Jfokus 14-16 February 2012 – Call for Papers
Judging from prior years, there will be more than a few presentations of interest to topic mappers at this conference.
If you submit your proposal by October 1, 2011, your presentation could be one of them.
The editors of a special issue of the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems on Mining Associations and Patterns from Semantic Data have issued the following call for papers:
Guest editors: Kemafor Anyanwu, Ying Ding, Jie Tang, and Philip Yu
Large amounts of Semantic Data is being generated through semantic extractions from and annotation of traditional Web, social and sensor data. Linked Open Data has provided excellent vehicle for representation and sharing of such data. Primary vehicle to get semantics useful for better integration, search and decision making is to find interesting relationships or associations, expressed as meaningful paths, subgraphs and patterns. This special issue seeks theories, algorithms and applications of extracting such semantic relationships from large amount of semantic data. Example topics include:
- Theories to ground associations and patterns with social, socioeconomic, biological semantics
- Representation (e.g. language extensions) to express meaningful relationships and patterns
- Algorithms to efficiently compute and mine semantic associations and patterns
- Techniques for filtering, ranking and/or visualization of semantic associations and patterns
- Application of semantic associations and patterns in a domain with significant social or society impact
IJSWIS is included in most major indices including CSI, with Thomson Scientific impact factor 2.345. We seek high quality manuscripts suitable for an archival journal based on original research. If the manuscript is based on a prior workshop or conference submission, submissions should reflect significant novel contribution/extension in conceptual terms and/or scale of implementation and evaluation (authors are highly encouraged to clarify new contributions in a cover letter or within the submission).
Important Dates:
Submission of full papers: Feb 29, 2012
Notification of paper acceptance: May 30, 2012
Publication target: 3Q 2012Details of the journal, manuscript preparation, and recent articles are available on the website:
http://www.igi-global.com/bookstore/titledetails.aspx?titleid=1092 or http://ijswis.orgGuest Editors: Prof. Kemafor Anyanwu, North Carolina State University
Prof. Ying Ding, Indiana University
Prof. Jie Tang, Tsinghua University
Prof. Philip Yu, University of Illinois, Chicago
Contact Guest Editor: Ying Ding <dingying@indiana.edu>
STIR 2012 : ICDE 2012 Workshop on Spatio Temporal data Integration and Retrieval
Dates:
When Apr 1, 2012 – Apr 1, 2012
Where Washington DC, USA
Submission Deadline Oct 21, 2011
From the notice:
International Workshop on Spatio Temporal data Integration and Retrieval (STIR2012) in conjunction with ICDE 2012
April 1, 2012, Washington DC, USA
http://research.ihost.com/stir12/index.html
As the world?s population increases and it puts increasing demands on the planet?s limited resources due to shifting life-styles, we not only need to monitor how we consume resources but also optimize resource usage. Some examples of the planet?s limited resources are water, energy, land, food and air. Today, significant challenges exist for reducing usage of these resources, while maintaining quality of life. The challenges range from understanding regionally varied impacts of global environmental change, through tracking diffusion of avian flu and responding to natural disasters, to adapting business practice to dynamically changing resources, markets and geopolitical situations. For these and many other challenges reference to location – and time – is the glue that connects disparate data sources. Furthermore, most of the systems and solutions that will be built to solve the above challenges are going to be heavily depend on structured data (generated by sensors and sensor based applications) which will be streaming in real-time, come in large volumes and will have spatial and temporal aspects to them.
This workshop is focused on making the research in information integration and retrieval more relevant to the challenges in systems with significant spatial and temporal components.
Sounds like they are playing our song!
Big Learning 2011 : Big Learning: Algorithms, Systems, and Tools for Learning at Scale
Dates
When Dec 16, 2011 – Dec 17, 2011
Where Sierra Nevada, Spain
Submission Deadline Sep 30, 2011
Notification Due Oct 21, 2011
Final Version Due Nov 11, 2011
From the call:
Big Learning: Algorithms, Systems, and Tools for Learning at Scale
NIPS 2011 Workshop (http://www.biglearn.org)
Submissions are solicited for a two day workshop December 16-17 in Sierra Nevada, Spain.
This workshop will address tools, algorithms, systems, hardware, and real-world problem domains related to large-scale machine learning (“Big Learning”). The Big Learning setting has attracted intense interest with active research spanning diverse fields including machine learning, databases, parallel and distributed systems, parallel architectures, and programming languages and abstractions. This workshop will bring together experts across these diverse communities to discuss recent progress, share tools and software, identify pressing new challenges, and to exchange new ideas. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
It looks like an interesting conference but “big” doesn’t add anything.
To head off future “big” clutter, I hereby claim copyright, trademark, etc., protection under various galactic and inter-galactic treaties and laws for:
Good site to follow for data mining and analytics resources, ranges from conference announcements, data mining sites and forums, software, to crossword puzzles.
See: Analytics Crossword Puzzle 2.
I like that, it has a timer. One that starts automatically.
Maybe topic maps needs a cross-word puzzle or two. Pointers? Suggestions for content/clues?
International Bibliographic Standards, Linked Data, and the Impact on Library Cataloging
Webinar
August 24, 2011
1:00 – 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time)
From the notice:
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is responsible for the development and maintenance of International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD), UNIMARC, and the “Functional Requirements” family for bibliographic records (FRBR), authority data (FRAD), and subject authority data (FRSAD). ISBD underpins the MARC family of formats used by libraries world-wide for many millions of catalog records, while FRBR is a relatively new model optimized for users and the digital environment. These metadata models, schemas, and content rules are now being expressed in the Resource Description Framework language for use in the Semantic Web.
This webinar provides a general update on the work being undertaken. It describes the development of an Application Profile for ISBD to specify the sequence, repeatability, and mandatory status of its elements. It discusses issues involved in deriving linked data from legacy catalogue records based on monolithic and multi-part schemas following ISBD and FRBR, such as the duplication which arises from copy cataloging and FRBRization. The webinar provides practical examples of deriving high-quality linked data from the vast numbers of records created by libraries, and demonstrates how a shift of focus from records to linked-data triples can provide more efficient and effective user-centered resource discovery services.
This not a free webinar but registration means if you miss it on the 24th of August, you will still have access to the recorded proceedings for one year.
4th International SWAT4LS Workshop Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences
December 9th, 2011 London, UK
Important Dates:
From the Call for Papers:
Since 2008, SWAT4LS is a workshop that has provided a platform for the presentation and discussion of the benefits and limits of applying web-based information systems and semantic technologies in Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology.
Growing steadily each year as Semantic Web applications become more widespread, SWAT4LS has been in Edinburgh 2008, Amsterdam 2009, and Berlin 2010, with London planned for 2011. The last edition of SWAT4LS was held in Berlin, on December 10th, 2010. It was preceded by two days of tutorials and other associated events.
We are confident that the next edition of SWAT4LS will provide the same open and stimulating environment that brought together researchers, both developers and users, from the various fields of Biology, Bioinformatics and Computer Science, to discuss goals, current limits and real experiences in the use of Semantic Web technologies in Life Sciences.
Proceedings from earlier workshops:
1st International SWAT4LS Workshop (Edinburgh, 2008)
2nd International SWAT4LS Workshop (Amsterdam, 2009) Be aware that selected papers were revised and extended to appear in the Journal of Biomedical Semantics, Volume 2, Supplement 1.
3rd International SWAT4LS Workshop (Berlin, 2010)
Take it as fair warning, there is a lot of interesting material here. Come prepared to stay a while.
NoSQL NOW! August 23-25 San Jose
OK, it’s August in San Jose, CA and not at the DoubleTree Hotel (the usual Unicode conference site).
I think those are the only two negatives you can find about this conference!
Take a look at the program if you don’t want to take my word for it.
It isn’t clear if conference presentations will be posted and maintained as informal proceedings. This would be a good opportunity to start collecting that sort of thing.
Hadoop Advancing Information Management
I first saw this at Alex Popescu’s myNoSQL site and decided to explore further.
From the Ventana Research site:
Newly conducted benchmark research from Ventana Research shows organizations are recognizing that addressing big data needs requires new approaches to data and information management. New processes and new technologies have begun to take hold, as have the beginnings of a set of best practices. In particular, Hadoop is emerging in fore-front as a solution for managing large-scale data. The research findings indicate that Hadoop is already being used in one third of big data environments and evaluated in nearly another fifth. The research also found that Hadoop is additive to existing technologies according to almost two thirds of research participants.
Topping the lists of benefits in Hadoop adoption are newly found capabilities – 87% of organizations using Hadoop report being able to do new things with big data versus 52% of other organizations, 94% perform new types of analytics on large volumes of data, 88% analyze data at greater level of detail. These research statistics already validate the arrival of Hadoop as a key component of organization’s information management efforts. However, challenges remain with over half the organizations indicating some level of dissatisfaction with Hadoop.
Like me you probably want some more than breathless numbers and more detail. That is going to be available:
Ventana Research will detail the findings of this benchmark research in a live interactive webinar on July 28, 2011 at 10:00 AM Pacific time [1 PM Eastern] that will discuss the research findings and offer recommendations for improvement. Key research findings to be discussed will include:
- The current state of organizations’ thinking on how best to apply Big Data management techniques.
- Top patterns in the adoption of new methods and technologies
- The current state, future direction of and potential investments
- The competencies required to manage large-scale data.
- Recommendations for organizations to act on immediately.
Of course I am looking for places in the use of Hadoop where subject identity is likely to be recognized as an issue.
Slides with videos to follow!
From the website:
Keynote Presentation
- Jonathan Ellis (DataStax) – State of Cassandra, 2011 (Slides)
Cassandra Internals
- Ed Anuff – Indexing in Cassandra (Slides)
- Gary Dusbabek (RackSpace) – Cassandra Internals (Slides)
- Sylvain Lesbresne (DataStax) – Counters in Cassandra (Slides)
High-Level Cassandra Development
- Eric Evans (Rackspace) – CQL – Not just NoSQL, It’s MoSQL (Slides)
- Jake Luciani (DataStax) – Scaling Solr with Cassandra (Slides)
Lightning Talks
- Ben Coverston (DataStax) – Redesigned Compaction LevelDB (Slides)
- Joaquin Casares (DataStax) – The Auto-Clustering Brisk AMI (Slides)
- Matt Dennis (DataStax) – Cassandra Anti-Patterns (Slides)
- Mike Bulman (DataStax) – OpsCenter: Cluster Management Doesn’t Have To Be Hard (Slides)
- Stu Hood (Twitter) – Prometheus’ Patch: #674 and You (Slides)
Practical Development
- Jeremy Hanna (Dachis) – Using Pig alongside Cassandra (Slides)
- Matt Dennis (DataStax) – Data Modeling Workshop (Slides)
- Nate McCall (DataStax) – Cassandra for Java Developers (Slides)
- Yewei Zhang (DataStax) – Hive Over Brisk (Slides)
Products
- Jake Luciani (DataStax) – Introduction to Brisk (Slides)
- Kyle Roche (Isidorey) – Cloudsandra: Multi-tenant Platform Build on Brisk (Slides)
Use Cases
- Adrian Cockcroft (Netflix) – Migrating Netflix from DataCenter Oracle to Global Cassandra (Slides)
- Chris Goffinet (Twitter) – Cassandra at Twitter (Slides)
- David Strauss (Pantheon) – Highly Available DNS and Request Routing Using Apache Cassandra (Slides)
- Edward Capriolo (media6degrees) – Real World Capacity Planning: Cassandra on Blades and Big Iron (Slides)
- Eric Onnen (Urban Airship) – From 100s to 100′s of Millions (Slides)
IPSN 2012 : The 11th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks Call for Papers.
April 2012 Beijing, China (conference dates not confirmed)
Important Dates:
| Abstract deadline: | Friday, October 07, 2011 |
| Full papers due: | Friday, October 14, 2011 |
| Author notification: | Friday, January 20, 2012 |
| Camera ready due: | Friday, March 01, 2012 |
Scope:
The International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) is a leading, single-track, annual forum on research in wireless embedded sensing systems. IPSN brings together researchers from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss recent advances in both theoretical and experimental research. Its scope includes signal and image processing, information and coding theory, databases and information management, distributed algorithms, networks and protocols, wireless communications, collaborative objects and the Internet of Things, machine learning, and embedded systems design.
If you are designing a topic map for sensor network input this looks like a good conference to attend.
I haven’t had the good fortune to visit Beijing but April is reported to be a good month (Spring) to visit.
Relational Theory Workship – 17 July 2011 (tomorrow)
By way of Jack Park, an announcement from John Kineman of a workshop on relational theory.
Announcement reads:
Judith [Rosen] and I are in Hull at the ISSS annual meeting [International Society for the Systems Sciences 2011]. We will do a workshop on Relational theory and my recent synthesis (R-theory) tomorrow (Sunday) from 10:00 to 4:30 GMT [6 AM East Coast US until 12:30 PM East Coast US].
A workshop and SIG website has been established by the graces of Jeff Prideaux. At this site you can access relevant information about the workshop and related materials. In particular you will find the key papers for the workshop posted there under the “Papers” tab. The URL is: www.relationalscience.org
If we can work out the technical details there will be a livestream of the workshop and those viewing may communicate via the relational science website or the livestream chat function. The URL for the live stream, if it happens, will be: http://www.livestream.com/relationalscience
Feel free to join for part or all and/or to let others know who may want to join in remotely
Your mileage may vary.
The older I get, the more I feel that “observers” are only participants with an additional name.
DATA, GRAPHS, and COMBINATORICS in BIO-INFORMATICS, FINANCE, LINGUISTICS, and NATIONAL SECURITY
From the workshops page:
26-27 July 2011
College of Staten Island
City University of New YorkThis two-day workshop is designed to address current topics in Data Intensive Computing. Topics covered will include computational statistical, graph theoretic and combinatoric approaches in bio-informatics, financial data analytics, linguistics, and national security.
Technology is allowing researchers, government agencies, and companies to acquire huge amounts of information in the sciences and on human behavior. The challenge confronting researchers is how to discern meaningful information and relationships from this plethora of data. The workshop will focus on new algorithmic techniques and their computational implementation, including:
- How Watson won Jeopardy!
- Computational graph theory and combinatorics in bio-informatics, on Wall Street, and in National Security applications.
- The role of high performance computing, graph theory and combinatorics in data intensive computing.
Workshop speakers include noted representatives from academe, government research laboratories, and industry. A list of speakers is attached.
The workshop will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 26-27, 2011 from 8:15 AM to 4:45 PM in the Recital Hall of the Center for the Arts on the campus of the College of Staten Island, 2800 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island, New York 10314.
A continental breakfast, lunch, and refreshments will be provided each day. There is an attendance fee of $85 per person ($50 for students). Advanced registration is required.
Workshop information:
http://www.csi.cuny.edu/cunyhpc/workshops.phpRegistration page:
http://www.csi.cuny.edu/cunyhpc/registration.phpDirections page:
http://www.csi.cuny.edu/cunyhpc/directions.html
If you will be on Staten Island, July 26-27, 2011, register and attend!
If you can get to Staten Island, July 26-27, 2011, register and attend!
This looks quite exciting!
From the website:
Cloud Meets BigData
Join us for a free one-day event to learn how cloud computing is transforming IT and discover how you can accelerate the journey to your cloud.
Vendor sponsored forum but also an opportunity to get out of the office and interact with others at high bandwidth. 😉
Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST2011) Dec. 4-7, 2011, Hangzhou, China
Important Dates:
– Submissions due: August 15, 2011, 23:59 (11:59pm) Hawaii time
– Notification: September 22, 2011, 23:59 (11:59pm) Hawaii time
– Camera ready: October 3, 2011, 23:59 (11:59pm) Hawaii time
– Conference dates: December 4-7, 2011
From the call:
The Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST) is a regional federation of Semantic Web related conferences. The mission of JIST is to bring together researchers in disciplines related to the semantic technology from across the Asia-Pacific Region. JIST 2011 incorporates the Asian Semantic Web Conference 2011 (ASWC 2011) and Chinese Semantic Web Conference 2011 (CSWC 2011).
Prof. Ian Horrocks (Oxford University) scheduled to present a keynote address.
Digital Diplomatics 2011: Tools for the Digital Diplomatist (program)
From the Call for Papers:
Studying medieval documents the scholars never had a fundamental opposition on using modern technology to support their research. Nevertheless no technology since the introduction of photography had such an impact on questions and methods of diplomatics as the computer had: Digital imaging gives us cheap reproductions at high quality, so nowadays large copora of documents are to be found online. Digital imaging allows manipulations to make apparently invisible traces visible. Modern information technology gives us access to huge text corpora in which single words and phrases can be found thus helping to indicate relationsships, to retrieve parallel texts for comparision or plot geographical and temporal distributions.
The conference aims at presenting projects which working to enlarge the digitised charter corpus on the one hand and on the other hand will put a particular focus on research applying information technology on medieval and early modern charters aiming at pure diplomatic questions as well as historic or philologic research.
The organizer of the conference therefore invite proposals dealing with questions like:
- How can we improve the access to digital charter corpora?
- How can the presentation of digital charter corpora help research with them?
- Are there experiences in the application of complex information technologies (like named entity recognition, ontologies, data-mining, text-mining, automatic authorship identification, pattern analysis, optical character recognition, advanced statistics etc.) for diplomatic research?
- Have digital charter copora developed new research interests?
- Are there old research questions to be tackled by the digital technologies and digital charter corpora?
- Which well establish methods can’t be accelerated by digital technologies?
- How far the internet the has changed scholarly communication in diplomatics?
- How you shape digitization projects of charters to meet research needs?
The papers on this program address some of the areas that made me interested in topic maps.
Commercial semantic issues pale beside those of academic textual analysis and research.
A recent post from Tommie Usdin announce the following additions to the Balisage 2011 program:
and then goes on to talk about why markup geeks should be at Balisage.
I’ll make that shorter:
If you see either < or > at work or anyone talks about them, you need to be at Balisage 2011.
If you are not a markup geek, you will be one by the time you leave. Road to Damascus sort of experience. Or you will decide to move to San Francisco. Either way, what do you have to lose?
August 2-5, 2011, Montreal, Canada Time is running out!
I was reminded of Windows users who want to run Hadoop by this post:
At the #hackreduce Hadoop workshop
Has an algorithm for parsing internal links at Wikipedia.
Sounds like an interesting event.
Data sets and instructions on data sets for Hack/Reduce Big Data. Hackathon.
Includes:
Always nice to have data of interest to a user community when demonstrating topic maps.
Linked Data in Linguistics March 7 – 9, 2012, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Important Dates:
August 7, 2011: Deadline for extended abstracts (four pages plus references)
September 9, 2011: Notification of acceptance
October 23, 2011: One-page abstract for DGfS conference proceedings
December 1, 2011: Camera-ready papers for workshop proceedings (eight pages plus references)
March 7-9, 2012: Workshop
March 6-9, 2012: Conference
From the website:
The explosion of information technology has led to a substantial growth in quantity, diversity and complexity of web-accessible linguistic data. These resources become even more useful when linked. This workshop will present principles, use cases, and best practices for using the linked data paradigm to represent, exploit, store, and connect different types of linguistic data collections.Recent relevant developments include: (1) Language archives for language documentation, with audio, video, and text transcripts from hundreds of (endangered) languages (e.g. Dobes). (2) Typological databases with typological and geographical data about languages from all parts of the globe (e.g. WALS). (3) Development, distribution and application of lexical-semantic resources (LSRs) in NLP (e.g. WordNet). (4) Multi-layer annotations (e.g. ISO TC37/SC4) and semantic annotation of corpora (e.g. PropBank) by corpus linguists and computational linguists, often accompanied by the interlinking of corpora with LSRs (e.g. OntoNotes).
The general trend of providing data online is accompanied by newly developing possibilities to link linguistic data and metadata. This may include general data sources (e.g. DBpedia.org), but also repositories with specific linguistic information about languages (Multitree.org, LL-MAP, ISO 639-3), as well as about linguistic categories and phenomena (GOLD, ISOcat).
Originally noticed this from a tweet by Lutz Maicher.
An O’Reilly Online Strata Conference.
Free
July 12, 2011
16:00 – 18:30am UTC
From the website:
It’s only in the past decade that we’ve become aware of how much of our lives is recorded. From phone companies to merchants, social networks to employers, everyone’s building a record of us―except us. That’s changing. Once, recording every aspect of your life might have seemed obsessive. Now, armed with the latest smartphones and comfortable with visualizations and analytics, life-logging is no longer fringe behavior. In this Strata OLC, we’ll look at the rapidly growing field of personal analytics. We’ll discuss tool stacks for recording lives, and hear surprising stories about what happens when introspection meets technology.
O’Reilly Strata Online is a fast-paced, web-based conference series tackling the impact of a data-driven, always-on world. It combines thorough tutorials, provocative panel discussions, real-world case studies, and deep-dives into technology stacks.
This could be fun, not to mention a model for mini-conferences perhaps for topic maps.
Open Government Data 2011 wrap-up by Lutz Maicher.
From the post:
On June 16, 2011 the OGD 2011 – the first Open Data Conference in Austria – took place. Thanks to a lot of preliminary work of the Semantic Web Company the topic open (government) data is very hot in Austria, especially in Vienna and Linz. Hence 120 attendees (see the list here) for the first conference is a real success. Congrats to the organizers. And congrats to the community which made the conference to a very vital and interesting event.
If there is a Second Open Data Conference, it is a venue where topic maps should put in an appearance.
Apache Lucene EuroCon Barcelona
From the webpage:
Apache Lucene EuroCon 2011 is the largest conference for the European Apache Lucene/Solr open source search community. Now in its second year, Apache Lucene Eurocon provides an unparalleled opportunity for European search application developers, thought leaders and market makers to connect and network with their peers and get on board with the technology that’s changing the shape of search: Apache Lucene/Solr.
The conference, taking place in cosmopolitan Barcelona, features a wide range of hands-on technical sessions, spanning the breadth and depth of use cases and technical sessions — plus a complete set of technical training workshops. You will hear from the foremost experts on open source search technology, commiters and developers practiced in the art and science of search. When you’re at Apache Lucene Eurocon, you can…
Even with feel me up security measures at the airport, a trip to Barcelona would be worthwhile anytime. Add a Lucene conference to boot, and who could refuse?
Seriously take advantage of this opportunity to travel this year. Next year, a U.S. presidential election year, will see rumors of security alerts, security alerts, FBI informant sponsored terror plots and the like, which will make travel more difficult.
A materials from Lucene Revolution 2011 is now online.
I must admit that Searching The United States Code with Solr/Lucene caught my eye first. 😉
That presentation and the others are worth a close reading!
OBML 2011 – 3. Workshop of Ontologies in Biomedicine and Life Sciences
Important Dates
Submission of papers June 30, 2011
Notification of review results August 10, 2011
Deadline for revised versions September 9, 2011
Workshop October 6-7, 2011
Goals of the OBML
The series “Ontologies in Biomedicine and Life Sciences” (OBML workshop) was initiated by the workgroup for OBML of the German Society for Computer Science in 2009. The OBML aims to bring together scientists who are working in this area to exchange ideas and discuss new results, to start collaborations and to initiate new projects. The OBML workshop is held once annually and deals with all fundamental aspects of biomedical ontologies as well as additional “hot” topics.
Submissions are requested especially for the following topics:
- Ontologies and terminologies in biology, medicine, and clinical research;
- Ontologies for knowledge representation, methods of reasoning, integration and interoperability of ontologies;
- Methods and tools for the construction and management of ontologies; and
- Applications of the Semantic Web in biomedicine and the life sciences.
The focus of the OBML-2011 is Phenotype ontologies in medicine and biomedical research
“Integration” and “interoperability,” it sounds like they are singing the topic map song! 😉
GTC (GPU Technology Conference) 2012
Important Dates
GTC 2012 in San Jose, May 14-17, 2012
Session proposals has closed but posters proposals is open until June 27, 2011. Both will re-open September 27, 2011.
From the website:
GTC advances awareness of high performance computing, and connects the scientists, engineers, researchers, and developers who use GPUs to tackle enormous computational challenges.
GTC 2012 will feature the latest breakthroughs and the most amazing content in GPU-enabled computing. Spanning 4 full days of world-class education delivered by some of the greatest minds in GPU computing, GTC will showcase the dramatic impact that parallel computing is having on scientific research and commercial applications.
BTW, hundreds of hours of video is available from GTC 2010 at this website.
If you are concerned with scaling topic maps and other semantic technologies or just high performance computing in general, the 2010 recordings look like a good place to start while awaiting the 2012 conference.
2nd Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web
Collocated with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2011) in Bonn, Germany.
Important Dates
August 15th – submission deadline
September 5th – notification
September 10th – camera-ready deadline
October 23th or 24th – workshop
Abstract:
Given the substantial growth of Web users that create and update knowledge all over the world in languages other than English, multilingualism has become an issue of major interest for the Semantic Web community. This process has been accelerated due to initiatives such as the Linked Data project, which encourages not only governments and public institutes to make their data available to the public, but also private organizations in domains such as medicine, geography, music etc. These actors often publish their data sources in their respective languages, and as such, in order to make this information interoperable and accessible to members of other linguistic communities, multilingual knowledge representation, access and translation are an impending need.
Items of special focus:
The first three are classic topic map fare and the last one isn’t that much of a reach.
Detection, Representation, and Exploitation of Events in the Semantic Web (DeRiVE 2011)
Full Day Workshop in conjunction with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference 2011 23/24 October 2011, Bonn, Germany
Important Dates
Deadline for paper submission: 8 August 2011 23:59 (11:59pm) Hawaii time
Notification of Acceptance: 29 August 2011 23:59 (11:59pm) Hawaii time
Camera-ready version: 8 September 2011
Workshop: 23 or 24 October 2011
Abstract:
The goal of DeRiVE 2011 is to strengthen the participation of the semantic web community in the recent surge of research on the use of events as a key concept for representing knowledge and organizing and structuring media on the web. The workshop invites contributions to three central questions, and the goal is to formulate answers to these questions that advance and reflect the current state of understanding of events in the semantic web. Each submission will be expected to address at least one question explicitly, and, if possible, include a system demonstration. We have released an event challenge dataset for use in the preparation of contributions, with the goal of supporting a shared understanding of their impact. A prize will be awarded for the best use(s) of the dataset; but the use of other datasets will also be allowed.
See the CFP for questions papers must address.
Also note the anticipated release of a dataset:
We will release a dataset of event data. In addition to regular papers, we invite everybody to submit a Data Challenge paper describing work on this dataset. We welcome analyses, extensions, alignments or modifications of the dataset, as well as applications and demos. The best Data Challenge paper will get a prize.
The dataset consists of over 100.000 events from three sources: the music website Last.fm, and the entertainment websites upcoming.yahoo.com and eventful.com. All three are represented in the LODE schema. Next to events, they contain artists, venues and location and time information. Some links between the instances of the three datasets are provided.
Suggestions for modeling events in topic maps?
The First International Workshop on Entity-Oriented Search (EOS)
Important Dates
Submissions due: June 10, 2011
Notification of acceptance: June 25, 2011
Camera-ready submission: July 1, 2011 (provisional, awaiting confirmation)
Workshop date: July 28, 2011
From the website:
Workshop Theme
Many user information needs concern entities: people, organizations, locations, products, etc. These are better answered by returning specific objects instead of just any type of documents. Both commercial systems and the research community are displaying an increased interest in returning “objects”, “entities”, or their properties in response to a user’s query. While major search engines are capable of recognizing specific types of objects (e.g., locations, events, celebrities), true entity search still has a long way to go.
Entity retrieval is challenging as “objects” unlike documents, are not directly represented and need to be identified and recognized in the mixed space of structured and unstructured Web data. While standard document retrieval methods applied to textual representations of entities do seem to provide reasonable performance, a big open question remains how much influence the entity type should have on the ranking algorithms developed.
Avoiding repeated document searching by successive users will require identification as suggested here. Sub-document addressing and retrieval of portions of documents is another aspect to the entity issue.
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