Open Data is the idea that certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. Open Data recently, gaining popularity with the rise of the W3C Semantic Web prospective vision.

We would like to invite researchers and actors of the open data movement to present their work to the workshop. This workshop would like to bring together data providers, initiative groups, technology providers, and researchers to facilitate the dissemination of ideas, methods and promote new research perspectives related to the Open Data and the Semantic Web applications.

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1. CALL FOR PAPERS

EACL 2012 Workshop on Semantic Analysis in Social Networks
April 23, 2012, Avignon, France

Submission Deadline: Jan 30, 2012

Website: http://www.eecs.uottawa.ca/~diana/eacl2012_social_media_workshop.html

Semantic analysis in social networks (SN) is important for applications such as understanding and enabling social networks, natural language interfaces and human behaviour on the web, e-learning environments, cyber communities and educational or online shared workspaces. These aspects are also important in security, privacy & identity, opinion mining, sentiment analysis, and in the larger area of affective computing.

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AI 2012: The 25th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence

http://www.canadianai.ca

May 28th to May 30th, 2012
York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Due to popular demand, the deadline for paper submitions has been extended to January 23th, 2012.

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NEW Full paper submission deadline: January 23rd, 2012
NEW Notification of acceptance: February 24th, 2012
Final papers due: March 5th, 2012
Conference: May 28th to May 30th, 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS
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AI'2012, the twenty-fifth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, invites papers that present original work in all areas of Artificial intelligence, either theoretical or applied. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Agent Systems

1. Call for Papers

The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, organizational, and social issues. JCDL encompasses the many meanings of the term digital libraries, including (but not limited to) new forms of information institutions and organizations; operational information systems with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, distributing, and accessing digital content; theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing; and theory and practice of use of managed content in science and education.

1.1. Important Dates

• Full Papers due January 23, 2012
• Short Papers, Panels, Posters, Demonstrations, Workshops, Tutorials due January 30, 2012
• Notification of acceptance for Workshops and Tutorials: March 1, 2012

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CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

SEMAPRO 2011: The Fifth International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing

November 20-25, 2011 - Lisbon, Portugal

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/SEMAPRO11.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/CfPSEMAPRO11.html

- regular papers

- short papers (work in progress)

- posters

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/SubmitSEMAPRO11.html

Submission deadline: July 5, 2011 (extended)

CALL FOR PAPER – CSWS2011: Third Canadian Semantic Web Symposium 2011
http://csws2011.uwaterloo.ca/

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
August 5, 2011

Paper Submission

https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=cswws11

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Important dates:

Submission Deadline: June 20th, 2011

Acceptance Notification: July 15th, 2011

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Call for Papers (Extended Deadline)

The STAKE 2011 Program Committee invites submission of papers for the 3rd Semantic Technology and Knowledge Engineering Conference (STAKE). The purpose of the conference is to promote scientific interchange among practitioners of applied Semantic Technology and Knowledge Engineering. The conference is hosted by MIMOS BERHAD and Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) and will be co-located with the 3rd Malaysian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MJCAI2011) at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Call for Papers

The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE ICSC 2011)
September 18th-21st, 2011
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA

Extended Call for Papers

Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2011)
June 13-17, 2011 - Ottawa, Canada
http://www.jcdl2011.org
Hosted by the University of Ottawa
Sponsored by ACM SIGIR, ACM SIGWEB, and IEEE-CS TCDL

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Extended Call for Papers

Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2011)
June 13-17, 2011 - Ottawa, Canada
http://www.jcdl2011.org
Hosted by the University of Ottawa
Sponsored by ACM SIGIR, ACM SIGWEB, and IEEE-CS TCDL

Extended Call for Papers
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