ESAIR 2012 - Fifth Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval (ESAIR'12)

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.
Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam)
Jussi Karlgren (Gavagai Stockholm)
Peter Mika (Yahoo! Research)
Vanessa Murdock (Yahoo! Research)
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~kamps/esair12/