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<br class="kix-line-break">===============================================<br class="kix-line-break">2nd International Workshop on Web of Linked Entities (WoLE2013)<br class="kix-line-break"></span><a href="http://wole2013.eurecom.fr/"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://wole2013.eurecom.fr</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="kix-line-break">
<br class="kix-line-break">In conjunction with the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference<br class="kix-line-break">(WWW2013), Rio de Janeiro, 13 May 2013<br class="kix-line-break">===============================================<br class="kix-line-break">
<br class="kix-line-break">The explosive growth in the amount of data created and shared on the “Web of Data” is now firmly established. However, the majority of the available Web content is still unstructured or semi-structured. As a general trend, unstructured data seems to be growing faster than structured data. According to a 2011 IDC study, unstructured data will account for 90 percent of all data created in the next decade. As the main goal of the Web of Data is to stimulate the emergence of new dedicated applications giving the machines ability to process information, there is a strong need to extract as far as possible structured data from unstructured content available on the web. Furthermore, structured data sources provide entity to entity interconnections, resulting in a Web of Linked Entities spanning structured and unstructured data. According to this, there is also a strong emergent need to study how to associate non structured content (like textual documents) and structured content (like RDF triples) with information retrieval, extraction, integration and exploration existing techniques. The WoLE workshop series envisions a Web of Linked Entities (WoLE), which transparently connects the World Wide Web (WWW) and the Giant Global Graph (GGG) using methods from Information Retrieval (IR), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Database Systems (DB) research communities. The previous edition of WoLE workshop have shown that different methods involved in specific research tasks of those communities (like co-reference detection in NLP or information extraction in IR) can provide different ways to improve the web of Linked Entities content and its relation with unstructured documents. According to this, the primary goal of WoLE is to confront propositions from IR, NLP and DB research communities describing how their specific methods can improve quality of the Web data, structure its documents and help to explore its content.</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="kix-line-break">OBJECTIVES AND TOPICS (but are not limited to):<br class="kix-line-break">* Text and web mining</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Pattern and semantic analysis of natural language, reading the web, learning by reading</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Large-scale information extraction</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Usage mining</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Entity resolution and automatic discovery of entities</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Frequent pattern analysis of entities and/or relationships</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Entity linking, named entity disambiguation, cross-document co-reference resolution</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Ontology representation of natural language text</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Analysis of ontology models for natural language text</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Learning and refinement of ontologies</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Natural language taxonomies modeled to Semantic Web ontologies</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Disambiguation with the support of knowledge bases</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Multilingual information extraction</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Use cases of entity recognition for Linked Data applications</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Relationship extraction, slot filling</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Impact of entity linking on information retrieval, semantic search, entity oriented search</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Semantic relatedness and similarity using entities and relations</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION:<br class="kix-line-break">
We invite submissions of full papers (max. 8 pages) and short papers (max. 4 pages). All submissions will be reviewed by at least three program committee members, and will be assessed based on their novelty, technical quality, potential impact, and clarity of writing. </span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The workshop proceedings will be published through the ACM Digital Library. Please, submit in PDF format to: </span><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wole2013"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wole2013</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Submissions must: </span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- be written in English;</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses;</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- use the ACM SIG Proceedings template with the font size no smaller than 9pt (<a href="http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates">http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates</a>);</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform);</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- be formatted for the US Letter size;</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">It is authors’ responsibility to ensure that their submission adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines will be rejected without review.</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="kix-line-break">IMPORTANT DATES:<br class="kix-line-break">* February 18th 2013, 23:59 Hawaii Time: abstract submissions<br class="kix-line-break">
* February 25th 2013, 23:59 Hawaii Time: paper submissions</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* March 13th 2013, 23:59 Hawaii Time: paper notifications</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* March 27th 2013, 23:59 Hawaii Time: camera-ready paper</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* May 13th 2013 : WoLE2013 workshop day</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="kix-line-break">WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS:<br class="kix-line-break">Pablo N. Mendes, OKFN, Germany;</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Giuseppe Rizzo, EURECOM, France;<br class="kix-line-break">
Eric Charton, CRIM, Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montréal, Canada.</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="kix-line-break">PROGRAMME COMMITTEE</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Alan Akbik (Technische Universität Berlin)</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Krisztian Balog (Norwegian University of Science and Tech., Norway)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Charalampos Bratsas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Razvan Bunescu (University of Ohio)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Roi Blanco (Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain)</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Frédéric Béchet (Aix Marseille Université - LIF)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Elena Cabrio (INRIA)</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, Korea)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Philipp Cimiano (University of Bielefeld )</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Philippe Cudré-Mauroux (Fribourg University)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Eric De La Clergerie (INRIA)</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Paolo Ferragina (University of Pisa)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Frederico Freitas (CIn, UFPE, Brazil)</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Michel Gagnon (École Polytechnique de Montreal)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Mark Greenwood (University of Sheffield)</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Daniel Hladky (Ontos AG)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Jin-Dong Kim (Database Center for Life Science, Japan)</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Alexander Kotov (Emory University)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Ulf Leser (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Gerard DeMelo (UC Berkeley)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Ariel Fuxman (Microsoft Research, USA)</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Xianpei Han (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Gerhard Heyer (University of Leipzig)</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Guy Lapalme (RALI-DIRO, Université de Montréal)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Yunjia Li (University of Southampton)</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Philippe Langlais (Université de Montréal)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Edgar Meij (ISLA, University of Amsterdam)</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Marie-Jean Meurs (Concordia University, Canada)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Rada Mihalcea (University of North Texas)</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Meena Nagarajan (IBM Research Almaden)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Ajay Nagesh (IIT Bombay)</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Wolfgang Nejdl (L3S Research Center)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Axel-C. Ngonga Ngomo (University of Leipzig, Germany)</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Pierre Nugues (Lund University)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Simone Ponzetto (Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Jeff Pound (University of Waterloo)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Harald Sack (Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Universität Potsdam)</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Felix Sasaki (DFKI, Germany)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Sebastian Schaffert (Salzburg Research)</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Sean Siqueira (UNIRIO, Brazil)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Damires Souza (IFPB, Brazil)</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Veselin Stoyanov (Johns Hopkins University)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Vojtěch Svátek (University of Economics, Prague)</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Christopher Thomas (UMIACS Center, Univ. of Maryland, College Park)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan (Wright State University)</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Nicolas Torzec (Yahoo! Labs, USA)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Marieke van Erp (VU University)</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Renata Vieira (PUC-RS, Brazil)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Renata Wasserman (USP, Brazil)</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Gerhard Weikum (Max-Planck Institute for Informatics)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* René Witte (Concordia University)</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Feiyu Xu (DFKI LT, Germany)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="kix-line-break">For further questions please contact the organizers via <a href="mailto:wole2013@easychair.org">wole2013@easychair.org</a>.</span></b></div>