ESAIR 2016 - Ninth Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval

The world is awash with big data now ? we are generating ten exabytes of data in a variety of different forms every day. In this wave, there is a trend to integrate the data mining methods with interactive visualizations to advance the so-called visual analytics (VA) technology. The VA technique enjoys the joint advantage of the human intelligence and the machine’s computational power. Various aspects of the data mining method need to be inspected, justified, organized and evaluated for a successful VA system. The challenges include but not limited to the data reduction, integration, governance and knowledge representation. Exploring all these directions for joining the data analysis with visualization and finally delivering values to users is a problem of vital importance and requires a lot of efforts from different parties where information management researchers from both data mining and visualization play major roles. This makes the workshop highly relevant to CIKM, the premier international conference on topics at the confluence of information retrieval, databases, and knowledge management. Moreover, the National Science Foundation of United States sets up a continuous program on the foundation of data and visual analytics, the FODAVA1, which makes this workshop an in-time event for people to share their opinions and experiences on this topic.