Workshops May 19

Monday May 18Tuesday May 19

2015 Workshop on “Semantics, Analytics and Visualization: Enhancing Scholarly Data” (SAVE-SD 2015), Francesco Osborne, Silvio Peroni and Jun Zhao.

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  The main goal of SAVE-SD 2015 is bringing together publishers, companies and researchers from different fields (among which Document and Knowledge Engineering, Semantic Web, Natural Language Processing, Scholarly Communication, Bibliometrics, and Human-Computer Interaction) in order to bridge the gap between the theoretical/academic and practical/industrial aspects in regards to the semantics, analytics and visualisation of scholarly data.
• Full day
• Saletta palazzina Lorenese – 1
• http://cs.unibo.it/save-sd/2015/index.html

The 7th Annual Workshop on Simplifying Complex Networks for Practitioners (SIMPLEX 2015), Aziz Mohaisen, Yanhua Li, Bruno Goncalves, Ben Hui and Nishanth Sastry

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  Network science, sometimes also called “complex networks science”, has recently attracted much attention from the scientific community, mainly due to the almost ubiquitous presence of complex networks in real-world systems. Examples of complex networks are found in living organisms, in engineering systems, as well as in social networks. SIMPLEX aims at triggering different computer science communities (e.g. search, web and social media, communication networks, distributed systems) to propose research areas and topics that should be tackled from the network science perspective. We also seek contributions from network science that are relevant to solve practical computer science problems. Two types of contributions are foreseen from prospective authors. The first type would consist of use-cases of theoretical tools and methods to solve practical problems. Such contributions should be as usable as possible by practitioners in the related field. The second type of contributions would come from practitioners that have identified a problem that may be solved by tools from network sciences. The point of such contributions is to make the network sciences community aware of the importance of a high-impact problem, and to suggest means by which the problem may be solved by the network sciences community. Both contributions should stimulate interaction between theoreticians and practitioners, and also have high potential impact in either field. This workshop started in 2009. Over the years, the workshop has managed to attract researchers from different fields, and has built up a highly interdisciplinary community around it.
• Full Day
• Saletta palazzina Lorenese – 2
• http://simplexconf.net

6th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media: Behavioral Analytics in Social Media, Big Data and the Web (MSM 2015), Martin Atzmueller, Alvin Chin and Christoph Trattner

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  The 6h International Workshop on Modeling Social Media aims to attract
  researchers from all over the world working in the field of behavioral analytics using web and social media data. Behavioral analytics is an important topic, e.g., concerning web applications as well as extensions in mobile and ubiquitous applications, for understanding user behavior. The goal of this workshop is to apply behavioral analytics approaches and algorithms on social media, big data and the web.
• Full Day
• Saletta palazzina Lorenese – 3
• https://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/msm2015/

Natural Language Processing for Social Media (SocialNLP 2015), Shou-De Lin, Lun-Wei Ku, Cheng-Te Li and Erik Cambria.

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  With the rapid growing of social networking services (e.g., Facebook and Twitter), being able to process data come from such platforms has gained much attention in recent years. SocialNLP is a new inter-disciplinary area of natural language processing (NLP) and social computing. There are three plausible directions of SocialNLP: (1) addressing issues in social computing using NLP techniques; (2) solving NLP problems using information from social media; and (3) handling new problems related to both social computing and natural language processing. Several challenges are foreseeable in SocialNLP. First, the message lengths on social media are usu-ally short, and thus it is difficult to apply traditional NLP approaches directly. Second, social media contains
• Morning
• Saletta palazzina Lorenese – 4
• https://sites.google.com/site/socialnlp2015/

2nd Workshop on Knowledge Extraction from Text (KET 2014), Blaz Fortuna, Estevam Hruschka Junior and Michael Witbrock.

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  Text understanding is an old, yet unsolved, AI problem consisting of a number of nontrivial steps. The critical step in solving the problem is knowledge acquisition from text, i.e. a transition from a non-formalized text into a formalized actionable language. Many of required steps in the text understanding pipeline, including linguistic processing, reasoning, text generation, search, question answering etc., are more or less solved to a degree which allows composition of a text understanding service. On the other hand, we know that knowledge acquisition, one of key bottlenecks, can be done by humans, while automating of the process is still out of reach in its full breadth. In recent years the interest in text understanding and knowledge acquisition form text has been growing. There are numerous AI research groups dealing with the various relevant aspects of computational linguistics, machine learning, probabilistic & logical reasoning, and the semantic web. The goal of the workshop is to bring together experts from these diverse fields which are working towards text understanding.
• Afternoon
• Saletta palazzina Lorenese – 4
• http://ailab.ijs.si/~blazf/ket2015/

Web Data Science meets Smart Cities, Jeff Z. Pan, Huajun Chen, Freddy Lecue and Achille Fokoue.

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  Three major trends are supporting the goal of the workshop: open web data, data science, and smart cities. The principal goal is to foster research on Web-based data science approaches to smart cities applications. These include utilizing open data on the Web as major data sources and Web-based data management and analytics as supporting technologies for typical smart cities applications at large scale. Typical examples include: web data analytics for urban traffic prediction, semantic web applications for smart cities, mobile data management for urban disaster monitoring or emergence management, Web of Things and sensor data applications for smart cities etc.
• Afternoon
• Saletta palazzina Lorenese – 5
• http://www.data2.cn/WebDataScience4SC

Diffusion, Activity and Events in Networks: Models, Methods & Applications, Manuel Gomez Rodriguez, Le Song and Hongyuan Zha.

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  This workshop will bring together researchers from academia and industry as well as practitioners to share and discuss their different perspectives and ideas on information diffusion, social activity and events in networks as well as their repertoire of computational methods.
• Morning
• Saletta palazzina Lorenese – 6
• http://learning.mpi-sws.org/diffusion-www-15/

Rumors and Deception in Social Media: Detection, Tracking, and Visualization (#RDSM2015), Kalina Bontcheva, Maria Liakata, Arno Scharl and Rob Procter.

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  This half-day workshop will focus on rumors and deception in social media, including but not limited to automatic detection, tracking, and visualization of deceptive content, as it spreads across media, languages, and social networks; and modelling trustworthiness of information sources. The aim is to bring together researchers from web science, social network analysis, social computing, information visualisation, natural language processing, and other scientific disciplines.
• Afternoon
• Saletta palazzina Lorenese – 6
• http://www.pheme.eu/events/rdsm2015

8th International Workshop about Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2015) Christian Bizer, Heath Tom, Sören Auer and Tim Berners-Lee.

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  Linked Data is a set of best practices for publishing structured data on the Web which focuses on setting hyperlinks between data items provided by different web servers. These hyperlinks connect the data from all servers into a single global data graph – the Web of Linked Data. The LDOW2015 workshop provides a forum for presenting the latest research on Linked Data and will cover topics such as the integration of data from large numbers of Linked Data sources, mining the Web of Linked Data, quality assessment, provenance tracking, and licensing of Linked Data, as well as Linked Data applications. The special focus of this year’s LDOW workshop will be the application of Linked Data technologies in enterprise settings
• Full Day
• Saletta palazzina Lorenese – 7
• http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2015/

NewsWWW – Web and Data Science for News Publishing, Marko Grobelnik, James Hodson and Evan Sandhaus.

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  The workshop covers many aspects of news publishing related to the Web technologies and data science. News publishing is a domain with a lot of specifics related to data processing spanning interdisciplinary across many fields of Web and data related research. The aim of this workshop is to cover analytic, semantic, linguistic, standardization research, approaches and solutions for numerous data challenges related to news publishing.
• Full Day
• Saletta palazzina Lorenese – 8
• http://ailab.ijs.si/~marko/NewsWWW

5th International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb 2015), Dirk Ahlers, Erik Wilde and Bruno Martins

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  Location has quickly moved into the mainstream of the (mobile) Web and it continues to be a strong driver of research activities, addressing a wide range of Web-related topics. We now see an increasing demand for more sophisticated systems, stronger retrieval, mining, and analytics solutions, and more powerful semantics. LocWeb solicits submission under the main theme of Web-scale Location-Aware Information Access. Its focus lies in Web-scale systems and services facilitating location-aware information access. The location topic is understood as a cross-cutting issue equally concerning Web information retrieval, semantics and standards, and Web-scale systems and services.
• Morning
• Saletta palazzina Lorenese – 9
• http://dhere.de/locweb2015/

Multilingual Web Access, Ben Steichen, Nicola Ferro, David Lewis and Ed Chi.

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  Over the past 25 years, the World Wide Web (WWW) has developed into a truly transnational information medium for users from across the globe. As of July 2013, Asia accounts for the largest share of online users in the world at 48.4%, followed by 21.8% from the Americas, and 19% from Europe. With this global development, the diversity of user languages on the Web has increased dramatically, leading to new challenges and opportunities for information access providers and consumers.
  The Multilingual Web Access workshop will bring together researchers working on Cross-/Multilingual Search & Discovery, the Multilingual Social Web, as well as the Multilingual Semantic Web, in order to promote the exchange of complementary ideas and applicable/transferrable techniques between these areas. The goal of the workshop is to advance the current state of the art in Multilingual Web Access techniques, and, most importantly, to increase the adoption of multilingual techniques, methods, and tools in real-world Web applications.
• Afternoon
  Saletta palazzina Lorenese – 9
• http://www.multilingualwebaccess.org

Linked Learning 2015: 5th International Workshop on Learning and Education with the Web of Data (#LILE2015), Stefan Dietze, Mathieu D’Aquin and Dragan Gasevic

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  The emergence of the Web of Data and its gradual adoption in learning or education-related settings has led to the creation of an embryonic “Web of Educational Data” including institutional data from universities, as well as Linked Data about publicly available educational resources. However, while the very nature of the Linked Data approach offers promising solutions that can potentially transform education and learning, adoption and take-up is still hindered by issues which are both technical as well interdisciplinary. Building on the success of earlier LILE editions, LILE2015 aims at addressing such challenges by providing a forum for researchers and practitioners who make innovative use of Linked Data for educational purposes. In addition, LILE2015 will also feature a session dedicated to the LinkedUp Challenge (http://linkedup-challenge.org) to support innovative applications using Linked Data for learning and education.
• Morning
• Saletta palazzina Lorenese – 10
• http://lile.linkededucation.org/2015

WWW2015 Workshop on Web-Based Technology for Training & Education, Bebo White, Irwin King and Jacqueline Bourdeau.

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  Following up on a very successful instance of this workshop in Seoul, registrants are invited to attend and explore current trends in higher education that have utilized numerous Web-based active learning techniques. Exciting developments have occurred since last year’s workshop that will interest all attendees. The organizers have invited speakers who have been actively involved in these developments. Submitted papers will reflect current research and application in such areas as cooperative learning teams connected with BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) to the Web, the intersection between Web-based education and Big Data analytics, the role of Social Media as a teaching and learning environment, and the current status of online and open education resources such as that promised by the MOOC phenomenon. The organizers assure that there will be ample time for lively discussion and networking. Subject matter experts and practitioners of Web-Based Education (WBE) and anyone interested in future trends in the field, and the challenges to be addressed in order to assure the ongoing success of WBE systems are encouraged to attend.
• Afternoon
• Saletta palazzina Lorenese – 10
• http://events.keep.edu.hk/webet/2015