Just a quick reminder that the deadline for USEWOD2011 is approaching fast!
=============== Second Call for Papers ===============
Workshop on: USAGE ANALYSIS AND THE WEB OF DATA (USEWOD2011)
& USEWOD DATA CHALLENGE
Workshop at WWW 2011 – Hyderabad, India, 28 or 29 March 2011
http://data.semanticweb.org/usewod/2011/
Important dates
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* Release of Dataset for the USEWOD Challenge: 21 December 2011
* Paper submission deadline: 8 February 2011
* Workshop and Prize for USEWOD Challenge: 28 or 29 March 2011
Submission
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* Long papers: up to 8 pages
* Short papers: up to 4 pages
* Data Challenge papers (see below): up to 4 pages
all in ACM format
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates)
Overview
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This workshop will investigate the synergy between semantics and semantic-web
technology on the one hand and analysis and mining of usage data on the other
hand. The two fields are a promising combination. First, semantics can be used
to enhance the analysis of usage data. Usage logs contain information that can
help to better understand users or to adapt a system to a user’s needs and
preferences. Now that more and more explicit knowledge is represented on the
Web, in the form of ontologies, folksonomies, or linked data, the question
arises how these semantics can be used to aid large scale web usage analysis
and mining. Second, usage data analysis can enhance semantic resources as well
as Semantic Web applications. Traces of users can be used to evaluate, adapt or
personalize Semantic Web applications. Since logs record real-life users, they
provide an opportunity to create gold standards for search or recommendation
tools. In addition, logs can form valuable resources from which knowledge (e.g.
in the form of ontologies or thesauri) can be extracted bottom-up.
Also, the emerging Web of Data demands a re-evaluation of existing usage mining
techniques; new ways of accessing information enabled by the Web of Data imply
the need to develop or adapt algorithms, methods, and techniques to analyze and
interpret the usage of Web data instead of Web pages. An important question at
this time is how the Web of Data is being used: how are datasets being accessed
by human users and how by machines, what kinds of queries are being performed,
and what can we learn about the usage of semantic applications?
The primary goals of this workshop are to foment a new community of researchers
from various fields sharing an interest in usage mining and semantics and to
create a roadmap for future research in this direction.
Data Challenge
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In addition to regular papers, we will release a dataset of usage data (server
log files) from two Linked Open Data sources: Semantic Web Dog Food
(data.semanticweb.org) and DBpedia (dbpedia.org). Participants are invited to
present interesting analyses, applications, alignments, etc. for these
datasets, and to submit their findings as a Data Challenge paper. The best Data
Challenge paper will get a prize.
Topics of interest
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include, but are not limited to:
• Analysis and mining of usage logs of semantic resources and applications
• Inferring semantic information from usage logs
• Methods and tools for semantic analysis of usage logs
• Representing and enriching usage logs with semantic information
• Usage-based evaluation methods and frameworks; gold standards for evaluation
of semantic web applications
• Specifics and semantics of logs for content-consumption and content-creation
• Using semantics for recommendation, personalization and adaptation
• Usage-based recommendation, personalization and adaptation of semantic web
applications
• Exploiting usage logs for semantic search
• Data sharing, privacy, and privacy-protecting policies and techniques
Workshop chairs
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* Bettina Berendt, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
* Laura Hollink, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
* Vera Hollink, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
* Markus Luczak-Roesch, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
* Knud Moeller, DERI / National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
* David Vallet, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
---> Please contact us at usewod2011-cha...@googlegroups.com
Program committee
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see the workshop web page: http://data.semanticweb.org/usewod/2011/
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Knud Möller, PhD
+353 - 91 - 495086
Smile Group: http://smile.deri.ie
Digital Enterprise Research Institute
National University of Ireland, Galway
Institiúid Taighde na Fiontraíochta Digití
Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh
