Entity-Oriented Search Workshop at SIGIR 2011
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVE
The objective of the workshop is to provide a forum to discuss entity-oriented search, without restricting to any particular data collection, entity type, or user task, and to solicit research contributions on topics including entity mining, entity ranking, query log analysis, or user context. In sum, the workshop seeks to uncover the next research frontiers in entity-oriented search.
TOPICS
The workshop especially encourages submissions on the interface of IR and other disciplines, such as Databases, Semantic Web, Computational Linguistics, Data Mining, Machine Learning, or Human Computer Interaction. Examples of topic of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Identification, resolution, and representation of entities (in documents and in queries)
- Detecting, modeling, and understanding entity-oriented search intents
- Novel search tasks concerning entities (e.g., search by example, attribute extraction, local/geographical search, etc.)
- Entities in various media: Web, user generated content (social media sites, weblogs, microblogs, wikis, etc.), Linked Open Data
- Integration of data from multiple sources
- Personalizing entity-oriented search (e.g., using location or personal social network)
- Test collections and evaluation methodology
- Interfaces for entity-oriented search systems (including result representation)
- Case studies and applications
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
We invite submissions of regular research papers, position papers, and demo descriptions, with a maximum 6 pages (using the ACM SIG Proceedings style). Our recommendation is to not use more than 2-3 pages for demo descriptions, 3-4 pages for position papers, and 5-6 pages for research papers, but there are no particular restrictions on that.
All accepted papers will be published as part of the SIGIR workshop proceedings (with ISBN number), and will be available online from the workshop website. The organizers will discuss the opportunity of editing a special issue with the IR journal or IP&M, and authors of the best quality submissions will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers (subject to the overall standard of submissions).
The best paper/presentation will receive an award sponsored by Yandex.
IMPORTANT DATES
- Submissions due: June 10, 2011
- Notification of acceptance: June 25, 2011
LHD-11 Call for papers
Workshop on Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large Heterogeneous Data 2011 (LHD-11)
Held at The Twenty-second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-11) July 16, 2011, Barcelona, Spain.
This workshop is designed to bring together people from different fields working in the area of dynamic matching, interpretation, and integration of heterogeneous data, so that ideas, techniques and problems can be shared and discussed in a broad context. A key part of this aim is attracting those from industry as well as those from academia.
In order to interact successfully in an open and heterogeneous environment, being able to dynamically and adaptively integrate data from other systems “on the go” is necessary. This may not be a precise process but a matter of finding a good enough understanding to allow interaction to proceed successfully. With the advent of the Web, there are massive amounts of information available online that can assist in this task, but this information is often chaotically organised, stored in a wide variety of data-formats, and difficult to interpret.
Deadline for abstract subsmission: March 14, 2011
Update: Submission deadline extended to April 4th, 2011
Two evaluation campaigns related to entity/expert search
The CLEF 2010 labs will feature two evaluation campaigns that are potentially of interest to people working in the area of entity/people/expert search.
The third WePS Evaluation Workshop (WePS3) focuses on two tasks related to web entity search:
- Task 1: Clustering and Attribute Extraction for Web People Search.
Given a set of web search results for a person name, the task is to cluster the pages according to the different people sharing the name and extract certain biographical attributes for each person. [details] - Task 2: Name ambiguity resolution for Online Reputation Management.
Given a set of Twitter entries containing an (ambiguous) company name, and given the home page of the company, the task is to discriminate entries that do not refer to the company. Entries will be given in two languages: English and Spanish. [details]
The Cross-lingual Expert Search (CriES) workshop addresses the problem of multi-lingual expert search in social media environments. The workshop also includes a pilot challenge, which is very much like the expert finding task at the TREC Enterprise track: given a document collection and a query topic, return a ranked list of experts, who are likely to be experts on the topic. However, the document collection is a multilingual social environment (Yahoo! Answers) and topics come in 4 different languages (English, German, French, Spanish).
SAW 2009 deadline extension
The submission deadline for the 3rd Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2009) has been extended to Feb 17, 2009.
The workshop accepts submissions of long papers (max. 12 pages), work-in-progress reports (max. 6 pages), and demo papers (max. 4 pages).