LocWeb 2014

4th International Workshop on Location and the Web

at

CIKM 2014

Shanghai, China31.2018 N,121.4440 E

Organizers

Dirk Ahlers

NTNU

Trondheim, Norway

Bruno Martins

University of Lisbon, IST and

INESC-ID

Lisbon, Portugal

Erik Wilde

Siemens

Berkeley, USA

Motivation

• The Web is the largest

information system in

the world

• Location gives

orientation in the

physical world

• Their combination

helps us to understand

the world

LocWeb 2014

• Location-aware information access

• Cross-cutting issues in Web research– Search, retrieval, analytics,

mining, extraction, mobility, apps, services, systems

• Interdisciplinary perspective

• Discuss and develop the role of location

Topics

• Location-Aware Information Access

• Geospatial Web Search

• Location-Based Services

• Geospatial Web Analytics

• Geospatial Visual Analytics

• Location-Aware Data Mining

• Location-Aware Text Processing

• Location-Based Entity Retrieval

• Conflation, Merging, Integration

• Location-Based Recommendation

• Place Semantics

• Lifecycle of Location Data

• Modeling Location

• Geo-Social Media and Systems

• Location-Based Social Networks

• Geo-Crowdsourcing

• Map-Based Interfaces and Geospatial HCIR

• Geospatial Awareness

• Geospatial Applications

• Mobile Search and Recommendation

• Mobile Apps and Mobile Context

• Mobility Data

• Location-Aware Web-Scale Systems

• Large Ecosystems

• Location Standards

Programme Committee

• Susanne Boll, University of Oldenburg, Germany

• Keith Cheverst, Lancaster University, UK

• Karen Church, Yahoo! Research, USA

• Max Egenhofer, University of Maine, USAClaudia Hauff, Delft University, Netherlands

• Andreas Henrich, University of Bamberg, Germany

• Christopher Jones, Cardiff University, UK

• Eric Kansa, Alexandria Archive Institute, USA

• Carsten Kessler, CUNY, USA

• Mareike Kritzler, Siemens, USA

• Chandan Kumar, OFFIS, Germany

• Vanessa Murdock, Bing, USA

• Kjetil Nørvåg, NTNU, Norway

• Clodoveu Davis Jr., Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

• Adrian Popescu, CEA LIST, France

• Ross Purves, Universität Zürich, Switzerland

• Daniele Quercia, Yahoo!Labs, Barcelona, Spain

• Martin Raubal, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

• Massimiliano Ruocco, NTNU, Norway

• Johannes Schöning, Hasselt University, Belgium

• Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University

• Rainer Simon, AIT Austrian Institute for Technology

• Arjen de Vries, CWI, Netherlands

• Xing Xie, Microsoft Research Asia, China

PC on a Map

Paper Statistics

• 3.125 reviews per paper

Author Groups

Australia2

Germany1

Japan1

Taiwan1

United States1

ACM DL

• Proceedings will be

in the ACM Digital

Library

• Papers will be

linked on the

workshop page

Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb2014) held at CIKM 2014. Dirk Ahlers, Erik Wilde, Bruno Martins (eds.), ACM, 2014.

Schedule8:45 – 10:00 Session 1: Introduction and Keynote

• Opening

• Keynote: Two Ways of Thinking About Where People Go

Vanessa Murdock

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:00 Session 2: Indexing and Interfaces

• Hybrid Quantized Resource Descriptions for Geospatial Source Selection

Stefan Kufer and Andreas Henrich

• Considering Common Data Model for Indoor Location-aware Services

Long Niu, Shinsuke Matsumoto, Sachio Saiki and Masahide Nakamura

• Automatic Zoom Level Prediction for Informal Location Descriptions

Igor Tytyk and Timothy Baldwin

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:00 Session 3: Processing and Understanding

• Automatic Identification of Locative Expressions from Social Media Text: A Comparative Analysis

Fei Liu, Maria Vasardani and Timothy Baldwin

• On the Semantic Annotation of Daily Places: A Machine-Learning Approach

Chih-Wei Chang, Yao-Chung Fan and Arbee Chen

• HMM-based Address Parsing with Massive Synthetic Training Data Generation

Xiang Li, Hakan Kardes, Xin Wang and Ang Sun

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 – 17:00 Session 4: Discussion and Closing

• Discussion on Open Questions

• Closing Remarks

Keynote

Two Ways of Thinking About Where

People Go

Vanessa Murdock

Session 2

Indexing and Interfaces

Session 3

Processing and Understanding

Session 4

Discussion

Session Schedule

• Demo

• Open Issues

• Discussion

• Follow-up

• Closing

Open Issues, broad

• Your Comments and Suggestions?

• Promote the connection with other communities– Within CS (e.g., NLP) and outside CS

• Promote connection to W3C activities– Standards and models for location, mobility

• Shared tasks and joint evaluation– E.g., TREC, MediaEVAL, …

• Data Quality, conflation, enrichment, evaluation, user and query understanding, methods

• Privacy Concerns

Open Issues, detailed

• See separate slides

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Follow-up

• http://dhere.de/locweb2014/

– Linking papers from ACM DL

• Make slides available, please!

– And send link

• @locweb

• #locweb2014

• #cikm2014

• Work on open issues

Keep in touch!

LocWeb 2014

Shanghai, China31.2018 N,121.4440 E

http://dhere.de/locweb2014/

@locweb