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Call for Papers
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International Workshop on Multilingual Web Access (MWA
2015), May 19, 2015
held In conjunction with the 24th International World Wide
Web Conference, Florence, Italy.
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Motivation and Goals
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Over the past 25 years, the World Wide Web (WWW) has
developed into a truly transnational information medium for
users from across the globe. As of July 2013, Asia accounts
for the largest share of online users in the world at 48.4%,
followed by 21.8% from the Americas, and 19% from Europe. With
this global development, the diversity of user languages on
the Web has increased dramatically, leading to new challenges
and opportunities for information access providers and
consumers.
The MWA workshop will bring together researchers working on
Cross-/Multilingual Search & Discovery, the Multilingual
Social Web, as well as the Multilingual Semantic Web, in order
to promote the exchange of complementary ideas and
applicable/transferrable techniques between these areas. The
goal of the workshop is to advance the current state of the
art in Multilingual Web Access techniques, and, most
importantly, to increase the adoption of multilingual
techniques, methods, and tools in real-world Web applications.
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Themes of interest
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Themes of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following areas:
- Multilingual Web search & discovery
- Multilingual Web user needs & behavior
- Multilingual recommender systems
- Multilingual news systems
- Multilingual social network analysis
- Cross-/multilingual information retrieval
- Interactive MWA systems & interfaces
- Personalized multilingual search systems
- Methods & tools for information & community
linking
- Multilingual semantic knowledge extraction,
representation, and annotation
- Multilingual ontology mapping & data linking
- Sharing multilingual language resources as open web data
- Integration of language technology with multilingual Web
content, e.g. automated translation, automated text annotation
for topic detection, named entity recognition and
disambiguation
- Evaluation: methods, collections, and metrics for MWA
- Language resources for MWA
- Cultural aspects of MWA
- Risk-aware MWA
- Privacy and Data Protection of multilingual Web content
and data across jurisdictions
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Submissions
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We solicit submissions of long (up to 6 pages) and short
papers (up to 3 pages) from diverse backgrounds, with the aim
of promoting the exchange of ideas between researchers working
in the above-mentioned areas. For full details on the
submission format and procedure, please refer to the
Submission Instructions page at
http://www.multilingualwebaccess.org/submission.html.
Papers will be selected based on originality, quality, and
ability to promote discussion.
*** Accepted papers will be included in the WWW conference
companion volume that is published together with the main
proceedings by ACM. ***
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Important dates
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Feb 11, 2015: Submission Deadline
Feb 27, 2015: Notification to Authors
Mar 8, 2015: Camera-ready Due
May 19, 2015: Workshop
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Organizing Committee
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For further questions please contact a member of the
organizing committee.
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Dr. Ben Steichen
University of British Columbia