Overview
Wikidata is an open knowledge base hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation that can be read and edited by both humans and machines. Wikidata acts as the central source of common, open structured data used by Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, and others. It is used in a variety of academic and industrial applications.
In recent years, we have seen an increase in the number of scientific publications around Wikidata. While there are a number of venues for the Wikidata community to exchange, none of those publish original research. We want to bridge the gap between these communities and the research events and give the research-focused part of the Wikidata community a venue to meet and exchange information and knowledge.
The Wikidata Workshop 2022 focuses on the challenges and opportunities of working on a collaborative open-domain knowledge graph such as Wikidata, which is edited by an international and multilingual community. We encourage submissions that observe the influence such a knowledge graph has on the web of data, as well as those working on improving this knowledge graph itself. This workshop brings together everyone working around Wikidata in both the scientific field and industry to discuss trends and topics around this collaborative knowledge graph.
Call for Papers
This workshop will have two tracks: Novel Work, and Previously Published Work.
Papers in the Novel Work track will be published as part of the workshop proceedings. The Previously Published Work track is for papers already published in other conferences, giving the community the chance to access and discuss relevant work that has been presented elsewhere as part of the workshop.
Novel Work Track
The papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three researchers. Selected papers will be published on CEUR (we only publish to CEUR if the authors agree to have their papers published).
For the Novel Work track, we will accept papers up to 12 pages (excluding references, contribution of the paper should justify the length of the paper). We invite the following types of papers:
Previously Published Work Track
Published papers will be reviewed by the organising committee in terms of topical fit and prominence of the publication venue. They will not be published as part of the proceedings.
For the Previously Published Work track, we will accept papers with no page limit, prioritizing instead the importance and relevance of the publication. We invite the following types of papers:
Submission
Papers have to be submitted through EasyChair.
We ask authors to declare the track they intend on submitting to. To do so, please add, at the beginning of the "title" field on the EasyChair submission, either the string "[Novel]", for the Novel Work track, or the string "[Published]", for the Previously Published track.
Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wikidataworkshop2022
Important Dates
Papers due: Friday, 29 July 2022
Notification of accepted papers: Friday, 23 September 2022
Camera ready papers due: Monday, 3 October 2022
Workshop date: Monday, 24 October 2022
Submission Guidelines
Submissions must be as PDF, formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For details on the LNCS style, see Springer’s Author Instructions.
Journal extensions
Extended versions of journal papers are invited for submission to a special issue of the Semantic Web Journal.
Schedule Detail
The workshop will take place in the afternoon, European time
Sessions / Papers
Available in due time
Our Speakers
Available Soon
Organization
Organizing Committee
Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, University of Southampton. lucie.kaffee[[@]]gmail.com
Lucie-Aimée Kaffee is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Copenhagen. She acquired her PhD from the University of Southampton and was previously a research intern at Bloomberg, London, a research fellow at TIB Hannover and software developer in the Wikidata team, Wikimedia Germany. Her research focus is multilingual linked data in collaborative knowledge graphs and natural language processing. Lucie was part of the OC of the Wikidata Workshop co-located with ISWC'20, proceedings chair of ISWC'20 and ISWC'21, OC of AMAR: First International Workshop on Approaches for Making Data Interoperable at SEMANTiCS'19 and participated in the PC of a variety of conferences and workshops.
Simon Razniewski, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, srazniew[[@]]mpi-inf.mpg.de
Simon Razniewski is a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany, where he heads the Knowledge Base Construction and Quality research area. His research focuses on methods for knowledge base construction, as well as quality assessment, with applications in Wikidata and beyond. He has held senior roles in program committees of major conferences such as IJCAI'21 (area chair), or ISWC'20 and CIKM'20 (senior PC member). He has held visiting positions at places such as AT&T Labs-Research, the University of Queensland, and UCSD, and his research has been recognized with multiple awards and research grants.
Gabriel Amaral, King's College London, gabriel.amaral[[@]]kcl.ac.uk
Gabriel Amaral is a computer scientist, graduated summa cum laude from the Federal University of Ceará, and a PhD candidate at King's College London. He is part of the Marie Curie European training network Cleopatra, delivering technologies to build and use large-scale, multilingual knowledge graphs. His research tackles the quality of references and the verification of claims found in Wikidata.
Kholoud Saad Alghamdi, King's College London, kholoud.alghamdi[[@]]kcl.ac.uk
Kholoud Saad Alghamdi is a PhD candidate at King's College London. She obtained her master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Southampton. Her PhD project develops an items recommender system for Wikidata editors. Before that, she was lecturer at King Abdulaziz University and worked previously as a data analyst in the industry.
Program Committee
Niel Chah, University of Toronto
Pierre-Henri Paris, CNAM
Filip Ilievski, Information Sciences Institute, USC
John Samuel, CPE Lyon, LIRIS - UMR 5205
David Abián, King's College London
Alessandro Piscopo, BBC
Mahir Morshed, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Seyed Amir Hosseini Beghaeiraveri, Heriot-Watt University
Dennis Diefenbach, The QA Company
Alasdair Gray, Heriot-Watt University
Lydia Pintscher, Wikimedia Deutschland
Daniel Garijo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Andrew D. Gordon, Microsoft Research and University of Edinburgh
Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Télécom ParisTech
Houcemeddine Turki, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia
Cristina Sarasua, University of Zurich
Luis Galárraga, Inria