Dear all,
after a very engaging WikiWorkshop, I wanted to share withyou the fact
that we (group of researchers, from Europe, mainly, with the help of
members of the cummunity) are about to launch a survey of the
users/contributors of wikipedia.
The research is managed by my research center marsouin.org @
imt-atlantique.fr which is detailed here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Surveying_readers_and_contributors…
(other languages will follow soon, we still need some help for some
languages if you have some time)
After a false start due to a miscalculation of the resources needed to
handle the flow of answers (my mistake), the questionnaire should be
aired soon, first in French, Turk, Spanish... Then in others, I let you
consult the list ;-)
Of course the anonymous data will be available to anyone interested by
them.... Probably in September, to let us take the time to collect and
clean them
I'll keep you posted, but do not hesitate, in the meantime to ask
questions if any
Nicolas Jullien
--
Professeur / Professor IMT Atlantique
https://nicolasjullien.wp.mines-telecom.fr/
Directeur de M@rsouin http://www.marsouin.org
Membre du LEGO http://labo-lego.fr
Responsable du M2 management innovation
parcours Mgt du SI et des données @ischool IMT Atlantique
https://innovationmanagement.wp.imt.fr/
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 23, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii
time - originally May 9)
Paper Submission Deadline: May 30, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time
- originally May 16)
Notification of Acceptance: June 20, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Camera-Ready Paper: July 04, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
For details please go to: https://2023-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_rev_rep
Looking forward to your submissions! Stay tuned and stay safe!
With kind regards,
Maribel Acosta & Silvio Peroni
-- R&I Track Chairs --
The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) provides an international forum for presentation and discussion of research on information and knowledge management, as well as recent advances on data and knowledge bases. The purpose of the conference is to identify challenging problems facing the development of future knowledge and information systems, and to shape future directions of research by soliciting and reviewing high quality, applied and theoretical research findings. CIKM also has a strong tradition of workshops devoted to emerging areas of database management, IR, and related fields.
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Website: https://cikm2023.org/
EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cikm23
Submission deadlines for the different tracks
- Long papers: May 26, 2023 (Abstract), June 2, 2023 (Paper)
- Short papers: June 9, 2023 (Abstract), June 16, 2023 (Paper)
- Applied research papers: May 26, 2023 (Abstract), June 2, 2023 (Paper)
- Demo papers: June 6, 2023 (Abstract), June 16, 2023 (Paper)
- Resource papers: June 6, 2023 (Abstract), June 16, 2023 (Paper)
- AnalytiCup competition proposals: June 7, 2023
- Tutorial proposals: June 30, 2023
- Workshop proposals: June 16, 2023
Conference Dates: October 21-25, 2023
Location: Birmingham, UK
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The detailed Call for Papers for each of the tracks listed above can be found on the CIKM website (https://cikm2023.org/) and includes topics of interest, submission guidelines, submission policies and other track-specific information. The organisers of each track and information on how to reach them are also listed there.
* Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call *
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========== Call for Papers ==============
9th Workshop on Formal and Cognitive Reasoning (FCR-2023)
https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/wbs/fcr2023.html
co-located with the 46th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence
in Berlin, Germany
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Aims and Scope
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In real-life AI applications, information is usually pervaded by
uncertainty and subject to change, and thus requires non-classical
systems. At the same time, psychological findings indicate that human
reasoning cannot be completely described by classical logical systems.
Sources of explanations are incomplete knowledge, incorrect beliefs, or
inconsistencies. A wide range of reasoning mechanisms has to be
considered, such as analogical or defeasible reasoning, possibly in
combination with machine learning methods. The field of knowledge
representation and reasoning offers a rich palette of methods for
uncertain reasoning both to describe human reasoning and to model AI
approaches.
The aim of this series of workshops is to address recent challenges and
to present novel approaches to uncertain reasoning and belief change in
their broad senses, and in particular provide a forum for research work
linking different paradigms of reasoning. A special focus is on papers
that provide a base for connecting formal-logical models of knowledge
representation and cognitive models of reasoning and learning,
addressing formal and experimental or heuristic issues. Previous events
of the Workshop on "Formal and Cognitive Reasoning" and joint workshops
took place in Dresden (2015), Bremen (2016), Dortmund (2017), Berlin
(2018), Kassel (2019), Bamberg (2020, online), Berlin (2021, online),
and Trier (2022, online).
We welcome papers on the following and any related topics:
Action and change
Agents and multiagent systems
Analogical reasoning
Argumentation theories
Belief change and belief merging
Cognitive modeling and empirical data
Common sense and defeasible reasoning
Computational thinking
Decision theory and preferences
Inductive reasoning and cognition
Knowledge representation in theory and practice
Learning and knowledge discovery in data
Nonmonotonic and uncertain reasoning
Ontologies and description logics
Probabilistic approaches of reasoning
Syllogistic reasoning
Publication
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The proceedings will be published in the CEUR Workshop proceedings series.
Workshop Organizers and Co-Chairs
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Christoph Beierle FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
Kai Sauerwald FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
François Schwarzentruber University of Rennes, CNRS, IRISA, France
Frieder Stolzenburg Hochschule Harz, Germany
Important Dates
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Deadline for Submission: July 9, 2023
Notification of Authors: September 3, 2023
Camera-ready Paper: September 13, 2023
Workshop: September 26, 2023 (to be confirmed)
Submission Details
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Papers should be formatted in CEUR style (2-column style) without
enabled header and footer. The author kit can be found at
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. The length of each paper should
not exceed 8-12 pages. All papers must be written in English and
submitted in PDF format via the EasyChair system. One of the authors is
expected to participate in the workshop and present their paper.
* Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call *
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Call for Papers
NMR 2023
September 2-4, 2023
Rhodes, Greece
Co-located with KR 2023
* Deadlines: 2 June & 9 June 2023*
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The 21st International Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning (NMR)
http://nmr.krportal.org/2023/
September 2-4, 2023, Rhodes, Greece
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NMR 2023 will be co-located with the 20th International Conference on
Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2023),
https://kr.org/KR2023/.
NMR is the premier forum for results in the area of nonmonotonic
reasoning. Its aim is to bring together active researchers in this broad
field within knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR), including
belief revision, uncertain reasoning, reasoning about actions, planning,
logic programming, preferences, deontic reasoning, argumentation,
causality, and many other related topics including systems and
applications (see NMR page, https://nmr.cs.tu-dortmund.de/).
NMR has a long history - it started in 1984 and has been held every two
years until 2020 and then every year. Recent previous NMR workshops were
held in Haifa (2022), Hanoi (virtual, 2021), in Rhodes (virtual, 2020),
Tempe (2018) and Cape Town (2016). Since 2020 NMR is being held
annually. NMR workshops are usually co-located with the KR conferences
(kr.org).
As in previous editions, NMR 2023 aims to foster connections between the
different subareas of nonmonotonic reasoning and provide a forum for
emerging topics. We especially invite papers on systems and
applications, as well as position papers and papers addressing benchmark
issues. The workshop will be structured by topical sessions fitting to
the scopes of accepted papers.
The workshop will be held in Rhodes, Greece, in September 2-4, 2023.
Workshop activities will include invited talks and presentations of
technical papers.
-- Invited Speakers --
* Diego Calvanese Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
* Juha Kontinen University of Helsinki, Finland
* Anni-Yasmin Turhan Dresden University of Technology, Germany
The talk by Anni-Yasmin Turhan is a joint keynote with DL 2023.
-- Submission Information --
There are two types of submissions:
** Full papers **
Full papers should be at most 10 pages including references, figures and
appendices, if any. Papers already published or accepted for publication
at other conferences are also welcome, provided that the original
publication is mentioned in a footnote on the first page and the
submission at NMR falls within the authors’ rights. In the same vein,
papers under review for other conferences can be submitted with a
similar indication on their front page.
** Extended Abstracts **
Extended abstracts should be at most 3 pages. The abstracts should
introduce work that has recently been published or is under review, or
ongoing research at an advanced stage. We highly encourage attaching to
the submission a preprint/postprint or a technical report. Such extra
material will be read at the discretion of the reviewers. Submitting
already published material may require a permission by the copyright holder.
All submissions should be formatted in CEUR style (2-column style)
without enabled header and footer. The author kit can be found at
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. Papers must be submitted in PDF
only. Submission will be through the EasyChair conference system. Please
submit via Easychair to:
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=nmr2023
-- Workshop Proceedings --
The accepted papers will be made available electronically in the CEUR
Workshop Proceedings series (http://ceur-ws.org/). The copyright of
papers remains with the authors.
-- Student Grants --
A limited number of student grants will be made available, to support
the students attending NMR 2023. Preference will be given to students
that are going to present a paper at NMR and with limited access to
funding. Details will be given on the NMR website.
-- Important Dates --
All dates are 'Anywhere on Earth', namely 23:59 UTC-12.
* Paper registration deadline: 2 June 2023
* Paper submission deadline: 9 June 2023
* Notification to authors: 17 July 2023
* Camera-ready version: 4 August 2023
* Workshop dates: 2-4 September 2023
-- Workshop Co-Chairs --
* Kai Sauerwald, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
* Matthias Thimm, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
-- Further Information --
Please visit the workshop website (http://nmr.krportal.org/2023/) for
further information and regular updates.
NMR 2023 will follow the same contingency plans as KR 2023 with regard
to the effects of the global pandemic on international travel. See the
KR 2023 website (https://kr.org/KR2023/) for the latest news.
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SEMANTiCS - 19th International Conference on Semantic Systems
Leipzig, Germany
Call for 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.
=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=
Tutorials at SEMANTiCS 2023 allow your organisation or project to
advance and promote your topics and gain increased visibility. The
tutorials will be announced on the SEMANTiCS website and they will be
seen by all participants. SEMANTiCS 2023 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 tutorials may be either half or full day long. 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 tutorials will be granted three free tickets (only for the
workshop & tutorial day) for organization purposes or keynotes.
Participants of tutorials will be charged a marginal fee to cover the
basic costs.
Tutorial 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
* a statement addressing the quality assurance criterion that will be
used for the tutorial presenters..
* 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 tutorials must be submitted via Easychair:
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sem23
=Review and Evaluation Criteria=
Tutorial proposals will be reviewed by the SEMANTiCS 2023 Workshop &
Tutorial 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 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,
I joined the WMF Research team in June, 2021 as the Senior Research
Community Officer. Over the last two years, I have had the pleasure of
interacting with many of you through Office Hours, Research Showcases, the
Research Fund, and the listening tour I held during my first few months. I
have enjoyed learning more about your research interests, involvement in
the broader Wikimedia community, and how you think the Foundation can
increase its support for your work. With your input, we were able to
publish a vision and strategy
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Research_Community_Vision_and_Stra…>
for the community that will guide our efforts in the coming years.
I am writing to let you know that April 21st will be my last day at the
Wikimedia Foundation. I am moving to another organization where I will
continue to build my experience in community management and supporting open
research practices.
I want to thank you for the energy and enthusiasm that you bring to your
work. I particularly want to acknowledge those of you who have presented
your research at Showcases and Wiki Workshop, reviewed abstracts and grant
proposals, and applied to the Research Fund. The success of these
initiatives is due in a large part to your thoughtful contributions.
Warm regards,
Emily
--
Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
Hi all,
The next Research Showcase, with the theme of Images on Wikipedia, will be
live-streamed Wednesday, April 19, at 16:30 UTC. Find your local time here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1681921857>.
YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW0waU-QArU
You can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research or on the
YouTube chat.
This month's presentations:
A large scale study of reader interactions with images on WikipediaBy *Daniele
Rama, University of Turin*Wikipedia is the largest source of free
encyclopedic knowledge and one of the most visited sites on the Web. To
increase reader understanding of the article, Wikipedia editors add images
within the text of the article’s body. However, despite their widespread
usage on web platforms and the huge volume of visual content on Wikipedia,
little is known about the importance of images in the context of free
knowledge environments. To bridge this gap, we collect data about English
Wikipedia reader interactions with images during one month and perform the
first large-scale analysis of how interactions with images happen on
Wikipedia. First, we quantify the overall engagement with images, finding
that one in 29 pageviews results in a click on at least one image, one
order of magnitude higher than interactions with other types of article
content. Second, we study what factors associate with image engagement and
observe that clicks on images occur more often in shorter articles and
articles about visual arts or transports and biographies of less well-known
people. Third, we look at interactions with Wikipedia article previews and
find that images help support reader information need when navigating
through the site, especially for more popular pages. The findings in this
study deepen our understanding of the role of images for free knowledge and
provide a guide for Wikipedia editors and web user communities to enrich
the world’s largest source of encyclopedic knowledge.
- Paperː
https://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.1140/epjds/s13688-021-0…
Visual gender biases in Wikipediaː A systematic evaluation across the ten
most spoken languagesBy *Pablo Beytia, Catholic University of Chile*The
existing research suggests a significant gender gap in Wikipedia
biographical articles, with a minimal representation of women and gender
asymmetries in the textual content. However, the visual aspects of this gap
(e.g., image volume and quality) have received little attention. This study
examined asymmetries between women's and men's biographies, exploring
written and visual content across the ten most widely spoken languages. The
cross-lingual analysis reveals that (1) the most salient male biases appear
when editors select which personalities should have a Wikipedia page, (2)
the trends in written and visual content are dissimilar, (3) male
biographies tend to have more images across languages, and (4) female
biographies have better visual quality on average. The open database of
this study provides eight indicators of gender asymmetries in ten
occupational domains and ten languages. That information allows for a
granular view of gender biases, as well as exploring more macroscopic
phenomena, such as the similarity between Wikipedia versions according to
their gender bias structures.
- Papersː
Beytía, P., Agarwal, P., Redi, M., & Singh, V. K. (2022). Visual Gender
Biases in Wikipedia: A Systematic Evaluation across the Ten Most Spoken
Languages. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and
Social Media, 16(1), 43-54. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v16i1.19271https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/19271Beytía, P. & Wagner,
C. (2022). Visibility layers: a framework for systematizing the gender gap
in Wikipedia content. Internet Policy Review, 11(1).
https://doi.org/10.14763/2022.1.1621https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/visibility-layers-framework-sys…
You can watch our past Research Showcases here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
Hope you can join us!
Warm regards,
Emily
--
Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
Sending this again from my current address. Left Gmail a long time ago -- not sure the redirect still works... My apologies if this is hitting your inbox twice!
_ _ _ _
Dear Wikimedia research community,
I'd have a question for the data savvy people on this list :)
My goal is simple: for a sample of English Wikipedia editors, I'm trying to identify their edits which were reverted. I can see two possible way of doing this:
1. Identify the reverts using the SHA1 values. (A revert happens when the edit exactly restores the page to its previous state.)
2. Identify the reverts using the "undo" button.
As I see it, solution 2 is less "precise" (you'll miss some reverts, e.g., those performed manually). However, it would also be less computationally intensive, and I don't see that it would introduce any bias (results can be compared across editors in a statistical model).
However, I do not see the information about whether a revision was reverted using the “undo” button in the enwiki database: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Manual:Database_layout/diagram&…
I find this surprising. Am I missing something? (And if so, how do you personally feel about strategy 1 vs. strategy 2?)
Thank you so much for any insight you might be willing to provide! :D
Sincerely,
Jérôme