Call for Papers
Call for Contributions to the Semantic and knowledge graph advances for journalism Workshop at CIKM 2020
Submit by: July 24, 2020 (Extended deadline: August 7, 2020)
Workshop: October 19, 2020
Aim & scope
The aims of the workshop to attract papers on the development in the use of KGs in journalism and also to discuss the main challenges to the adaptation of this technology. Moreover, the workshop aims to cover both technological and scientific aspects related to KGs as well as practical deployment and commercial exploitation. To this purpose, the workshop welcomes papers on different aspects of the use of KGs in journalism, for instance, journalism KGs generation, enrichment, and evaluation; ii) ontologies & linked open data for journalism; iii) techniques and applications of KGs; iv) and mining journalism KGs.
Topics of interest
Workshop topics, includes but not limited to:
- Knowledge Graph Generation, Enrichment, and Evaluation for journalism
- Information extraction; open information extraction, named entity extraction; ontology construction
- Entity resolution, relation extraction, information integration
- Data transformation to Knowledge Graph
- Data streams, online/on-the-fly adaptation of journalism knowledge
- Knowledge Graph expansion and enrichment
- Quality measurement of journalism Knowledge Graphs
- Knowledge Graph embeddings
- Tools for Knowledge Graph generation
- Architectures for Knowledge Graph generation systems
- Benchmark and Evaluation of KG.
- Ontologies & linked open data for journalism
- Ontology creation, extraction, and evolution
- Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment
- Ontology design patterns for journalism
- Linked-open-data for journalism for journalism
- Quality, provenance, privacy and trustworthiness of Linked Data generation
- Techniques and applications of Knowledge Graphs for journalism
- Question-answering using KBs
- Conversational journalism systems (e.g. chatbots, voice assistants)
- Journalism recommender systems
- Intelligent newsrooms
- Knowledge discovery and data mining on journalism knowledge graphs
- Reasoning strategies (e.g. context, temporal, spatial)
- Using KG for fact-checking and fake news detection
- Trend prediction based on Knowledge Graphs
- Knowledge Graph generation and publishing of streaming data at run-time
- Mining journalism Knowledge graphs
- Dynamic discovery and retrieval of data and relationships
- KGs visualisation
- KGs query systems and methods
- Knowledge inference
- Negative results and in-use/applied descriptions
Submission guidelines
We invite three types of submissions, including original research paper Full research papers (6-8 pages), Position/vision papers (2-4 pages), Lightning talks (1 page abstract). Submissions must be in PDF format, written in English, and formatted according to the cikm 2020 conference submissions formatting guidelines. All papers will be peer reviewed and assessed based on their novelty, technical quality, potential impact, clarity, and reproducibility. All the papers are required to be submitted via EasyChair system at EasyChair. In light of COVID-19, we will follow cikm policy for attendance and presentation (face-to-face, virtual or hybrid).
Invited speakers
TBA
Important dates
- Paper deadline: July 24, 2020 (Extended deadline: August 7, 2020)
- Notification:September 14, 2020 (Extended)
- Camera-ready due: September 21, 2020 (Extended)
- Workshop: October 19, 2020
Contact
All questions about submissions can be emailed to tareq.al-moslmi@uib.no