May be of interest.
cheers,
Brianna
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From: Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock(a)okfn.org>
Date: 7 Dec 2007 23:08
Subject: [Icommons] Open Knowledge (OKCon) 2008: LSE, London, 15th March 2008
To: "icommons(a)lists.ibiblio.org" <icommons(a)lists.ibiblio.org>
* OKCon 2008 - 'Open Knowledge: Applications, Tools and Services'
* where: London School of Economics, London, UK
* when: 15th March 2008 (1030-1830)
* www: <http://www.okfn.org/okcon/>
* register: <http://www.okfn.org/okcon/register/>
* last year: <http://www.okfn.org/okcon/2007/>
* wiki: <http://www.okfn.org/wiki/okcon2008/>
Following on from the success of our inaugural conference last year,
we're pleased to announce that the second Open Knowledge conference
(OKCon) will take place on Saturday 15th March 2008.
The event will bring together individuals and groups from across the
open knowledge spectrum for a day of seminars and workshops around the
theme of 'Applications, Tools and Services'. Three main sessions will
focus on 'Transport and Environment', 'Visualization and Analysis' and
'Education and Academia'. In addition there will be an 'Open Space'
suitable for presentations and demos of general open knowledge related
work.
The event is open to all but we encourage you to register because space
is limited. A small entrance fee is planned to help pay for costs but
concessions are available.
### More Information ###
'Open Knowledge' is material that others are free to access, reuse or
re-distribute and may be anything from sonnets to statistics, genes to
geodata. In recent years we've seen the growth of successful open
knowledge projects - from peer reviewed journals to community edited
encyclopaedias - but what impact can open licensing have in education,
research and commerce? Is sharing the key to scaling? What kinds of
business models are available to open knowledge distributors and how is
open knowledge applied in different institutional and professional
contexts?
There now exists a vast amount of open content and data but what kinds
of tools are available to analyse and represent this wealth of material?
How can we sort, search, store it to maximise its visibility and
reusability?
We've also witnessed the rise of web-based services -- from social
networking sites to online spreadsheet packages. While we have
definitions for open software and open knowledge, what is an open
service and what kinds of new services can be built using open
knowledge?
### Want to give a presentation or demo? Want to help out? ###
If you have a presentation, demo or workshop you'd like to give, or
would like to help out with OKCon 2008 please either post on the wiki
(link above) or let us know by email on info [at] okfn [dot] org.
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2nd Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2008)
in conjunction with
11th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2008)
Innsbruck, Austria
May 5, 6 or 7, 2008
http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/11th_bis/wscfp.php?ws=saw2008
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Deadline for submissions: January 12, 2008
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In recent years, the Web has moved from a simple one-way communication
channel extending traditional media, to a complex "peer-to-peer"
communication space with a blurred author/audience distinction and new
ways to create, share and use knowledge in a social way.
This change of paradigm is currently profoundly transforming most areas of
our life: our interactions with other people, our relationships, ways of
gathering information, ways of developing social norms, opinions,
attitudes and even legal aspects as well as ways of working and doing
business.
It also raises a strong need for theoretical, empirical and applied
studies related to how people may interact on the Web, how they actually
do so and what new possibilities and challenges are emerging in the
social, business and technology dimensions.
The goal of this workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners
together to explore the issues and challenges related to social aspects of
the Web. We want to facilitate discussion on topics including theoretical,
empirical and applied studies related to:
TOPICS OF INTEREST
* Users in the social Web
* User identity/identities on the Web
* Activity patterns
* Privacy / intimacy in the social Web
* Psychological aspects of acting in the social Web
* Analysis and reduction of the socio-technical gap in social software
* Communities on the Web
* User roles, leadership and interactions
* Conflicts and their resolution
* Social norms and their enforcement
* Trust and reputation in communities
* Relations of on-line and off-line communities
* Social discourse and decision-taking on the Web
* Large-scale social Web mining and empirical studies
* Social network analysis
* Associations mining from social network
* Large-scale behaviour patterns and anomalies' mining
* Moods' / opinions' / social problems' analysis
* Experts finding on the social Web
* Mining formal semantics from social sources
* Methodologies of Web-based social macro and micro studies
* Social Web and business
* Social Web as a source of business information
* Social Web as a business communication channel
* Business models for social software and services
* Specific types of social software on the Web (bookmarking, social
networks etc.)
* Use cases and best practices
* Applications of Web-based social software
* Social software architectures
* Social software on the Semantic Web
* Strategies for bootstrapping social software systems and bypassing
the critical mass problem
* Social software in information processing and retrieval
* Social software in collaborative maintenance of content and data
SUBMISSION
* Long papers: max. 5000 words
* Work-in-progress rep.: max. 2500 words
* Position papers: max. 2500 words
* Demo papers: max. 2500 words
Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to Springer LNBIP
template available from
http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-487211-0.
Submission system is available on-line at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=SAW2008.
The proceedings will be published jointly with proceedings of other BIS
workshops as a book or CD with ISBN number, and on-line at CEUR WS.org
workshop proceedings publication service (open content).
Extended version of selected papers submitted to the workshop will be
published as special issue of International Journal on WWW/Internet
(http://www.iadis.org/ijwi/, ISSN: 1645-7641).
WORKSHOP FORMAT
All authors of accepted papers as well as other participants will be asked
to read accepted papers abstracts before the workshop (papers will be
available on-line in advance) to facilitate discussion. The workshop will
consist in two parts: first (more formal) devoted to presentation and
discussion of accepted papers and second (less formal) devoted to
discussion of several issues related to present and future of the social
Web.
Workshop participants will be also invited to take part in the BIS
conference and topically related BIS workshops on Mashups, Enterprise
Mashups, and Lightweight Composition on the Web (M&LCW 2008) and Advances
in Accessing the Deep Web (ADW 2008).
IMPORTANT DATES
* January 12, 2008 - submission deadline for papers
* February 12, 2008 - notification of acceptance/rejection
* March 12, 2008 - submission of final papers
* May 5, 6 or 7, 2008 - the workshop
ORGANIZERS
* Poznan University of Economics, Department of Information Systems
(http://kie.ae.poznan.pl/)
CHAIRS
* Dominik Flejter
* Tomasz Kaczmarek
* Marek Kowalkiewicz
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Krisztian Balog, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
* Simone Braun, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany
* John Breslin, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
* Tanguy Coenen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
* Jon Dron, Athabasca University, Canada
* Davide Eynard, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
* Andrew T. Fiore, University of California, Berkeley, the USA
* Dominik Flejter, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
* Tomasz Kaczmarek, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
* Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP Research Brisbane, Australia
* Sebastian Kruk, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
* Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Science, Poland
* Katharina Siorpaes, STI, University of Innsbruck, Austria
* Marcin Sydow, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland
* Jie Tang, Tshingua University, China
* Celine van Damme, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
* Valentin Zacharias, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany
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AAAI 2008 Workshop
WIKIPEDIA AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: AN EVOLVING
SYNERGY
http://lit.csci.unt.edu/~wikiai08
CALL FOR PAPERS
OVERVIEW
Since its inception less than seven years ago, Wikipedia has become one of the
largest and fastest
growing online sources of encyclopedic knowledge. One of the reasons why
Wikipedia is
appealing to contributors and users alike is the richness of its embedded
structural information:
articles are hyperlinked to each other and connected to categories from an ever
expanding
taxonomy; pervasive language phenomena such as synonymy and polysemy are
addressed
through redirection and disambiguation pages; entities of the same type are
described in a
consistent format using infoboxes; related articles are grouped together in
series templates.
As a large-scale repository of structured knowledge, Wikipedia has become a
valuable resource
for a diverse set of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. Major
conferences in natural language
processing and machine learning have recently witnessed a significant number of
approaches that
use Wikipedia for tasks ranging from text categorization and clustering to word
sense
disambiguation, information retrieval, information extraction and question
answering. On the
other hand, Wikipedia can greatly benefit from numerous algorithms and
representation models
developed during decades of AI research, as illustrated recently in tasks such
as estimating the
reliability of authors' contributions, automatic linking of articles, or
intelligent matching of
Wikipedia tasks with potential contributors.
The goal of the workshop is to foster the research and dissemination of ideas on
the mutually
beneficial interaction between Wikipedia and AI. The workshop is intended to be
highly
interdisciplinary. We encourage participation of researchers working on
Wikipedia from different
perspectives, including (but not limited to) machine learning, computational
linguistics,
information retrieval, information extraction, question answering, knowledge
representation, and
others. We also encourage participation of researchers from other areas who
might benefit from
the use of a large body of machine-readable knowledge.
TOPICS
We invite submissions of papers addressing the following or related topics::
- Using Wikipedia as a source of training data for AI tasks (both supervised an
unsupervised)
- Automatic methods for improving the quality of Wikipedia pages
- Integrating Wikipedia with existing ontologies (e.g. WordNet, CYC, ODP)
- Extracting annotated data from Wikipedia
- Enriching Wikipedia with new types of structural information
- Wikipedia and the Semantic Web / Web 2.0
- Automatic extraction and use of cross-lingual information from Wikipedia
- Computerized use of satellite projects such as Wiktionary, Wikibooks or
Wikispecies
WORKSHOP FORMAT
The day long workshop will consist of presentations, invited talk, demos
showcasing work
presented in the research papers, and a panel session.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
We invite submissions of regular full papers (up to 6 pages), short papers
reporting on late-
breaking results (up to 3 pages), and descriptions of system demonstrations (up
to 1 page) using
the AAAI style. Submissions that have been accepted for publication elsewhere or
are under
review for another conference must clearly state so on the front page of the
paper.
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for long papers submission March 21, 2008
Deadline for short papers and system demos April 7, 2008
Notification of acceptance April 21, 2008
Camera-ready papers due at AAAI May 5, 2008
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Razvan Bunescu, Ohio University (bunescu AT ohio.edu)
Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Yahoo! Research (gabr AT yahoo-inc.com)
Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas (rada AT cs.unt.edu)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
1. Eugene Agichtein, Emory University
2. Einat Amitay, IBM Research, Israel
3. Mikhail Bilenko, Microsoft Research
4. Chris Brew, Ohio State University
5. Timothy Chklovski, Structured Commons
6. Massimiliano Ciaramita, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
7. Andras Csomai, University of North Texas
8. Silviu Cucerzan, Microsoft Research
9. Ido Dagan, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
10. Ravi Kumar, Yahoo! Research
11. Lillian Lee, Cornell University
12. Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University
13. Daniel Marcu, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern
California
14. Shaul Markovitch, Technion, Israel
15. Raymond Mooney, University of Texas at Austin
16. Vivi Nastase, EML Research, Germany
17. Marius Pasca, Google
18. Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth
19. Simone Paolo Ponzetto, EML Research, Germany
20. Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan
21. Dan Roth, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
22. Peter Turney, National Research Council, Canada
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
For additional information about the workshop please contact the organizers or
visit the
workshop website at http://lit.csci.unt.edu/~wikiai08
This paper was posted to Dbpedia-discussion mailing list by Sören Auer
and it seems and relevant enough to forward (forgive me if you
disagree).
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From: Sören Auer <auer(a)informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
Date: 9 Nov 2007 14:10
Subject: [Dbpedia-discussion] Paper: Autonomously Semantifying Wikipedia
To: dbpedia-discussion(a)lists.sourceforge.net
Hi all,
the paper "Autonomously Semantifying Wikipedia" [1] by Fei Wu and Daniel
S. Weldjust won the best paper prize at CIKM (ACM Sixteenth Conference
on Information and Knowledge Management) in Lisbon, Portugal.
I just had a short glance at the paper. Their work seems to apply
Machine Learning techniques in order to improve the coverage and quality
of Wikipedia. Regarding the relationship with Wikipedia they say:
The DBpedia system which extracts information from existing infoboxes
within articles and encapsulate them in a semantic form for query. In
contrast, KYLIN populates infoboxes with new attribute values.
Cheers,
Sören
[1] http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/weld/papers/wu-cikm07.pdf
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Dear fellow wiki researchers,
I thought you might be interested in joining the wiki-translation community which is being launched today. See details below.
Best regards,
Alain Désilets, National Research Council of Canada
Chair, WikiSym 2007
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This is an invitation to join the wiki-translation community:
www.wiki-translation.com
Feel free to forward it to anyone who might be interested.
Wiki-translation is a community for discussing the impact of the wikipedia phenomenon on the world of translation. It is a place for people who are interested in translation using a massively collaborative wiki paradigm. It is a place where we can exchange best practices and tools for collaborative translation, and learn how to use them to improve translation quality and productivity.
The community was started in the Fall of 2007, as a result of online and hallway discussions between the following people (in alphabetical order):
* Louise Brunette, Peter Cowen, Alain Désilets, Lucas Gonzalez, Louis-Philippe Huberdeau , S.J. Klein, Nelson Ko, Marc Laporte, Jérémie Leblanc, Thomasz Muldner, Cola Nahaboo, Kizu Naoko,Xavier de Pedro Puente, Sébastien Paquet.
The following is a sample of topics which are deemed relevant:
* Practices and tools for translating any wiki content, including but not limited to Wikipedia pages.
* Practices and tools for translating any content (wiki or not) which is open, constantly evolving and may never reach a final stable state.
* Practices and tools for translating any content using a wiki-like process. By that, we mean a process that presents many of the characteristics of wikis like: open, massively collaborative, asynchronous, loosely coordinated and controlled, volunteer-based, etc....
* Practices and tools for creating and using wiki-like dictionaries and resources (ex: Wikipedia, Wiktionary, OmegaWiki) for the purpose of translating any content (wiki or not).
* Research and development to make any of the above easier and more efficient.
Here is how you can join this community:
1) First, register on the wiki-translation site
* Go to http://www.wiki-translation.com/tiki-register.php
* Fill in the form.
* Note: You do not HAVE to be registered to participate in the community, but registration will make it easier for you and the rest of the community to interact together.
2) Then, monitor the site's discussion forum
* Go to http://www.wiki-translation.com/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=2
* Click on the first eye icon (beside New topic button)
* Note: Monitoring the discussion forum allows you to receive email notification whenever a new message is posted.
3) Finally, browse the site's wiki pages and contribute
* Go to http://www.wiki-translation.com/
* You can edit any page from there, simply by clicking on the edit button or link at the bottom of the page.
* Note: You might want to consult our editing policy at: http://www.wiki-translation.com/tiki-index.php?page=Editing+Policy
If you have any questions on how to participate in this community, we recommend that:
* You look at our list of Frequently Asked Questions: http://www.wiki-translation.com/tiki-index.php?page=FAQs+for+this+wiki&bl
* You post questions on the discussion forum: http://www.wiki-translation.com/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=2
We look forward to your participation, and hope you will find it useful and worthwhile.
Dear All,
we have finally finished a technical report describing in detail the
algorithms we use for the Wikipedia trust coloring (see
http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/). The technical paper not only gives the
algorithms, but describes several ways to quantify notions of text trust for
the Wikipedia, and provides detailed quantiative results on the quality of
our coloring.
The technical report is available here:
http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~luca/papers/07/trust-techrep.html
We would of course appreciate comments and feedback. I wish a happy weekend
to you all,
Luca
Hi.
A new version of the Python parser in WikiXRay, along with improved documentation, can be found here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiXRay_Python_parser
Basically, I've developed two flavors: the standard for those people who want an alternative to other tools for processing Wikipedia's dumps (including the text table). The other version is for research purposes, It ignores the text itself and extracts instead useful info on the fly.
Both flavors use extended inserts (you can tune the size and num. of rows) and the --monitor mode calls a db access module to avoid timeout errors.
Further improvements (--skipnamespaces and --inject, this one should be very easy) are on the way.
Best,
Felipe.
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Sé un Mejor Amante del Cine
¿Quieres saber cómo? ¡Deja que otras personas te ayuden!.
I added Korrigan and Andrea separately because I am not sure that hey
are on the lists. I added MediaWiki list to ping interested
developers. Please, give your comments, suggestions etc. at wiki
research list (wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org).
It looks like improving Cite extension is the simplest task from the
list [1]. French Wikipedia already has a working improvement [1] and
Andrea made another one (including easy to use interface) [2]. There
are, also, two bug reports: one for simple improving Cite [3] and one
for adding BibTex compatibility [4]. The first MW bug report is very
live, while the last one seems to be dead.
So, my question is: Is it possible to join efforts for making one good
extension which is needed to all WM projects?
[1] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata
[2] - http://www.scionline.org/index.php/Main_Page
[3] - http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6271
[4] - http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8167