Deadline for submission of abstracts is approaching: December 15h, 2010!
Invited speakers:
Jordi Atserias and Michael Matthews, Yahoo
Marius Pasca, Google
Bernard Fleming, Environment Specialist
Ralf Steinberger, European Commission - Joint Research Centre
Karin de Boom, WWF
Lawrence Jones-Walter, ECNC
The goal of the workshop is to demonstrate the possibilities of advanced
information systems for sharing information and knowledge about the
environment on a global scale. The environment is a global concern crossing
boundaries, cultures and languages. Whereas each regional setting is unique,
there are many benefits from sharing knowledge and experiences across these
regions. This workshop offers a showcase for emerging systems that can enable
environmentalist to access this knowledge and information in novel ways. It
hopes to bring together technology providers and environmental specialists to
discuss the opportunities in the field.
The workshop is organized around the topic of estuaries in the world. A
selection of estuaries across the world is presented and innovative
applications are shown that can process and present knowledge on these
estuaries in useful ways. Participants and guest speakers are invited to use
a given set of English text documents about two estuaries: the Humber Estuary
in the UK and the Chesapeake Bay in the US. Any analysis of these documents
that generates useful knowledge in these documents is welcomed.
The challenge is to give a show-case demonstration of extracted environmental
events involving estuaries and present this to the users in a novel and
useful way. An event is specified in terms of where, when, what happened and
how can these events be grouped. What can refer to entities such as:
pollution, human development, human activities, alien species, sedimentation,
erosion, increase and decrease of species populations, degradation of
habitats.
We provide you with sources of documents on a selection of estuaries but you
are free to use your own data sources. There are also no restrictions on what
you do with the data as long as it includes text mining and provides output
that non-technical users (but perhaps specialists in the domain) can handle
and use for their daily work. You should typically focus on more complex and
less basic facts than is usually the case in text mining.
Call for abstracts
We invite abstract submissions on the following topics:
Text mining of events and facts in the domain of the environment.
Concept acquisition and knowledge integration in the domain of the
environment.
User interfaces for complex knowledge bases with factual information on the
environment related to time and place.
Semantic search or question answering systems that allow users to find
answers in databases with environmental data
Community building or collaboration environments for building knowledge bases
in the domain of the environment.
Abstracts should be 800-1000 words and in PDF format only. Abstracts can be
mailed to: p.vossen [at] let.vu.nl. Evaluation is based on relevance to the topics
and the estuary-case and on scientific quality.