WWW 2014 Workshop - 4th Workshop on Data Extraction and Object Search (DEOS’14)

DEOS 2014: Fourth Workshop on Data Extraction and Object Search (April 7) in conjunction with WWW'14, April 7-11, Seoul, South Korea.

http://diadem.cs.ox.ac.uk/deos14/

Important Dates
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Paper submission: *Jan 7, 2014 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)* Paper notification: *Feb 4, 2014* Paper camera-ready copy: *Feb 12, 2014* (hard deadline) Workshop date: April 7, 2014
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Description
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The Fourth International Workshop on “Data Extraction and Object Search” (DEOS 2014) will take place as a satellite event of WWW 2014 in Seoul, South Korea, on April 7th, 2014.

Web data extraction is witnessing a renaissance. In an increasing number of applications such as price intelligence or predictive analytics, the value of data-driven approaches has been conclusively proven. However, the necessary data is often available only as HTML, e.g., in form of online shops of competitors that can serve as sources for pricing and offer data. DEOS is a regular forum for researchers and practitioners in data extraction and object search, to present and discuss ongoing work on data extraction and object search for products, events, reviews, and other types of structured data on the web.

This is the fourth installation of DEOS, the first held in Como in 2010, the second in Vienna in 2011, the third in Oxford in 2013. The workshop is supported by the ERC DIADEM grant (http://diadem.cs.ox.ac.uk/) and the Oxford Martin school (http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/). There is a small amount of travel support available from the sponsors.


Topics
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This installment of the workshop places a particular emphasis on benchmarking and effective evaluation measures for data extraction.

The topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Large-scale data extraction approaches capable of dealing with a large number of websites without per-site supervision.
* Object identification and extraction approaches in domains such as products, events, reviews, forum posts, ...
* Reducing and simplifying supervision in wrapper induction and the use of crowdsourcing.
* Automatic crawling and exploration of web interfaces with a particular focus on highly-visual, scripted web applications.
* Information extraction meets data extraction including approaches that integrate information extraction, e.g., from product titles, with data extraction for mutual verification of the data.
* Automated data extraction approaches that identify wrappers fully automatically at high accuracy.
* Integration and cleaning of extracted web data for object search including approaches or tools for deduplication (intra- and inter-site) and for reconciliation of conflicting attribute values.
* Object search approaches and systems that provide a search interface to data extracted from the web.
* Evaluation, benchmarking, and replicability in web data extraction and object search.


Submissions
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DEOS’14 welcomes the submission of theoretical, experimental, methodological as well as application papers. Benchmark papers are particularly encouraged and demonstration papers are also welcome.

Submitted papers should be 8 pages (4 pages for demo proposals, work in progress, or vision papers) maximum in length, including figures and references. The paper must be formatted as PDF according to style guidelines of ACM SIG Proceedings Template available here: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates.

All papers should be submitted online on the workshop submission website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=deos14.

Further information is available at http://diadem.cs.ox.ac.uk/deos14/.

Organization
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Tim Furche, University of Oxford, <tim@furche.net>
Giorgio Orsi, University of Oxford, <giorgio.orsi@cs.ox.ac.uk>
Paolo Merialdo, Università Roma Tre, <merialdo@dia.uniroma3.it>
Valter Crescenzi, Università Roma Tre, <crescenz@dia.uniroma3.it>

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WWW 2014 Call for Papers - Research Track

WWW 2014 CALL FOR PAPERS - RESEARCH TRACK
The 23rd International World Wide Web Conference
April 7-11, 2014 / Seoul, Korea
http://www2014.kr

For more than two decades, the International World-Wide Web Conference has been the premier venue for researchers, academics, businesses, and standard bodies to come together and discuss latest updates on the state and evolutionary path of the Web. The main conference program of WWW 2014 will have 11 areas (or themes) for refereed paper presentations. and we invite you to submit your cutting-edge, exciting, new breakthrough work to the relevant area. In addition to the main conference, WWW 2014 will also have a series of co-located workshops, keynote speeches, tutorials, panels, a developer track, and poster and demo sessions.

The list of areas for this year is as follows:

Behavioral Analysis and Personalization
Content Analysis
Crowd Phenomena
Internet Economics and Monetization
Security, Privacy, Trust, and Abuse
Semantic Web
Social Networks and Graph Analysis
Software Infrastructure, Performance, Scalability, and Availability
User Interfaces, Human Factors, and Smart (Mobile) Devices
Web Mining
Web Search

Important Dates:

Research track abstract registration:
Tuesday, October 1st, 2013 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)

Research track full paper submission:
Tuesday, October 8th, 2013 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)

Notifications of acceptance:
Saturday, January 4th, 2014

Paper Submission Requirements:

All submitted paper must:

be written in English;
contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses;
be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt;
be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size;
occupy no more than ten pages, including the abstract and appendices, but excluding references.

It is the authors¡¯ responsibility to ensure that their submission adheres strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review.

Submission web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=www2014

General Chair:
Chin-Wan Chung (KAIST)

General Vice Chairs:
Sang-goo Lee (Seoul National University)
Sue Moon (KAIST)
In-soo Park (MOTIE/KATS)

PC Co-Chairs for Research Track:
Andrei Broder (Google)
Kyuseok Shim (Seoul National University)
Torsten Suel (New York University)

Area Chairs:

Behavioral Analysis and Personalization
Pearl Pu (EPFL)
Andrew Tomkins (Google)

Content Analysis
Seung-won Hwang (POSTECH)
Lillian Lee (Cornell University)

Crowd Phenomena
Panos Ipeirotis (NYU)
Stefano Leonardi (Univ. La Sapienza)

Internet Economics and Monetization
Arpita Ghosh (Cornell University)
Vanja Josifovski (Google)

Security, Privacy, Trust, and Abuse
Nicolas Christin (Carnegie Mellon Univ.)
Yongdae Kim (KAIST)

Semantic Web
Ramanathan Guha (Google)
Daniel Schwabe (PUC-Rio)

Social Networks and Graph Analysis
Aristides Gionis (Aalto University)
Alessandro Panconesi (Univ. La Sapienza)

Software Infrastructure, Performance, Scalability, and Availability
Zhen Xiao (Peking University)
Malgorzata Steinder (IBM Research)

User Interfaces, Human Factors, and Smart Devices
Cecilia Mascolo (Univ. of Cambridge)
Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia)

Web Mining
Yukata Matsuo (University of Tokyo)
Rajeev Rastogi (Amazon)

Web Search
Junghoo Cho (UCLA)
Yoelle Maarek (Yahoo!)

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