CLEOPATRA 2020: The 1st International Workshop on Cross-lingual Event-centric Open Analytics Heraklion Heraklion, Greece, May 31-June 1, 2020 |
Conference website | http://cleopatra-workshop.l3s.uni-hannover.de |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cleopatra2020 |
Abstract registration deadline | February 28, 2020 |
Submission deadline | February 28, 2020 |
The modern society faces an unprecedented number of events that impact countries, communities and economies around the globe, across language, country and community borders. Recent examples include sudden or unexpected events such as terrorist attacks, political shake-ups such as Brexit as well as longer ongoing and evolving topics such as the migration crisis in Europe that regularly spawn events of global importance affecting local communities. These developments result in a vast amount of event-centric, multilingual information available from heterogeneously sources on the Web, in the Web of Data, within Knowledge Graphs, in social media, inside Web archives and in the news sources. Such event-centric information differs across sources, languages and communities, potentially reflecting community-specific aspects, opinions, sentiments and bias.
The general theme of the workshop – event-centric multilingual analytics – represents an interdisciplinary challenge for analysing vast amounts of event-centric textual and visual information in multiple languages across different communities. To this end, CLEOPATRA is the only forum which brings together researchers from a variety of strongly related areas dealing with understanding cross-cultural and cross-lingual information propagation, cross-lingual news reporting with bias as well as extraction and alignment of event-centric information.
The goal of the interdisciplinary CLEOPATRA workshop is bringing together researchers and practitioners from the fields of Semantic Web, the Web, NLP, IR, Human Computation, Visual Analytics and Digital Humanities to discuss and evaluate methods and solutions for effective and efficient analytics of event-centric multilingual information spread across heterogeneous sources to deliver analytical results in the way meaningful to the users, helping the users to cross the language barrier and better understand event representations in other languages and their context.
We are interested in approaches for extracting, validating, contextualizing and interlinking of event-related information. We aim to discuss technologies addressing the use of knowledge graphs in conjunction with NLP methods and visual analytics aiming to analyse event-centric information in multiple languages as well as developing novel methods for user interaction with multilingual information. We want to facilitate a discussion around how to facilitate event-centric cross-lingual analytics and cross-cultural studies.
Workshop topics and themes: CLEOPATRA’2020 will gather novel works from the fields of Semantic Web, NLP, Information Retrieval, Visual Analytics and Human Computation in particular in the context of processing of multilingual event-centric data, knowledge graph population and applications in the field of Digital Humanities and Web Science. CLEOPATRA’2020 will equally consider both novel scientific methods and techniques for extraction and enrichment of multilingual data as well as the application perspective, such as the innovative use of tools and methods for providing rich interaction with extracted semantic information. We will seek application-oriented, as well as more theoretical papers and position papers.
The topics of interest of CLEOPATRA’2020 include the aspects related to processing multilingual event-centric information along the entire processing pipeline, starting with information extraction, through enrichment and user interaction to event analytics:
- Event extraction, co-reference and linking
- Relation extraction and linking
- NLP methods and tools for low-resource languages
- Sentiment analysis
- Fact verification, especially in connection with events
- Knowledge graph population
- Event representation in knowledge graphs
- Vocabularies for events
- Image-text relations for event analysis
- Event-centric Question Answering
- User interaction with multilingual data
- Human computation methods for multilingual data
- Propagation of event-centric information
- Language-specific bias
- Use of knowledge graphs in event analytics
- Use of knowledge graphs in cross-lingual and cross-cultural analytics
- Visualization techniques for event analysis
- Case studies for cross-lingual / cross-cultural event-centric analytics
Important Dates
- Workshop paper submissions due: February 28, 2020
- Workshop paper notifications due: March 27, 2020
- Camera-ready versions due: April 10, 2020
- Publication of workshop proceedings: May 2020
- Cleopatra Workshop Day: May 31 or June 1 2020
Submission Guidelines
We welcome the following types of contributions.
- Short (up to 6 pages) and full (up to 15 pages) research papers
- Poster abstracts and system demonstrations should not exceed 4 pages
All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS proceedings style. Each submission will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the PC. Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop.
Submit your contributions electronically in PDF format via the Easychair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cleopatra2020
Committees
Organizing Committee
- Elena Demidova (L3S Research Center, Germany)
- Sherzod Hakimov (TIB, Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Germany)
- Jane Winters (School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK)
- Marko Tadić (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Croatia)
Programme committee
- Ralph Ewerth, TIB, Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology
- Marko Grobelnik, Jožef Stefan Institute
- Simon Gottschalk, L3S Research Center
- Nikola Tulechki, Ontotext AD
- Daniel Gomes, Portuguese Web Archive
- Eric Müller-Budack, TIB, Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology
- Philipp Tiedt, VICO Research & Consulting GmbH
- Christian Dirschl, Wolters Kluwer Deutschland
- Basil Ell, University of Oslo
- Eddy Maddalena, Southampton University
Publication
The complete set of papers will be published with the CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org), listed by the DBLP.
Venue
The workshop will be co-located with ESWC 2020 in Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to cleopatra2020 (-at sign-) easychair.org