-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] [ESWC 2015] - Call for Challenges Proposal Datum: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 15:29:17 +0100 Von: Mauro Dragoni dragoni@fbk.eu An: Semantic Web semantic-web@w3.org, public-lod@w3.org, public-ontolex@w3.org, CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS@listserv.acm.org, confs-submit@hri.org, aisworld@lists.aisnet.org, planetkr@kr.org, Community@sti2.org, semanticweb@yahoogroups.com, events_calendar@acm.org, linguist@linguistlist.org, dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, dbpedia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net, public-ldp@w3.org, semantic_web_doktorandennetzwerk@lists.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de, lod2@lists.okfn.org, public-vocabs@w3.org
============================================================= ESWC 2015 - 12th Extended Semantic Web Conference 2015 Call for Semantic Web Challenges Proposals =============================================================
After last year’s success, ESWC organizers are glad to announce that the Challenges Track will be included again in the program of ESWC 2015! Three challenges were held last year [1] and allowed the conference to attract a broader audience spanning across disciplines related to Semantic Web (such as recommender systems). This year, a call for challenges is open in order to open the selection of challenges to be held at the conference.
The purpose of challenges is to showcase the maturity of the state of the art on tasks common to Semantic Web community and adjacent academic communities, in a controlled setting of rigorous evaluation.
Semantic Web Challenges are an official track of the conference, and the challenge participants, must provide, in addition to their participation to the challenge, a paper describing their approach. This paper must undergo a peer-review by experts relevant to the challenge task, and will be published in the official proceedings.
Challenge organizers are encouraged to submit proposals with the following qualities:
- More than one task. Tasks should be independent (participants can participate in one or more). All tasks should be related to Semantic Web. Semantic Web technologies should play a prominent role.
- Task descriptions correspond to the interests of a wider audience. We encourage the challenge organizers to propose at least one basic task that can be addressed by a larger audience from their community. Obtaining comments from potential future participants can also help drive more contenders to the challenge.
- Clear and rigorous definition of the tasks. For each task, you should define a deterministic and objective way to verify if the goal of the task has been achieved, and to which extent it has been achieved (if applicable). The best way is usually to provide detailed examples of input data and expected output. The examples must cover all the possible situations that can occur while performing the task, and should leave no place to ambiguity about whether in a particular case the task is done or not.
- Valid dataset (if applicable). You should find or create a dataset that will be used for the challenge. In any case, you must specify the provenance of the dataset (if it contains human annotation – how were those obtained). You must make sure you have the right to use/publish this dataset and clearly state the license for its use within the challenge. The dataset should be split in two parts – the training part, and the evaluation part. The training part contains the data, and the results that should be obtained when performing the task. As for the evaluation part, you should only publish the data, and make sure that the correct results have not previously been available to the participants. When proposing the challenge you must provide details on the dataset and on the way it is/will be created – the dataset can be made available later.
- Challenge Committee: Composed of at least 3 respected researchers with experience in the tasks of the challenge. They help evaluate the papers submitted by the participants, and also validate the evaluation procedure.
- Evaluation metrics and procedure. For each task there must be a number of objective criteria (metrics), e.g. precision and recall. The evaluation procedure and the way in which the metrics will be calculated must be clearly specified and made transparent to participants.
Selection criteria: - Relevance for the Semantic Web community - Potential number to interested participants - Rigor and transparency of the evaluation procedure - Endorsements (from researchers working on the task, from industry players interested in results, from future participants)
IMPORTANT DATES
Challenges proposals due Friday November 21, 2014 - 23:59 Hawaii Time Challenges chosen/merged – notification to organizers sent Friday December 5, 2014 Training data ready and challenges Calls for Papers sent January 15th, 2015 Challenge papers submission deadline – March 3rd, 2015 Challenge paper reviews due – April 5th, 2015 Notifications sent to participants and invitations to submit task results – April 9th, 2015 Test data (and other participation tools) published – April 9th, 2015 Camera ready papers due - April 24th, 2015 Submission of challenge results – free choice of organizers Proclamation of winners – During ESWC closing Ceremony
SUBMISSION DETAILS
The challenges proposals should contain at least the following elements:
- A summary description of the challenge and tasks - How the training/testing data will be built and/or procured - The evaluation methodology to be used, including clear evaluation criteria and the exact way in which they will be measured. Who will perform the evaluation and how will transparency be assured? - The anticipated availability of the necessary resources to the participants - The resources required to prepare the tasks (computation and annotation time, costs of annotations, etc) - The list of challenge committee members who will evaluate the challenge papers (please indicate which of the listed members already accepted the role)
In case of doubt, feel free to send us your challenge proposal drafts as early as possible – the challenges chairs will provide you with feedback and answers to questions you may have.
Please submit proposals as soon as possible, preferably by electronic mail in PDF format to the ESWC Challenges chairs:
Milan Stankovic, Sépage S.A.S., France & Université Paris-Sorbonne (milstan@sepage.fr) Elena Cabrio, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France (elena.cabrio@inria.fr)
[1] http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-challenges
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