CFP CIKM'12 Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations: Deadline July 10

Fifth Workshop on
Exploiting Semantic Annotations for Information Retrieval (ESAIR'12)

CIKM 2012, November 2, Maui
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~kamps/esair12/

Submissions due: July 10

* Call for Papers

There is an increasing amount of structure on the Web as a result of 
modern Web languages, micro-formats and linked data, user tagging and 
annotation, and emerging robust NLP tools.  These meaningful, semantic, 
annotations hold the promise to significantly enhance information 
access, by enhancing the depth of analysis of today's systems. 
Currently, we have only started exploring the possibilities and only 
begin to understand how these valuable semantic cues can be put to 
fruitful use.  To complicate matters, standard text search excels at 
shallow information needs expressed by short keyword queries, and here 
semantic annotation contributes very little, if anything.

The main questions for the workshop are how to leverage the rich context 
currently available, especially in a mobile search scenario, giving 
powerful new handles to exploit semantic annotations.  And how can we 
fruitfully combine information retrieval and semantic web approaches, 
and for the first time work actively toward a unified view on exploiting 
semantic annotations.

* Many Open Questions