On this page, I maintain a list of workshops, evaluation benchmarks, and journal special issues that could be relevant to those working in the area of “entity-oriented and semantic search.” If you have additional items to add, do not hesitate to contact me.
Workshops
| Name | in conj. with | Submission | Notification |
| 2nd International Workshop on Web of Linked Entities (WoLE2013) | WWW’13 | Mar 13, 2013 | |
| Data In Web Search (DISH) | WWW’13 | Mar 15, 2013 |
Benchmarking campaigns
| Campaign | Track | Task(s) | Start | Runs due |
| TREC 2013 | Knowledge Base Acceleration track | (1) Cumulative Citation Recommendation (2) Streaming Slot Filling |
Feb 2013 | May-Sep, 2013 |
| CLEF 2013 | INEX Linked Data track | (1) Ad-hoc retrieval (2) Jeopardy |
Feb 2013 | May 15, 2013 |
| CLEF 2013 | Question Answering over Linked Data (QALD-3) | (1) Multilingual question answering (2) Ontology lexicalization |
Feb 2013 | May 17, 2013 |
| CLEF 2013 | Online Reputation Management (Replab 2013) | (1) Filtering (2) Polarity (3) Topic detetion (4) Assigning priority |
Apr 2013 | May 27, 2013 |
| TAC 2013 | Knowledge Base Population | (1) Entity Linking (2) English Slot Filling (3) Temporal Slot Filling (4) Cross-lingual Spanish Slot Filling (5) Sentiment Slot Filling (6) Slot Filler Validation (7) Cold Start KBP |
Apr 2013 | Jul-Sep, 2013 |
Journal special issues
| Journal | Submission | Notification |
| Journal of Web Semantics on “Semantic Search” (Guest editors: Roberto Navigli and Fabian M. Suchanek) |
Jul 1, 2013 | Oct 1, 2013 |