Call for papers
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[edit] Overview
Since its inception less than seven years ago, Wikipedia has become one of the largest and fastest growing online sources of encyclopedic knowledge. One of the reasons why Wikipedia is appealing to contributors and users alike is the richness of its embedded structural information: articles are hyperlinked to each other and connected to categories from an ever expanding taxonomy; pervasive language phenomena such as synonymy and polysemy are addressed through redirection and disambiguation pages; entities of the same type are described in a consistent format using infoboxes; related articles are grouped together in series templates.
As a large-scale repository of structured knowledge, Wikipedia has become a valuable resource for a diverse set of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. Major conferences in natural language processing and machine learning have recently witnessed a significant number of approaches that use Wikipedia for tasks ranging from text categorization and clustering to word sense disambiguation, information retrieval, information extraction and question answering. On the other hand, Wikipedia can greatly benefit from numerous algorithms and representation models developed during decades of AI research, as illustrated recently in tasks such as estimating the reliability of authors' contributions, automatic linking of articles, or intelligent matching of Wikipedia tasks with potential contributors.
The goal of the workshop is to foster the research and dissemination of ideas on the mutually beneficial interaction between Wikipedia and AI. The workshop is intended to be highly interdisciplinary. We encourage participation of researchers working on Wikipedia from different perspectives, including (but not limited to) machine learning, computational linguistics, information retrieval, information extraction, question answering, knowledge representation, and others. We also encourage participation of researchers from other areas who might benefit from the use of a large body of machine-readable knowledge.
[edit] Topics
We invite submissions of papers addressing the following or related topics:
- Using Wikipedia as a source of training data for AI tasks (both supervised an unsupervised)
- Automatic methods for improving the quality of Wikipedia pages
- Integrating Wikipedia with existing ontologies (e.g. WordNet, CYC, ODP)
- Extracting annotated data from Wikipedia
- Enriching Wikipedia with new types of structural information
- Wikipedia and the Semantic Web / Web 2.0
- Automatic extraction and use of cross-lingual information from Wikipedia
- Computerized use of satellite projects such as Wiktionary, Wikibooks or Wikispecies
[edit] Workshop Format
The day long workshop will consist of presentations, demos showcasing work presented in the research papers, and a panel session. The workshop will also feature an invited talk by Dr. Michael Witbrock, Vice President of Research at Cycorp.
[edit] Submission info
We invite submissions of regular full papers (up to 6 pages), short papers reporting on late-breaking results (up to 3 pages), and descriptions of system demonstrations (up to 1 page) using the AAAI style. Submissions that have been accepted for publication elsewhere or are under review for another conference must clearly state so on the front page of the paper.
- Please anonymize your submission to make it suitable for double-blind review !
- Please submit your paper(s) through the following EasyChair site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wikiai08
[edit] Important dates
| Deadline for long papers submission | | |
| Deadline for short papers and demos | | |
| Notification of acceptance | | |
| Camera-ready papers due at AAAI | | |
| Workshop date | Sunday, July 13, 2008 |
[edit] Organizing committee
- Razvan Bunescu, Ohio University (bunescu AT ohio.edu)
- Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Yahoo! Research (gabr AT yahoo-inc.com)
- Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas (rada AT cs.unt.edu)
[edit] Program committee
- Eugene Agichtein, Emory University
- Einat Amitay, IBM Research, Israel
- Mikhail Bilenko, Microsoft Research
- Chris Brew, Ohio State University
- Timothy Chklovski, Structured Commons
- Massimiliano Ciaramita, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
- Andras Csomai, University of North Texas
- Silviu Cucerzan, Microsoft Research
- Ido Dagan, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
- Ravi Kumar, Yahoo! Research
- Oren Kurland, Technion, Israel
- Lillian Lee, Cornell University
- Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University
- Daniel Marcu, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
- Shaul Markovitch, Technion, Israel
- Raymond Mooney, University of Texas at Austin
- Vivi Nastase, EML Research, Germany
- Bo Pang, Yahoo! Research
- Marius Pasca, Google
- Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth
- Simone Paolo Ponzetto, EML Research, Germany
- Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan
- Dan Roth, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Peter Turney, National Research Council, Canada