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Organizer:
Piek Vossen (Computational Linguistics and Lexicology, VU, Amsterdam)
Co-organizers:
Lora Aroyo (Human Semantics & Semantic Web, CrowdTruth @IBM/VU, Amsterdam)
Antske Fokkens (VU, Amsterdam)
Julia Noordegraaf (Media Studies, UvA, Amsterdam)
Ivar Vermeulen (Social Sciences, VU, Amsterdam)
Chris Welty (Massive Scale NLP & Semantics, VU/Google, New York, USA)
Language, Knowledge and People in Perspective
About
From: Tuesday 18 Apr 2017 through Friday 21 Apr 2017
Venue: Lorentz Center@Snellius, Leiden, The Netherlands
Project website https://sites.google.com/site/lorentzperspective/
Lorentz Center website https://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2017/878/info.php3?wsid=878&venue=Snellius
There is no such thing as simple text
Workshop description and aim
Finding knowledge and information is becoming an almost trivial task on the web. Understanding its value, the credibility and perspective of its source, on the other hand, is becoming increasingly problematic. Technology lags behind when it comes to providing users with proper tools.
In this workshop, we want to study and discuss all aspects of knowledge and information perspective in language, the implications for the representation, access and exploitation of knowledge and information and the impact on individuals and groups in society.
The workshop aims to bring together the best researchers from different disciplines on this topic, among which (computational) linguistics, media studies, social sciences, semantic web, and artificial intelligence, in order to define a roadmap for future research and technological solutions to model information, knowledge and mediated communication from the micro-level up to the macro-level. The workshop also focuses on application aspects of perspective relations by inviting industry, government organizations and journalists to take part in practical hands-on sessions and discussions.
Workshop Program
Day 1 – Tuesday April 18, 2017 — Getting started
| Introduction: Piek Vossen | 10:00 | 11:00 |
| Who is who? | 11:00 | 12:30 |
| Lunch | 12:30 | 14:00 |
| Industry & Application perspective | 14:00 | 15:30 |
| Coffee break | 15:30 | 16:00 |
| Plenary discussion on future collaborations and projects with industry | 16:00 | 17:00 |
| Welcome reception |
Day 2 – Wednesday April 19, 2017
The computational perspective: from micro level symbols to interpretations
| 09:00 | 10:00 | |
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| Coffee break | 11:30 | 12:00 |
| Breakout session | 12:00 | 13:00 |
| Lunch | 13:00 | 14:30 |
| Plenary presentations & posters/demos | 14:30 | 15:30 |
| Coffee break | 15:30 | 16:00 |
| Plenary discussion | 16:00 | 17:00 |
| Workshop dinner |
Day 3 – Thursday April 20, 2017
The impact perspective: from social structures to dynamics and impact
| 09:00 | 10:00 | |
| 10:00 | 11:00 | |
| Coffee break | 11:00 | 11:30 |
| Breakout session | 11:30 | 12:30 |
| Lunch | 12:30 | 14:30 |
| Plenary presentations & posters/demos | 14:30 | 15:30 |
| Coffee break | 15:30 | 16:00 |
| Plenary discussion | 16:00 | 17:00 |
Day 4 – Friday April 21, 2017
Wrap-up, synthesis and future plans
| Summary presentations and synthesis: from symbols to impact | 09:30 | 10:30 |
| Coffee break | 10:30 | 11:15 |
| Breakout session | 11:15 | 12:00 |
| Lunch | 12:00 | 14:00 |
| Keynote | 14:00 | 15:00 |
| Roadmap and future actions | 15:00 | 16:00 |
Societal Debate
“A Societal Debate: Vaccines!” Piek Vossen at ‘Connected World’ conference March 2016.
“We do not live in the Information Society: FREE ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE.
We live in a Communication Society: FREE ACCESS TO UNSUPPORTED CLAIMS, LIES, ERRORS, DECEPTION, MANIPULATION, INCONSISTENCIES, TRUST, VAGUENESS, IMPRECISION, MISQUOTES, WRONG CITATIONS.
Scientific organizers
Organizer:
Piek Vossen (Computational Linguistics and Lexicology, VU, Amsterdam)
Co-organizers:
Lora Aroyo (Human Semantics & Semantic Web, CrowdTruth @IBM/VU, Amsterdam)
Julia Noordegraaf (Media Studies, UvA, Amsterdam)
Ivar Vermeulen (Social Sciences, VU, Amsterdam)
Chris Welty (Massive Scale NLP & Semantics, VU/Google, New York, USA)