Call for Papers

Second International Workshop on Multisensory Data & Knowledge
in conjunction with TheWebConf 2023
https://odeuropa.github.io/mdk/

Important dates:
- Workshop papers submissions -  6 February, 2023 - 23:59 AOE
- Notification - 6 March, 2023
- Camera Ready Submission - 20 March, 2023
- Workshop Day - 1 or 2 May, 2023

Motivations:
Our senses are the gateways to our memories and emotions. However, they
are under-represented in language technology and semantic web research.
In this workshop, two recently awarded H2020 projects, Odeuropa and
Polifonia, are teaming up to advance our understanding of how smells and
music are represented in texts and structured data. The topics we want
to address revolve around extracting references to smells, music,
context, and visual information from text as well as relevant data
describing their cultural, historical and political context, and model
them in the form of interlinked knowledge graphs. This research has a
strong interdisciplinary character, hence the workshop has the potential
to attract researchers from diverse disciplines from both social
sciences and humanities and computer science. Its potential impact is
significant to many application areas including: preservation and
valorisation of cultural heritage, data-driven policy making in cultural
heritage, urban planning, artistic performances, applications for
scholars in musicology and history, applications for museums, innovation
in teaching, maintenance and exploitation of large catalogues, archives
and libraries. We aim at creating a reference venue where new ideas and
results can be shared and lead the way towards a technological and
cultural shift in how we understand and experience our cultural heritage.

Topics of interest:
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
     Olfactory, musical and visual information extraction from text
     Olfactory, musical and visual knowledge representation
     Resources for olfactory, musical and visual knowledge
     Extraction of socio-cultural and historical context information
from text
     Extraction of time, space, events, people and (musical, olfactory
and visual) artifacts from text
     Knowledge graphs integrating olfactory, musical and visual knowledge
     Multilingual text corpora on musical and olfactory heritage
     Automatic and semi-automatic generation of language descriptions of
sensory experience
     Methods and approaches to represent degrees of sensorial
experiences (e.g. intensity, dissipation)
     Applications for teaching/training/valorisation of multisensory
data and knowledge

Submission:
We solicit submissions of long and short papers covering a wide range of NLP
and semantic web topics dealing with the extraction and analysis of information
from multisensory data. Papers presenting collaborations among researchers with
different backgrounds or from different research communities are particularly
welcome. All submissions must be in PDF and written in English, single-blind
and formatted in the style of the ACM template and format as the main
TheWebConf 2023 conference (see the instruction for authors). Workshop papers
should not exceed 12 pages in length (maximum 8 pages for the main paper
content + maximum 2 pages for appendixes + maximum 2 pages for references).
Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to the ACM template published
in the ACM guidelines, selecting the generic “sigconf” sample. The PDF files
must have all non-standard fonts embedded. Workshop papers must be
self-contained and in English.

The MDK 2023 proceedings will be published in the conference’s companion
volume. The submission web site is
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thewebconf2023iwpd (select ‘‘2nd
International Workshop on Multisensory Data and Knowledge (MDK)’’ when creating
a new submission).

For any questions, please feel free to contact the organisers directly, or via
thewebconf2023companion@easychair.org.

Organisers:
Marieke van Erp, KNAW Humanities Cluster, the Netherlands
Valentina Presutti, University of Bologna, Italy
Raphael Troncy, EURECOM, France
Albert Meroño-Peñuela, King's College London, UK
Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Enrico Daga, the Open University, UK

Programme Committee [TBC]:
Elena Cabrio, INRIA, France
Ilja Croijmans, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Marilena Daquino, University of Bologna, Italy
Tommaso Di Noia, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Desmond Elliot, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Asifa Majid, the University of York, UK
Barbara McGillivray, The Alan Turing Institute & Cambridge University, UK
Stefano Menini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Dunja Mladenic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Philippe Rigaux, Conservatoire national des arts et metiers (CNAM), France
Marco Rospocher, University of Verona, Italy
Serra Sinem Tekiroglu, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Rachele Sprugnoli, Universita  Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Chiara Veninata, The Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and
Activities, Italy
Valeria Zotti, University of Bologna, Italy