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[Abstract Submission Deadline Extended to May 23, 2022
Update Information on hybrid format]
Call for Papers
formal papers - informal papers - doctoral programme
15th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
- CICM 2022 -
September 19-23, 2022
Tbilisi, Georgia (hybrid event)
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2022
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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 2022 Invited Speakers:
* Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen University)
* Deyan Ginev (FAU Erlangen-N��rnberg and NIST)
* S��bastien Gou��zel (IRMAR, Universit�� de Rennes 1)
CICM 2022 Programme committee:
see https://www.cicm-conference.org/2022/cicm.php?event=&menu=pc
CICM 2022 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:
1) Formal submissions will be reviewed rigorously and accepted papers
will be published in a volume of Springer LNAI:
* 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 existent tool
2) Informal submissions will be reviewed with a positive bias and
selected for presentation based on their relevance for the
community.
* informal papers may present work-in-progress, project
announcements, position statements, etc.
* posters and system demos will be presented in parallel in special
sessions
3) The doctoral programme provides PhD students with a forum to
present early results and receive constructive feedback and
mentoring.
*** Participation / Hybrid Event ***
CICM 2022 wil 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: May 23 (extended)
- Full paper deadline: May 27 (extended)
- Reviews sent to authors: June 19
- Rebuttals due: June 23
- Notification of acceptance: July 4
- Camera-ready copies due: July 18
- Conference: September 19-23, 2022
Informal submissions and doctoral programme
- Submission deadline: July 15
- Notification of acceptance: July 29
All submissions should be made via EasyChair at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2022
As in previous years, the CICM 2022 proceedings will be published in
the LNAI subseries of Springer LNCS.
For the LNCS style files, see:
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…
Hello everyone,
The next Research Showcase, *Gaps and Biases in Wikipedia*, will be
live-streamed Wednesday, May 18, at 9:30 AM PST/16:30 UTC. View your local
time here <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1652891400>.
YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8FlunZ0mH4
You are welcome to ask questions via YouTube chat or on IRC at
#wikimedia-research.
This month's presentations:
Ms. Categorized: Gender, notability, and inequality on Wikipedia
By Francesca Tripodi (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
For the last five decades, sociologists have argued that gender is one of
the most pervasive and insidious forms of inequality. Research demonstrates
how these inequalities persist on Wikipedia - arguably the largest
encyclopedic reference in existence. Roughly eighty percent of Wikipedia's
editors are men and pages about women and women's interests are
underrepresented. English language Wikipedia contains more than 1.5 million
biographies about notable writers, inventors, and academics, but less than
nineteen percent of these biographies are about women. To try and improve
these statistics, activists host “edit-a-thons” to increase the visibility
of notable women. While this strategy helps create several biographies
previously inexistent, it fails to address a more inconspicuous form of
gender exclusion. Drawing on ethnographic observations, interviews, and
quantitative analysis of web-scraped metadata this talk demonstrates that
women’s biographies are more frequently considered non-notable and
nominated for deletion compared to men’s biographies. This disproportionate
rate is another dimension of gender inequality on Wikipedia previously
unexplored by social scientists and provides broader insights into how
women’s achievements are (under)valued in society.
Controlled Analyses of Social Biases in Wikipedia Bios
By Yulia Tsvetkov (University of Washington)
Social biases on Wikipedia could greatly influence public opinion.
Wikipedia is also a popular source of training data for NLP models, and
subtle biases in Wikipedia narratives are liable to be amplified in
downstream NLP models. In this talk I'll present two approaches to
unveiling social biases in how people are described on Wikipedia, across
demographic attributes and across languages. First, I'll present a
methodology that isolates dimensions of interest (e.g., gender), from other
attributes (e.g., occupation). This methodology allows us to quantify
systemic differences in coverage of different genders and races, while
controlling for confounding factors. Next, I'll show an NLP case study that
uses this methodology in combination with people-centric sentiment analysis
to identify disparities in Wikipedia bios of members of the LGBTQIA+
community across three languages: English, Russian, and Spanish. Our
results surface cultural differences in narratives and signs of social
biases. Practically, these methods can be used to automatically identify
Wikipedia articles for further manual analysis—articles that might contain
content gaps or an imbalanced representation of particular social groups.
You can also watch our past research showcases here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
Emily, on behalf of the Research team
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The Wikimedia Foundation
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 16, 2022 (11:59 pm, Hawaii
time - originally May 9 – non-mandatory)
Paper Submission Deadline: May 23, 2022 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time
- originally May 16)
Notification of Acceptance: June 20, 2022 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Camera-Ready Paper: July 04, 2022 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
SEMANTiCS 2022 especially invites contributions that target the
intersections between computational semantics and neighboring research
areas such as machine learning, language technologies, sensor
technologies, distributed ledgers and beyond.
For details please go to: https://2022-eu.semantics.cc/cfp
Looking forward to your submissions! Stay tuned and stay safe!
With kind regards,
Anastasia Dimou & Sebastian Neumaier
-- R&I Track Chairs --
Hi all,
Really exciting new special issue on semantic media that may be of interest
to Wikipedia/Wikidata researchers. See below and let me know if you have
any questions! Abstract deadline is July 15.
All best,
Heather (and Andrew)
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*Call for Papers*
*Social Media + Society** Special Issue: Semantic Media*
*Editors: Andrew Iliadis and Heather Ford*
This special issue focuses on “semantic media,” which we define as media
technologies that primarily orchestrate and convey facts, answers,
meanings, and “knowledge” about things directly in media products, rather
than lead people to other sources. Search engines and virtual assistants
respond directly to questions based on textual or verbal searches (e.g.,
“Things to do in Philadelphia?” or “What is the capital of Israel?”). The
special issue is thus dedicated to the often-invisible ways (to the
non-specialist) that internet companies are now actively involved in
constructing “knowledge” about the world. Organizations like Apple, Google,
Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon extract, curate, and store facts served to
users in new and emerging media products. Such processes have significant
implications for the politics of knowledge sharing in the future.
We seek papers that examine how design decisions “bake” these facts into
the apps and platforms people use daily while focusing on the
infrastructures dedicated to orchestrating and presenting this information.
The goal is to understand the technologies that will drive social and
political outcomes when large internet companies become a primary conduit
through which people directly acquire an understanding of facts about the
world. We also seek to understand how governments, nonprofit, and
nongovernmental organizations engage these media technologies. Semantic
media are less about searching for keywords and matches on different
websites that are then ranked for people to choose. Instead, they deal with
identifying and describing entities (things like people, products, and
places) and directing interactions with those entities (actions like
purchasing, scheduling, and contacting). How do semantic media identify
concepts and connect related information about them? How do companies and
organizations produce facts and organize the data? From where does the data
originate? What do these semantic processes mean for web users and
administrators? What types of gatekeeping or safety checks do companies and
organizations perform concerning these facts?
Today’s semantic media have a long history reaching back to the “Semantic
Web” project initiated by web inventor Tim Berners-Lee. Yet, media
researchers do not adequately cover how companies and organizations
implement semantic technologies on platforms relative to their central
role. These semantic technologies are in proprietary and open source
products, and extensive media platforms are now using them to provide facts
and represent knowledge to various publics. Google’s Knowledge Graph is a
database of facts that Google uses to provide quick answers to the public,
and such graphs are in use at other companies. At the same time, Wikipedia
has a product called Wikidata that similarly stores facts about the world
in data formats through which various apps can retrieve the data.
Researchers and journalists also use semantic technologies for search
engine optimization, fact-checking practices, and data sharing and
organization. This special issue thus focuses on such platformized versions
of fact production and examines the underlying infrastructures, histories,
and modeling techniques used in knowledge representation systems.
We are interested in quantitative, qualitative, and critical approaches and
papers that propose new methods, theories, and frameworks.
*Areas of interest:*
• The creation or transmission of facts, answers, meanings,
definitions, and “knowledge” across media systems and their platforms
• Answers from virtual assistants such as Alexa, Siri, Cortana,
Bixby, etc.
• Answers from search engines such as Google, Bing, Baidu,
Yandex, etc.
• Products like knowledge panels, infoboxes, carousels, rich
results, maps, etc.
• Open-source semantic technologies such as Schema.org, Wikidata,
etc.
• Proprietary semantic technologies such as Google’s Knowledge
Graph, etc.
• Fact-checking practices for misinformation and disinformation
across semantic media platforms
• Search engine optimization and semantic search practices
• Semantic infrastructure projects such as the semantic web,
linked data, etc.
• Semantic governance organizations such as the World Wide Web
Consortium, etc.
• Semantic technologies such as metadata, markup languages,
knowledge bases, knowledge graphs, web schemas, applied ontologies, and
enterprise semantic software
• Semantic, linguistic, and conceptual theories involving rules
and logic, theories of meaning, ontology, taxonomy, ideas of truth, social
ontology, etc.
*Timeline:*
• Extended 1000-word abstracts due Fri July 15
• Decisions out to authors Fri Aug 19
• Full 8000-word manuscript due Fri Nov 18
• Final decisions January 2023
• Submit to journal February 2023
• Publication spring 2023
*Send submissions to andrew.iliadis(a)temple.edu
<andrew.iliadis(a)temple.edu> and heather.ford(a)uts.edu.au
<heather.ford(a)uts.edu.au> with the subject header “Social Media + Society
Special Issue: Semantic Media”*
*Link: *https://journals.sagepub.com/page/sms/collections/cfp
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Hello everyone,
We at CopeNLU and the Digital Democracies Institute are currently running
an online survey on the potential harms and misuses of Natural Language
Processing technologies and research. We, therefore, ask researchers in the
field of natural language processing to fill the following survey to give
us an insight into their concerms.
We would really appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to fill out
the survey.
The survey takes about 20 minutes to complete and is available here:
copenlu.limesurvey.net/987789
Thank you!
Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Arnav Arora, Zeerak Talat
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Lucie-Aimée Kaffee
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Call for Research & Innovation Papers -- SEMANTiCS 2022
18th International Conference on Semantic Systems
Vienna, Austria
September 13 - 15, 2022
https://2022-eu.semantics.cc/
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Just 14 days to go!! Submission deadline May 16!
The Research and Innovation track at SEMANTiCS 2022 EU welcomes papers
on novel scientific research and/or innovations relevant to the topics
of the conference. We especially invite papers that target the
intersection between computational semantics and neighboring research
areas such as machine learning, language technologies and beyond.
Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for
publication elsewhere unless available as preprint. 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 judge it based on its innovativeness, technical merits,
and effectiveness at solving real problems.
Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2022 EU will be made available open access and
planned to be published with IOS Press.
= Topics of Interest =
* 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
* IoT and Stream Processing
* Reasoning, Rules, and Policies
* Natural Language Processing
* Data Quality Management and Assurance
* Explainable Artificial Intelligence
* Semantics in Data Science
* Semantics in Blockchain environments
* Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies
* Economics of Data, Data Services, and Data Ecosystems
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* Special Sub-Topic: Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
* Special Sub-Topic: LegalTech
* Special Sub-Topic: Distributed and Decentralized Knowledge Graphs
= Important Dates =
* Abstract Submission Deadline: May 09, 2022 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Paper Submission Deadline: May 16, 2022 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: June 20, 2022 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: July 04, 2022 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Submission via Easychair on https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sem22#
= Author Guidelines and Submission =
* The Research and Innovation Track welcomes long and short papers. Long
papers should have a maximum length of 15 pages (including references)
and short papers of 6 pages (including references).
* Submissions should follow the guidelines of IOS Press. Details are
available here: https://www.iospress.com/book-article-instructions
* Abstract submission for all papers is a strict requirement.
* All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via
Easychair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sem22#
* Submissions must be in English.
* Submissions are not anonymous.
* Accepted papers will be published in open access proceedings by IOS Press.
* At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the
conference and present the paper.
* 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.
= Review and Evaluation Criteria =
Each submission will be reviewed by several PC members. The reviewing
process is single-blind. 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
Check out additional submission opportunities at Semantics conference:
https://2022-eu.semantics.cc/cfp
We are looking forward to your contribution!
As part of some discussions with Jim Maddock (see his recent thread
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia…>),
I started a meta page to catalog some of the many natural experiments
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_experiment> that impact the
Wikimedia projects. I've seeded it with some examples (censorship,
Wikipedia Zero, lockdowns, Public Domain Day, new data centers, etc.) but
am certain that there are many more out there. If folks on this list know
of other examples, please edit the page below boldly or respond on thread
and I'll migrate examples onto the page.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Natural_experiments
Best,
Isaac
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Isaac Johnson (he/him/his) -- Research Scientist -- Wikimedia Foundation
Hi All,
The WOW2022 conference, themed Diversity, Diasporas and Digitality: The Worlds of Wikimedia™ and beyond, will be hosted by University of Sydney on November 16- 18, 2022. See website<https://www.wow2022.net/>.
Call for papers
The first two decades of the 21st century have brought war, a global pandemic, climate changes and the widespread erosion of culture, as recognised by the United Nations which declared 2022-2032 to be the International Decade of Indigenous Languages<https://en.unesco.org/idil2022-2032>. This conference seeks to investigate the variety of ways that digital media is (or isn’t) meeting these challenges. We invite participants to consider how communities that have been displaced, marginalised or otherwise disadvantaged, may best be served by online platforms and open knowledge movements. We seek submissions that address open knowledge, global diversity, inclusivity and cultural dynamism from a range of perspectives, including digital communication, indigenous knowledge, health communication and Internet studies. We particularly encourage submissions that explore knowledge activism, such as the Wikimedia movement; open platforms, such as Wikipedia; as well as digital methods across different disciplines and fields of knowledge.
Topics could address:
* Internet activism
* Digital diasporas
* Open knowledge
* Indigenous storytelling
* Covid online
* Gender parity
* Cultural resilience
* Decolonizing the Internet
* Digital tools and methods for online diversity and abilities
* Orality and Literacy
* Innovative Case Studies and projects
Please submit abstracts up to 250 words via EasyChair<https://easychair.org/cfp/WOW2022> by June 20, 2022. Acceptance of papers by July 11.
For questions please contact Associate Professor Frances Di Lauro<mailto:frances.dilauro@sydney.edu.au>, Department of Writing Studies, and Dr Bunty Avieson<mailto:bunty.avieson@sydney.edu.au>, Department of Media and Communications.
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Hi all,
Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly
Office hours Tuesday, 2022-05-03. Find your local time here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1651593600>.
To participate, join the video-call via this link [2]. There is no set
agenda - feel free to add your item to the list of topics in the etherpad
[3]. You are welcome to add questions / items to the etherpad in advance,
or when you arrive at the session. Even if you are unable to attend the
session, you can leave a question that we can address asynchronously. If
you do not have a specific agenda item, you are welcome to hang out and
enjoy the conversation. More detailed information (e.g., about how to
attend) can be found here [4].
Through these office hours, we aim to make ourselves available to answer
research related questions that you as Wikimedia volunteer editors,
organizers, affiliates, staff, and researchers face in your projects and
initiatives. Here are some example cases we hope to be able to support you
with:
-
You have a specific research related question that you suspect you
should be able to answer with the publicly available data and you don’t
know how to find an answer for it, or you just need some more help with it.
For example, how can I compute the ratio of anonymous to registered editors
in my wiki?
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You run into repetitive or very manual work as part of your Wikimedia
contributions and you wish to find out if there are ways to use machines to
improve your workflows. These types of conversations can sometimes be
harder to find an answer for during an office hour. However, discussing
them can help us understand your challenges better and we may find ways to
work with each other to support you in addressing it in the future.
-
You want to learn what the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation
does and how we can potentially support you. Specifically for affiliates:
if you are interested in building relationships with the academic
institutions in your country, we would love to talk with you and learn
more. We have a series of programs that aim to expand the network of
Wikimedia researchers globally and we would love to collaborate with those
of you interested more closely in this space.
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You want to talk with us about one of our existing programs [5].
Hope to see many of you,
Emily, on behalf of the WMF Research Team
[1] https://research.wikimedia.org
[2] https://meet.jit.si/WMF-Research-Office-Hours
[3] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Research-Analytics-Office-hours
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours
[5] https://research.wikimedia.org/projects.html
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Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation