CFP: Xperience Web 2012: Reasoning from Experiences on the Web - Workshop at WWW 2012 (Lyon, France - April 17, 2012)

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                         CALL FOR PAPERS

Xperience Web 2012: Reasoning from Experiences on the Web
https://sites.google.com/site/xperienceweb2012/home

Workshop at WWW 2012
April 17th 2012
Lyon, France
http://www2012.wwwconference.org/

Paper Submission Deadline: 27th January 2012
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The XperiencWeb presents a new research challenge with core=20
focus on a user's 'experience' seeking goals and problem solving as oppos=
ed=20
to a user's 'information' seeking goals and information access.=20
Such a direction is necessary given the transformative nature of the web =
from a
document centric to an experience centric medium where unprecedented volu=
mes=20
of social media data and content repositories call for novel extraction,=20
representation, retrieval and reuse strategies for problem solving=20
and reasoning tasks. Typical examples of experiential content include How=
To=20
web services such as StackOverflow, recommendation sites such as TripAdvi=
sor and=20
trails of experiential interactions captured at sites such as Quora,=20
Yahoo answers, Twitter, Facebook and Delicious. Unique to such content=20
are descriptions of problem situations often combined with reflective=20
narratives consisting of decisions made, lessons learnt and/or opinions e=
xpressed.=20
This forms a rich source of untapped experience data - an integral=20
resource for reasoning from the wisdom of the crowds; a resource that can=
 be=20
exploited for problem-solving tasks.

Accordingly the workshop aims to provide a forum to identify research=20
opportunities and challenges in the use of web-related experience data sp=
ecifically:
- to enable better capture and representation of unstructured experientia=
l web content;
- to enable reuse of experiential content to help with problem-solving ta=
sks;
- to harness web usage experiences to improve browsing and search;=20
- to showcase applications which use experiential content in novel and in=
novative ways;
- to address How to or Why like queries as opposed to simple keyword base=
d queries; and
- to allow integration of information and interaction for reasoning tasks.

Submission Topics
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Reasoning with web content requires interdisciplinary tools to author web=
=20
experience along with novel indexing and reasoning schemes that=20
go beyond link analysis and exploit folksonomies as well as ontologies.=20
Additionally, retrieving and reusing these experiences will require combi=
nation techniques=20
to aggregate knowledge extracted from text, multimedia, user content and =
user interactions.=20
This calls for hybrid approaches that draw from, and extend, research in =
a number of=20
related areas including Case-Based Reasoning (CBR), Information Retrieval=
 (IR),=20
Information Extraction (IE), Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Proc=
essing (NLP),=20
Text Mining, Recommender Systems and adaptive user interfaces.

Topics will include, but not be limited to, addressing the following:=20

How to harness web experiential content for reasoning tasks
How to transform the web from a medium of content sharing to a medium of =
content reuse.
How to express a user's experience need
How to extract, analyse and compare people's web experiential content
How to visualise experiential content
How to discover and utilise issues of provenance
How to capture and exploit user interaction for web search and browsing
How to combine information and interaction episodes for better task execu=
tion
How to evaluate systems that interface with social/web data
How to use people/community as a resource for effective problem solving
How to deal with noise and inconsistent knowledge (e.g. argumentation ana=
lysis)
How to use conversation as a medium for queries and recommendations
How to manage and use folksonomies for problem solving tasks
How to integrate and use web resources=20
How to filter and recommend web/social content using experiential knowled=
ge
How to quantify relevance when dealing with experiential content


Format and Submission
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Workshop papers should be submitted using the=20
ACM template http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates,=20
which is the format required for the final camera-ready copy, with a maxi=
mum=20
of 10 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short (position, demonstratio=
n) papers.=20

Full papers in PDF format should be submitted using the XperienceWeb =20
EasyChair Conference Site:=20
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=3Dxperienceweb2012


Important Dates=20
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Paper submission deadline: January 27th, 2012
Acceptance notification: February 27th, 2012
Camera ready paper : March 23rd, 2012
Workshop : April 17th, 2012


Organizing Committee=20
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Sarah Jane Delany, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
Saurav Sahay, Siemens USA
Nirmalie Wiratunga, Robert Gordon University, Scotland, UK

Program Committee=20
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Klaus-Dieter Althoff, German Research Center for AI, University of Hildes=
heim, Germany
Thomas Roth-Berghofer, University of West London, UK
Ralph Bergmann, University of Trier, Germany
Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK
Derek Bridge, University College Cork, Ireland
Sutanu Chakraborti, Indian Institute of Technology Chennai, India
Amelie Cordier, University of Lyon 1, France
Conor Hayes, DERI, Ireland
David Leake, Indiana University, USA
Mirjam Minor, University of Trier, Germany
Pinar =C3=96zt=C3=BCrk, Norwegian University of Science and Technology NT=
NU, Norway
Enric Plaza, IIIA Spanish Council for Scientific Research, Spain
Ashwin Ram, PARC, USA
Juan A. Recio-Garc=C3=ADa, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Barry Smith, University College Dublin, Ireland
L Venkata Subramaniam, IBM Research, India





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