In this ISWC 2018 workshop, we are hoping to bring together researchers
to present and discuss multiple Social Good projects and topics,
to better identify intersections, overlaps, opportunities for accelerated advancement, and
opportunities for shared abstractions.
Many of the Social Good topics can benefit from the sort of unplanned, cross-domain, rapid-prototyping analysis that Linked Data makes possible. We’ve learned that measuring topics like poverty, health, economic opportunity and equality can be substantially more nuanced by considering broader categories of data than organizations traditionally collect for their own use. Past conferences have had individual presentations on topics that involve Semantic Web for Social Good. This workshop is intended to present multiple topics, to better identify intersections, overlaps, opportunities for accelerated advancement, and opportunities for shared abstractions.
BEST PAPER
Ontology-Grounded Topic Modeling for Climate Science Research,
Jennifer Sleeman, Tim Finin, and Milton Halem,
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA
A Framework to Support the Trust Process in News and Social Media,
Carlos Laufer and Daniel Schwabe,
Dept. of Informatics, PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Contextual Semantics for Radicalisation Detection on Twitter,
Miriam Fernandez and Harith Alani,
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, United Kingdom
Data Privacy Vocabularies and Controls: Semantic Web for Transparency and Privacy,
Piero A. Bonatti (5), Bert Bos (2), Stefan Decker (4), Javier D. Fern ́andez (1), Sabrina Kirrane (1), Vassilios Peristeras (3), Axel Polleres (1), and Rigo Wenning (2),
(1)Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria; (2)W3C/ERCIM;
(3)International Hellenic University, Greece; (4)RWTH Aachen University, Germany;
(5)Universita‘ degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Discussion – Deborah L McGuineess (1), Chair; Mayank Kejriwal (2); K Krasnow Waterman – moderator
(1)Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA; (2)University of Southern California, USA
Creating and Using an Education Standards Ontology to Improve Education,
Sabbir M. Rashid and Deborah L. McGuinness,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
Towards an Open Data Vocabulary for Canvas Driven Innovation Ethics,
Dave Lewis (1,2), Harshvardhan J. Pandit1 (1,2), Hannah Devinney (2), Wessel Reijers (1,3)
(1)ADAPT Centre; (2)Trinity College; (3)Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
Special Guest: Ecological Living Module: Data Visualization and Analysis of a new Self-sufficient, off-grid Tiny House
Mohamed Aly Etman
Yale University, USA
Next Steps & Takeaways (common threads, needs, tool/techniques, project ideas)
Pedro Szekely (1) & K Krasnow Waterman
(1)University of Southern California, USA
We invite submissions in the areas and intersections of Social Good, particularly those which discuss (a) Ontologies for; (b) Reasoning about; and (c) Recognizing Impact related to Social Good topics that benefit from substantial use of cross- domain data, such as (but not limited to) these high priority “Targets” from the UN Sustainable Development Goalsi:
Promote rule of law and access to justice.
Ensure access to safe, effective, and affordable health care, medicine, & vaccines.
Ensure women’s rights to economic opportunity, property ownership and inheritance.
Ensure government accountability and transparency.
Ensure all children graduate from primary and secondary schools.
End discrimination against women and girls.
Expand access to safe drinking water
Promote social, economic and political inclusion
End corruption and bribery
Expand access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy
End preventable deaths of infants and children under 5 years of age
Ensure literacy and numeracy for youth and adults
Ensure equal opportunity in economic and public life
Ensure equal access to legal rights, economic rights, and natural resources
Reduce all poverty by half
End violence against women and girls
Ensure safe, accessible sanitation and hygiene
End human trafficking, harsh labor, forced marriage and genital mutilation
Improve domestic capacity for tax and revenue collectionEliminate the most extreme poverty.
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Paper/Demo/Poster Submission deadline: June 7, 2018 (11:59 PM HAST)
Decisions to authors: June 27, 2018
Deadline to Submit Materials for USB sticks: July 31, 2018 (11:59 PM HAST)
Publication of Workshop Proceedings: August 15, 2018 (11:59 PM HAST)
Workshop: October 9, 2018
Extended abstracts (2 pages) or short paper (2 to 5 pages). Papers should be in PDF format and not anonymized.
Posters should be in PDF, PNG, or GIF
Demos should be submitted as video in MP4. Demos should be submitted with an abstract or short paper. Submitted demo videos should be no longer than 7 minutes; if accepted, a longer video or live demo may be invited.
Because we are looking to promote discussion about an emerging area, we encourage authors to keep the following options in mind when preparing submissions. Regardless of submission type, some focus should be given to (a) Ontologies for; (b) Reasoning about; and/or (c) Recognizing Impact related to Social Good topics.
Works-In-Progress: To facilitate sharing of thought-provoking ideas and high-potential though preliminary research, authors are welcome to make submissions describing early-stage, in-progress, and/or exploratory work.
Demonstrations: Presentations of functioning technology with a short paper.
Posters
White Papers
Traditional Papers
We are pleased to announce the following papers and authors accepted for presentation at the Workshop:
BEST PAPER:
Ontology-Grounded Topic Modeling for Climate Science Research,
Jennifer Sleeman, Tim Finin, and Milton Halem,
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA
A Framework to Support the Trust Process in News and Social Media,
Carlos Laufer and Daniel Schwabe,
Dept. of Informatics, PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Contextual Semantics for Radicalisation Detection on Twitter,
Miriam Fernandez and Harith Alani,
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, United Kingdom
Creating and Using an Education Standards Ontology to Improve Education,
Sabbir M. Rashid and Deborah L. McGuinness,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
Data Privacy Vocabularies and Controls: Semantic Web for Transparency and Privacy,
Piero A. Bonatti (5), Bert Bos (2), Stefan Decker (4), Javier D. Fern ́andez (1), Sabrina Kirrane (1), Vassilios Peristeras (3), Axel Polleres (1), and Rigo Wenning (2),
(1)Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria; (2)W3C/ERCIM;
(3)International Hellenic University, Greece; (4)RWTH Aachen University, Germany;
(5)Universita‘ degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Towards an Open Data Vocabulary for Canvas Driven Innovation Ethics,
Dave Lewis (1,2), Harshvardhan J. Pandit1 (1,2), Hannah Devinney (2), Wessel Reijers (1,3)
(1)ADAPT Centre; (2)Trinity College; (3)Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
John Breslin, NUI Galway
Edward Curry, NUI Galway
Lalana Kagal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mayank Kejriwal, University of Southern California
Jeff Leitner, New America & USC
Hemant Purohit, George Mason University
Pedro Szekely, University of Southern California
Amar Viswanathan, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Tetherless World Senior Constellation Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Director of the Rensselaer Institute for Data Exploration and Applications (IDEA), Tetherless World, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
