Program

Monday May 13th 2013

Opening

• 13:00 - 13:15 : Workshop Introduction [slides]

Keynote speaker:

• 13:15 -14:00 : Entity Search on the Web, Peter Mika from Yahoo! Research Barcelona [slides]

• 14:00 - 14:30 : @I seek 'fb.me': Identifying Users across Multiple Online Social Networks, Paridhi Jain, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru and Anupam Joshi [paper, slides] (honorable mention - best paper runner up)

Coffee Break (30 min)

• 15:00 - 15:30 : Can we use Linked Data Semantic Annotators for the Extraction of Domain-Relevant Expressions?, Michel Gagnon, Amal Zouaq and Ludovic Jean-Louis [paper, slides]

• 15:30 - 16:00 : RESLVE: Leveraging User Interest to Improve Entity Disambiguation on Short Text, Elizabeth Murnane, Bernhard Haslhofer and Carl Lagoze [paper, slides] (best paper award)

• 16:00 - 16:30 : SEED: A Framework for Extracting Social Events from Press News, Salvatore Orlando, Francesco Pizzolon and Gabriele Tolomei [paper, slides]

Coffee Break (30 min)

• 17:00 - 17:30 : Classifying YouTube channels: A Practical System, Vincent Simonet [paper, slides]

Challenge Session

•  17:30 - 18:30
  • Challenge Intro [slides]
  • How Globo.com is using Linked Data, Ícaro Medeiros from Globo.com [slides] 
  • Overview of challenge submissions
    • Corporations run the world. Money runs corporations. We run the money. By Paula Schmitt.
    • Multilingual Semantic Linking for Video Streams: Making “Ideas Worth Sharing” More Accessible. By Daan Odijk, Edgar Meij, David Graus and Tom Kenter. [demo]
    • Semantic MedWeb: Linking eHealth Entities. By Timothy W. Cook, Joyce R. M. Nogueira, Luciana T. Cavalini. [video]
    • Cuidando do Meu Bairro Project (Taking care of my neighborhood). Gisele Craveiro, Fernando Moraes, Jorge Machado and Andrés Martano. [demo]
    • Bon Appetit, Toronto! William Cheung [demo]
    • Using mobile devices and web services to find Where to Publish. [android app]
    • Reporting a Crime. Ahmed Ktob. [abstract]
    • Open Data and Smart Cities: “What a wonderful world!” [paper]

Data in Web Search Session

• 18:30 - 18:50 : Course-specific search engines: Semi-automated methods for identifying high quality topic-specific corpora, Neel Guha and Matt Wytock [paper, slides]

• 18:50 - 19:10 : Visually Extracting Data Records from the Deep Web, Neil Anderson and Jun Hong [paper, slides]

• 19:10 - 19:30 : Search Result Presentation: Supporting Post-Search Navigation by Integration of Taxonomy Data,  Matthias Keller, Patrick Mühlschlegel and Hannes Hartenstein [paper, slides]

• 19:30 - 19:50 : Using SKOS vocabularies for improving Web Search, Bernhard Haslhofer, Flavio Martins and Joao Magalhaes [paper, slides]

Closing remarks

Best paper award:

• RESLVE: Leveraging User Interest to Improve Entity Disambiguation on Short Text, Elizabeth Murnane, Bernhard Haslhofer and Carl Lagoze [paper, slides]

Honorable mention

• Identifying Users across Multiple Online Social Networks, Paridhi Jain, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru and Anupam Joshi [paper, slides]

Challenge winners:

• Multilingual Semantic Linking for Video Streams: Making “Ideas Worth Sharing” More Accessible. Daan Odijk, Edgar Meij, David Graus and Tom Kenter http://semanticize.uva.nl/ted
• Pharmer: Semantic Authoring of Medical Prescriptions, Ali Khalili and Bita Sedaghati http://bitili.com/pharmer