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Oggetto: Using wikidata to extract aditional information about entities
Data: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 10:33:49 +0000
Mittente: Ricardo Pinto
Good afternoon!
My name is Ricardo Pinto, I am currently doing my thesis, and I am trying
to make calls to Wikidata. I am presently using SPARQLWrapper in python to
make the calls, but I am having trouble with some things that I hope you
can help me with.
1. How can I get the entity identifier? Given an entity (e.g. Portugal) I
need to get its identifier (e.g., Q45). Currently, I am doing this
by searching on google, but I need this to be systematic. Can you help me?
2. While searching for entities related to another entity, I need to make
calls using properties. Is there a way to know what the most used
properties are? I need a systematic way to choose properties to search. Can
you help me?
Best regards,
Ricardo Pinto.
Hi everyone!
The second edition of the Coolest Tool Award
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award
will happen online on Friday 14 January 2022 at 17:00 UTC!
See https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1642179615 for your timezone.
The awarded tools will be showcased in a virtual event, with
broadcasted video and chat channels for socializing.
We will send more details and links soon.
Save the date, and join us celebrating the great work volunteer
developers do for the Wikimedia communities.
We hope to see you there!
andre, for the Coolest Tool Academy 2021
--
Andre Klapper (he/him) | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate
https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
Dear All,
I am pleased to invite you to the Ghana Histo-Cita-thon 2.0 on Friday 17th
December 2021.
The Ghana Histo Cita-thon 2.0 Seeks to introduce participants on how to
source for reference and cite from open Books and Journals and use it in
creating and improving Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items.
The workshop will be followed by a month-long online contest.
Kindly make your reservation by signing up here👇
https://forms.gle/UXnsUQJRV46GupEz8
For more info: https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ghana_Histo_Cita-thon_2.0
Best regards,
Stephen Dakyi
--
Lead,
Ghana Histo Cita-thon Project
Hi Everyone,
The Search Platform Team
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Platform> usually holds
office hours the first Wednesday of each month. Come talk to us about
anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia
Commons Query Service, etc.!
Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting.
Details for our next meeting:
Date: Wednesday, December 1st, 2021
Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET
& WAT
Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours
Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vgj-bbeb-uyi
Join by phone: https://tel.meet/vgj-bbeb-uyi?pin=8118110806927
Hope to talk to you tomorrow!
—Trey
Trey Jones
Staff Computational Linguist, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
UTC–5 / EST
Hi everyone,
We’ve been collecting lexicographical data for quite a while now. The first
applications are being built on top of it as well. One big remaining wish
is to make it possible to access the data in Lexemes also from Wiktionary.
We’re enabling it on the first Wiktionaries now.
On December 15th, we’ll enable the *initial version of Lua access to
lexicographical data* on the following wikis:
- Bengali Wiktionary https://bn.wiktionary.org/
- Basque Wiktionary https://eu.wiktionary.org
- Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/
- Test Wikidata https://test.wikidata.org/
The Lua interface (i.e. the available functions and methods) is documented
at mw:Extension:WikibaseLexeme/Lua
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikibaseLexeme/Lua> (you can see
a live example, with links to the relevant template and module, at Beta
English Wiktionary: cat <https://en.wiktionary.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/cat>).
If you have suggestions for improving it (e.g. extra functions that would
be useful), feel free to add them to phab:T294637
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T294637>.
Please note that *the Lua interface is not stable yet*; breaking changes
may be made at any time, though usually not without some note on
Phabricator first. We recommend not fully relying on this yet. If your wiki
would nevertheless like to have Lua access while it is not stable yet, feel
free to leave a note at phab:T294159
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T294159>. Otherwise, we hope to
stabilize the interface soon, at which point we’ll start enabling this
feature on more Wiktionaries. If you're active on another Wiktionary and
would like to see the feature enabled, feel free to reach out to us after
talking to your community, and we will make sure to include it in the list
for future deployments..
Change dispatching, i.e. the automatic updating of local wiki pages when
relevant changes on Wikidata are made, as well as integration with recent
changes and the watchlist, ought to work; however, usage tracking (i.e.
determining which changes on Wikidata affect the local wiki) is not very
fine-grained yet: if a local page uses any data from a Lexeme, then any
change to the Lexeme on Wikidata will cause the page to be rerendered and
that change will be added to the recent changes on the wiki, even if the
change is unrelated to the data which the page actually uses. We will
improve this at a later point; in the meantime, wikis that heavily use
lexicographical data may see “too many” Wikidata entries in their recent
changes and watchlists.
We are really happy to beta-test Lua access to Lexemes with you, and we are
looking forward to your *feedback and bug reports* (they can be tracked
under phab:T294159 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T294159> or on the Report
a Technical Problem page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:RATP>). We
would love to know *how you are using Lexemes on Wiktionary*, so when you
are running your first experiments, feel free to let us know!
Cheers,
--
Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement Coordinator
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Hi all,
As many of you know, there is a risk of Blazegraph, Wikidata Query
Service’s backend, catastrophically failing before we are able to properly
scale the service.
Thus, it is important for us to have a playbook for what actions we will
take in the event of such a disaster, as well as making that playbook
transparently available.
This Blazegraph failure playbook
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/Blazegraph_fail…>
is now available, and we welcome you to take a look at it, though we hope
to never use it.
Best,
Mike
—
*Mike Pham* (he/him)
Sr Product Manager, Search
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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# **30th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
(UMAP ’22)**
Barcelona*, Spain, July 4–7, 2022
http://www.um.org/umap2022/
(*) Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we are planning for a hybrid
conference and will accommodate online presentations where needed.
Submission Deadline:
- Abstracts due: February 10, 2022 (mandatory)
- Full paper due: February 17, 2022
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**BACKGROUND AND SCOPE**
============================
**ACM UMAP** – ***User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization*** – is
the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners
working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users,
and that collect, represent, and model user information. **ACM UMAP** is
sponsored by ACM SIGCHI (https://sigchi.org) and SIGWEB
(https://www.sigweb.org), and organized with User Modeling Inc.
(https://um.org) as the core Steering Committee, extended with past
years’ chairs. The proceedings are published by the **ACM** and will be
part of the ACM Digital Library (https://dl.acm.org).
**ACM UMAP** covers a wide variety of research areas where
personalization and adaptation may be applied. The main theme of **UMAP
2022** is ***“User control in personalized systems”***. Specifically, we
welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization, and
adaptation in all areas of personalized systems, with an emphasis on how
to balance adaptivity and user control. Below we present a short (but
not prescriptive) list of topics of importance to the conference.
ACM UMAP is co-located and collaborates with the ACM Hypertext
conference (https://ht.acm.org/ht2022/). UMAP takes place one week after
Hypertext, and uses the same submission dates and formats. We expect
authors to submit research on personalized systems to UMAP and invite
authors to submit their Web-related work without a focus on
personalization to the Hypertext conference. The two conferences will
organize one shared track on **personalized recommender systems** (same
track chairs and PC, see the track description).
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**IMPORTANT DATES**
============================
- Paper Abstracts: February 10, 2022 (mandatory)
- Full paper: February 17, 2022
- Notification: April 11, 2022
- Conference: July 4-July 7, 2022
**Note**: The submissions deadlines are at 11:59pm AoE time (Anywhere on
Earth)
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**CONFERENCE TOPICS**
============================
We welcome submissions related to *user modeling, personalization, and
adaptation in any area*. The topics listed below are not intended to
limit possible contributions. **Detailed descriptions and the suggested
topics for each track are reported in the online version of the CFP on
the UMAP 2022 web site.**
### **Personalized Recommender Systems***
**Track Chairs: Osnat Mokryn (University of Haifa), Eva Zangerle
(University of Innsbruck, Austria) and Markus Zanker (University of
Bolzano, Italy, and University of Klagenfurt, Austria)**
(*) This is a joint track between ACM UMAP and ACM Hypertext (same track
chairs, overlapping PC). Authors planning to contribute to this track
can submit to either conference, depending on their broader interest in
either Hypertext or UMAP. Track chairs organize a special issue in the
journal New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia.
This track aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to
discuss open challenges, latest solutions and novel research approaches
in the field of recommender systems. In addition to mature research
works addressing technical aspects pertaining to recommendations, we
also particularly welcome research contributions that address questions
related to the user perception and the business value of recommender
systems.
### **Adaptive Hypermedia, Semantic, and Social Web**
**Track Chairs: Alexandra I. Cristea (Durham University, UK) and Peter
Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh, US)**
This track aims to provide a forum to researchers to discuss open
research problems, solid solutions, latest challenges, novel
applications, and innovative research approaches in adaptive hypermedia,
semantic and social web. We invite original submissions addressing all
aspects of personalization, user models building, and personal
experience in online social systems.
### **Intelligent User Interfaces**
**Track chairs: Elisabeth Lex (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
and Marko Tkalcic (University of Primorska, Slovenia)**
This topic can be characterized by exploring how to make the interaction
between computers and people smarter and more productive, which may
leverage solutions from human-computer interaction, data mining, natural
language processing, information visualization, and knowledge
representation and reasoning.
### **Technology-Enhanced Adaptive Learning**
**Track chairs: Judy Kay (University of Sydney, Australia) and Sharon
Hsiao (Santa Clara University, US)**
This track invites researchers, developers, and practitioners from
various disciplines to present their innovative learning solutions,
share acquired experience, and discuss their modeling challenges for
personalized adaptive learning.
### **Fairness, Transparency, Accountability, and Privacy**
**Track chairs: Bamshad Mobasher (DePaul University College of Computing
and Digital Media, US) and Munindar P. Singh (NC State University, US)**
Adaptive systems researchers and developers have a social responsibility
to care about the impact of their technologies on individual people
(users, providers, and other stakeholders) and on society. This track
invites work that pertains to the science of building, maintaining,
evaluating, and studying adaptive systems that are fair, transparent,
respectful of users’ privacy, and beneficial to society.
### **Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems**
**Track chairs: Julita Vassileva (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
and Panagiotis Germanakos (SAP SE, Germany)**
This track invites original submissions addressing the areas of
personalization and tailoring for persuasive technologies, including but
not limited to personalization models, user models, computational
personalization, design and evaluation methods, and personal experience
designing personalized and adaptive behaviour change technologies.
### **Virtual Assistants and Personalized Human-robot Interaction**
**Track chairs: Radhika Garg (Syracuse University, US) and Cristina Gena
(University of Torino, Italy)**
This track aims at investigating new models and techniques for the
adaptation of synthetic companions (e.g., virtual assistants, chatbots,
social robots) to the individual user.
### **Research Methods and Reproducibility**
**Track chairs: Odd Erik Gundersen (Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, Norway) and Dietmar Jannach (University of Klagenfurt,
Austria)**
This track accepts works on methodologies for the evaluation of
personalized systems, benchmarks, measurement scales, with particular
attention to reproducibility of results and of techniques.
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**SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS**
============================
Please consult the conference website for the submission link:
http://www.um.org/umap2022/.
The maximum length is **14 pages (excluding references) in the ACM new
single-column format**. We encourage papers of any length up to 14
pages; reviewers will be asked to comment on whether the length is
appropriate for the contribution.
**Additional review criteria are available in the online version of the
CFP on the UMAP 2022 web site.**
Each accepted paper will be included in the conference proceedings and
presented at the conference.
UMAP uses a **double blind** review process. Authors must omit their
names and affiliations from submissions, and avoid obvious identifying
statements. For instance, citations to the authors' own prior work
should be made in the third person. Failure to anonymize your submission
results in the desk-rejection of your paper.
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**ORGANIZERS**
============================
**General chairs**
- Ludovico Boratto, University of Cagliari, Italy
- Alejandro Bellogín, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
- Olga C. Santos, Spanish National University for Distance Education, Spain
**Program Chairs**
- Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy
- Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University, US
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**RELATED EVENTS**
============================
Separate calls will be sent for Workshops and Tutorials, Doctoral
Consortium, and Demo/Late-Breaking Results, as these have different
deadlines and submission requirements.
--
Helma Torkamaan
Researcher
University of Duisburg-Essen
Interactive Systems Group
Room LF 288, Forsthausweg 2, 47057 Duisburg, GERMANY
helma.torkamaan(a)uni-due.de / +49 203 379-2276
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ICWE 2022
22nd International Conference on Web Engineering
Bari, Italy | July 5-8, 2022
http://icwe2022.webengineering.org/
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Call for Workshop Proposals
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IMPORTANT DATES
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- Submission of proposals: 29 January, 2022 (23h 59 AoE)
- Notification of proposal acceptance: 12 February, 2022 (23h 59 AoE)
CALL
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ICWE’22 is inviting proposals for high-quality workshops to complement its scientific program. Workshop topics should fall within the broad area of Web Engineering, but we specifically welcome workshops tackling novel, cutting-edge topics as well as workshops covering focused Web Engineering sub-areas, and cross-disciplinary workshops. The workshop organizers are highly encouraged to include interactive and hands-on working sessions.
The organizers of approved workshops are responsible for advertising their workshops, collecting papers, managing the review process, making accepted papers available to workshop participants (e.g., workshop website), and collecting the camera-ready copies and copyright forms of accepted papers (verifying that they comply with formatting rules). Organizers are expected to be present to attend, run, and manage their workshops. Conference facilities such as meeting rooms, wireless Internet and meals will be provided by the local organizers.
ICWE’22 provides workshop organizers with the opportunity to publish workshop proceedings as part of its dedicated post-workshop proceedings volume to appear in Springer’s LNCS series. Typically, workshop papers are 12 pages long and peer-reviewed; other forms of contributions can be discussed with the workshop chairs. Organizers who prefer to publish their own proceedings are of course welcome as well.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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Workshop proposals should include the following information:
1. General Information
– Title of the workshop
– Organizers and primary contact (name/affiliation/email)
– Abstract (200 words), intended for the main ICWE conference website
– Expected length of the workshop (full day, half day)
– Relationship with the ICWE community and topics
2. Objectives and Scope
– Goals of the workshop including a list of possible workshop topics; if available, outcomes and results of previous editions of the workshop
– Plans for advertising the workshop and making the workshop visible to the community
– Estimated number of submissions and of papers to be accepted. If applicable, relevant information on previous editions of the workshop
– Estimated number of participants. If applicable, relevant information on previous editions of the workshop
3. Organization Details
– Information about workshop organizers: names, addresses, affiliations, short bio, and name of the main contact person. (Including relevant past experience in workshop organization)
– Planned list of PC members
4. Workshop Format
– Format of the workshop (paper-based, discussion-based, invitation-based, work sessions, or similar); at least 1 hands-on session is highly recommended
– Format of hands-on session(s) (demos, hackathon, brainstorming, discussions, case elaboration, etc.)
5. Workshop web page (URL of the draft web page, if one exists)
6. Draft Call for Papers for the workshop (the Call for Papers that you intend to send out if your workshop is accepted)
Workshop proposals should be submitted as a PDF file to workshopchair.icwe2022(a)webengineering.org.
WORKSHOPS CHAIRS
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- Cinzia Cappiello (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
- Azzurra Ragone (EY - Ernst & Young, Italy)
Dear all,
after the very successful panel on "20 years into ISWC: What's next beyond
Knowledge Graphs?", the Distributed Knowledge Graphs (DKG) COST Action
[1,2] organizes a talk series in collaboration with SWSA [3] on aspects
related to the Semantic Web research. On *Tuesday 7th December at 18.00 CET**
Ora Lassila will give a talk "On the broad applicability of Semantic Web
technologies". I include the talk's abstract here but you can also find
more information as well as the link to the online stream before the talk
starts at https://cost-dkg.eu/talks.
Ora Lassila: "On the broad applicability of Semantic Web technologies"
About the talk: The Semantic Web, despite how it was originally advertised,
was not a replacement for the World Wide Web, nor was it really knowledge
representation (KR) solely for the Web. Rather, the Semantic Web is KR
using Web technologies. The different technologies and standards of the
Semantic Web have broad applicability in many areas distinctly outside of
what we consider to be the “Web”. The DAML-S (later OWL-S) effort was one
such example: apply ontologies to the problem of describing the semantics
of functionality and services (in this case Web services, but the concept
was more general). While the effort may not have been successful in the
long term, it was an early example of the application of Semantic Web
technologies and approaches to a wide variety of use cases and domains.
These include agent-based computing, ubiquitous computing,
context-awareness, policies, privacy, enterprise knowledge graphs, and many
others. But there is still an even bigger role for Semantic Web
technologies: Modern enterprise data practice is messy, with daunting
problems such as data integration, elimination of “data silos”, and
alignment of semantics. This “messiness” will be perpetuated until we have
a practical unifying logical representation for data and semantics, and the
promise of Semantic Web is that it could be this representation.
Kind regards,
Anastasia
[1] https://cost-dkg.eu/
[2] https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA19134
[3] https://swsa.semanticweb.org/
* Tue Dec 7th 2021 at 12:00 (EST) / Wed Dec 8th 2021 at 1:00 (CST)
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