The
Journal of
Web Semantics seeks submissions for a special issue on Benchmarking
Semantic Web Solutions to be edited by Axel Ngonga, Cassia Trojahn dos Santos,
Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz and Valentina Tamma.
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Submissions due 4th October 2019.
Call for Papers
The availability of benchmarks is
often regarded as a prerequisite for sustainable developments in quantitative
research. From a practical perspective, the cost and effort required for
introducing Semantic Web and Linked Data technology is significant. A key step
towards abolishing the barriers to the adoption and deployment of this
technology is to provide open benchmarking reports that allow users to assess
the fitness of existing solutions for their purposes.
In this special issue, we hence
welcome articles (1) proposing benchmarks and related platforms, and/or (2)
performing a throughout evaluation of Semantic Web solutions. A focus of the
special issue will be scalability and reproducibility. The target topics of the
benchmark/evaluation include (but are not limited to):
- Knowledge extraction
- Named entity recognition
- Disambiguation
- Relation extraction
- Open and closed knowledge extraction
- Link discovery and prediction
- Linking at scale
- Linking for dedicated data types (e.g., geospatial data)
- Knowledge curation and fact checking
- Ontology alignment
- Alignment discovery
- Alignment repair
- Complex ontology alignment
- Tabular data to knowledge graph matching
- Cell to KG entity matching
- Column to KG semantic type
- Relation discovery among table columns
- KG population
- OWL reasoning
- Classification
- Entailment checking
- Class satisfiability
- Ontology satisfiability
- Query answering
- Knowledge graph completion
- Semantic embeddings
- Quality of embeddings
- Ontology Based Data Access
- Performance
- Relational schema to ontology alignment
- Visualization
- Browsing
Important Dates
- Intention to submit: 31st July 2019, 23:59 PM Hawaii-Time
- Submission deadline: 31st August 2019
- Author notification (1st round): 15th October 2019
- Revisions due: 15th November 2019
- Publication: Q1 2020
Guest Editors
- Axel Ngonga, Paderborn University (Germany) (axel.ngonga@uni-paderborn.de)
- Cassia Trojahn dos Santos, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (France) (cassia.trojahn@irit.fr)
- Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, The Alan Turing Institute (UK) and University of Oslo (Norway) (ernesto.jimenez.ruiz@gmail.com) - Main contact point
- Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool (UK) (V.Tamma@liverpool.ac.uk)
Submission guidelines
The Journal of Web Semantics solicits original scientific
contributions of high quality. Following the overall mission of the journal, we
emphasize the publication of papers that combine theories, methods and
experiments from different subject areas in order to deliver innovative
semantic methods and applications. The publication of large-scale experiments
and their analysis is also encouraged to clearly illustrate scenarios and
methods that introduce semantics into existing Web interfaces, contents and
services.
Submission of your manuscript is welcome provided that it,
or any translation of it, has not been copyrighted or published and is not
being submitted for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should be prepared for
publication in accordance with instructions given in the JWS
guide for authors. We expect
the special issue papers to be between 15-25 pages. The submission and review process will be
carried out using Elsevier's Web-based EES system. Upon
acceptance of an article, the author(s) will be asked to transfer copyright of
the article to the publisher. This transfer will ensure the widest possible
dissemination of information. Elsevier's liberal preprint policy permits
authors and their institutions to host preprints on their web sites. Preprints
of the articles will be made freely accessible on JWS
First Look. Final copies of accepted publications will appear in
print and at Elsevier's archival online server.
Program Committee
- Irini Fundulaki, FORTH, GR
(fundul@ics.forth.gr)
- Muhammad Saleem,
University of Leipzig, DE (saleem@informatik.uni-leipzig.de)
- Kleanthi Georgala,
Paderborn University, DE (georgala@informatik.uni-leipzig.de)
- Rene Speck, University of
Leipzig, DE (speck@informatik.uni-leipzig.de)
- Michael Röder, Paderborn
University, DE (michael.roeder@uni-paderborn.de)
- Pavel Smirnov, AGT
International, DE (smirnp@gmail.com)
- Milos Jovanovik, Skopje
University, MAC (milos.jovanovik@finki.ukim.mk)
- Giulio Napolitano,
Fraunhofer IAIS, DE (Giulio.Napolitano@iais.fraunhofer.de)
- Nina Saveta, FORTH, GR
(jsaveta@ics.forth.gr)
- Diego Esteves, University
of Bonn, DE (esteves@cs.uni-bonn.de)
- Maribel Acosta, KIT, DE
(maribel.acosta@kit.edu)
- Anastasia Dimou, Gent, BE
(anastasia.dimou@ugent.be)
- Jiaoyan Chen, University
of Oxford, UK (jiaoyan.chen@cs.ox.ac.uk)
- Daniel Faria, Instituto
Gulbenkian de Ciência, PTG (daniel.faria.81@gmail.com)
- Pavel Shvaiko, Trentino
Digitale, IT (pavel.shvaiko@tndigit.it)
- Catia Pesquita, University
of Lisbon, PTG (cpesquita@di.fc.ul.pt)
- Kavitha Srinivas, IBM
Research, US (Kavitha.Srinivas@ibm.com)
- Basil Ell, Bielefeld University, GE and University
of Oslo, NO (bell@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de)
- Jose Mora, Huawei, Ireland
(jmora@live.com)
- Francisco Martin Recuerda,
DNV GL, NO (Francisco.Martin-Recuerda@dnvgl.com)
- Bijan Parsia, University
of Manchester, UK (bijan.parsia@manchester.ac.uk)
- María Poveda Villalón,
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain (mpoveda@fi.upm.es)
- Rafael Berlanga Llavori,
Universitat Jaume I, Spain (berlanga@lsi.uji.es)
- Maria del Mar Roldan Garcia,
Universidad de Málaga, Spain (mmar@lcc.uma.es)
- Rafael Gonçalves, Stanford
University (rafael.goncalves@stanford.edu)
- Mauro Dragoni, FBK, Italy
(dragoni@fbk.eu)
- Nicolas Matentzoglu, EBI,
UK (nicolas.matentzoglu@ebi.ac.uk)
- Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles,
IRIT, France (nathalie.aussenac-gilles@irit.fr)
- Nathalie Pernelle,
Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (LRI) de l'Université Paris Sud,
Université Paris Saclay (pernelle@lri.fr)
- Manuel Atencia, INRIA and
University of Grenoble (manuel.atencia@inria.fr)
- Guohui Xiao, Free
University of Bozen-Bolzano (xiao@inf.unibz.it)
- Ondřej Zamazal, Prague
University of Economics (ondrej.zamazal@vse.cz)
- Juan Sequeda, Capsenta (juan@capsenta.com)