SumPre 2016 - 2nd International Workshop on Summarizing and Presenting Entities and Ontologies (SumPre 2016)

The Open Data and Semantic Web efforts have been promoting and facilitating the publication and integration of data from diverse sources, giving rise to a large and increasing volume of machine-readable data available on the Web. Even though such raw data and its ontological schema enable the interoperability among Web applications, problems arise when exposing them to human users, as to how to present such large-scale, structured data in a user-friendly manner. To meet the challenge, we invite research contributions on all aspects of ranking, summarization, visualization, and exploration of entities, ontologies, knowledge bases and Web Data, with a particular focus on their summarization and presentation. We also welcome submissions on novel applications of these techniques. The workshop is expected to be a forum that brings together researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry in the areas of Semantic Web, information retrieval, data engineering, and human-computer interaction, to discuss high-quality research and emerging applications, to exchange ideas and experience, and to identify new opportunities for collaboration.
Topics of Interest
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Ranking and summarizing entities, ontologies, knowledge bases and Web data
Task and context-specific entity summarization
Summarization of graphs and knowledge bases
Ontology ranking, summarization, modularization, and search
Fact ranking, retrieval, and question answering over the Web
Evaluation of ranking and summarization methods
Visualizing and exploring entities, ontologies, knowledge bases and Web data
Verbalizing and visualizing entity-centric data
Ontology visualization and exploration
Navigation, faceted browsing, and exploratory search
Entity/link/ontology recommendation
Novel presentation methods and interaction paradigms for ontologies and Web data
User studies with visualization and exploration methods
Novel applications of the above techniques