Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

January 11, 2011

12th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2011)

Filed under: Conferences,Information Integration,Information Reuse — Patrick Durusau @ 7:02 pm

12th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2011)

From the announcement:

Given the emerging global Information-centric IT landscape that has tremendous social and economic implications, effectively processing and integrating humongous volumes of information from diverse sources to enable effective decision making and knowledge generation have become one of the most significant challenges of current times. Information Reuse and Integration (IRI) seeks to maximize the reuse of information by creating simple, rich, and reusable knowledge representations and consequently explores strategies for integrating this knowledge into systems and applications. IRI plays a pivotal role in the capture, representation, maintenance, integration, validation, and extrapolation of information; and applies both information and knowledge for enhancing decision-making in various application domains.

This conference explores three major tracks: information reuse, information integration, and reusable systems. Information explores theory and practice of optimizing representation; information integration focuses on innovative strategies and algorithms for applying integration approaches in novel domains; and reusable systems focus on developing and deploying models and corresponding processes that enable Information Reuse and Integration to play a pivotal role in enhancing decision-making processes in various application domains.

All three tracks depend on subject identity, whether explicitly recognized or not. Would be nice to have topic map representatives at the conference.

Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline February 15, 2011

Notification of acceptance April 15, 2011

Camera-ready paper due May 1, 2011

Presenting author registration due May 1, 2011

Advance (discount) registration for general public and other co-author June 30, 2011

Hotel reservation (special discount rate) closing date July 15, 2011

Conference events August 3-5, 2011

Just picking at random from prior proceedings, I noticed:

Inconsistency: the good, the bad, and the ugly by Du Zhang from the 9th annual meeting.

Definitely a topic map sort of conference.

International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries

Filed under: Conferences,Library,Library software,Topic Maps — Patrick Durusau @ 6:40 am

International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries – Call for papers in four general areas:

Foundations: Technology and Methodologies

  • Digital libraries: architectures and infrastructures
  • Metadata standards and protocols in digital library systems
  • Interoperability in digital libraries, data and information integration
  • Distributed and collaborative information spaces
  • Systems, algorithms, and models for digital preservation
  • Personalization in digital libraries
  • Information access: retrieval and browsing
  • Information organization
  • Information visualization
  • Multimedia information management and retrieval
  • Multilinguality in digital libraries
  • Knowledge organization and ontologies in digital libraries

Digital Humanities

  • Digital libraries in cultural heritage
  • Computational linguistics: text mining and retrieval
  • Organizational aspects of digital preservation
  • Information policy and legal aspects (e.g., copyright laws)
  • Social networks and networked information
  • Human factors in networked information
  • Scholarly primitives

Research Data

  • Architectures for large-scale data management (e.g., Grids, Clouds)
  • Cyberinfrastructures: architectures, operation and evolution
  • Collaborative information environments
  • Data mining and extraction of structure from networked information
  • Scientific data curation
  • Metadata for scientific data, data provenance
  • Services and workflows for scientific data
  • Data and knowledge management in virtual organizations

Applications and User Experience

  • Multi-national digital library federations (e.g., Europeana)
  • Digital Libraries in eGovernment, elearning, eHealth, eScience, ePublishing
  • Semantic Web and Linked Data
  • User studies for and evaluation of digital library systems and applications
  • Personal information management and personal digital libraries
  • Enterprise-scale knowledge and information management
  • User behavior and modeling
  • User mobility and context awareness in information access
  • User interfaces for digital libraries

Topic maps have a contribution to make in these areas. Don’t be shy!

Important dates

Abstract submission (full and short papers): March 21, 2011

Research paper submission: March 28, 2011 (midnight HAST, GMT -10hrs)

Notification of acceptance: May 23, 2011

Submission of final version: June 6, 2011

******
PS: Note the call for demos on all the same areas. Demo submission – Due March 28, 2011; Notification of acceptance – May 23, 2011; Submission of final version – June 6, 2011

January 9, 2011

International Network for Social Network Analysis

Filed under: Conferences,Networks — Patrick Durusau @ 6:39 am

International Network for Social Network Analysis

An organization focused on social networks (no surprise there) but also the source of a number of interesting resources, such as software and data sets.

There is a workshop on NetworkX to be offered at Sunbelt 2011.

Registration for the workshop closes 24 January 2011.

The family tree topic map demonstrated by Eric Freese, years ago now, is one example of a social network.

Both the site and organization merit a close look.

December 31, 2010

RANLP 2011: Recent Advances In Natural Language Processing

Filed under: Conferences,Natural Language Processing — Patrick Durusau @ 4:27 am

RANLP 2011: Recent Advances In Natural Language Processing Augusta SPA hotel, September 10-16, 2011, Hissar, Bulgaria

Call for Papers:

We invite papers reporting on recent advances in all aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP). We encourage the representation of a broad range of areas including but not limited to the following: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology; mathematical models and complexity; text understanding and generation; multilingual NLP; machine translation, machine-aided translation, translation memory systems, translation aids and tools; corpus-based language processing; POS tagging; parsing; electronic dictionaries; knowledge acquisition; terminology; word-sense disambiguation; anaphora resolution; information retrieval; information extraction; text summarisation; term recognition; text categorisation; question answering; textual entailment; visualisation; dialogue systems; speech processing; computer-aided language learning; language resources; evaluation; and theoretical and application-oriented papers related to NLP.

Important Dates:

  • Conference paper submission notification: 11 April 2011
  • Conference paper submission deadline: 18 April 2011
  • Conference paper acceptance notification: 15 June 2011
  • Camera-ready versions of the conference papers: 20 July 2011

The proceedings from RANLP 2009 are typical for the conference.

December 28, 2010

RuleML 2011 – International Symposium on Rules – Conference

Filed under: Conferences,RuleML — Patrick Durusau @ 8:28 am

RuleML 2011 – International Symposium on Rules

From the website:

The International Symposium on Rules, RuleML, has evolved from an annual series of international workshops since 2002, international conferences in 2005 and 2006, and international symposia since 2007. In 2011 two instalments of the RuleML Symposium will take place. The first one will be held in conjunction with IJCAI 2011 (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence) in Barcelona in July, and the second will be co-located with the Business Rule Forum to be held in late October-early November in North America including Challenge Award that this year will be dedicate to Rules and Ontologies.

Important Dates

  • Abstract submission: February 25, 2011 (11:59PM, UTC-12)
  • Paper submission: March 4, 2011 (11:59PM, UTC-12)
  • Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 31, 2011
  • Camera-ready copy due: April 15, 2011
  • RuleML-2011 dates: July 19-21, 2011

Topics:

  • Rules and Automated Reasoning
  • Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning
  • Rules, Workflows and Business Processes
  • Rules, Agents and Norms
  • Rule-Based Distributed/Multi-Agent Systems
  • Rule-Based Policies, Reputation and Trust
  • Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rules
  • Fuzzy Rules and Uncertainty
  • Rule Transformation and Extraction
  • Vocabularies, Ontologies, and Business rules

December 15, 2010

Geekiest Christmas Present Ever

Filed under: Conferences — Patrick Durusau @ 5:35 am

Want the geekiest Christmas present ever?

How about a week packed with long monologues/conversations about the caves, mazes and plumbing that underlie publishing, business and government?

How about a pair of tickets (you and your “other”) to Montreal for the Balisage 2011 conference?!

Previously seen at Balisage conferences:

Michael Kay, who became editor of XSLT/XPath, so he could write another book. (Note to Michael: Lots of people write books without first writing standards.)

Steve Newcomb, beloved by all, understood by, well, that is a somewhat shorter list. (Check at the Balisage registration desk. We’ll leave a note.)

Ken Holman, who is reformatting the world’s business documents, one country at a time. (Ken will soon have a permanent booth at the UN.)

Jon Bosak, who specializes in helping businesses he isn’t working for, work better. (Wait, there’s something wrong with that. It’s true, but seems unnatural.)

Michael Sperberg-McQueen, the markup world’s answer to Paladin, “HAVE MARKUP WILL TRAVEL.” (Why a joker on his business card? You’ll have to ask him.)

Important Dates:

  • 11 March 2011 – Peer review applications due
  • 8 April 2011 – Paper submissions due
  • 8 April 2011 – Applications due for student support awards
  • 20 May 2011 – Speakers notified
  • 8 July 2011 – Final papers due
  • 1 August 2011 – Pre-conference Symposium
  • 2-5 August 2011 – Balisage: The Markup Conference

Get your tickets now before all the planes/trains fill up, all going to Montreal for the Balisage 2011 conference!

Have a geeky Christmas!

(Or holiday/non-holiday/festival of your choice. Just be sure to be in Montreal for Balisage.)

December 14, 2010

World Library and Information Congress : 77th IFLA General Conference and Assembly

Filed under: Conferences,Library,Library Associations — Patrick Durusau @ 3:30 pm

Calls for Papers: World Library and Information Congress : 77th IFLA General Conference and Assembly 13-18 August 2011, San Juan, Puerto Rico

You should visit the main site as well but I linked directly to the call for papers listing. Some 15 of 16 calls for the main conference are still open and there are calls for satellite meeting papers as well.

Proceedings from prior conferences are available (at least the two that I checked) and I will include links to those in an upcoming post.

CFP: 10th International Workshop on Web Semantics (WebS 2011),

Filed under: Conferences,Ontology — Patrick Durusau @ 8:32 am

CFP: 10th International Workshop on Web Semantics (WebS 2011)

The 10th International Workshop on Web Semantics (WebS 2011) will be held in conjunction with 22nd International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications DEXA), to be held on 29 August – 02 September 2011 in Toulouse, France.

From the email post:

The special topic “Reliability of ontologies” aims on detecting reusable ontologies and measuring the reliability of possible reusable ontology candidates. How can we measure the reliability and the usability of ontologies? Which adaptations of state-of-the-art ontology engineering methodologies are necessary to support modeling reusable ontologies? What measurements for defining and comparing ontologies can be used and how could ontology repositories use them? These are some of the open research questions to be addressed by papers dedicated to this year’s special topic.

Important dates:

  • Paper submission: March 04, 2011
  • Notification of acceptance: May 16, 2011
  • Webs 2011 Workshop: 29 August – 02 September, 2011

Questions:

  1. What role could topic maps play in answering/exploring the questions for this workshop? (3-5 pages, citations)
  2. (if after the workshop) How would a topic map solution differ from the solution offered by the paper you have chosen from those presented? (3-5 pages, citations)
  3. (after the workshop, extra credit) Create a topic map of the program committee, the presenters, the affiliations of the presenters, with a visual display of the same.*

*I don’t know what you will find, if anything. It is something I have always been curious about but obviously not curious enough to do the analysis.

December 5, 2010

International Conference on Biomedical Ontology

Filed under: Bioinformatics,Biomedical,Conferences — Patrick Durusau @ 8:17 pm

International Conference on Biomedical Ontology Buffalo, NY July 26-20, 2011

February 1st: Deadline for workshop and tutorial proposals
March 1st: Deadline for papers

Call for Paper Details

Emphasis on:

  • Techniques and technologies for collaborative ontology development
  • Reasoning with biomedical ontologies
  • Evaluation of biomedical ontologies
  • Biomedical ontology and the Semantic Web
    Ontologies for :

  • Biomedical imaging
  • Biochemistry and drug discovery
  • Biomedical investigations, experimentation, clinical trials
  • Clinical and translational research
  • Development and anatomy
  • Electronic health records
  • Evolution and phylogeny
  • Metagenomics
  • Neuroscience, psychiatry, cognition

Questions:

  1. What role (if any) do you see for topic maps in biomedical ontology development, review or use? (3-5 pages, no citations)
  2. Choose a biomedical ontology or some aspect of its use and describe how you would apply a topic map to it. (3-5 pages, citations)
  3. How would you use a topic map to assist in the creation of a biomedical ontology? (3-5 pages, citations)

November 29, 2010

TREC Entity Track: Plans for Entity 2011

Filed under: Conferences,Entity Extraction,TREC — Patrick Durusau @ 8:50 am

TREC Entity Track: Plans for Entity 2011

Plans for Entity 2011.

Known datasets of interest: ClueWeb09, DBPedia Ontology, Billion Triple Dataset

It’s not too early to get started for next year!

TREC Entity Track: Report from TREC 2010

Filed under: Conferences,Entity Extraction,TREC — Patrick Durusau @ 8:17 am

TREC Entity Track: Report from TREC 2010

A summary of the results for the TREC Entity Track (related entity finding (REF) search task on the WWW) for 2010.

November 23, 2010

ICCS’11: Conceptual Structures for Discovering Knowledge

Filed under: Conferences,Knowledge Management — Patrick Durusau @ 9:45 am

ICCS’11: Conceptual Structures for Discovering Knowledge 25th – 29th July, University of Derby, United Kingdom

From the announcement:

The 19th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2011) is the latest in a series of annual conferences that have been held in Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America since 1993. The focus of these conferences has been the representation and analysis of conceptual knowledge for research and business applications. ICCS brings together researchers in information technology, arts, humanities and social science to explore novel ways that can conceptual structures can be employed in information systems.
….

ICCS 2011’s theme is “Conceptual Structures for Discovering Knowledge”. More and more data is being captured in electronic format (particularly through the Web) and it is emerging that this data is reaching such a critical mass that it is becoming the most recorded form of the world around us. It now represents our business, economic, arts, social, and scientific endeavours to such an extent that we require smart applications that can discover the hitherto hidden knowledge that this mass of data is busily capturing. By bringing together the way computers work with the way humans think, conceptual structures align the productivity of computer processing with the ingenuity of individuals and organisations in a meaningful digital future.

Important Dates:

  • Friday 14 January 2011 – a one page abstract submitted via conference website ( www.iccs.info) NB: Abstracts should clearly state the purpose, results and conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper.
  • Friday 21 January 2011 – full paper in PDF format submitted via the conference website ( www.iccs.info)

BTW, the dates are correct, one week gap between abstracts and full papers. I checked with the conference organizers. They use the abstracts to plan allocation of papers to reviewers.

November 21, 2010

Text Analysis Conference (TAC)

Filed under: Conferences,Knowledge Base Population,Summarization,Textual Entailment — Patrick Durusau @ 11:01 am

Text Analysis Conference (TAC)

From the website:

The Text Analysis Conference (TAC) is a series of evaluation workshops organized to encourage research in Natural Language Processing and related applications, by providing a large test collection, common evaluation procedures, and a forum for organizations to share their results. TAC comprises sets of tasks known as “tracks,” each of which focuses on a particular subproblem of NLP. TAC tracks focus on end-user tasks, but also include component evaluations situated within the context of end-user tasks.

  • Knowledge Base Population

    The goal of the Knowledge Base Population track is to develop systems that can augment an existing knowledge representation (based on Wikipedia infoboxes) with information about entities that is discovered from a collection of documents.

  • Recognizing Textual Entailment

    The goal of the RTE Track is to develop systems that recognize when one piece of text entails another.

  • Summarization

    The goal of the Summarization Track is to develop systems that produce short, coherent summaries of text.

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense.

Rumor has it that one intelligence analysis group won a DoD contract without hiring an ex-general. If you get noticed by a prime contractor here, perhaps you won’t have to either. The primes have lots of ex-generals/colonels, etc.

Questions:

  1. Select a paper from one of the TAC conferences. Update on the status of that research. (3-5 pages, citations)
  2. For the authors of #1, annotated bibliography of publications since the paper.
  3. How would you use the technique from #1 in the construction of a topic map? Inform your understanding, selection, data for that map, etc.? (3-5 pages, no citations)

(Yes, I stole the questions from my DUC conference posting. ;-))

DUC: Document Understanding Conferences

Filed under: Conferences,Data Source,Summarization — Patrick Durusau @ 8:19 am

DUC: Document Understanding Conferences

From the website:

There is currently much interest and activity aimed at building powerful multi-purpose information systems. The agencies involved include DARPA, ARDA and NIST. Their programmes, for example DARPA’s TIDES (Translingual Information Detection Extraction and Summarization) programme, ARDA’s Advanced Question & Answering Program and NIST’s TREC (Text Retrieval Conferences) programme cover a range of subprogrammes. These focus on different tasks requiring their own evaluation designs.

Within TIDES and among other researchers interested in document understanding, a group grew up which has been focusing on summarization and the evaluation of summarization systems. Part of the initial evaluation for TIDES called for a workshop to be held in the fall of 2000 to explore different ways of summarizing a common set of documents. Additionally a road mapping effort was started in March of 2000 to lay plans for a long-term evaluation effort in summarization.

Data sets, papers, etc., on text summarization.

Yes, DUC has moved to Textual Analysis Conference (TAC) but what they don’t say is that the DUC data and papers for 2001 to 2007 are listed at this site only.

Something to remember when you are looking for text summarization data sets and research.

Questions:

  1. Select a paper from the 2007 DUC conference. Update on the status of that research. (3-5 pages, citations)
  2. For the authors of #1, annotated bibliography of publications since the paper in 2007.
  3. How would you use the technique from #1 in the construction of a topic map? Inform your understanding, selection, data for that map, etc.? (3-5 pages, no citations)

November 11, 2010

SAMT 2010 – Conference

Filed under: Conferences,Multimedia,Semantics — Patrick Durusau @ 5:39 am

SAMT 2010 – Semantic and Digital Media Technologies

Saarbrücken, Germany, 1-3 December 2010

From the announcement:

Large amounts of multimedia material, such as images, audio, video, and 3D/4D material, as well as computer generated 2D, 3D, and 4D content, already exist and are growing at increasing rates. While these amounts are growing, managing distribution of and access to multimedia material is becoming ever harder, both for lay and professional users.

The SAMT conference series tackles these problems by investigating the semantics and pragmatics of multimedia generation, management, and user access. The conference targets scientifically valuable research tackling the semantic gap between the low-level signal data representation of multimedia material and the high-level meaning that providers, consumers, and prosumers associate with the content.

I won’t be in Germany in early December but would appreciate a note from anyone who can attend this conference.

This is an opportunity to see a very strong program of speakers and to mingle with others working in the field. If you are in Germany on the conference dates, it would be time well spent.

November 9, 2010

ONTOLOGIES AND SOCIAL SEMANTIC WEB FOR INTELLIGENT EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS (SWEL)

Filed under: Conferences,Ontology,Semantic Web — Patrick Durusau @ 8:04 pm

ONTOLOGIES AND SOCIAL SEMANTIC WEB FOR INTELLIGENT EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS (SWEL)

Paper deadline: 22 November 2010

Announcement:

Ontologies, the Semantic Web, and the Social Semantic Web offer a new perspective on intelligent educational systems by providing intelligent access to and management of Web information and semantically richer modeling of the applications and their users. This allows for supporting more adequate and accurate representations of learners, their learning goals, learning material and contexts of its use, as well as more efficient access and navigation through learning resources. The goal is to advance intelligent educational systems, so as to achieve improved e-learning efficiency, flexibility and adaptation for single users and communities of users (learners, instructors, courseware authors, etc). This special track follows the workshop series “Ontologies and Semantic Web for e-Learning”- SWEL which was conducted successfully from 2002-2009 at different hosting conferences (http://compsci.wssu.edu/iis/swel/).

BTW, I stole this from a post by Darina Dicheva to the topicmapmail list. CFP: SWEL Special Track at FLAIRS-24 – two weeks to the deadline!

November 7, 2010

2nd International Conference on Computational & Mathematical Biomedical Engineering – Conference – 2011

Filed under: Biomedical,Conferences — Patrick Durusau @ 8:25 pm

2nd International Conference on Computational & Mathematical Biomedical Engineering

30th March – 1st April 2011

George Mason University, Washington D.C., USA

Abstract/Expression of interest: 15 November 2010
(see site for other details)

Subjects abound with imaging, analysis, management of data.

Are you ahead of the curve?

October 29, 2010

Semantic Web Summit East – November 16-17, 2010 Boston

Filed under: Conferences,Semantic Web,Semantics — Patrick Durusau @ 4:19 am

Semantic Web Summit East – November 16-17, 2010.

The range of “semantic” for this conference is broader than “Semantic Web.” Check the presentations to see what I mean.

Useful for the business case about semantics, contacts and semantic success stories.

BTW, June 5-9 is the Semantic Web Summit West, San Francisco.

October 28, 2010

19th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

Filed under: Conferences,Information Retrieval,Knowledge Management,Software — Patrick Durusau @ 5:50 am

The front matter for 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management is a great argument for ACM membership + Digital Library.

There are 126 papers, any one of which would make for a pleasant afternoon.

I will be mining these for those particularly relevant to topic maps but your suggestions would be appreciated.

  1. What conferences do you follow?
  2. What journals do you follow?
  3. What blogs/websites do you follow?

*****
Visit the ACM main site or its membership page ACM Membership

October 20, 2010

8th Extended Semantic Web Conference: May 29 – June 2 2011 Heraklion, Greece

Filed under: Conferences,Ontology,OWL,Semantic Web,Semantics,SPARQL — Patrick Durusau @ 3:15 am

8th Extended Semantic Web Conference: May 29 – June 2 2011 Heraklion, Greece

Important Dates

See ESWC 2010 for range of content.

September 18, 2010

TREC 2010/2011

Filed under: Conferences,Heterogeneous Data,Information Retrieval,Searching,Software — Patrick Durusau @ 7:34 am

It’s too late to become a participant in TREC 2010 but everyone interested in building topic maps should be aware of this conference.

The seven tracks for this year are blog, chemical IR, entity, legal, relevance feedback, “session,” and web.

Prior TREC conferences are online, along with a host of other materials, at the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) site.

The 2011 cycle isn’t that far away so consider being a participant next year.

September 16, 2010

LISA ’10 Uncovering the Secrets of System Administration – Nov. 7-12 – San Jose

Filed under: Conferences — Patrick Durusau @ 12:43 pm

LISA ’10 Uncovering the Secrets of System Administration – Nov. 7-12 – San Jose

Attend for:

  1. Papers/Tutorials on all aspects of Unix administration
  2. Training on the latest tools
  3. Discovering how topic maps can assist sysadmins

All Usenix conference proceedings. (free)

September 15, 2010

1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium – November 11-12, 2010

Filed under: Biomedical,Conferences,Health care — Patrick Durusau @ 5:48 am

1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium – November 11-12, 2010.

Interesting presentations:

  • The Effect of Different Context Representations on Word Sense Discrimination in Biomedical Texts
  • An evaluation of feature sets and sampling techniques for de-identification of medical records
  • Federated Querying Architecture for Clinical & Translational Health IT
  • Contextualizing consumer health information searching: an analysis of questions in a social Q&A community

Will watch for the call for papers for next year. Would be nice to have a topic map paper or two on the program.

September 13, 2010

Are You Going To: FIS:2010 – Projecting Subject Identity

Filed under: Conferences,Subject Identity — Patrick Durusau @ 6:01 pm

FIS:2010 (3rd Future Internet Symposium 2010), doesn’t quite have the ring of “San Francisco” but I work with conference announcements as they come in.

Projecting subject identity for subjects in linked data (or data in general) is missing from the program.

Projecting subject identity, performing comparisons and merging on those projections will power effective use of any future Internet.

Expecting a uniform data format is on par with waiting for Esperanto to become universal. You can be self-righteous or you can be effective. I suggest effective.

If you attend FIS:2010, ask the speakers about subject identity projection.

September 6, 2010

The Sixth Australasian Ontology Workshop

Filed under: Conferences,Mapping,Ontology — Patrick Durusau @ 6:56 am

The Sixth Australasian Ontology Workshop will be held in conjunction with 23rd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Adelaide, South Australia.

Important dates:

  • Submission of papers: 24 September 2010
  • Notification of acceptance/rejection: 22 October 2010
  • Final camera ready copies: 12 November 2010
  • Workshop date: 7 December 2010

Ontologies are used in topic maps just like in other knowledge management technologies. An area of special interest for topic maps is mapping between ontologies (some of which don’t admit the existence of other ontologies, 😉 ).

August 9, 2010

TMRA – WG 3 Meeting!

Filed under: Conferences,TMQL,Topic Maps — Patrick Durusau @ 6:30 pm

JTC 1/SC 34 WG 3 (ok, Topic Maps) working group will be meeting two days before TMRA starts in Liepzig, Germany! That is 27-28 September 2010. (Location details forthcoming.)

The main focus of the meeting will be TMQL.

Make it a week in Liepzig!

July 30, 2010

TMRA 2010 Registration Is Open!

Filed under: Conferences — Patrick Durusau @ 12:34 pm

TMRA (Topic Maps Research and Applications) 2010 registration is open!

Early bird registration until August 10, 2010! (save 30 EUR!)

As a reviewer I can’t name names but the agenda is strong and practical.

Watch this space for an ISO meeting announcement in connection with TMRA!

******
If you need more reasons to attend, the Central Station has great smoked chicken and other tasty delights!

July 11, 2010

NTCIR (NII Test Collection for IR Systems) Project

Filed under: Conferences,Heterogeneous Data,Information Retrieval,Search Engines,Software — Patrick Durusau @ 7:47 am

NTCIR (NII Test Collection for IR Systems) Project focuses on information retrieval tasks in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, English and cross-lingual information retrieval.

From the project description:

For the laboratory-typed testing, we have placed emphasis on (1) information retrieval (IR) with Japanese or other Asian languages and (2) cross-lingual information retrieval. For the challenging issues, (3) shift from document retrieval to “information” retrieval and technologies to utilizing information in the documents, and (4) investigation for realistic evaluation, including evaluation methods for summarization, multigrade relevance judgments and single-numbered averageable measures for such judgments, evaluation methods suitable for retrieval and processing of particular document-genre and its usage of the user group of the genre and so on.

I know there are active topic map communities in both Japan and Korea. Perhaps this is a place to meet researchers working on issues closely similar to those in topic maps and to discuss the contribution that topic maps have to offer.

Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE)

Filed under: Conferences,Heterogeneous Data,Information Retrieval,Search Engines,Software — Patrick Durusau @ 6:44 am

Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE)  aims:

  • to encourage research in South Asian language Information Access technologies by providing reusable large-scale test collections for ILIR experiments
  • to explore new Information Retrieval / Access tasks that arise as our information needs evolve, and new needs emerge
  • to provide a common evaluation infrastructure for comparing the performance of different IR systems
  • to investigate evaluation methods for Information Access techniques and methods for constructing a reusable large-scale data set for ILIR experiments.

I know there is a lot of topic map development in South Asia and this looks like a great place to meet current researchers and to interest others in topic maps.

INEX: Initiative for Evaluation of XML Retrieval

Filed under: Conferences,Heterogeneous Data,Information Retrieval,Search Engines,Software — Patrick Durusau @ 6:30 am

INEX: Initiative for Evaluation of XML Retrieval is another must-see for serious topic map researchers.

No surprise that my first stop was the iNEX Publications page with proceedings from 2002-date.

However, INEX offers an opportunity for evaluation of topic maps in the context of other solutions, providing that one or more of us participate in the initiative.

If you or your institution decided to participate, please let others in the community know. I for one would like to join such an effort.

« Newer PostsOlder Posts »

Powered by WordPress