<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-gs" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:1024px;font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><div class="gmail-"><div id="gmail-:1dk" class="gmail-ii gmail-gt" style="font-size:0.875rem;direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><div id="gmail-:1dj" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aXjCH" style="overflow:hidden;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.27636;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Apologies for cross-posting *</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.27636;text-align:center;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">** 2nd Call for </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">APPLIED RESEARCH PAPERS and </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">RESOURCE PAPERS **</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.27636;text-align:center;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><a href="https://cikm2020.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CIKM 2020</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (October 19th-23rd, 2020)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.37455;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CIKM 2020 will be a fully virtual conference, with no travel involved, and presentations will be given via pre-recorded videos, followed by synchronized online discussions during the scheduled conference period.</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4">CALL FOR APPLIED RESEARCH PAPERS</font></span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">More info:</span><a href="https://cikm2020.org/call-for-applied-research-papers/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://cikm2020.org/call-for-applied-research-papers/</span></a></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4">Important Dates</font></span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paper abstract submission deadline: June 1, 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paper submission deadline: June 8, 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paper acceptance notification: July 24, 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Camera ready submission deadline: August 17, 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.44;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Applied Research Track aims at attracting submissions from both industry and academia that either solve or advance the understanding of issues related to deploying AI, IR and big data technologies as part of actual applications.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Topics of Interest:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.44;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We encourage submissions of works in the same area of relevance of the CIKM2020 Research Track but that describe applied and in-use works, including but not limited to the following application areas:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Business Intelligence</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Social Networks and Social Good</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Healthcare and Bioinformatics</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Computing Infrastructures</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Emerging Applications </span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4">CALL FOR RESOURCE PAPER</font></span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.27636;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">More info at </span><a href="https://cikm2020.org/call-for-resource-papers/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://cikm2020.org/call-for-resource-papers/</span></a></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4">Important Dates</font></span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paper abstract submission deadline: June 1, 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paper submission deadline: June 8, 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paper acceptance notification: July 24, 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Camera ready submission deadline: August 17, 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CIKM recognises the importance of </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">publicly available scientific resources</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, such as datasets, evaluation benchmarks, tools or libraries as a necessary and important prerequisite for fostering research in core CIKM areas. The </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Resources Track</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> seeks submissions from both academia and industry that describe </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">resources available to the community</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">An ideal resource track paper will fit into one or more of the following categories:</span></p><ol style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Describing a </span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">new and innovative dataset</span></p></li><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">To support research on novel application domains;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">To support novel evaluation tasks;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Created using novel methods and/or algorithms;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Labeled using novel and well-described annotation and/or crowdsourcing approaches;</span></p></li></ol><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Reusable research prototypes and services</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Open software frameworks, tools and libraries</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> which support tasks in data science, data engineering or information & knowledge management".</span></p></li></ol><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Check our sponsorship </span><a href="https://cikm2020.org/sponsorship/" target="_blank" style="font-family:-webkit-standard;text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">options</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> for an opportunity to reach out to the experts in the domain! </span><div class="gmail-yj6qo"></div><div class="gmail-adL"><br></div></div><div class="gmail-adL"></div></div></div><div class="gmail-hi" style="border-bottom-left-radius:1px;border-bottom-right-radius:1px;padding:0px;width:auto;background:rgb(242,242,242);margin:0px"></div></div></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div>