1st International Workshop on Keyword-based Access and Ranking at Scale(KARS 2017)

March 21,2017

Venice, Italy

Call For Papers

The aim of this multidisciplinary workshop is to bring together researchers from Databases, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Semantic Web, Human-Computer Interaction, and to combine their perspectives and research to address the above-mentioned issues.

In particular, we wish to encourage researchers to discuss the opportunities, challenges, results obtained in the development and evaluation of “complete”, “ready-to-market” keyword search applications over structured data. We are in particular interested in proposal dealing with systemic approaches which manage all the phases of the keyword search, from the management of the data, query formulation, interpretation, computation, ranking and visualization of the results, as well as rigorous evaluation methodologies for such systems.

Topics of Interest

• Keyword search on large graphs and knowledge bases
• Keyword search on XML data, RDF data, and Linked Open Data
• Keyword search on relational databases and data warehouses
• Keyword search semantics
• Conversational and spoken queries over structured data
• Learning to rank approaches for keyword search
• Integration of keyword search with other kinds of search tasks, e.g. unstructured search, multimedia search, semi-structured search, and more
• User interaction with keyword search systems
• Visualizations and user interfaces for keyword search query formulation and result presentation
• Keyword search for data integration
• Exploratory search and informative queries over keyword search
• Web tables extraction and search
• Highly scalable techniques, algorithms and data structures for keyword search
• Computational complexity of keyword search algorithms
• Semantic similarity, management, disambiguation and indexing
• Ranking schemes
• Top-K query processing
• Result snippet generation
• Result clustering
• Handling vagueness in users’ information needs
• Query formulation, suggestion, and expansion
• Query cleaning
• User preferences and feedback
• Handling data uncertainty in keyword search
• Experimental evaluation: efficiency, effectiveness, effort, time-aware, user models, user satisfaction, and more
• Shared benchmarks and infrastructures for comparative keyword search evaluation
• Measures and analysis methods for keyword search evaluation
• Challenges in application domains of keyword search: product search, government, health and drugs, scientific data and publications, finance, and more

Important Dates

Submission deadline:November 14, 2016.

Notification Due: December 20, 2016.

Final Version Due: January 15, 2017.

User Name : Anika
Posted 08-11-2016 on 10:22:38 AEDT

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