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Call for Papers
Second International Workshop on Multisensory Data & Knowledge in conjunction with TheWebConf 2023 https://odeuropa.github.io/mdk/
Important dates: - Workshop papers submissions - 6 February, 2023 - 23:59 AOE - Notification - 6 March, 2023 - Camera Ready Submission - 20 March, 2023 - Workshop Day - 1 or 2 May, 2023
Motivations: Our senses are the gateways to our memories and emotions. However, they are under-represented in language technology and semantic web research. In this workshop, two recently awarded H2020 projects, Odeuropa and Polifonia, are teaming up to advance our understanding of how smells and music are represented in texts and structured data. The topics we want to address revolve around extracting references to smells, music, context, and visual information from text as well as relevant data describing their cultural, historical and political context, and model them in the form of interlinked knowledge graphs. This research has a strong interdisciplinary character, hence the workshop has the potential to attract researchers from diverse disciplines from both social sciences and humanities and computer science. Its potential impact is significant to many application areas including: preservation and valorisation of cultural heritage, data-driven policy making in cultural heritage, urban planning, artistic performances, applications for scholars in musicology and history, applications for museums, innovation in teaching, maintenance and exploitation of large catalogues, archives and libraries. We aim at creating a reference venue where new ideas and results can be shared and lead the way towards a technological and cultural shift in how we understand and experience our cultural heritage.
Topics of interest: The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Olfactory, musical and visual information extraction from text Olfactory, musical and visual knowledge representation Resources for olfactory, musical and visual knowledge Extraction of socio-cultural and historical context information from text Extraction of time, space, events, people and (musical, olfactory and visual) artifacts from text Knowledge graphs integrating olfactory, musical and visual knowledge Multilingual text corpora on musical and olfactory heritage Automatic and semi-automatic generation of language descriptions of sensory experience Methods and approaches to represent degrees of sensorial experiences (e.g. intensity, dissipation) Applications for teaching/training/valorisation of multisensory data and knowledge
Submission: We solicit submissions of long and short papers covering a wide range of NLP and semantic web topics dealing with the extraction and analysis of information from multisensory data. Papers presenting collaborations among researchers with different backgrounds or from different research communities are particularly welcome. All submissions must be in PDF and written in English, single-blind and formatted in the style of the ACM template and format as the main TheWebConf 2023 conference (see the instruction for authors). Workshop papers should not exceed 12 pages in length (maximum 8 pages for the main paper content + maximum 2 pages for appendixes + maximum 2 pages for references). Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to the ACM template published in the ACM guidelines, selecting the generic “sigconf” sample. The PDF files must have all non-standard fonts embedded. Workshop papers must be self-contained and in English.
The MDK 2023 proceedings will be published in the conference’s companion volume. The submission web site is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thewebconf2023iwpd (select ‘‘2nd International Workshop on Multisensory Data and Knowledge (MDK)’’ when creating a new submission).
For any questions, please feel free to contact the organisers directly, or via thewebconf2023companion@easychair.orgmailto:thewebconf2023companion@easychair.org.
Organisers: Marieke van Erp, KNAW Humanities Cluster, the Netherlands Valentina Presutti, University of Bologna, Italy Raphael Troncy, EURECOM, France Albert Meroño-Peñuela, King's College London, UK Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Enrico Daga, the Open University, UK
Programme Committee [TBC]: Elena Cabrio, INRIA, France Ilja Croijmans, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Marilena Daquino, University of Bologna, Italy Tommaso Di Noia, Politecnico di Bari, Italy Desmond Elliot, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Asifa Majid, the University of York, UK Barbara McGillivray, The Alan Turing Institute & Cambridge University, UK Stefano Menini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Dunja Mladenic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Philippe Rigaux, Conservatoire national des arts et metiers (CNAM), France Marco Rospocher, University of Verona, Italy Serra Sinem Tekiroglu, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Rachele Sprugnoli, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy Chiara Veninata, The Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, Italy Valeria Zotti, University of Bologna, Italy