Hi all,
As part of our efforts to better serve the Wikimedia research community, we
are happy to share that we are collaborating with the Security team at WMF
to help prioritize the release of data that can be useful for your
research. The Security team is working to make more datasets privatized and
public to avoid the need for non-disclosure agreements. You can learn more
here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy.
Over the next 12 months, the Security team plans to release 5 datasets:
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country-language-pageview ongoing (end of 2022)
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country-language-pageview historical (March 2023)
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geo-aggregated grants data back to 2009 (Feb 2023)
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geoeditors monthly (June 2023)
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dataset informed by research community priorities identified in this
survey (second half of 2023)
The released datasets need to meet certain privacy requirements:
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They can not include any natural language (e.g. specific search queries
or deletion logs) so as to avoid the release of personally identifiable
information;
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They need to be sufficiently large (at least thousands of entries,
preferably more) so as to reduce noise;
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The data can not be so sensitive that an individual user will be harmed
by disclosure of the data (e.g. IP addresses, content containing personally
identifying information).
We invite you to complete a brief survey
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe_LAt6V2Q1GUf3Z8lnt8uAOZnHTO5rNgF…>
to help us identify and prioritize the types of datasets that you would
find useful for your work. Results of this survey will inform the fifth
dataset, scheduled to be released in late 2023. This survey is conducted
via a third-party service, which may subject it to additional terms. For
more information on privacy and data-handling, see the survey privacy
statement:
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:Data_Release_Priorities_Survey_…
The survey will remain open until November 3, 2022. After that time,
members of the Research and Security teams will review the data and report
out about the suggestions that were received and how the work will proceed.
If you prefer to not respond via the Google form, you can email your
feedback to us or set up a time to discuss. You can also leave questions
and comments on the Talk page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy
Thanks for your help!
Emily Lescak, WMF Research team
Hal Triedman, WMF Security team
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Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
Hello everyone,
The next Research Showcase, focused on Editor Retention, will be
live-streamed Wednesday, January 18. Find your local time here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1674063059>.
YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS8ELcVZ8Q4
You can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You can also
watch our past research showcases here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
This month's presentations:
Vital Signsː Measuring Wikipedia Communities’ HealthBy *Cristian Consonni,
Eurecat - Centre Tecnològic de Catalunya, Barcelona*Community health in
Wikipedia is a complex topic that has been at the center of discussion for
Wikipedia and the scientific community for years. Researchers observed that
the number of active editors for the largest Wikipedias started declining
after an initial phase of exponential growth. Some media outlets picked
this fact as a death announcement for the project, but the news of
Wikipedia's death turned out to be greatly exaggerated. However, it remains
true that researchers and community activists need to understand how to
measure community health and describe it more accurately. In this
presentation, we would like to go beyond the traditional metrics used to
describe the status of the community. We propose the creation of 6 sets of
language-independent indicators that we call "Vital Signs." We borrow the
analogy from the medical field, as these indicators represent a first step
in defining the health status of a community; they can constitute a
valuable reference point to foresee and prevent future risks. We present
our analysis for several Wikipedia language editions, showing that
communities renew their productive force even with stagnating absolute
numbers; we observe a general need for renewal in positions related to
particular functions or administratorship. We created a dashboard to
visualize all the indicators we have computed and hope that the communities
will find it helpful for improving their health.
- Paperː Community Vital Signs: Measuring Wikipedia Communities’
Sustainable Growth and Renewal
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Community_Vital_Signs_Research_Paper_-…>
Learning to Predict the Departure Dynamics of Wikidata EditorsBy *Guangyuan
Piao, Maynooth University*Wikidata as one of the largest open collaborative
knowledge bases has drawn much attention from researchers and practitioners
since its launch in 2012. As it is collaboratively developed and maintained
by a community of a great number of volunteer editors, understanding and
predicting the departure dynamics of those editors are crucial but have not
been studied extensively in previous works. In this paper, we investigate
the synergistic effect of two different types of features: statistical and
pattern-based ones with DeepFM as our classification model which has not
been explored in a similar context and problem for predicting whether a
Wikidata editor will stay or leave the platform. Our experimental results
show that using the two sets of features with DeepFM provides the best
performance regarding AUROC (0.9561) and F1 score (0.8843), and achieves
substantial improvement compared to using either of the sets of features
and over a wide range of baselines.
- Paperː Learning to Predict the Departure Dynamics of Wikidata Editors
<https://parklize.github.io/publications/ISWC2021.pdf>
--
Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
ACM/IEEE JCDL 2023 – June 26 - 30, 2023, Santa Fe, New Mexico
https://2023.jcdl.org/
*Rethinking Digital Records*
/Exploring new perspectives, challenges, and opportunities for
libraries, archives, museums, and galleries/
The notion of what constitutes a digital library has evolved over time.
In recent years, the ability to retain a digital record of the volatile
world has been of critical importance for ensuring that our collective
history is available for posterity. Progressing research and
disseminating state-of-the-art advancements in digital libraries are
thus of supreme importance to humanity.
The annual ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) is
the primary international event for the inter- and multi-disciplinary
community of academics and practitioners in digital libraries coming
from computer, information and social sciences, and other related
disciplines. JCDL encompasses the many meanings of the term digital
libraries, including notions of managing, operating, developing,
curating, evaluating, or utilizing collections of
data/information/knowledge in various domains.
*Topics*
Topics of interest, as they relate to digital libraries, include, but
are not limited to:
Users and Interactions
- Collaborative and participatory information environments
- Crowdsourcing and human computation
- Human-information interaction
- Information visualization
- Social networks, virtual organizations and networked information
- Social media, community building, and applications
- User behavior and modeling
Search and Recommendation
- AI / Machine learning / Data mining for DLs
- Dataset retrieval
- Information and knowledge systems
- Information retrieval
- Knowledge discovery
- Natural language processing
- Navigational and exploratory search
- Personalization and contextualization
Digital Libraries in Practice
- Digital archiving and preservation
- Digital humanities and heritage
- Knowledge organization systems in practice
- Personal digital information management
- Performance evaluation
- Policy and law
- Privacy and intellectual property
- Scientific data management
Content and Structures
- Data curation and stewardship
- Document genres
- Extracting semantics, entities, and patterns from large collections
- Infrastructure and service design
- Linked data and its applications
- Research data management
- Web and network science
*Paper Types and Formats*
JCDL 2023 offers two paper submission deadlines: Submissions for
research papers (long or short) are due on January 29, 2023. The
deadline for late-breaking results and datasets is February
12, 2023. The submission formats are outlined below.
*Research Papers* (deadline: January 29, 2023)
Authors may choose between two formats:
- /Full papers/ have at most 10 pages and report on mature work, or
efforts that have reached an important milestone. They will get
presentation slots of 20 to 30 minutes.
- /Short papers/ have at most 4 pages and highlight efforts that might
be in an early stage, but are important for the community to
be made
aware of; they can also present theories or systems that can be
described concisely in the limited space. Short papers will get
presentation slots of 10 to 15 minutes.
*Late Breaking Results and Datasets* (deadline: February 12, 2023)
This comprises submissions falling into the following categories:
- /Late breaking results/ present new insights or information about
research that was completed after the research paper submission
deadline.
- /Dataset submissions/ a new category that allow description of
relevant research datasets. These need to be either fully
publicly
available or have to contain a publicly available subset.
Late Breaking Results and Datasets submissions should be 2-4 pages and
will be allotted a 5 minute presentation slot at the conference.
*Submission Guidelines*
All submissions must be original works, not previously published or
under review for publication elsewhere, in English, in PDF format, and
in the current ACM two-column conference format. Suitable LaTeX, Word,
and Overleaf templates are available from the ACM Website (use
"sigconf" proceedings template for LaTeX and the Interim Template for
Word, https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template).
Complete papers are required; submissions consisting solely of an
abstract or those that are otherwise incomplete will not be reviewed.
For all formats, references do not count to the page
limit. Submissions are to be made via
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jcdl2023
*All submissions will be rigorously peer-reviewed in a double-blind
reviewing process.*
*Submissions must be anonymous* and all references to authors' works
have to be anonymized. We recommend using services like
https://anonymous.4open.science/ to anonymously share code or
data. Anonymized works that are available as preprints (e.g., on arXiv
or SSRN) may be submitted without citing them. Reviewers will be
instructed not to actively look for such preprints, and finding such a
preprint does not clash with our submission policies.
All accepted papers will be included in the proceedings and will be
presented at the conference. At least one author of each accepted
paper is required to register for, and present the work at the
conference on-site in Santa Fe. In case of traveling restrictions
(COVID related or otherwise), an exception may be made to allow
authors to present the work remotely.
*Calls for workshops and tutorials, posters and demos, and panels will
be published separately.*
*Submission Deadlines*
All dates are Anywhere on Earth (AoE)
- January 29, 2023 – Research paper submissions
- February 12, 2023 – Late breaking results, preliminary works,
datasets submissions
- Mid-March, 2023 – Notification of acceptance
- April 2, 2023 – Final camera-ready deadline for all submissions
*Program Chairs*
- Anat Ben-David, Open University of Israel
- Robert Jäschke, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Mat Kelly, Drexel University
*General Chair*
- Martin Klein, Los Alamos National Laboratory
*Contact*
For any questions about paper submissions you may contact the program
chairs by email to jcdl2023(a)easychair.org.
--
Prof. Dr. Robert Jäschke
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & L3S Research Center Hannover
< https://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~jaeschkr/ >< +49 (0)30 2093-70960 >
< https://weltliteratur.net/ >>>>><<<<< https://dev.bibsonomy.org/ >
[Apologies for multiple postings.]
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Call for Papers: 28th International Conference on Conceptual Structures
(ICCS 2023)
September 11th-13rd, 2023, Berlin, Germany
Website: https://iccs-conference.org
Twitter: @iccs_confs
Contact us: contact(a)iccs-conference.org
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About ICCS:
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The International Conferences on Conceptual Structures (ICCS) focus on
the formal analysis and representation of conceptual knowledge at the
crossroads of artificial intelligence, human cognition, computational
linguistics, and related areas of computer science and cognitive
science. The ICCS conferences evolved from seven annual workshops on
conceptual graphs, starting with an informal gathering hosted by John F.
Sowa in 1986. Recently, graph-based knowledge representation and
reasoning (KRR) paradigms have been getting more and more attention.
With the rise of quasi-autonomous AI, graph-based representations
provide a vehicle for making machine cognition explicit to human users.
ICCS 2023 will take place in Berlin, Germany, in September 2023.
Scholars, students and industry participants from different disciplines
will meet for several weeks of conferences, workshops, summer schools,
and public events to engage with the broad topics, issues and challenges
related to knowledge in the 21st century.
Submissions are invited on significant, original, and previously
unpublished research on the formal analysis and representation of
conceptual knowledge in artificial intelligence (AI). All papers will
receive mindful and rigorous reviews that will provide authors with
useful critical feedback. The aim of the ICCS 2023 conference is to
build upon its long-standing expertise in graph-based KRR and focus on
providing modelling, formal and application results of graph-based
systems. In particular, the conference welcomes contributions that
address graph-based representation and reasoning paradigms (e.g.
Bayesian Networks (BNs), Semantic Networks (SNs), RDF(S), Conceptual
Graphs (CGs), Formal Concept Analysis (FCA), CP-Nets, GAI-Nets, Graph
Databases, Diagrams, Knowledge Graphs, Semantic Web, etc.) from a
modelling, theoretical and application viewpoint.
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Topics:
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Topics include but are not limited to:
Existential and Conceptual Graphs
Graph-based models for human reasoning
Social network analysis
Formal Concept Analysis
Conceptual knowledge acquisition
Data and Text mining
Human and machine reasoning under inconsistency
Human and machine knowledge representation and uncertainty
Automated decision-making
Argumentation
Constraint satisfaction
Preferences
Contextual logic
Ontologies
Knowledge architecture and management
Semantic Web, Web of Data, Web 2.0, Linked (Open) Data
Conceptual structures in natural language processing and linguistics
Metaphoric, cultural or semiotic considerations
Resource allocation and agreement technologies
Philosophical, neural, and didactic investigations of conceptual,
graphical representations
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Important Dates:
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- Abstract registration deadline: March 19th, 2023
- Submission deadline: March 26th, 2023
- Paper Reviews Sent to Authors: May 14th, 2023
- Rebuttals Due: May 21th, 2023
- Notification to authors: May 31th, 2023
- Camera-ready papers due: June 14th, 2023
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Submission Details:
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We invite scientific papers of up to fourteen pages, short contributions
of up to eight pages, and extended poster abstracts of up to three
pages. Papers and poster abstracts must be formatted according to
Springer’s LNCS style guidelines and not exceed the page limit. Papers
will be subject to double-blind peer review, in which the reviewers do
not know the author's identity. We recommend using services like
https://anonymous.4open.science/ to anonymously share code or data.
Anonymized works that are available as preprints (e.g., on arXiv or
SSRN) may be submitted without citing them. Submission should be made
via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccs2023. All
paper submissions will be refereed, and authors will have the
opportunity to respond to reviewers’ comments during the rebuttal phase.
Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings,
published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series. Poster submissions will
also be refereed and selected poster abstracts might be included in the
conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper or
poster must register for the conference and present the paper or poster
there. Proceedings will be indexed by DBLP.
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Organizers:
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General Chair:
Robert Jäschke, Information Processing and Analytics, Humboldt
University of Berlin, Germany
Program Chairs:
Manuel Ojeda Aciego, Dept. Applied Mathematics, University of Málaga, Spain
Kai Sauerwald, Artificial Intelligence Group, FernUniversität in Hagen,
Germany
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Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals
16th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
- CICM 2023 -
September 4-8, 2023
Cambridge, United Kingdom
https://www.cicm-conference.org/2023
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The CICM conference brings together the many separate communities that
have developed theoretical and practical solutions for mathematical
applications.
CICM will be held as a hybrid event (in person and online) and will
provide associated events with appropriate infrastructure for
supporting both kinds of participants.
CICM covers
* all aspects of mathematics such as formalization, computation,
deduction, mathematical databases, and mathematical documents,
* all kinds of tool support such as theorem provers, computer algebra
systems, knowledge management tools, and user interfaces
* the whole spectrum from theoretical foundations to practical tools
and from challenge problems to case studies.
Workshops typically feature presentations of ongoing research that is
not ready yet for formal publication, and tutorials present extended
demos of a particular software.
However, the CICM organizers strongly encourage a broad interpretation
of these concepts and welcome proposals for any kind of event that
benefits the CICM community.
A proposal should include the following information:
* title of the event
* names and affiliations of the organizers
* brief description of the event (e.g., 1-2 paragraphs)
* proposed workshop duration (typically half a day up to two days)
* style (online-only, in person-only, hybrid)
* previous instances of the event (if any)
* preferred or excluded dates within the CICM dates (if any)
CICM will take care of publishing and distributing informal
proceedings of the workshop/tutorial events (if the respective
organizers so wish) via open access online proceedings with
CEUR-WS.org.
Important Dates
===============
Proposal submission: January 13, 2023
Notication: January 20, 2023
Conference: September 4-8, 2023
Earlier submissions are encouraged and will receive notifications on a
rolling basis.
All proposals should be submitted via
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2023
More details on the conference are available from
https://www.cicm-conference.org/2023
First 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)
https://www.cicm-conference.org/2023
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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 ***
TBA
*** CICM 2023 Programme committee (TBC) ***
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)
(see also https://www.cicm-conference.org/2023/cicm.php?event=&menu=pc)
*** 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…
Hi all,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed next Wednesday, December
14. Find your local time here <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1671039024>.
The title of the Showcase is, 'A year in review from the WMF Research team:
Tying our work to the research community.'
The Wikimedia Research community is key to tackling the many strategic
challenges of the Wikimedia movement. As we are ending the year, the
Research team will reflect on why working with the community is important
to us. We will share the initiatives, tools, and resources developed
throughout 2022 to bring the community together, facilitate researchers’
contributions to the Wikimedia projects, and encourage a diversity of
research questions.
YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0ss9ckUlvQ
You can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You can also
watch our past Showcases here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
Warm regards,
Emily
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Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
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SEMANTiCS - 19th International Conference on Semantic Systems
Leipzig, Germany
September 20 - 22, 2023
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The Research and Innovation track at SEMANTiCS 2023 EU welcomes papers
on novel scientific research and/or innovations relevant to the topics
of the conference. Submissions must be original and must not have been
submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must follow the guidelines
given in the author instructions, including references and optional
appendices. Each submission will be reviewed by several PC members who
will assess it based on its innovativeness, technical merits, and
effectiveness at solving real problems.
SEMANTiCS 2023 especially invites contributions that target the
following main topics, sub-topics in the context of semantic-based
research and systems as well as applicative domains.
= Topics of Interest =
* 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)
* Knowledge Management (e.g. acquisition, capture, extraction,
authoring, integration, publication)
* Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management
* Reasoning, Rules, and Policies
* 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 Foundation of Knowledge-aware AI
* Multimodal Knowledge Graphs
* Semantics in Data Science
* Semantics in Blockchain environments
* Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies
* Economics of Data, Data Services, and Data Ecosystems
* IoT and Stream Processing
* Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems
* Provenance and Data Change Tracking
* Semantic Interoperability (via mapping, crosswalks, standards, etc.)
Special Sub-Topics:
* Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
* LegalTech, AI Safety, Explainable and Interoperable AI
* Decentralized and/or Federated Knowledge Graphs
Application of Semantically Enriched and AI-Based Approaches:
* Knowledge Graphs in Bioinformatics and Medical AI
* Clinical Use Case of AI-based Approaches
* AI for Environmental Challenges
* Semantics in Scholarly Communication and Open Research Knowledge Graphs
* AI and LOD within GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums)
institutions
= Important Dates =
* Abstract Submission Deadline: May 09, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Paper Submission Deadline: May 16, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: June 20, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: July 04, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Submission via Easychair on https://easychair.org/
= Author Guidelines and Submission =
* The Research and Innovation Track welcomes long and short papers. Long
papers should have 12-15 pages of content (excluding references) and
short papers of a maximum length of 6 pages of content (excluding
references). Since references are excluded from page counting, it is
fine to have one or more additional pages for references if they are
relevant to the study submitted.
* Submissions should follow the guidelines of IOS Press. Details are
available at https://www.iospress.com/book-article-instructions.
* Abstract submission for all papers is a strict requirement. To
facilitate bidding, we strongly suggest the authors submit structured
abstracts.
* All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via
EasyChair.
* Submissions must be in English.
* Submissions must be anonymous; the reviewing process is double-blind,
but reviewers will be able to disclose their identities if they wish, by
signing their reviews.
* Accepted papers will be published in open access proceedings by IOS
Press, and the text of all the reviews (excluding the scores) of all the
accepted papers will be posted on the conference website and will be
archived on Zenodo as publicly available material.
* At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the
conference and present the paper.
* All authors are strongly suggested to provide optional links to code,
materials, and datasets during the submission process - we will have
specific optional fields in the EasyChair submission form - the review
process will take these into account when provided. To anonymise
resources for the reviewing process, authors can use services like
Anonymous GitHub or figshare/Zenodo as described here.
* The Research and Innovation Track will not accept papers that, at the
time of submission, are under review or have already been published in
or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference.
* All authors will have the opportunity to provide an ORKG comparison in
the Open Research Knowledge Graph (https://orkg.org) during the
submission process - we will have a specific optional field in the
EasyChair submission form.
= Review and Evaluation Criteria =
Each submission will be reviewed by several Programme Committee members.
The reviewing process is double-blind. However, reviewers can disclose
their identity by signing their reviews and/or adding one of their
persistent identifiers (e.g. their ORCID).
The text of all the reviews (excluding the scores) of all the accepted
papers will be posted on the conference website with the basic
bibliographic metadata of the reviewed submission (i.e. title and
authors), and it will be archived on Zenodo as publicly available
material. All the signed reviews of the accepted papers will be licensed
using a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY, the copyright
holder will be the reviewer), except the anonymous ones that will be
released in CC0.
Papers submitted to this track will be evaluated according to the
following criteria:
* Appropriateness
* Originality, novelty, and innovativeness
* Impact of results
* Soundness of the evaluation
* Proper comparison to related work
* Clarity and quality of writing
* Reproducibility of results and resources
We are looking forward to your contribution!
Maribel Acosta & Silvio Peroni
Research and Innovation Track Chairs
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.
For a period of 3 months (June 1st - August 25th, 2023) participating students will work in small teams, with support from experienced mentors, towards a common research goal. For the summer of 2023, confirmed organizers and mentors include Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Aliakbar Akbaritabar, Monica Alexander (University of Toronto), Ugofilippo Basellini, and Emilio Zagheni. This summer, the focus of the program will be on forecasting, and on leveraging online crowd-sourced data.
Participating students will be exposed to best practices across the social sciences and data sciences while contributing to a hands-on project experience. All participants will also have access to lectures and participate in other scientific activities taking place at the MPIDR.
Applicants must be enrolled in a doctoral, master's or undergraduate university program (at the time they visit the MPIDR). Selected candidates must obtain approval to participate in the program by their supervisor / administrator. The Incubator program values research teams that include early-career scientists from a range of disciplines and backgrounds, with complementary skill sets. Priority will be placed on bringing together a diverse pool of students. The total number of attendees will be defined based on resources and quality of applications. The mentors will provide seed projects and data ideas, with flexibility for students to put forward their own ideas as well.
Successful candidates will have demonstrated ability to work on research projects independently and in interdisciplinary teams, and interest in research problems related to both data science and the social sciences, broadly defined.
Applications must be submitted online<https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/population_a…> and include the following documents:
1. Curriculum Vitae
2. Cover letter (Max 2 page)
- Please state why you are interested in spending the summer at the MPIDR, and in which ways you would benefit from participating in the Incubator program.
- Please articulate your research interests and briefly describe a project you have worked on, the motivation for it and your contribution.
- Please describe your technical skills, as well what you would like to learn over the course of the Summer visit.
1. Names and contact information for 2 academic referees
In order to receive full consideration, applications should be received by January 15th 2023. Notifications will be sent out by March 2023. This will be an in-person summer program, and students will be expected to be in residence at the MPIDR in Rostock for the period of the research visit and to devote most of their working time to the collaborative research project during that period. Selected students enrolled in a PhD program will be offered reimbursement for travel costs to/from Rostock, and a stipend. Selected students who are not enrolled in a PhD program will be offered reimbursement for travel costs to/from Rostock, lodging in Rostock, and a per diem.
For administrative questions please get in touch with Beatrice Michaelis (michaelis(a)demogr.mpg.de<mailto:michaelis@demogr.mpg.de?subject=Incubator%20Program>). For scientific questions please contact Diego Alburez-Gutierrez [crowd-sourced data] (alburezgutierrez(a)demogr.mpg.de<mailto:alburezgutierrez@demogr.mpg.de?subject=Incubator%20Program>) or Aliakbar Akbaritabar [forecasting] (akbaritabar(a)demogr.mpg.de<mailto:akbaritabar@demogr.mpg.de?subject=Incubator%20Program>).
The Max Planck Society values diversity and is keen to employ individuals from minorities.
We are committed to increasing the number of individuals with disabilities in our institutes and therefore encourage applications from such qualified individuals. Furthermore, the Max Planck Society seeks to increase the number of women in those areas where they are underrepresented and therefore explicitly encourages women to apply.
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