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PROFILES'17
4th
International
Workshop
on
Dataset
PROFIling&
fEderated
Search
for
Web
Data
Preface
This volume of proceedings gathers papers from the 4th International Workshop on
Dataset PROFIling and fEderated Search for Web Data (PROFILES '17), co-located
with the 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017) held on the 22nd
of
October,
2017in
Vienna,
Austria.
The Web of Data, including Linked Data and knowledge graphs, has seen
tremendous growth recently. In addition, new forms of structured data have emerged
in the form of Web markup, such as schema.org, and entity-centric data in Web
tables. Considering these rich, heterogeneous and evolving data sources which
cover a wide variety of domains, exploitation of Web Data becomes increasingly
important in the context of various applications, including federated search, entity
linking, question answering and fact verification. These applications require reliable
information on dataset characteristics, including general metadata, quality features,
statistical information, dynamics, licensing and provenance. The lack of a thorough
understanding of the nature, scope and characteristics of data from particular
sources limits their take-up and reuse, such that applications are often limited and
focused on well-known reference datasets. The PROFILES workshop series aims at
gathering approaches to analyse, describe and discover data sources – including but
not limited to SPARQL endpoints – as a facilitator for applications and tasks such as
query distribution, semantic search, entity retrieval and recommendation. PROFILES
offers a highly interactive forum for researchers and practitioners bringing together
experts in the fields of Semantic Web, Web Data, Semantic Search, Databases,
NLP,IRandvarious
application
domains.
The PROFILES '17 workshop is a continuation of the workshop series successfully
started as PROFILES '14 - PROFILES '16 at ESWC 2014 - 2016. These workshops
aim to gather innovative query and search approaches for large-scale, distributed
and heterogeneous linked datasets in line with dedicated approaches to analyse,
describe and discover endpoints, as an inherent task of query distribution and
dataset recommendation. This year we have accepted four full papers and two short
papers.
We would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank the authors for their
invaluable and inspiring contributions to the workshops. Our sincere thanks are due
to the program committee members for reviewing the submissions and ensuring the
high
quality
of
our
workshop
program.
We are also very grateful to the organisers of the ISWC 2017 conference, and in
particular to the Workshops and Tutorials Chairs, Aidan Hogan and Valentina
Presutti,
for
their
support
in
the
workshop
organisation.
Sincere appreciation for his time and expertise goes to our keynote speaker Prof. Dr.
Heiko Paulheim from the Data and Web Science Group, University of Mannheim,
Germanyfor
his
talk
entitled
“Towards
KnowledgeGraphProfiling”.
September
2017
ElenaDemidova
Stefan
Dietze
Julian
Szymański
John
Breslin
(The PROFILES '17 workshop was co-organised by members of the KEYSTONE
COST Action IC1302 on semantic KEYword-based Search on sTructured data
sOurcEs and supported by the Data4UrbanMobility project funded by the Federal
Ministry
of
Education
and
Research,
Germany
(BMBF,
02K15A040).)
Organisation
Organising
Committee:
ElenaDemidova, L3SResearchCenter, Leibniz
Universität
Hannover,
Germany
StefanDietze,L3S
ResearchCenter, Leibniz
Universität
Hannover,
Germany
JulianSzymański,GdańskUniversityof
Technology, Poland
JohnBreslin,
National
University
of
Ireland
Galway,Ireland
ProgramCommittee:
Axel
Ngonga Ngomo, InfAI,
Universityof
Leipzig
Muhammad Saleem, InfAI,
Universityof
Leipzig
AndreasNürnberger, Otto-von-Guericke Universityof
Magdeburg
Alessandro Adamou, Knowledge Media Institute,
TheOpen
University
Enrico
Daga, TheOpen University
DmitryMouromtsev, ITMO University,
St.Petersburg
BernardoPereira Nunes, PUC-Rio
Thanassis TiropanisUniversity of
Southampton
Konstantin TodorovLIRMM /
University
ofMontpellier
TomHeath, Arup
CharlieAbela,
University of
Malta
MarcoAntonioCasanova, PUC–Rio
RaquelTrillo-Lado,Universidad deZaragoza
SimonGottschalk, LeibnizUniversitätHannover
RanYu,Leibniz
Universität Hannover
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purposes.
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volume
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