2012 Proceeding- Program Chairs:
- Jaap Kamps,
- Jussi Karlgren,
- Peter Mika,
- Vanessa Murdock
These proceedings contain the contributed papers of the Fifth Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval (ESAIR 2012), held at CIKM 2012 at Maui, Hawaii, on November 2, 2012. After successful workshops at ECIR'08 in Glasgow, WSDM'09 in Barcelona, CIKM'10 in Toronto, and CIKM'11 in Glasgow, this year's workshop will focus on how to leverage the rich context currently available, especially in a mobile search scenario, giving powerful new handles to exploit semantic annotations. And how can we fruitfully combine information retrieval and semantic web approaches, and for the first time work actively toward a unified view on exploiting semantic annotations.
ESAIR'12 will be a real workshop where researchers from these different disciplines will work together to identify natural use cases, barriers to success, and work on ways of addressing them:
Application/Use Case: What are use cases that make obvious the need for semantic annotation of information? What tasks cannot be solved by document retrieval using the traditional bag-of-words? What is keeping searchers from exploring these powerful search requests?
Annotations: What types of annotation are available? Are there crucial differences between author-, software-, user-, and machine-generated annotations? How similar or different are linked data and annotated text? What is impact of the web of data with more and more information in preprocessed form?
Rich Context: Besides personalization and geo-positional information, mobiles have a wide and growing range of locational, mechanical and even biometrical sensor data available to them. Can kick-start the query by inferring task and situational context in the mobile use case?
(Un)certainty: How should we interpret the annotations? Can expect a messy world to be captured in a clean set of meaningful categories? Or is all information fundamentally uncertain and only partly known? How can we fruitfully combine information retrieval and semantic web approaches?
These and other related questions will be discussed at this open format workshop --- the aim is to provide paths for further research to change the way we understand information access today!
The workshop will consist of three main parts:
A keynote to help us formulate the challenges.
A boaster and poster session with 10 papers selected by the program committee from 13 submissions (77%). Each paper was reviewed by at least two members of the program committee.
Break out groups on different aspects of exploiting semantic annotations, with reports being discussed in the final session.
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On the use of semantic knowledge bases for temporally-aware entity retrieval
In this paper, we propose the development of entity retrieval models that are temporally-aware. Using a classification scheme of entity-oriented information needs proposed in prior work, we discuss how the addition of temporal expressions would affect ...
Exploiting 5W annotations for opinion tracking
A system performing sentiment analysis needs some prior knowledge which can be acquired, for example, by manual annotation only or by expanding a human-annotated sentiment lexicon by automatic means. However, users are seldom interested in all ...
Why query annotations may help in providing accurate public health information
The mobility era has highlighted the importance of information providers to better understand the needs of the information seekers, even when the user interaction becomes less verbose. This is even more important in contexts like health care, where an ...
Semantics of query rewriting patterns in search logs
Examining past query reformulations of users in the logs of a search engine shows that not only query rewriting that precises the focus of a query but also queries expressing some topical shift from the original query can help users in their search ...
Design and evaluation of an ir-benchmark for sparql queries with fulltext conditions
In this paper, we describe our goals in introducing a new, annotated benchmark collection, with which we aim to bridge the gap between the fundamentally different aspects that are involved in querying both structured and unstructured data. This ...
Conceptualizing documents with Wikipedia
In this work, we will discuss how to improve Wikilabel, an approach which makes use of titles in Wikipedia pages to generate labels for documents, by retooling ideas from story link detection (SLD). A comparison of our approach against Elastic Net, a ...
Semantic annotation: what about quality?
This paper outlines an ongoing research focused on the quality analysis of semantic annotation towards better Web Services management. Considering the properties of the annotation process and result, we provide an overview of the main issues related to ...
Exploiting semantic annotations in math information retrieval
This paper describes exploitation of semantic annotations in the design and architecture of MIaS (Math Indexer and Searcher) system for mathematics retrieval. Basing on the claim that navigational and research search are `killer' applications for ...
Annotating scientific papers for mathematical formula search
In recent years, growing numbers of scientific papers have been published in XML format generating a large published base of MathML-style formulas. Although these formulas can be indexed and searched based on their XML tree structures, they generally ...
Multifaceted analysis of news articles by using semantic annotated information
We propose a novel framework that enables multifaceted analysis of news articles. This system uses semantic annotated information (e.g., person, place) as facets and can be used to construct structured queries for comparing the differences between sets ...
Cited By
- Porrini R, Palmonari M and Vizzari G (2014). Composite match autocompletion COMMA, Web Intelligence and Agent Systems, 12:1, (35-49), Online publication date: 1-Jan-2014.
- Kamps J, Karlgren J, Mika P and Murdock V Fifth workshop on exploiting semantic annotations in information retrieval Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management, (2772-2773)
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Kamps J, Karlgren J, Mika P and Murdock V (2012). Report on the fifth workshop on exploiting semantic annotations in information retrieval (ESAIR'12), ACM SIGIR Forum, 10.1145/2492189.2492196, 47:1, (38), Online publication date: 7-Jun-2012.
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