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[CfP] SEMANTiCS 2023 – Workshop & Tutorial Track|| Extended Submission Deadline March 15, 2023
by Anisa Rula & Jennifer D'Souza 08 Mar '23

08 Mar '23

==== SEMANTiCS - 19th International Conference on Semantic Systems Leipzig, Germany Workshops and Tutorials September 20 - 22, 2023 https://2023-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_ws ==== 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 *Extended* Deadline: March 15, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Notification of Acceptance: March 22, 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

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strategies to parse the relevant links from wikipedia
by Luigi Assom 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

Hi All, for an applied research work, I am working on extracting links from the Wikipedia corpus. I've been using in the past the XML streams, but not I was hoping to speed up and handle better the situation by parsing the sql tables. However, I am stuck on this: I could not find a way to filter the relevant links. I can only filter by namespace apparently, while I want to only keep the links that were mentioned in the main text, still namespace 0, but not belonging to the infoboxes and navboxes menu. How could I do that? Is there any information that a link belongs to a menu or to the main content, beyond the namespace? Thanks All for your help, L.

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CFP: wikihistories 2023: Wikipedia and its implications for memory (and forgetting)
by Heather Ford 23 Feb '23

23 Feb '23

https://wikihistories.net/2023-conference/ wikihistories 2023: Wikipedia and its implications for memory (and forgetting) Call for papers From its earliest beginnings shortly before 911,[1]<https://wikihistories.net/2023-conference/#ftnt1> Wikipedia has documented history as it happens. Revolutions,[2]<https://wikihistories.net/2023-conference/#ftnt2> terrorist attacks,[3]<https://wikihistories.net/2023-conference/#ftnt3> earthquakes,[4]<https://wikihistories.net/2023-conference/#ftnt4> fires and floods have been written about on the platform, often within minutes of the first recorded protests, attacks, and blazes. This practice of documentation, conducted by volunteers who are connected by shared interest rather than shared expertise, falls between the disciplines of digital journalism and history. What does Wikipedia’s coverage of events “that haven’t even stopped happening yet”[5]<https://wikihistories.net/2023-conference/#ftnt5> mean for history-making on the platform? Researchers have noted that recent events are covered more than early history[6]<https://wikihistories.net/2023-conference/#ftnt6>, and stories are more often presented from colonialist rather than local perspectives.[7]<https://wikihistories.net/2023-conference/#ftnt7> More recently, Wikipedia has been uncovered as a site of both conscious forgetting and the “frenzy of commemorations,”[8]<https://wikihistories.net/2023-conference/#ftnt8> a venue for nationalist propaganda projecting particular stories that favour particular ideologies and social groups. * How does Wikipedia construct history and collective memory? * Does Wikipedia enable the forging of a collective memory via consensus?[9]<https://wikihistories.net/2023-conference/#ftnt9> * How are some versions of the past pushed to the fringes? * What gets remembered and what gets forgotten? * How can we study history-making on the platform? In this first annual workshop of the wikihistories project, we will take stock of what we know and what we still need to know about Wikipedia as a history-making platform. We do this because Wikipedia’s representation of history matters. Its facts travel through knowledge ecosystems and rest as answers to questions provided by digital assistants, search engines and other AI-enhanced tools. Wikipedia’s claims to neutrality are more a hope than a promise, a guise that hides the dreams and ideologies of the individuals and groups that understand its power and are determined to master its form. We invite Wikipedia scholars and researchers to participate in a two-day symposium being held online on the 8th and 9th of June. The symposium will be held for about 4 hours at different times each day to accommodate a range of global timezones. Please send an abstract of 250-300 words to michael.falk(a)uts.edu.au<mailto:michael.falk@uts.edu.au> before March 17 (close of day anywhere in the world) responding to any of the above questions. We expect a mixture of both analytical and methodological contributions for the event which will be held annually for the 3 years of the wikihistories project. Confirmed Speakers This year’s symposium will begin with a keynote by Dr Simon Sleight<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/simon-sleight>, Reader in Urban History, Historical Youth Cultures and Australian History at King’s College, London. Dr Sleight is the co-editor of “History, Memory and Public Life: The Past in the Present” and will provide a rich background to our investigations of collective memory from the history discipline for an interdisciplinary audience. ________________________________ [1]<https://wikihistories.net/2023-conference/#ftnt_ref1> Brian Keegan, “An Encyclopedia with Breaking News,” in Wikipedia@ 20: Stories of an Incomplete Revolution, ed. Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2019), 55–70, https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12366.003.0007. [2]<https://wikihistories.net/2023-conference/#ftnt_ref2> Heather Ford, Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2022). [3]<https://wikihistories.net/2023-conference/#ftnt_ref3> Bunty Avieson, “Breaking News on Wikipedia: Collaborating, Collating and Competing,” First Monday, April 30, 2019, https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v24i5.9530; Christian Pentzold, “Fixing the Floating Gap: The Online Encyclopaedia Wikipedia as a Global Memory Place,” Memory Studies 2, no. 2 (May 2009): 255–72, https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698008102055. [4]<https://wikihistories.net/2023-conference/#ftnt_ref4> Brian Keegan, Darren Gergle, and Noshir Contractor, “Hot off the Wiki: Dynamics, Practices, and Structures in Wikipedia’s Coverage of the Tōhoku Catastrophes,” in Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym ’11: The 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, Mountain View California: ACM, 2011), 105–13, https://doi.org/10.1145/2038558.2038577. [5]<https://wikihistories.net/2023-conference/#ftnt_ref5> “All the News That’s Fit to Print Out,” New York Times (Online) (New York: New York Times Company, July 1, 2007), 2223136739, ProQuest Central, http://ezproxy.lib.uts.edu.au/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/blogs-podc….<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?broken%3Dz…> [6]<https://wikihistories.net/2023-conference/#ftnt_ref6> Graham, Mark, Scott Hale, and Monica Stephens. “Geographies of the World’s Knowledge.” (2011). [7]<https://wikihistories.net/2023-conference/#ftnt_ref7> Brendan Luyt, “The Nature of Historical Representation on Wikipedia: Dominant or Alterative Historiography?,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 62, no. 6 (2011): 1058–65, https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.21531; Bunty Avieson, “Two Wikipedias in Bhutan: Problems and Solutions for Knowledge Equity in the Digital Age,” Asian Journal of Communication 32, no. 5 (September 3, 2022): 399–416, https://doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2021.1937248. [8]<https://wikihistories.net/2023-conference/#ftnt_ref8> Paul Ricoeur, Memory, History, Forgetting, trans. Kathleen Blamey and David Pellauer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), 85. [9]<https://wikihistories.net/2023-conference/#ftnt_ref9> Brendan Luyt, “Wikipedia, Collective Memory, and the Vietnam War,” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 67, no. 8 (2016): 1956–61, https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23518; Pentzold, “Fixing the Floating Gap”; Marlon Twyman, Brian C. Keegan, and Aaron Shaw, “Black Lives Matter in Wikipedia: Collaboration and Collective Memory around Online Social Movements,” in Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2017, 1400–1412, https://doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998232. --------------------------- Dr Heather Ford Associate Professor Head of Discipline Digital and Social Media<https://www.uts.edu.au/future-students/communication/digital-and-social-med…> | Acting Co-Director Centre for Research on Education in a Digital Society<https://www.uts.edu.au/research/centre-research-education-digital-society> (CREDS) | Data Science Institute<https://www.uts.edu.au/data-science-institute/> Associate Member | Center for Media in Transition<https://www.uts.edu.au/research/centre-media-transition> Research Associate | School of Communication<https://www.uts.edu.au/future-students/communication/about-communication/we…>, University of Technology, Sydney<https://www.uts.edu.au/> (UTS) w: hblog.org<http://hblog.org/> / t: @hfordsa<http://www.twitter.com/hfordsa> Latest writing: “Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age”<https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262046299/writing-the-revolution/> MIT Press, out now “Why I spent 10 years studying one Wikipedia article<https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-shaping-history-why-i-spent-ten-ye…>” The Conversation, Friday Essay I acknowledge the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation and the Boorooberongal People of the Dharug Nation upon whose ancestral lands our campus now stands. I pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands that were never ceded. UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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Call for Posters: Uncertain Reasoning Special Track at The 36th International FLAIRS Conference (UR@FLAIRS-36)
by Kai Sauerwald 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

*** Call for Posters *** ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Uncertain Reasoning (UR) Special Track at The 36th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-36) In cooperation with the American Association for Artificial Intelligence Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA May 14-17, 2023 Poster paper submission deadline: March 20, 2023 Notification: March 27, 2023 All accepted poster papers will be included in the FLAIRS proceedings published by Florida Online Journals ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Call For Poster Papers The Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR) is the oldest track in FLAIRS conferences, running annually since 1996. The UR Special Track at the 36th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-36) is the 28th in the series. Like the past tracks, UR seeks to bring together researchers working on broad issues related to reasoning under uncertainty. Poster papers are a platform for students and researchers to present and discuss work in a early stage or work which provides an concise summary of a line of recent research. === Topics of Interest === Posters on all aspects of uncertain reasoning are invited. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: *Uncertain reasoning formalisms, calculi and methodologies *Reasoning with probability, possibility, fuzzy logic, belief function, vagueness, granularity, rough sets, and probability logics *Modeling and reasoning using imprecise and indeterminate information, such as: Choquet capacities, comparative orderings, convex sets of measures, and interval-valued probabilities *Exact, approximate and qualitative uncertain reasoning *Probabilistic graphical models of uncertainty such as: Bayesian networks, Markov random field, probabilistic circuits *Multi-agent uncertain reasoning and decision-making *Decision-theoretic planning and Markov decision process *Temporal reasoning and uncertainty *Non-monotonic reasoning *Conditional Logics *Argumentation *Belief change and merging *Similarity-based reasoning *Ontologies and description logics *Construction of models from elicitation, data mining and knowledge discovery *Uncertain reasoning in information retrieval, filtering, fusion, diagnosis, prediction, situation assessment *Uncertain reasoning in data management *Practical applications of uncertain reasoning *Learning probabilistic models *Applications in computer vision and animation === Poster Paper Submission and Publication === Interested authors should format their poster paper according to FLAIRS-36 conference formatting guidelines. Poster papers should not exceed 2 pages (+ references) and are due by March 20, 2023. The reviewing is a double-blind process. Author names and affiliations must be omitted from submitted poster paper. Poster papers must be submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system, which can be accessed through the main conference website (http://www.flairs-36.info/). Authors should indicate the Uncertain Reasoning special track for submissions. All accepted poster papers will be included in the proceedings of FLAIRS, which will be published by the Florida Online Journals. The authors shall prepare a poster to present the content of their poster paper in a poster session. In order for a poster paper to be published in the proceedings, all accepted poster papers must be accompanied by at least one author registration. Instructions on the submission procedure are available at the UR website: http://ur-flairs.github.io/2023 We anticipate there will be a special issue devoted to extended versions of selected submissions at the track. === Important Dates for Poster Papers === Submission: March 20, 2023 Notification: March 27, 2023 === Program Committee === [ Track Chairs ] Kai Sauerwald FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany Choh Man Teng Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA [ PC Members ] Mohand Said Allili (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada) Alessandro Antonucci (IDSIA, Switzerland) Ofer Arieli (The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel) Christoph Beierle (FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany) Salem Benferhat (University of Artois, France) Stefano Bistarelli (University of Perugia, Italy) Nizar Bouguila (Concordia University, Canada) Martine Ceberio (University of Texas at El Paso, US) Lluís Godo (University of Barcelona, Spain) Christophe Gonzales (LIS, France) Gabriele Kern-Isberner (University of Technology Dortmund, Germany) Vladik Kreinovich (University of Texas at El Paso, US) Philippe Leray (University of Nantes, France) Nicholas Mattei (Tulane University, US) Ralf Möller (University of Lübeck, Germany) Arthur Paul Pedersen (The City College of New York, US) Rafael Peñaloza Nyssen (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) Eugene Santos (Dartmouth College, US) Dilip Sarkar (University of Miami, US) Kari Sentz (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US) Karima Sedki (University of Paris 13, France) Karim Tabia (University of Artois, France) Carlo Taticchi (University of Perugia, Italy) === Travel Information === Additional information on the conference locale and travel planning can be found at http://www.flairs-36.info.

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2nd Call for Papers, Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM 2023)
by serge.autexier＠dfki.de 19 Feb '23

19 Feb '23

Second Call for Papers formal papers - doctoral programme 16th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2023 - 4��8 September 2023 Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK (hybrid event) http://www.cicm-conference.org/2023 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 2023 Invited Speakers *** - Mateja Jamnik: TBA - Lawrence C. Paulson: Large-Scale Formal Proof for the Working Mathematician - Lessons learnt from the Alexandria Project - Martina Seidl: Never trust your solver: Certificates for SAT and QBF *** CICM 2023 Programme committee *** - Jes��s Aransay (Universidad de La Rioja, Spain) - Mauricio Ayala-Rincon (Universidade de Brasil��a, Brazil) - Haniel Barbosa (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil) - Jasmin Blanchette (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - Kevin Buzzard (Imperial College, UK) - Isabela Dr��mnesc (West University of Timi��oara, Romania) - Catherine Dubois (ENSIIE, Evry-Courcouronnes, France) [Co-Chair] - M��d��lina Era��cu (West University of Timi��oara, Romania) - William Farmer (McMaster University, Canada) - John Harrison (Amazon Web Services) - Tetsuo Ida (University of Tsukuba, Japan) - Moa Johansson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) - Fairouz Kamareddine (Heriot-Watt University, UK) - Daniela Kaufmann (TU Wien, Austria) - Manfred Kerber (University of Birmingham, UK) [Co-Chair] - Peter Koepke (University of Bonn, Germany) - Michael Kohlhase (FAU Erlangen-N��rnberg, Germany) - Angeliki Koutsoukou-Argyraki (University of Cambridge, UK) - Temur Kutsia (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) - Micaela Mayero (Institut Galil��e, Universit�� Paris Nord, France) - Bruce R. Miller (NIST, USA) - Adam Naumowicz (University of Bia��ystok, Poland) - Claudio Sacerdoti-Cohen (University of Bologna, Italy) - Sofi��ne Tahar (Concordia University, Canada) - Olaf Teschke (FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany) - Josef Urban (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic) - Stephen M. Watt (University of Waterloo, Canada) - Freek Wiedijk (Radboud University, The Netherlands) - Wolfgang Windsteiger (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) - Abdou Youssef (The George Washington University, USA) *** SUBMISSIONS *** CICM 2023 invites 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 different forms. Formal submissions will be reviewed rigorously and accepted papers will be published in a formal way: - regular papers (up to 15 pages including references) present novel research results - project and survey papers (up to 15 pages + bibliography) summarize existing results - system and dataset descriptions (up to 5 pages including references) present digital artifacts - system entry (1 page according to the given LaTeX template) provides metadata and a quick overview of a new tool or a new release of an existing tool Participants of CICM benefit a lot from the exchange with colleagues. In order to foster this we will provide at the conference an opportunity to make informal presentations (using posters or laptops) of work-in-progress, project announcements, position statements, and system demonstrations. Authors of system and dataset descriptions and system entries are strongly encouraged to take up this opportunity and give interested colleagues an in depth impression of their work. *** Doctoral Programme *** PhD students are invited to participate in the doctoral programme, which provides them with a forum to present early results and receive constructive feedback and mentoring. To attend, submit a two-page abstract of the thesis describing the research questions, research plans, completed and remaining research, evaluation plans and publication plans; a two-page CV that includes background information (name, university, supervisor), education (degree sought, year/status of degree, previous degrees), employments, relevant research experience (publications, presentations, attended conferences or workshops, etc). *** Participation / Hybrid Event *** CICM 2023 will be held as an hybrid event, participation is possible online or on-site. Authors of accepted papers can choose to present online or on-site, but at least one author needs to register for the conference. *** Important Dates *** - Abstract deadline: 27 March 2023 - Full paper deadline: 3 April 2023 - Reviews sent to authors: 2 May 2023 - Rebuttals due: 6 May 2023 - Notification of acceptance: 13 May 2023 - Camera-ready copies due: 5 June 2023 - Conference: 4��8 September 2023 Submissions to the doctoral programme - Submission deadline: 30 June 2023 - Notification of acceptance: 14 July 2023 All submissions should be made via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2023 CICM 2023 will have proceedings in form of a volume in the Springer LNAI series, using the LNCS style. For the LNCS style files, see: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…

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[Announcement] A new formal collaboration in Research
by Martin Gerlach 15 Feb '23

15 Feb '23

Hi all, The Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation has officially started a new Formal Collaboration [1] with Indira Sen, Katrin Weller, and Mareike Wieland from GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences to work collaboratively on understanding perception of readability in Wikipedia [2] as part of the Addressing Knowledge Gaps Program [3]. We are thankful to them for agreeing to spend their time and expertise on this project in the coming year. Here are a few pieces of information about this collaboration that we would like to share with you: * We aim to keep the research documentation for this project in the corresponding research page on meta [2]. * Research tasks are hard to break down and track in task-tracking systems. This being said, the page on meta is linked to an Epic level Phabricator task and all tasks related to this project that can be captured on Phabricator will be captured under here [4]. * I act as the point of contact for this research in the Wikimedia Foundation. Please feel free to reach out to me (directly, if it cannot be shared publicly) if you have comments or questions about the project. Best, Martin [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Formal_collaborations [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Understanding_perception_of_readab… [3] https://research.wikimedia.org/knowledge-gaps.html [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T325815 -- Martin Gerlach (he/him) | Senior Research Scientist | Wikimedia Foundation

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[Wikimedia Research Showcase] February 15 at 9:30AM PT, 17:30 UTC
by Emily Lescak 15 Feb '23

15 Feb '23

Hello everyone, The next Research Showcase will be livestreamed next Wednesday, February 15 at 9:30AM PT / 17:30 UTC. The theme is The Free Knowledge Ecosystem. YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VJmR-3lTac We welcome you to join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You can also watch our past research showcases: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase This month's presentations: The evolution of humanitarian mapping in OpenStreetMap (OSM) and how it affects map completeness and inequalities in OSMBy *Benjamin Herfort, Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology*Mapping efforts of communities in OpenStreetMap (OSM) over the previous decade have created a unique global geographic database, which is accessible to all with no licensing costs. The collaborative maps of OSM have been used to support humanitarian efforts around the world as well as to fill important data gaps for implementing major development frameworks such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Besides the well-examined Global North - Global South bias in OSM, the OSM data as of 2023 shows a much more spatially diverse spread pattern than previously considered, which was shaped by regional, socio-economic and demographic factors across several scales. Humanitarian mapping efforts of the previous decade have already made OSM more inclusive, contributing to diversify and expand the spatial footprint of the areas mapped. However, methods to quantify and account for the remaining biases in OSM’s coverage are needed so that researchers and practitioners will be able to draw the right conclusions, e .g. about progress towards the SDGs in cities. Dataset reuseː Toward translating principles to practiceBy *Laura Koesten, University of Vienna*The web provides access to millions of datasets. These data can have additional impact when used beyond the context for which they were originally created. But using a dataset beyond the context in which it originated remains challenging. Simply making data available does not mean it will be or can be easily used by others. At the same time, we have little empirical insight into what makes a dataset reusable and which of the existing guidelines and frameworks have an impact.In this talk, I will discuss our research on what makes data reusable in practice. This is informed by a synthesis of literature on the topic, our studies on how people evaluate and make sense of data, and a case study on datasets on GitHub. In the case study, we describe a corpus of more than 1.4 million data files from over 65,000 repositories. Building on reuse features from the literature, we use GitHub’s engagement metrics as proxies for dataset reuse and devise an initial model, using deep neural networks, to predict a dataset’s reusability. This demonstrates the practical gap between principles and actionable insights that might allow data publishers and tool designers to implement functionalities that facilitate reuse. We hope you can join us! Warm regards, Emily -- Emily Lescak (she / her) Senior Research Community Officer The Wikimedia Foundation

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[CfP] 2nd CfP: Workshops and Tutorials Proposals || SEMANTiCS 2023 EU || Sep 20 - 22, 2023 || Leipzig, Germany
by Anisa Rula & Jennifer D'Souza 15 Feb '23

15 Feb '23

==== SEMANTiCS - 19th International Conference on Semantic Systems Leipzig, Germany Workshops and Tutorials September 20 - 22, 2023 https://2023-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_ws ==== 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

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Wiki Workshop - keynote suggestions
by Leila Zia 07 Feb '23

07 Feb '23

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 -- Leila Zia Head of Research Wikimedia Foundation

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The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations
by Emily Lescak 06 Feb '23

06 Feb '23

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

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