Motivation and Technical Description
We can witness an ever growing amount of user contributions to Web content, e.g. by blogging and tagging activities. This trend has two important directions: First, the intervals and sizes of contributions tend to shrink, which change the nature of content from individual documents into stream-like data. Second, the amount of latent or explicit data structure and semantics in the content increases, with examples like hashtags in twitter, semantic microblogging, or collaborative tag consolidation.
Tagging systems, alternatively called folksonomies, are now a common feature in Web 2.0 applications. In the last years, we have noted the increasing use of tagging systems:
- traditional content sites have incorporated social functionalities, allowing users to tag resources in a collaborative way or to establish contact networks, e.g. Amazon.
- Tagging is supported in almost any new Web application involving user participation, e.g. Flickr, YouTube, etc.
- Frequent are the cases where users adopted tagging behavior even if this was not originally supported by the website e.g. the #tags practice in Twitter.
Despite the high interest tagging systems have received and the wide spread research conducted in various disciplines towards solving similar problems, from sociology - understanding how and why people tag - to Semantic Web - mining meaningful information from tagging systems - there is a still various issues that must be solved. In addition, tagging has been then studied from a technological, and social point of view, but there is currently no work on linking these communities together. This workshop aims at tackle these issues by focusing on three main trends:
- Future of Semantic Tagging Systems.
- Tags in Stream Data.
- Challenges in Evaluating Tagging Systems.
Topics of Interest
This workshop will not focus on the overall topic of social web applications, e.g. Wikipedia, Facebook and so on, since there are already various initiatives on the topic (e.g. the ICWSM conference as well as various workshops SDOW, etc.) but our main focus will be research conducted on tagging systems, based on the three aforementioned areas. Then, we encourage the submission of research papers that deal with the following topics of interest (but not limited to):
- Semantic Tagging and Linked Data
- Semantics of tagging systems
- Tagging systems versus controlled vocabularies
- Extreme tagging methodologies
- Tagging systems in enterprise environments
- Information retrieval in tagging systems
- Tagging and augmented reality
- Best practices for tagging
- Social aspects of tagging
- Prospective views on the future of tagging systems
- Evolution of tagging systems
- Dynamics of tagging systems
- Ontology learning from tagging systems
- Datasets and baseline for evaluating semantic tagging systems
- Social Network analysis based on tagging systems
- Tag and Resource recommendation
- Tags in genuine Web 2.0 applications vs tags in streamed data (e.g. Twitter)
- User profiles from tagging information
- People-tagging
- Multilingual tagging systems
- User-feedback in tagging systems
Target Audience
The workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in making Semantic and Social Web working together, particularly in issues related to tagging and microblogging. We expect participants active in designing, developing, and applying knowledge engineering techniques in order to facilitate the use, growth, and adoption of improved tagging systems.
Keynote
to be announced
Submissions
We expected full research papers (10 pages), position papers (5 pages), and system demonstrations and posters (2 abstract pages) that should be formatted according to LNCS. Submissions will be evaluated by the PC, with a single-blind review and should be sent via Easychair.
All accepted submissions will be published at CEUR. Full research papers and selected position papers will be invited to an oral presentation.
At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop. Please note that authors may register to the workshop even if they are not attending the main conference have to register to the main conference and the workshop.
Finally, we encourage authors of workshop papers to present a poster to the workshop as well.
Important Dates
- Deadline for submissions: July 24, 2010 (extended)
- Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2010
- Camera-ready versions: August 22, 2010
- Workshop: October 14, 2010 (to be confirmed)
Agenda
The Workshop is planned as a half-day event, including a keynote, paper presentations, demos, posters, and a moderated, open discussion with the clear goal of agreeing upon a research roadmap for future Semantic Tagging research.
8:45 - 9:30 Opening and Keynote
9:30 - 11:45 Paper Presentations
11:45 - 12:00 Break
12:00 - 12:45 Open discussion
12:45 - 13:30 Poster and Demo session
Organizing Committee
Main Contact: tags2010@delicias.dia.fi.upm.es
- Sofia Angeletou, Knowledge Media Institute at The Open University (KMi), UK
- Leyla Jael García Castro, E-Business and Web Science Research Group at Universität der Bundeswehr München
- Andrés García-Silva, Ontology Engineering Group at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain
- Martin Hepp, E-Business and Web Science Research Group at Universität der Bundeswehr München
- Alexandre Passant, Digital Enterprise Research Institute at the National University of Ireland, Galway
Programme Committee
- Rabeeh Abbasi, Koblenz University, Germany
- Harith Alani, Knowledge Media Institute at The Open University (KMi), UK
- Sihem Amer-Yahia, Yahoo! research New york, USA
- Dominik Benz, Universität Kassel, Germany
- Klaas Delschaft, Koblenz University, Germany
- Ivan Cantador, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
- Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- Eirini Giannakidou, University of Thesaloniki, Greece
- Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- Andreas Hotho, University of Würzburg, Germany
- HakLae Kim, Samsung Electronics, Korea
- Sheila Kinsella, DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
- Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
- Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
- Martin Szomsor, City University London, UK
- Stuart Taylor, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
- Haofen Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Venue
The workshop is collocated with the EKAW 2010 conference that will be held in Lisbon, Portugal. Workshop attendees may register to the workshop even if they are not attending the main conference. In the (EKAW 2010) Web page there is information about how to register, travel, and accomodation.
Related Events
- ICWSM- International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. This conference focuses on understanding the social media and involves researchers on NLP, Social Psichology, Data Mining, Sociology, and Visualization.
- SDOW - Social Data on the Web. It focuses on researches related to semantically-enhancing social media websites, as well as more formal aspects of interactions between the Semantic and Social Web
- APRESW - Adaptation, Personalization and Recommendation in the Social-semantic Web. It focuses on usage models for adaptation, personalization, and recommendation approaches on the Social-semantic Web