Hello, Wiktionary community!
My name is Daniel Bogre Udell and I'm a co-founder at Wikitongues, a
non-profit organization and international volunteer community dedicated to
defending linguistic diversity. We're building the world's first public
archive of every language in the world, and counting some very enthusiastic
Wikimedians among our ranks, we're excited to announce that we've submitted
a proposal
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikitongues_Poly_Feature_Set…>
for
this upcoming round of Wikimedia Project Grants to support Poly, an open
source platform for sharing and learning languages.
Poly stands to improve the language content for both Wiktionary and
Wikivoyages by creating a broader network of language content aggregation.
Through it, the breadth of these projects will be expanded and their
language accuracy improved. Furthermore, in gaining access to new language
communities working with Wikitongues, Wikipedia stands to benefit from the
incubation of new language editions.
We're eager for community feedback, so if you think there are more points
of alignment between Poly and Wiktionary, please let us know in the
project's discussion section
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Project/Wikitongues_Poly_Featur…>
.
Finally, if you believe this project to be worthwhile, we would be honored
to have your endorsement, which you can enter in the project's Endorsements
section
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikitongues_Poly_Feature_Set…>.
We would also greatly appreciate it if you can spread the word among your
fellow Wikimedians.
Thank you very much!
Warmly,
Daniel Bogre Udell
Director
*Wikitongues*
www.wikitongues.org
Every language in the world
+1 (917) 975 1410
@dbudell
-------- Messaggio inoltrato --------
Oggetto: [Wikidata] Let's move forward with support for Wiktionary
Data: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:17:26 +0200
Mittente: Lydia Pintscher
Hey everyone :)
Wiktionary is our third-largest sister project, both in term of active
editors and readers. It is a unique resource, with the goal to provide
a dictionary for every language, in every language. Since the
beginning of Wikidata but increasingly over the past months I have
been getting more and more requests for supporting Wiktionary and
lexicographical data in Wikidata. Having this data available openly
and freely licensed would be a major step forward in automated
translation, text analysis, text generation and much more. It will
enable and ease research. And most importantly it will enable the
individual Wiktionary communities to work more closely together and
benefit from each other’s work.
With this and the increased demand to support Wikimedia Commons with
Wikidata, we have looked at the bigger picture and our options. I am
seeing a lot of overlap in the work we need to do to support
Wiktionary and Commons. I am also seeing increasing pressure to store
lexicographical data in existing items (which would be bad for many
reasons).
Because of this we will start implementing support for Wiktionary in
parallel to Commons based on our annual plan and quarterly plans. We
contacted several of our partners in order to get funding for this
additional work. I am happy that Google agreed to provide funding
(restricted to work on Wikidata). With this we can reorganize our team
and set up one part of the team to continue working on building out
the core of Wikidata and support for Wikipedia and Commons and the
other part will concentrate on Wiktionary. (To support and to extend
our work around Wikidata with the help of external funding sources was
our plan in our annual plan 2016:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2015-2016_round1/Wikim…)
As a next step I’d like us all to have another careful look at the
latest proposal at
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiktionary/Development. It has
been online for input in its current form for a year and the first
version is 3 years old now. So I am confident that the proposal is in
a good shape to start implementation. However I’d like to do a last
round of feedback with you all to make sure the concept really is
sane. To make it easier to understand there is now also a pdf
explaining the concept in a slightly different way:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_for_Wiktionary_announcemen…
Please do go ahead and review it. If you have comments or questions
please leave them on the talk page of the latest proposal at
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Wiktionary/Development/Proposal….
I’d be especially interested in feedback from editors who are familiar
with both Wiktionary and Wikidata.
Getting support for Wiktionary done - just like for Commons - will
take some time but I am really excited about the opportunities it will
open up especially for languages that have so far not gotten much or
any technological support.
Cheers
Lydia
--
Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
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.
_______________________________________________
Wikidata mailing list
Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
SEMANTiCS 2016 - The Linked Data Conference
Workshops, Tutorials and the DBpedia Day
12th International Conference on Semantic Systems
Leipzig, Germany
September 12 -15, 2016
_http://2016.semantics.cc/_
*Workshops/Tutorials *
This year's SEMANTiCS is starting on September 12th with a full day of
exciting and interesting satellite events. In _6 parallel tracks_
<http://2016.semantics.cc/satellite-events> scientific and industrial
workshops and tutorials are scheduled to provide a forum for groups of
researchers and practitioners to discuss and learn about hot topics in
Semantic Web research.
Attending the SEMANTiCS workshops and tutorial is _free of charge_, but
you need to register. Feel free to have a closer look and register for
the events here: _http://2016.semantics.cc/satellite-events_.
*DBpedia Day - Call for Participation *
Following our successful meetings in Europe & US our next DBpedia
meeting will be held at Leipzig on September 15th, co-located with
SEMANTiCS.
_Highlights_
- Keynote #1: Wikidata: bringing structured data to Wikipedia with 16000
volunteers by Lydia Pintscher, product manager of Wikidata
- Keynote #2: Harald Sack, (title TBA) (Hasso-Plattner-Institut)
- A session for the “_DBpedia references and citations challenge_
<http://wiki.dbpedia.org/ideas/idea/261/dbpedia-citations-reference-challeng…>”
- A _session on DBpedia ontology_
<http://mappings.dbpedia.org/index.php/DBpedia_Ontology_Committee> by
members of the DBpedia ontology committee
- Tell us what cool things you do with
DBpedia:<https://goo.gl/AieceU>_https://goo.gl/AieceU_
- As always, there will be tutorials to learn about DBpedia and a
DBpedia showcase session
_Quick facts_
- Web URL: _http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Leipzig2016_
- When: September 15th, 2016
- Where: University of Leipzig, Augustusplatz 10, 04109 Leipzig
- Call for Contribution: _https://goo.gl/AieceU_ (submission form)
- Registration: Free to participate but only through registration
(Option for DBpedia support
tickets)<https://event.gg/3396-7th-dbpedia-community-meeting-in-leipzig-2016>_https://event.gg/3396-7th-dbpedia-community-meeting-in-leipzig-2016_
We are looking forward to your contributions and to seeing you at the
SEMANTiCS in Leipzig!
/\ English - Castellano - français /\
Hi all,
I am thrilled to announce the official creation of the *Wiktionary
Tremendous Group* !
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary/Wiktionary_Tremendous_Group
It arose from seeds planted at Wikimania, a month ago and it aims to be a
common place *to make Wiktionaries better*, share our productions and
thoughts about technological developments. We can also organize events
together such as conferences and LexiSession, a fancy way to *contribute
together* to the same topic during a short period of time. In August, we
suggest focusing on cat
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary/LexiSession>! Another main goal
is to increase our network with the other wiki projects.
So, if this interests you, you are very welcome! We want multilingual
discussions as much as possible, but my English is not very natural, so
feel free to correct any mistake you see. Also, I am very inexperienced
with team management and I have no idea how to make this project more
attractive. I think a nice logo would be cool, but suggestions are welcome!
It will be cool, so please join!
Noé, French Wiktionary user
____________________________________________
¡Hola!
Estoy muy feliz de avisarles de la creación del *Tremendo grupo de
Wikcionario*.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary/Wiktionary_Tremendous_Group/es
Ese grupo sera una iniciativa para impulsar una dinámica nueva por los
Wikcionarios, incluyendo todas las comunidades! Sera un espacio donde
podríamos compartir ideas cada uno en su lengua, compartir el material como
pantallas o libretos, y organizar eventos. Un primer paso sera LexiSesión,
un tema mensual para contribuir juntos y explorar un campo semántico en
varias lenguas. En agosto empezamos con el *gato*.
Ustedes están bienvenido para participar en las discusiones, que sea
también proponiendo un logo, verificar mi traducción al castellano,
mencionar ese grupo a sus amigos o en donde se debería hacer. Voy a
intentar de traducir bien en castellano, pero se va necesitar un poco de
apoyo a la vez. Tengo planificado de traducir mas paginas y de mostrar las
cosas buenas que tenemos en francés ahora, como nuestro resultado de 2015,
una lista de competencias de los contribuidores de Wikcionarios, una
cartilla de presentación y mas! Espero que ustedes serán interesado por esa
dinámica!
Noé, participante al Wikcionario en lengua francesa
____________________________________________
Bonjour,
Je suis ravis de vous avertir de la création du Fantastique Groupe du
Wiktionnaire !
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary/Wiktionary_Tremendous_Group/fr
Ce groupe est une initiative pour dynamiser les Wiktionnaires en incluant
toutes les communautés d'un coup. Il portera un espace où il sera possible
d'échanger des idées, de partager du matériel (affiches, présentations,
livrets) et d'organiser des évènements. La première action de ce groupe est
la proposition de LexiSession mensuelle, consistant à se concentrer sur un
thème pour faire évoluer en contenu en parallèle dans plusieurs langues.
Pour le mois d'août, le thème sera le chat !
Vous êtes les bienvenus pour participer, il ne s'agit pas d'une cabale ni
d'un groupe secret ! Vous pouvez venir participer aux discussions, proposer
vos idées, aider aux traductions et faire connaitre ce groupe aux personnes
qui pourraient être intéressées ! Nous ferons un premier bilan à un mois
durant la WikiConférence à Paris en août ! Soyez les bienvenues !
Noé, contributeur au Wiktionnaire francophone
The Vocabulary Carnival at SEMANTiCS 2016 is a unique opportunity for
vocabulary publishers to showcase and share their work, meet the growing
community of vocabulary publishers and users, and build useful semantic,
technical and social links.
*When?* The Vocabulary Carnival is part of the SEMANTiCS programme with
the Carnival Minute Madness on the 13th of September and on the
industrial marketplace.
*What kind of vocabularies do we expect?*
*
*Any kind!* For this event we use a very open definition of what a
vocabulary is. Ontologies, classifications, thesauri, concept and
metadata schemes, whatever their format, in RDF or not, are all welcome.
*
*Bootstrap your new Vocabulary project:* At the carnival you can
present your ideas and early stage vocabs to find the right people
to get the Vocab discussion going. We require at least a project web
site.
*What is your benefit of submitting?*
*
*attention*: make people aware of your work
*
*feedback*: a room full of other vocabulary creators will guarantee
expert feedback
*
*linking*: discover links from your vocabulary to others on-site
*How to submit your Vocabulary to the Carnival?*
1.
Make sure your vocabulary is accessible on the Web through a public URI.
2.
Communicate your intention to participate at
_https://goo.gl/mV3VpZ_ by joining and posting your vocabulary
link and writing “See you at the Carnival in Leipzig” or send an
email to monika.solanki(a)cs.ox.ac.uk , with subject “Vocabulary
Carnival”.
3.
Register to
SEMANTiCS:<http://2014.semantics.cc/www.semantics.cc/registration/index.html>_http://2016.semantics.cc/registration/_
<http://2014.semantics.cc/www.semantics.cc/registration/index.html>
4.
Submissions will be handled on a *first come, first serve basis*
*Are there any technical requirements?*
Your vocabulary submission will be evaluated in accordance to the
following criteria:
*
*Reusability* - Which vocabularies and/or ontology design patterns
have been reused in its development? Has it been mapped, aligned,
imported within other ontologies yet? If not, where do you foresee
potential reuse?
*
*Value addition* - How does the vocabulary provide value addition
for the intended project or domain as compared to previous efforts
and to Semantic Web in general?
*
*Design and Technical quality* - how do the ontologies incorporate
best practices in design, i.e., using ontology design patterns or
extending from upper level ontologies?
*
*Documentation* - does the vocabulary provide both human and machine
readable documentation using for e.g., rdfs:label, rdfs:comment and
HTML documentation?
*
*Availability*: We expect your vocabulary (terminology, taxonomy,
ontology, etc.) to be hosted on the Web at a persistent URI (PURL,
w3id, ODI) and with an appropriate licence specification. If it is
not Linked Data or uploaded
to<http://lov.okfn.org/>_http://lov.okfn.org_ <http://lov.okfn.org/>
you can get technical help and advise at the conference.
*
*Usage*: Which academic/industrial projects have adopted the
vocabulary? Which datasets have been annotated using the vocabulary?
*At the SEMANTiCS 2016 Conference:*
*
Prepare a poster (max format A0) presenting your vocabulary:
description, purpose, history and link to its publication page. Your
description of the vocabulary must include the above criteria.
*
Present your poster in the dedicated space at SEMANTiCS conference.
*
Brace yourself to participate in the Vocabulary Minute Madness,
where every vocabulary will have one minute to convince of its
usefulness and quality. Sporting your vocabulary colors at this
occasion is optional, but will be much appreciated.
*
An independent jury will select the best vocabulary poster and
presentation.
*Vocabulary Carnival and LOV*
*
If your vocabulary is already recorded
at<http://lov.okn.org/>_http://lov.okn.org_ <http://lov.okn.org/>,
check its record to see if everything is OK. Ping the LOV curators
if something is missing or inaccurate, or if you brush up a brand
new version for the Carnival. If you think your vocabulary is
LOV-able but not yet recorded, submit its URI
at<http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/suggest/>_http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/suggest/_
*
If your vocabulary is not yet meeting the technical requirements to
be included in LOV, and you wish it could, we can help you to
achieve that during the Carnival.
*About the Vocabulary Carnival*
The Vocabulary Carnival will be hosted at the SEMANTiCS conference, Sep
12-15 2016
*Contact*
Monika Solanki (_monika.solanki(a)cs.ox.ac.uk_
<mailto:monika.solanki@cs.ox.ac.uk>)
Ghislain Atemezing (_ghislain.atemezing(a)mondeca.com_
<mailto:ghislain.atemezing@mondeca.com>)
Metadata
======
Call for Papers
Submission deadline: July 7th 2016
EasyChair submission page:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=blink2016
Accepted papers: Short (8 pages) and long (16 pages)
Workshop page: http://project-hobbit.eu/events/blink-2016/
Conference: ISWC - Kobe, Japan - October, 17th or 18th, 2016
Description
=======
BLINK will provide a forum where topics related to the evaluation
(included, but not limited to the performance, accuracy, expressive
power and usability) of Linked Data Technologies for different steps of
the Linked Data lifecycle can be discussed and elaborated upon.
Linked Data now part of the new data economy and Big Linked Data is
gaining in use and traction. Systems are constantly being developed in
order to support the booming exchange of data (existing in numerous
formats) in the Web and the Enterprise. Linked Data benchmarks can
function as valuable tools to objectively depict and illustrate the
level of adequacy and thus performance provided by the existing Linked
Data systems.
This workshop aims to bring together a broad range of attendants
interested in benchmarking Linked Data and aims at identifying the
specific needs and challenges of the domain in order to foster
interdisciplinary collaborations towards attaining these challenges.
More specifically the objectives of this workshop are to:
create a discussion forum where researchers and industrials can meet and
discuss topics related to the performance of Linked Data systems and
expose and initiate discussions on best practices, different application
needs and scenarios related to Linked Data management.
Topics of Interest
===============
We welcome contributions presenting experiences with benchmarking Linked
Data technologies as well as technical contributions regarding the
development of benchmarks for all aspects of the Linked Data/Big Data
lifecycle. All domains (e.g., life science, social networks, smart
cities, news, digital forensics, e-science and geo-spatial data
management) are welcome.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Linked Data benchmarks
* Novel benchmarking results
* Analysis of existing benchmarks
* Novel measures for benchmarking Linked Data
* Linked Data benchmark evaluation
* Complex benchmarking pipelines
* Application of benchmarks in academic/industrial settings
* Tools and methodologies for the linked data generation and
acquisition, analytics and processing, storage and curation,
visualization and data access.
This series of workshops are supported by H2020 European Project HOBBIT
(Holistic Benchmarking of Big Linked Data), see http://project-hobbit.eu/.
Paper Submission
===========
The workshop will accept two types of submissions: short papers (8
pages) will be either position papers or describe early works in the
area of benchmarking. Long papers (up to 16 pages) will describe
benchmarks, benchmarking techniques or benchmarking results along the
linked data lifecycle. Details on the submission process can be found at
http://project-hobbit.eu/events/blink-2016/
Important Dates:
July 7th, 2016: paper submission deadline
July 31st 2016: Notifications send to authors
August 25th 2016: Camera-ready papers for workshops
October 17th or 18th: Workshop
Submission Details
============
The workshop is now accepting paper submissions. Long papers (up to 16
pages) and short papers (up to 8 pages) describing approaches or ideas /
challenges on the topics of the workshop are invited. Submissions must
be in PDF, formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format
for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For details on the LNCS
style, see Springer’s Author Instructions. Papers should be submitted
through the EasyChair system
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=blink2016 no later than midnight
Hawaii time July 7th, 2016. Submissions will be reviewed by members of
the workshop program committee. Accepted papers will be included in the
ISWC 2016 Workshop on Benchmarking Linked Data (BLINK) proceedings.
Post-proceedings of this workshop will be published by Springer in LNCS similar to the main conference.
########################################
The KÉKI Workshop 2016 - Uses of Linguistic Linked Open Data
http://keki2016.linguistic-lod.org/
in Kobe, Japan
on October 17th or 18th 2016 (to be fixed soon)
with a keynote by Yohei Murakami, Kyoto University
The KÉKI Workshop will be held at the 15th International Semantic Web
Conference (ISWC)
http://iswc2016.semanticweb.org/
Important Dates (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Paper Submission Deadline: July 1st, 2016
NOTE: Individual extensions can be requested, by writing tokeki2016(a)linguistic-lod.org
* Notification of Acceptance: August 7th, 2016
* Pre-workshop paper: September 1st, 2016
* Workshop at ISWC October 17th or 18th, 2016
* Camera-ready for post-proceedings November 18th, 2016
Post-proceedings will be published in Springer LNCS.
Submissions via Easychair:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kki2016
########################################
Introduction
What kind of smart applications can we build, if we were able to
integrate all available knowledge, data and language resources in a
meaningful way? In order to realize the dream of artificial
intelligence, it is necessary to focus on knowledge engineering to build
information machines that enable humans to perform more efficiently in
their tasks. To achieve this goal, we believe the following two
prerequisites must be met:
* Knowledge and data must be rendered in a discoverable way and then
transformed, linked, enriched and integrated homogeneously in a huge
semantic knowledge graph
* Language technologies must first be leveraged in order to understand,
categorize and structure available textual content in all its forms.
Then, language technology must assist in building adequate interfaces
that allow humans to interact effectively with data and information via
discovery, querying and reorganization.
Research in this workshop focuses on contextualising data and ontologies
as well as capturing deep linguistic knowledge to improve machine
understanding.
Purpose and scope
Some international initiatives such as the LIDER European project
(www.lider-project.eu <http://www.lider-project.eu> ) and the W3C OntoLex, BPMLOD, and LD4LT community
groups, as well as the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) Working Group
for Open Data in Linguistics (OWLG), have promoted an ecosystem of
linguistic linked open data (LLOD)
One of the main motivations of this workshop is to move the LLOD cloud
to its next phase in which innovative applications will be developed
overcoming the language barriers on the Web.
The KÉKI workshop is targeted at anyone interested in Semantic Web,
Linguistics and Natural Language Processing technologies and we are
especially welcoming submissions focussing on either domain topics or
technological topics or both.
Domain Topics
* Data related to Linguistics and NLP:
** language resource such as, but not limited to: corpora, treebanks, dictionaries and lexicographical resources
* Linguistic and NLP Ontologies
** proposals for novel models or extension of existing models such as lemon, NIF, POWLA, MARL, NERD
* Linguistic linked open data
** metadata, license issues, indexes, collections, repositories, workflows that deal with Linguistic LOD as a whole
* Web services and tools ingesting or producing linguistic linked data and annotations
Technological Topics
* Knowledge Integration
** Vocabularies and Models for integrating resources (and Ontology Engineering)
** Dataset metrics and quality assessment
** Query federation and question answering
** Metadata for linked data knowledge
** Discoverability of data
* Knowledge Extraction
** NLP techniques for knowledge extraction and machine reading
** Information extraction and ontology learning
** Pattern recognition and extraction for IE
** Resources and use cases
** Approaches using mappings and their maintenance from structured
sources (RDB, XML, JSON), from semistructured sources (XHTML), from
unstructured sources (Text)
Submission Guidelines
________________
We invite submissions in the form of regular long and short papers.
All workshop papers must represent original and unpublished work that is
not currently under review. Papers will be evaluated according to their
significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and
relevance to the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper is
expected to attend the workshop upon acceptance. Submission is
single-blind, i.e. author names are visible, only reviewers stay anonymous.
All papers should follow the LNCS guidelines for formatting and must not
exceed 16 pages in length for long papers and 12 pages for short papers
including references and excluding appendices. The layout templates are
available for download from the Springer website at
https://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 which also
contains MS Office/Word instructions. The file format for submissions is
Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Other formats will not be accepted.
We have applied jointly together with the NLP & DBpedia Workshop for
publication in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series (LNCS) by
Springer and are currently under review. Submissions must be uploaded
electronically by the submission deadline July 1st 2016 through
EasyChair at:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kki2016
For any inquiries regarding the submission process or the workshop in
general, please send an email to our public mailing list at
keki2016(a)linguistic-lod.org <mailto:keki2016@linguistic-lod.org>.
We are looking forward for meeting you at KÉKI 2016!
Workshop Organizers and Contact
________________
* Sebastian Hellmann (AKSW/KILT, Universität Leipzig, Germany)
* John McCrae (Insight Center @ NUI Galway, Ireland)
* Seiji Koide (Transdisciplinary Research Integration Center and
National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan)
* Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea)
* Jorge Gracia (Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de
Madrid, Spain)
* Hideaki Takeda (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan)
* Yoshihiko Hayashi (Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan)
Support Committee:
* Niko Schenk (Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
* Christian Chiarcos (Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
* Ciro Baron (AKSW/KILT, Universität Leipzig, Germany)
* Kay Müller (AKSW/KILT, Universität Leipzig, Germany)
Program Committee
________________
* Agata Filipowska, Poznan University, Poland
* Andreas Niekler, ASV, Leipzig University, Germany
* Bettina Klimek, Leipzig University AKSW, Germany
* Carmen Brando, Institut National de L'Infromation Géographique et Forestière, France
* Christina Unger, University Bielefeld, Germany
* Dimitris Kontokostas, Leipzig University AKSW, Germany
* Dongpo Deng, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
* Eveline Wandl-Vogt, Austrian Academy of Sciense, Austria
* Felix Sasaki, DFKI/W3C, Germany
* Francesca Frontini, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
* Georgeta Bordea, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUI Galway, Ireland
* Haofen Wang, East China University of Science and Technology, China
* Luis Morgado Da Costa, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore
* Mariano Rico, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
* Marieke Van Erp, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* Marta Villegas, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
* Masaharu Yoshioka, Hokkaido University, Japan
* Michael Schuhmacher, Mannheim University, Germany
* Monica Monachini, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
* Naoaki Okazaki, Tohoku University, Japan
* Paul Buitelaar, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUI Galway, Ireland
* Philipp Cimiano, University Bielefeld, Germany
* Ricardo Usbeck, Leipzig University AKSW, Germany
* Richard Eckart de Castilho, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
* Sören Auer, University of Bonn, Germany
* Steven Moran, University Zürich, Switzerland
* Thierry Declerck, DFKI, Germany
* Ulli Waltinger, Siemens AG, Germany
* Víctor Rodriguez-Doncel, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
* Wim Peters, University of Sheffield, UK
* Yohei Murakami, Kyoto University, Japan
***DEADLINE EXTENSION***
2nd Call for Posters & Demos
SEMANTiCS 2016 - The Linked Data Conference
Transfer // Engineering // Community
12th International Conference on Semantic Systems
Leipzig, Germany
September 12 -15, 2016
http://2016.semantics.cc
Important Dates (Posters & Demos)
* Submission Deadline: extended: July 1, 2016
(11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: extended: August 2, 2016
(11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: extended: August 10, 2016
(11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Submissions via Easychair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2016research
The annual SEMANTiCS conference is the meeting place for professionals
who make semantic computing work, who understand its benefits and
encounter its limitations. Every year, SEMANTiCS attracts information
managers, IT-architects, software engineers and researchers from
organisations ranging from NPOs, through public administrations to the
largest companies in the world. Attendees learn from industry experts
and top researchers about emerging trends and topics in the fields of
semantic software, enterprise data, linked data & open data strategies,
methodologies in knowledge modelling and text & data analytics. The
SEMANTiCS community is highly diverse; attendees have responsibilities
in interlinking areas like knowledge management, technical
documentation, e-commerce, big data analytics, enterprise search,
document management, business intelligence and enterprise vocabulary
management.
The success of last year’s conference in Vienna with more than 280
attendees from 22 countries proves that SEMANTiCS 2016 will continue a
long tradition of bringing together colleagues from around the world.
There will be presentations on industry implementations, use case
prototypes, best practices, panels, papers and posters to discuss
semantic systems in birds-of-a-feather sessions as well as informal
settings. SEMANTICS addresses problems common among information
managers, software engineers, IT-architects and various specialist
departments working to develop, implement and/or evaluate semantic
software systems.
The SEMANTiCS program is a rich mix of technical talks, panel
discussions of important topics and presentations by people who make
things work - just like you. In addition, attendees can network with
experts in a variety of fields. These relationships provide great value
to organisations as they encounter subtle technical issues in any stage
of implementation. The expertise gained by SEMANTiCS attendees has a
long-term impact on their careers and organisations. These factors make
SEMANTiCS for our community the major industry related event across Europe.
SEMANTiCS 2016 will especially welcome submissions for the following hot
topics:
* Data Quality Management
* Data Science (Data Mining, Machine Learning, Network Analytics)
* Semantics on the Web, Linked (Open) Data & schema.org
* Corporate Knowledge Graphs
* Knowledge Integration and Language Technologies
* Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems
Following the success of previous years, the ‘horizontals’ (research)
and ‘verticals’ (industries) below are of interest for the conference:
Horizontals:
* Enterprise Linked Data & Data Integration
* Knowledge Discovery & Intelligent Search
* Business Models, Governance & Data Strategies
* Big Data & Text Analytics
* Data Portals & Knowledge Visualization
* Semantic Information Management
* Document Management & Content Management
* Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management
* Smart Connectivity, Networking & Interlinking
* Smart Data & Semantics in IoT
* Semantics for IT Safety & Security
* Semantic Rules, Policies & Licensing
* Community, Social & Societal Aspects
Verticals:
* Industry & Engineering
* Life Sciences & Health Care
* Public Administration
* Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums (GLAM)
* Education & eLearning
* Media & Data Journalism
* Publishing, Marketing & Advertising
* Tourism & Recreation
* Financial & Insurance Industry
* Telecommunication & Mobile Services
* Sustainable Development: Climate, Water, Air, Ecology
* Energy, Smart Homes & Smart Grids
* Food, Agriculture & Farming
* Safety & Security
* Transport, Environment & Geospatial
Posters & Demos Track
The Posters & Demonstrations Track invites innovative work in progress,
late-breaking research and innovation results, and smaller contributions
in all fields related to the broadly understood Semantic Web. These
include submissions on innovative applications with impact on end users
such as demos of solutions that users may test or that are yet in the
conceptual phase, but are worth discussing, and also applications or
pieces of code that may attract developers and potential research or
business partners. This also concerns new data sets made publicly available.
The informal setting of the Posters & Demonstrations Track encourages
participants to present innovations to the research community, business
users and find new partners or clients and engage in discussions about
the presented work. Such discussions can be invaluable inputs for the
future work of the presenters, while offering conference participants an
effective way to broaden their knowledge of the emerging research trends
and to network with other researchers.
Poster and demo submissions should consist of a paper of 1-4 pages that
describe the work, its contribution to the field or novelty aspects.
Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for
publication elsewhere. All submissions should follow the ACM ICPS
guidelines for formatting. The layout templates can be found here:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. The best
posters (5-6 papers) will be published in the digital library of the ACM
ICP Series. The other papers will be published in the
http://ceur-ws.org/. Papers should be submitted through EasyChair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2016research). Papers
must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format.
Other formats will not be accepted. For the camera-ready version, the
source files (Latex, Word) will also be needed.
Submissions will be reviewed by experienced and knowledgeable
researchers and practitioners; each submission will receive a detailed
feedback. For demos, it would be beneficial to include also links
enabling the reviewers testing the application or reviewing the component.
Important Dates (Posters & Demos)
* Submission Deadline: extended: July 1, 2016 (11:59 pm,
Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: extended: August 2, 2016 (11:59
pm, Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: extended: August 10, 2016 (11:59
pm, Hawaii time)
Poster and Demo Chairs:
* Michael Martin, University of Leipzig
* Martí Cuquet, Semantic Technology Institute, University of Innsbruck
* Erwin Folmer, University of Twente, Kadaster and Geonovum
Contact email address: semantics2016postersdemos(a)gmail.com
Conference Chairs:
* Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW/KILT, InfAI, Leipzig University
* Tassilo Pellegrini, UAS St. Pölten