The 3rd International Workshop on
Natural Language Interfaces for Web of Data (NLIWoD) &  8th Question Answering over Linked Data challenge

October 21 (Saturday) or 22 (Sunday), Vienna, Austria

Goals

While the amount of Linked Open Data (LOD) increases rapidly, it is still used mostly by Semantic Web experts. There are two main obstacles to making the billions of RDF triples already available accessible for common Web users: (1) the need to learn the query language SPARQL, and (2) the need to know the schemas underlying the datasets. Approaches to ease the access to the Web of Data include graphical query interfaces, agent-based systems, and natural language interfaces. Amongst them, natural language interfaces are receiving an increasing interest due to its high expressive power and low cost for educational purposes. Recent progresses in speech recognition technologies (e.g., Siri and Google Voice) also demonstrate the usefulness of a natural language interface. The goal of this workshop is to bring together experts on the use of natural-language interfaces (NLI) for accessing the Web of Data.

News

• QALD-8 challenge results available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2241/
• Workshop proceedings available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1932/
• The 3rd NLIWoD workshop is to be held together with ISWC 2017.

Program

Sunday morning, 22nd October 2017

Time	Author	Title
9.00-9.10	Ricardo Usbeck	Introduction
9.10-9.40	Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano	Keynote: "Challenges in the development of conversational bots"
9.40- 10.10	Dennis Diefenbach, Youssef Dridi, Kamal Singh and Pierre Maret	SPARQLtoUser: Did the question answering system understand me?
10.10-10.30	Muhammad Saleem, Samaneh Nazari Dastjerdi, Ricardo Usbeck and Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo	Question Answering Over Linked Data: What is Difficult to Answer? What Affects the F scores?
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11.00- 11.30	Gerhard Wohlgenannt, Nikolay Klimov, Dmitry Mouromtsev, Daniil Razdyakonov, Dmitry Pavlov and Yury Emelyanov	Using Word Embeddings for Visual Data Exploration with Ontodia and Wikidata
11.30- 11.45	Dennis Diefenbach	Invited Announcement: Question Answering Benchmarks for Wikidata
11.45- 12.20	Ricardo Usbeck and participants of QALD-8 challenge	The QALD-8 challenge: Systems (incl. small demo), Results and Winner Announcement

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