XPERT4CQA 2022 : Second International Workshop on Expert Recommendation for Community Question Answering

Second International Workshop on eXPErt RecommendaTion for Community Question Answering (XPERT4CQA)
Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/icar.cnr.it/xpert4cqa-sdm2022/

in conjunction with

with SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM22, https://www.siam.org/conferences/cm/conference/sdm22)


April 28 - 30, 2022 Westin Alexandria Old Town | Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.


SDM 2022 is held as a hydrid conference.



About XPERT4CQA
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Community question answering is a fundamental knowledge sharing service, with a strong impact on society. Essentially, the askers of a community post questions and rely upon the wisdom and collective intelligence of the repliers in that community, for their questions to be timely and effectively answered. Unfortunately, because of the growing number of both unanswered and newly-posted questions, repliers cannot timely answer, while askers do not necessarily receive satisfactory answers even after a long time. Expert recommendation is the process aimed to the timely sharing of high-quality knowledge from answerers to askers, which allows for routing questions to the most trustworthy expert repliers. This workshop proposal aims to provide a premier international forum on all aspects of interest to expert recommendation for community question answering. In particular, the workshop will
- bring together practitioners and researchers from academia and industry, to discuss challenges, practices, principles and preliminary results, share ideas, develop innovative models, methods, techniques and tools;
- provide a venue, where participants form an interdisciplinary research community, promoting scientific cooperation and exchanges within and across areas, for unprecedented synergistic insights and approaches;
- advance research, through a focused analysis of open issues, emerging trends, unexplored directions and novel solutions.



Scope and Topics of Interest
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Because of an increasing interest in academia and industry, expert recommendation for community question answering has grown into an active area of multidisciplinary research, with a vast body of contributions at the crossroads of Recommender Systems, Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Data Science, Knowledge Representation, Knowledge Management, Social Computing and Natural Language Processing. The workshop will solicit contributions reporting original and unpublished results regarding theoretical developments, principled models, methods, techniques and algorithms, experimental results, empirical evaluations of state-of-the-art approaches, evaluation metrics, experiences with new systems and related challenges, new data sets and respective analytics, application-oriented studies, promising preliminary ideas, work in progress, demonstrations and tools. All submissions will be reviewed, by rigorously accounting for their appropriateness and relevance to the workshop as well as the novelty, importance, technical soundness and clarity of their contributions.

The topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Topical interest, topical expertise, authority, centrality, relevance, social roles, trustworthiness, confidence.
2. (Advanced) Modeling of Users, Roles and Behaviors
3. Question routing/Expert finding
4. Exploitation of External non-CQA Data
5. Dynamicity
6. Answerer Motivation
7. Exposure to Questions
8. Recommendation of Newcomers and Lurkers
9. Recommendation of Expert Answerers using Knowledge Graphs
10. Recommendation of Expert Answerers for Context-dependent Questions
11. Recommendation of Collaborative Groups of Expert Answerers



Important Dates
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Workshop paper submission: March 20, 2022, 11.59pm (USA Eastern Standard Time)
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: March 30, 2022
SDM pre-registration deadline: March 31, 2022
Camera-ready deadline: April 10, 2022
Workshop date: April 28, 2022



Guidelines
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We encourage the submission of regular research papers (6-9 pages), as well as short technical papers (around 4 pages), including references.

Both original papers and extensions of previously published works are welcome to this workshop. Submitted papers will undergo a peer-review process, coordinated by the International Program Committee.

Papers must be prepared in LaTeX2e, and formatted using SIAM’s macro. The macro is available here.

Papers must have an abstract with a maximum of 300 words and a keyword list with no more than six keywords. Authors are required to submit their papers electronically in PDF format through Microsoft CMT by the posted deadline date. Please note that at least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the paper.

Proceedings shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication.

For more questions about the workshop and submissions, please send email to [email protected]



Best Paper Award and Special Issue
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The authors of selected manuscript will be eligible for the workshop best paper award.
They will also be invited to extend their work for peer-reviewed publication in the Special Issue entitled "Community Question Answering: From Recent Advances in Methods, Techniques, Models and Applications to Future Perspectives" (https://www.mdpi.com/si/sensors/CQA_sensor), which is organized for the MDPI Sensors journal (ISSN 1424-8220, IF 3.576, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors).