Slides from the 4th International Workshop on Location and the Web at CIKM, Shanghai. http://dhere.de/locweb2014/

1. LocWeb 2014
4th International Workshop on Location and the Web
at
CIKM 2014
Shanghai, China
31.2018 N,121.4440 E

3. Organizers
Dirk Ahlers
NTNU
Trondheim, Norway
Bruno Martins
University of Lisbon, IST and
INESC-ID
Lisbon, Portugal
Erik Wilde
Siemens
Berkeley, USA

4. Motivation
• The Web is the largest
information system in
the world
• Location gives
orientation in the
physical world
• Their combination
helps us to understand
the world

5. LocWeb 2014
• Location-aware information
access
• Cross-cutting issues in Web
research
– Search, retrieval, analytics,
mining, extraction, mobility,
apps, services, systems
• Interdisciplinary perspective
• Discuss and develop the
role of location

6. Topics
• Location-Aware Information Access
• Geospatial Web Search
• Location-Based Services
• Geospatial Web Analytics
• Geospatial Visual Analytics
• Location-Aware Data Mining
• Location-Aware Text Processing
• Location-Based Entity Retrieval
• Conflation, Merging, Integration
• Location-Based Recommendation
• Place Semantics
• Lifecycle of Location Data
• Modeling Location
• Geo-Social Media and Systems
• Location-Based Social Networks
• Geo-Crowdsourcing
• Map-Based Interfaces and
Geospatial HCIR
• Geospatial Awareness
• Geospatial Applications
• Mobile Search and
Recommendation
• Mobile Apps and Mobile Context
• Mobility Data
• Location-Aware Web-Scale
Systems
• Large Ecosystems
• Location Standards

7. Programme Committee
• Susanne Boll, University of Oldenburg,
Germany
• Keith Cheverst, Lancaster University, UK
• Karen Church, Yahoo! Research, USA
• Max Egenhofer, University of Maine, USA
Claudia Hauff, Delft University,
Netherlands
• Andreas Henrich, University of Bamberg,
Germany
• Christopher Jones, Cardiff University, UK
• Eric Kansa, Alexandria Archive Institute,
USA
• Carsten Kessler, CUNY, USA
• Mareike Kritzler, Siemens, USA
• Chandan Kumar, OFFIS, Germany
• Vanessa Murdock, Bing, USA
• Kjetil Nørvåg, NTNU, Norway
• Clodoveu Davis Jr., Federal University of
Minas Gerais, Brazil
• Adrian Popescu, CEA LIST, France
• Ross Purves, Universität Zürich,
Switzerland
• Daniele Quercia, Yahoo!Labs, Barcelona,
Spain
• Martin Raubal, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• Massimiliano Ruocco, NTNU, Norway
• Johannes Schöning, Hasselt University,
Belgium
• Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University
• Rainer Simon, AIT Austrian Institute for
Technology
• Arjen de Vries, CWI, Netherlands
• Xing Xie, Microsoft Research Asia, China

8. PC on a Map

9. Paper Statistics
• 3.125 reviews per paper

10. Author Groups
Australia
2
Germany
1
Japan
1
Taiwan
1
United States
1

12. ACM DL
• Proceedings will be
in the ACM Digital
Library
• Papers will be
linked on the
workshop page
Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on
Location and the Web (LocWeb2014) held at CIKM
2014. Dirk Ahlers, Erik Wilde, Bruno Martins (eds.),
ACM, 2014.

13. Schedule 8:45 – 10:00 Session 1: Introduction and Keynote
• Opening
• Keynote: Two Ways of Thinking About Where People Go
Vanessa Murdock
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:00 Session 2: Indexing and Interfaces
• Hybrid Quantized Resource Descriptions for Geospatial Source Selection
Stefan Kufer and Andreas Henrich
• Considering Common Data Model for Indoor Location-aware Services
Long Niu, Shinsuke Matsumoto, Sachio Saiki and Masahide Nakamura
• Automatic Zoom Level Prediction for Informal Location Descriptions
Igor Tytyk and Timothy Baldwin
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Session 3: Processing and Understanding
• Automatic Identification of Locative Expressions from Social Media Text: A Comparative Analysis
Fei Liu, Maria Vasardani and Timothy Baldwin
• On the Semantic Annotation of Daily Places: A Machine-Learning Approach
Chih-Wei Chang, Yao-Chung Fan and Arbee Chen
• HMM-based Address Parsing with Massive Synthetic Training Data Generation
Xiang Li, Hakan Kardes, Xin Wang and Ang Sun
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00 Session 4: Discussion and Closing
• Discussion on Open Questions
• Closing Remarks

14. Keynote
Two Ways of Thinking About Where
People Go
Vanessa Murdock

15. Session 2
Indexing and Interfaces
Session 3
Processing and Understanding

16. Session 4
Discussion

17. Session Schedule
• Demo
• Open Issues
• Discussion
• Follow-up
• Closing

18. Open Issues, broad
• Your Comments and Suggestions?
• Promote the connection with other communities
– Within CS (e.g., NLP) and outside CS
• Promote connection to W3C activities
– Standards and models for location, mobility
• Shared tasks and joint evaluation
– E.g., TREC, MediaEVAL, …
• Data Quality, conflation, enrichment, evaluation, user
and query understanding, methods
• Privacy Concerns

19. Open Issues, detailed
• See separate slides
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20. Follow-up
• http://dhere.de/locweb2014/
– Linking papers from ACM DL
• Make slides available, please!
– And send link
• @locweb
• #locweb2014
• #cikm2014
• Work on open issues

21. Keep in touch!
LocWeb 2014
Shanghai, China
31.2018 N,121.4440 E
http://dhere.de/locweb2014/
@locweb