR conference
- abide by the page limits (see above)
- are not anonymous
- can have additional material included as an external report
(appendices to the submission are not permitted and a paper should be
self-contained)
Papers should be written in English and submitted using EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rulemlrr2025
The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture
Notesin Computer Science series (LNCS) after the conference. Proceedings
of the associated events will be published by CEUR. Special Issues of
Theory and Practice of Logic Programming and Transactions on Graph Data
and Knowledge are planned with extended versions of selected papers.
The main track's best paper will be awarded the RuleML+RR Harold Boley
Distinguished Paper Award 2025 and best student paper will be awarded
the RuleML+RR Best Student Paper Award 2025.
The best RuleML Challenge paper will be awarded the RuleML+RR Best Rule
Challenge Paper Award 2025. The best Doctoral Consortium paper will be
awarded the RuleML+RR Best Doctoral Consortium Paper Award 2025.
***Chairs***
Program Chairs
Aidan Hogan, University of Chile, Chile
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Proceedings Chairs
Dumitru Roman, SINTEF AS, Norway
Ahmet Soylu, Kristiania University College, Norway
Rule Challenge Chairs
Alessandro Margara, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Tomáš Kliegr, Prague University of Economics and Business, Czechia
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
Shqiponja Ahmetaj, TU Wien, Austria
Riccardo Tommasini, INSA Lyon, France
Industry Track Chairs
Luigi Bellomarini, Banca d’Italia, Italy
Evgeny Kharlamov, Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany
Ioana Georgiana Ciuciu, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania
Networking Session
Dumitru Roman, SINTEF AS, Norway
George Konstantinidis, University of Southampton, UK
Emanuel Sallinger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Publicity Chairs
Kai Sauerwald, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
Tor-Morten Grønli, Kristiania University College, Norway
Romuald Esdras Wandji, Umeå University, Sweeden
Hi all,
The last Research Showcase for 2024 will be live-streamed next
Wednesday, December 11, at 9:00 AM PT / 17:00 UTC. Find your local time here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1733936400>. The theme for this showcase is
*AI for Wikipedia*.
You are welcome to watch via the YouTube stream:
https://youtube.com/live/_hk6KLD-0tg?feature=share. As usual, you can join
the conversation in the YouTube chat as soon as the showcase goes live.
This month's presentations:
Language Models for Wikimedia: A Report from the Trenches and a Call to Arms
By *Bob West, EPFL*
I will showcase LLM-based solutions my lab has built for tackling problems
on Wikipedia (e.g., fact extraction, generation of article descriptions and
edit summaries), highlighting practical challenges linked to applying such
solutions in vivo. I will conclude by sketching a vision for building a
Wikimedia Foundation Foundation Model with the potential to assist humans
in keeping Wikipedia great.
A Public AI Assistant for World Wide KnowledgeBy *Monica Lam, Stanford
University*We are introducing an initiative to develop a public AI
assistant to enhance access to worldwide knowledge. Our scalable, LLM-based
framework adapts to any knowledge corpus, effectively handling both
structured and unstructured data. Our pilot version supports users in
drafting Wikipedia-style articles by researching the web, engages in
fact-grounded conversations using information from Wikipedia in 25
languages, and writes SPARQL queries for Wikidata. Our assistant has been
applied across diverse fields: aiding scientists with the Semantic Scholar
corpus of academic papers, supporting historians in examining 18th-century
newspapers, and assisting journalists in analyzing Federal Election
Commission (FEC) campaign donation records. We are seeking collaboration to
further expand its applications.
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Kinneret Gordon
Lead Research Community Officer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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CICM 2025 First Announcement and Call for Papers
18th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
- CICM 2025 -
October 6–11, 2025
Brasilia, Brazil
https://cicm-conference.org/2025
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More and more mathematical information is digitally processed, generated,
communicated, stored, and curated. 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. Besides the CICM main program
soliciting formal CICM submissions there will be associated workshops with
separate submission options.
We are inviting formal submissions on all topics relating to intelligent
computer mathematics, in particular, but not limited to
* theorem proving and computer algebra
* mathematical knowledge management
* digital mathematical libraries
The program committee is chaired by Valeria de Paiva, Berkeley and Peter Koepke,
Bonn.
*** Formal Paper Submissions ***
Formal submissions in one of the following categories will be reviewed
rigorously and accepted papers will be published in a volume of Springer LNAI:
* regular papers (up to 15 pages + bibliography) present novel
research results
* project and survey papers (up to 15 pages + bibliography)
summarize existing results
* system and dataset descriptions (4 to 5 pages + bibliography)
present digital artifacts
*** Important Dates ***
Formal submissions
- Abstract deadline: April 28, 2025
- Full paper deadline: May, 2025
- Reviews sent to authors: June 16, 2025
- Rebuttals due: June 20, 2025
- Notification of acceptance: July 4, 2025
- Camera-ready copies due: July 18, 2025
- Conference: October 6-11, 2025
*** Submissions ***
All submissions should be made via EasyChair at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm25
using the Springer LNCS style files
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…
If software or data is relevant to a paper, a link that provides access to the
software/data must be provided to enable reproduction of results.
*** Best Papers ***
CICM 2025 honors the best paper and best student paper with respect to reviews
and program committee discussions with an award.
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Dear researchers,
We thought of informing you about this small research we implementing about an intensive course for PhD students about Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects implemented since 2016 for eight editions.
It is a research to document this experience implemented by the Politecnico di Milano but it is also a relevant format to involve researchers and the academia in the Wikimedia projects (and we want to test its scalability).
We are starting a series of interviews. Please find more information about the project below.
my very best regards
iolanda
> Inizio messaggio inoltrato:
>
> Da: Iolanda Pensa <iolanda(a)pensa.it>
> Oggetto: Intensive course for PhD students about Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects
> Data: 5 dicembre 2024 alle ore 19:15:12 CET
> A: education(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Cc: Matthew Vetter <mvetter(a)iup.edu>
>
> Dear all,
> I would like to invite you to a conversation we are going to have on Friday, December 13 from 7 pm to 8:30 pm CET about the beautiful Wikipedia intensive course dedicated to PhD students and created by the Politecnico di Milano in 2016 and replicated for eight editions. The discussion will be in English with the course instructors Andy Mabbett, Niccolò Caranti and Marco Chemello, with the goal of better understanding this unique experience and making this course replicable by many other universities internationally. We aim to document this experience, develop an online course on WikiLearn and test it at SUPSI Mendrisio Switzerland 24-28 February 2025 with 5 PhD students.
>
> Best regards
> iolanda
>
> Presentation of the intensive course for PhD students about Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects promoted since 2016 by Politecnico di Milano
> Friday, December 13 from 7pm to 8:30 p.m. CET
> BBB Open Science room at Wikimedia Italia https://cvs5133.ergonet.host/b/iol-gdq-fbx-tst
> Participants: Andy Mabbett, Niccolò Caranti and Marco Chemello
> Moderators: Iolanda Pensa and Matt Vetter
> More information on: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Intensive_course_on_research_state_of_the_a…
>
>
>
>
> _____________________________________________________
> University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland
> Department for Environment Constructions and Design
> Institute of Design
>
> Iolanda Pensa, PhD
> Senior Researcher
>
> Head of Culture and Territory Research Unit
>
> Campus Mendrisio
> Via Flora Ruchat-Roncati 15
> CH-6850 Mendrisio
> T +41 (0)58 666 6362
> iolanda.pensa(a)supsi.ch
> www.supsi.ch/ide
>
Call for Research & Innovation Papers
SEMANTiCS 2025 EU
21st International Conference on Semantic Systems
Vienna, Austria
September 3 - 5, 2025
Important Dates:
-
*Abstract Submission Deadline: April 25 , 2025*
-
*Paper Submission Deadline: May 2, 2025*
-
*Notification of Acceptance: June 13, 2025*
-
*Camera-Ready Paper Deadline: July 04, 2025*
*All deadlines are set for 11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time (UTC-12)*
*Submissions will be through Easychair and the submission link will be
provided soon.*
Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2025 EU will be made available *open access*.
Research and Innovation Track
The SEMANTiCS 2025 conference is excited to invite submissions for the
Research and Innovation Track, welcoming groundbreaking research
contributions, innovative solutions, and experimental studies relevant to
the Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and AI-enabled semantics. We also
encourage submissions at the intersections of these fields with other
scientific and applied disciplines, fostering cross-disciplinary exchange
and advancement. Papers should present original work that has not been
published or is not under consideration elsewhere. All submissions must
adhere to the submission guidelines, including reference formatting and any
additional documentation as required. Each submission will undergo a
rigorous review process, with at least three independent reviews,
evaluating the novelty, technical quality, reproducibility, and practical
relevance of the work.
Topics of Interest
SEMANTiCS 2025 calls for submissions of high-quality research papers across
a broad spectrum of topics in Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and AI.
We are particularly interested in new and emerging trends, especially where
semantic technologies intersect with evolving fields such as large language
models, explainable AI, and trustworthy data infrastructures. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:
- Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data
- Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management
- Machine Learning Techniques for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g.
reinforcement learning, deep learning, data mining and knowledge discovery)
- Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (e.g., Retrieval-Augmented
Generation (RAG) with knowledge graph integration, generative model
grounding)
- Reasoning, Rules, and Policies on RAG
- Knowledge Engineering and Management (e.g., knowledge acquisition,
extraction, integration, and publication workflows)
- Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management, Ontology engineering
- Web agents
- Natural Language Processing for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. entity
linking and resolution using target knowledge such as Wikidata and DBpedia,
foundation models)
- Crowdsourcing for/using Knowledge Graphs
- Data Quality Management and Assurance
- Mathematical and Logical Foundations of Knowledge-aware AI
- Multimodal Knowledge Graphs (e.g., text, image, audio fusion in graph
structures)
- Semantic-Enhanced Data Science Pipelines and Processes
- Semantics in Blockchain environments (e.g., traceability,
decentralized knowledge representation)
- Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies
- Internet of Things (IoT), Stream Processing, and Temporal Data
Management (e.g., real-time semantic processing and predictive analytics)
- Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems powered by Knowledge Graphs
- Provenance and Data Change Tracking (e.g., semantic versioning, data
updates in distributed settings)
- Semantic Interoperability (e.g., cross-domain standards, mapping
frameworks, ontology alignment)
- Linked Data storage, triple stores, graph databases
- Robust, Scalable, and Fault-Tolerant Semantic Data Systems (e.g.,
distributed querying, optimization)
- User Interfaces and Usability of Semantic Technologies (e.g.,
visualizations, intelligent user interaction)
- Explainable and Interoperable AI
- Decentralised and Federated Knowledge Graphs (e.g., federated
querying, link traversal)
Applied Semantic Technologies and AI in Real-World Scenarios, such as, but
not limited to:
- Biomedicine and Health (e.g., Knowledge Graphs for biomedical
applications, AI-driven diagnostics, personalized health)
- AI for Environmental and Climate Solutions (e.g., semantic modeling
for environmental impact, biodiversity knowledge graphs)
- Scientific Knowledge Graphs and Open Science (e.g., FAIR data
principles, enhanced scholarly communication)
- Semantic Technologies in GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and
Museums)
- Knowledge Graphs and Hybrid AI for Industry 4.0/5.0 and Predictive
Maintenance
- Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage Preservation
- Legal Technology, AI Ethics, and Regulatory Compliance (e.g., AI and
legal frameworks, semantic-enabled compliance with the EU AI Act)
- Economics and Governance of Data Ecosystems (e.g., data marketplaces,
semantic service interoperability, data policy)
Submissions will be through Easychair. Stay tuned for the submission link.
For *Submission Guidelines* and * Review and Evaluation Criteria* please
head to the online call for papers:
*https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_rev_rep*
<https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_rev_rep>.
We would highly appreciate it if you could disseminate this call within
your network.
*We look forward to receiving your contributions!*
Research and Innovation Track Chairs
Blerina Spahiu (University of Milano-Bicocca, IT)
Mehdi Ali (Lamarr Institute & Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany)
Kind Regards,
On behalf of the organising committee.
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Dr. Kossi Amouzouvi
ScaDS.AI Leipzig/Dresden, TU Dresden
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Hi all,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, November
20, at 9:30 AM PST / 17:30 UTC. Find your local time here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1732123800>. The theme for this showcase is
*A Look at External Factors that Help Different Language Versions of
Wikipedia Thrive*.
You are welcome to watch via the YouTube stream:
https://www.youtube.com/live/oH0PCNIzF0E. As usual, you can join the
conversation in the YouTube chat as soon as the showcase goes live.
This month's presentations:
The social embeddedness of peer production: A comparative qualitative
analysis of three Indian language Wikipedia editionsBy *Sejal Khatri*Why do
some peer production projects do a better job at engaging potential
contributors than others? We address this question by comparing three
Indian language Wikipedias, namely, Malayalam, Marathi, and Kannada. We
found that although the three projects share goals, technological
infrastructure, and a similar set of challenges, Malayalam Wikipedia’s
community engages language speakers in contributing at a much higher rate
than the others. Drawing from a grounded theory analysis of interviews with
18 community participants from the three projects, we found that experience
with participatory governance and free/open-source software in the
Malayalam community supported high engagement of contributors.
Counterintuitively, we found that financial resources intended to increase
participation in the Marathi and Kannada communities hindered the growth of
these communities. Our findings underscore the importance of social and
cultural context in the trajectories of peer production
communities.Low-Resource
Languages and Online Knowledge Repositories: A Need-Finding StudyBy *Hellina
Hailu Nigatu, UC Berkeley*Online Knowledge Repositories (OKRs) like
Wikipedia offer communities a way to share and preserve information about
themselves and their ways of living. However, for communities with
low-resourced languages—including most African communities—the quality and
volume of content available are often inadequate. One reason for this lack
of adequate content could be that many OKRs embody Western ways of
knowledge preservation and sharing, requiring many low-resourced language
communities to adapt to new interactions. In this talk, we will go through
findings from two studies: (1) a thematic analysis of Wikipedia forum
discussions and (2) a contextual inquiry study with 14 novice contributors
who create content in low-resourced languages. We will focus on three
Ethiopian languages: Afan Oromo, Amharic, and Tigrinya. Our analysis
revealed several recurring themes; for example, contributors struggle to
find resources to corroborate their articles in low-resourced languages,
and language technology support, like translation systems and spellcheck,
result in several errors that waste contributors’ time. Based on our
analysis, we will also outline design opportunities for building better
language support tools and interfaces for low-resourced language speakers.
Best,Kinneret
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Kinneret Gordon
Lead Research Community Officer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Good afternoon,
Please be aware of a vacancy as a Research Group Leader in Professor Myrskylä's lab as well as the Summer Research Visit program situated at Professor Zagheni's lab:
*** apologies for cross-postings ***
Research group leader (W2, equivalent to Associate Professor) in Labor Demography
The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)<https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en> is seeking to recruit a tenure-track research group leader (W2, equivalent to Associate Professor) in Labor Demography to join the Department of Social Demography.
Deadline: December 12, 2024
More information can be found here<https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/research_gro…>.
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Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program
The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is inviting applications from qualified and highly motivated students for a Summer Research Visit.
The goal of the Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program is to enable discovery by bringing together data scientists and population scientists to work on focused, intensive and collaborative projects of broad societal relevance.
Deadline: January 8, 2025
More information can be found here<https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/population_a…>.
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Dear all,
The European Commission is hosting a Q&A session webinar on the delegated act on data access for researchers under the DSA. It will take place online and it is targeted at researchers who would like to learn more about the delegated act and how it might benefit their research.
**Date and time: 19 November 2024, 10:00-11:30 (CET)**
You can sign up here:
https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/DataAccessInfoWebinar
Best,
Cristian
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HUMAINT team
European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency
European Commission
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