ESAIR 2011 - 4th Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval (ESAIR 2011)

This workshop intends to be a forum for researchers interested in the use of application of semantic annotation of information objects and information streams for for information access tasks such as search, retrieval, categorisation and related information refinement tasks. By semantic annotations we refer to linguistic annotations (such as named entities, semantic classes or roles, etc.) as well as user annotations (such as microformats, RDF, tags, etc.), both automatically designed markup as well as manually assigned annotations: Semantic Web; Web 2.0 applications; geo-positional markers; named entities; temporal information; semantic role labeling; opinion, sentiment, and attitude; certainty and hedging to name a few directions of more abstract information found in text. In some cases semantic technologies are being deployed in active tasks, but there is no common direction to research initiatives nor in general technologies for exploitation of non-immediate textual information, in spite of a clear family resemblance both with respect to theoretical starting points and methodology. We believe further research is needed before we can unleash the potential of annotations! This workshop is intended to provide a path to formulate such research!

Omar Alonso (Microsoft, USA)
Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Jussi Karlgren (SICS Stockholm, Sweden)

Date: Friday 28th October 2011

Website: https://www.sics.se/events/esair2011