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Journal - Call for papers: Special Issue on </span><br>
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href="http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/call-papers-special-issue-expressive-natural-language-interfaces-semantic-web">Expressive
Natural Language Interfaces for the Semantic Web</a></span><br>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";color:#323232;mso-fareast-language:
ES" lang="EN-GB">As the amount of structured knowledge published
as Linked Data and stored
in proprietary knowledge bases keeps growing, so does the need for
effective
ways to query it and access it. Aiming towards more intuitive and
human-readable alternatives to formal query and knowledge
representation
languages, research in Question Answering (QA) for the Semantic
Web has
received increasing interest in the past years, leading to systems
of varying
expressiveness as well as to the dedicated QALD series of
evaluation campaigns.
However, and despite the gradual shift towards increasingly more
complex
question constructions (e.g. questions including superlatives and
quantifiers),
the primary focus remains largely on factoid questions that admit
to
lightweight models typically endorsed in Linked Data sets and
lightweight
knowledge bases, such as DBpedia. On the other side, the main
focus of
investigations into the communication of the content of semantic
repositories
has been on mere verbalization of ontologies, with limited natural
language
generation techniques and interactivity with end users.</span><br>
<br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";color:#323232;mso-fareast-language:
ES" lang="EN-GB">As a result, much of the available knowledge that
is inherently characterized
by complex relational contexts, such as commonly confronted in,
among others,
pervasive computing and healthcare application domains, remains
still
inaccessible for non-Semantic Web experts. Adhering often to
pattern-based modelling,
interaction over such knowledge poses additional challenges, since
the
conceptual granularity mismatch between the user question and the
underlying
conceptualization is further aggravated by the encapsulation of
domain
semantics inside conceptual layers of abstraction, often including
reification
and container classes. Going beyond the lightweight models that
Linked Data and
knowledge bases such as DBpedia admit to, building Natural
Language (NL)
interfaces for querying and accessing conceptually rich knowledge
bases poses
additional challenges. These include support for complex NL
questions and
flexible, context-aware query interpretation, as well as more
intuitive answer
communication paradigms.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<br>
<span style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
color:#323232;mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB">The aim of
this special issue is to
foster investigations into expressive NL interfaces for the
Semantic Web that
go beyond the discovery of connections between ground facts in
large but
conceptually lightweight knowledge bases, and address in amore
integral way the
challenges involved in bridging the gap between the way users
communicate their
information needs, the way domain knowledge is captured, and the
way the
requested information is communicated.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB">Topics of
interest<br>
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<span style="color:#323232">We solicit original papers addressing
the
challenges involved in building NL interfaces for conceptually
rich knowledge
bases, i.e. effective paradigms for formalizing and translating
complex NL
questions into structured queries so that pertinent answers can
be retrieved
from the underlying knowledge bases, as well as for rendering
ontological
representations that admit to rich relational contexts in
adequate natural
language. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):</span></span><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:#323232;
mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB">- Contextual query answering<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:#323232;
mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB">- Pattern-based query
interpretation<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:#323232;
mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB">- Knowledge patterns in NL
analysis and generation<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:#323232;
mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB">- SPARQL query generation<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:#323232;
mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB">- Hybrid question answering
(OWL, rules, graphs)<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:#323232;
mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB">- Graph-based query
evaluation<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:#323232;
mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB">- Language resources for
question answering<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:#323232;
mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB">- Ontology-based NL
generation<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:#323232;
mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB">- Querying over complex
temporal contexts<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:#323232;
mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB">- Multi-lingual question
answering<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:#323232;
mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB">- Uncertainty handling in
question answering<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:#323232;
mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB">- Coupling of ontologies
with machine learning for
question answering<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:#323232;
mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB">- Applications in
healthcare, pervasive computing,
biomedical, etc.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:#323232;
mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB">- Web and social media
mining for semantic knowledge
extraction<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:#323232;
mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB">- Ontology-based linguistic
annotations for NL
generation<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:#323232;
mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB">Submission Instructions<br>
------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
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Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:#323232;
mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB">Submissions shall be made
through the Semantic Web
journal website at <a href="http://www.semantic-web-journal.net">http://www.semantic-web-journal.net</a></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";color:#323232;mso-fareast-language:
ES" lang="EN-GB">. Prospective authors must take notice of the
submission guidelines posted
at <a href="http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors">http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors</a></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
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ES" lang="EN-GB">. Note that you need to request an account on the
website for submitting a
paper. Please indicate in the cover letter that it is for the
"Expressive
NLIs for the Semantic Web" special issue. </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#323232;mso-fareast-language:ES"
lang="EN-GB">All manuscripts will
be reviewed based on the SWJ open and transparent review policy
and will be
made available online during the review process.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
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mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB">Important Dates<br>
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mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB">Submission deadline:
30-Oct-2016<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
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Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:#323232;
mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB">Notification of acceptance:
15-Jan-2017<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB">Guest Editors<br>
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mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
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Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:#323232;
mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB">Stamatia Dasiopoulou, Pompeu
Fabra University, Spain<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:#323232;
mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB">Georgios Meditskos, Centre
for Research and Technology
Hellas, Greece<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
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Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:#323232;
mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB">Leo Wanner, ICREA and Pompeu
Fabra University, Spain<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:#323232;
mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB">Stefanos Vrochidis, Centre
for Research and Technology
Hellas, Greece<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
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Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:#323232;
mso-fareast-language:ES" lang="EN-GB">Philipp Cimiano, Bielefeld
University, Germany<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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