JIWES 2012 - 1st Joint International Workshop on Entity-oriented and Semantic Search (JIWES)

1st Joint International Workshop on Entity-oriented and Semantic Search (JIWES)
Krisztian Balog (NTNU, Norway), David Carmel (IBM Research Haifa), Arjen P. de Vries (CWI/TU Delft, The Netherlands), Daniel M. Herzig (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany), Peter Mika (Yahoo! Research, Barcelona), Haggai Roitman (IBM Research Haifa), Ralf Schenkel (Saarland University/MPII), Pavel Serdyukov (Yandex, Russia), Thanh Tran Duc (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
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The workshop encompasses various tasks and approaches that go beyond the traditional bag-of-words paradigm and incorporate an explicit representation of the semantics behind information needs and relevant content. This kind of semantic search, based on concepts, entities and relations between them, has attracted attention both from industry and from the research community. The workshop aims to bring people from different communities (IR, SW, DB, NLP, HCI, etc.) and backgrounds (both academics and industry practitioners) together, to identify and discuss emerging trends, tasks and challenges. This joint workshop is a sequel of the Entity-oriented Search and Semantic Search Workshop series held at different conferences in previous years.