WP7-Poss-Confs-2013

= Possible Conferences 2013 =

This page documents possible target conferences for reporting our results from ViBRANT, and associated projects.

RANLP 2013
Recent Advances in Natural language Processing, 9 - 11 September 2013, Hissar, Bulgaria, http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2013/

Individual schedule:
 * Tutorials: September 7-8, 2013 (Saturday-Sunday)
 * Main Conference: September 9-11, 2013 (Monday-Wednesday)
 * Workshops: September 12-13, 2013 (Thursday-Friday)

Dates:
 * Expected conference submission deadline: end of April/beginning of May 2013 (please check regularly http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2013 for updated information)

JCDL 2013
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 22 - 26 July 2013, Indianapolis, USA, http://www.jcdl2013.org/

Individual schedule:
 * Tutorials and Doctoral Consortium: 22 July 2013
 * Main conference: 23-25 July 2013
 * Workshops: 25-26 July 2013

Dates:
 * 28 January 2013, Full paper submissions due
 * 4 February 2013, Short paper, panel, poster, and demonstration submissions due
 * 4 February 2013, Tutorial and workshop proposals due

Note: Guido will be submitting to this; he targets JCDL every year. Last year though, his submission was rejected. The re-worked version got in to TPDL instead. For 2013 he plans to write up the RefBank reconciler, so will not overlap with anything we submit.

TPDL 2013
The 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, 22 - 26 September 2013, Valletta, Malta, http://www.tpdl2013.info/

Dates:
 * 23 March 2013, Full and Short papers, Posters, Panels, Tutorials and Demonstrations deadline
 * 4 March 2013, Workshops proposals deadline

SIGIR 2013
The 36th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, 28 July - 1 August 2013, Dublin, Ireland, http://sigir2013.ie/

Dates:
 * 21 January 2013, Abstracts for full research papers due
 * 28 January 2013, Full research paper due
 * 4 February 2013, Workshop proposals due
 * 18 February 2013,Posters, demonstration, and tutorial proposals due

Biocuration 2013
The 6th International Biocuration Conference, 7 - 10 April 2013, Cambridge, UK, http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biocuration2013/home

Attended and two posters presented.

MTSR 2013
Specifically AgroSEM2013, the Special Track on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food & Environment within the 7th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR'13), 19 - 22 November 2013, Thessaloniki, Greece, http://mtsr2013.teithe.gr/

Dates: Submissions Interested authors can submit either full papers (12 pages) or short papers (6 pages) about complete or ongoing research. Papers should be original and not previously submitted.
 * 20 June 2013: Paper submission (Springer LNCS style, PDF file submission)
 * 31 July 2013: Acceptance notification
 * 20 August 2013: Camera-ready, revised version of accepted papers

IC3K 2013
International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, 19 - 22 September 2013, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, http://www.ic3k.org/

Dates:
 * Regular Paper Submission: March 12, 2013
 * Authors Notification (regular papers): May 13, 2013
 * Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: June 4, 2013

S4BIODIV
1st International Workshop on Semantics for Biodiversity, http://semantic-biodiversity.mpl.ird.fr/

Held in parallel with the 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2013), 26 - 27 May 2013, Montpellier, France, http://2013.eswc-conferences.org/

Dates:
 * Pre-submission inquiry deadline: February 24, 2013
 * Submission Deadline:            March 4, 2013.
 * Notification:                   April 1, 2013
 * Camera ready:                   April 15, 2013.
 * Workshop day:                   May 26/27, 2013.

SWIB13
Semantic Web in Libraries Conference ("Semantic Web in Bibliotheken"), http://swib.org/swib12/

25 - 27 November 2013, Hamburg, Germany.

Dates:
 * Submission Deadline:            May 26, 2013.

No other dates known yet. Submission system active from early May.

Possible topics

 * Conversion of XML to stand off for born-digital literature
 * Pensoft produces output in TaxPub format, a biodiversity specific extension to the widely used PubMed standard
 * straightforward short technical report on the conversion process
 * Conversion of XML to stand off for digitised literature
 * conversion of INOTAXA's TEIXLITE and taXMLit to stand off
 * higher level view of conversion process, not just technical report but exploring issues of different purposes required of the text by the different disciplines
 * Common OCR problems
 * Anton's work in addition to common OCR problems
 * confusex
 * Latin recognition
 * Applying Needleman-Wunsch alignment to comparable texts
 * Tolerance optimisation (related to NW above)
 * Revisit and extend ABLE topics as short papers
 * ViBRANT corpus
 * Problems of compiling and curating a corpus from historic literature
 * Different mark up for different purposes
 * Community annotation (Hui's project)
 * RefBank = Bibliography of Life 2
 * BoL set out issues
 * this paper describe how we addressed them