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Call for Papers
Submission deadline: April 20, 2017
*To be held in conjunction with the 25th Conference on User Modeling,
Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2017, July 2017, Bratislava, Slovakia*
Research in the areas of User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization
faces a number of significant scientific challenges. One of the most
significant of these challenges is the issue of comparative evaluation.
It has always been difficult to rigorously compare different approaches
to personalization, as the function of the resulting systems is, by
their nature, heavily influenced by the behaviour of the users involved
in trialling the systems. To-date this topic has received relatively
little attention. Developing comparative evaluations in this space would
be a huge advancement as it would enable shared comparison across
research, which to-date has been very limited.
Taking inspiration from communities, such as Information Retrieval and
Machine Translation, the EvalUMAP Workshop series seek to propose and
design one or more shared tasks to support the comparative evaluation of
approaches to User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization. This
year’s workshop will solicit presentations from key practitioners in the
field on innovative datasets that meet specific requirements (e.g.
ownership, accessibility, privacy) and that could form the basis to
start scoping and designing shared task-based challenges and evaluations
in the area of user adaptation and personalisation for next year. The
resulting shared task(s) will be accompanied by appropriate models,
content, metadata, user behaviours, etc., and can be used to
comprehensively compare how different approaches and systems perform. In
addition, a number of evaluation metrics and methods will be outlined,
that participants would be expected to perform in order to facilitate
comparison. Finally, the proposed shared task(s) will be disseminated in
the community and the resulting outcomes will be presented at an
EvalUMAP forum next year.
In particular, the planned outcomes of the EvalUMAP Workshop 2017 is as
follows: (1) A clear understanding of the challenges and requirements
related to the design of a shared task-based approach in User Modeling,
Adaptation and Personalization space and (2) identify specific issues
and requirements on user data capturing and dataset processing in the
context of personalization for a shared task (3) the identification and
description of suitable and publicly accessible datasets that overcome
the previous identified challenges and (4) the design of shared
task-based evaluations using suitable datasets that will take place
throughout 2017 and early 2018, and be presented at UMAP 2018.
Workshop topics are evaluation focused and include, but are not limited to:
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Understanding UMAP evaluation
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Defining tasks and scenarios for evaluation purposes
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Identification of potential corpora (datasets) for shared tasks
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Automated and semi automated processes on creating appropriate
datasets and simulating user behaviours etc in order to accommodate
a shared task
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Interesting target tasks and explanations of their importance
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Critiques or comparisons of existing evaluation metrics and methods
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How we can combine existing evaluation metrics and methods?
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Reusing or improving previously suggested metrics and methods
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Reducing the cost of evaluation
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Proposal of new evaluation metrics and methods
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Technical challenges associated with design and implementation
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Anonymization of datasets, Privacy, Ethics and Security issues on
the use of datasets
Workshop format:
This will be an interactive workshop structured to encourage group
discussion and active collaboration among attendees. The workshop will
feature a keynote talk, lightning round presentation session for
position papers, multiple (parallel) breakout sessions, and a final
discussion session to wrap up the event.
Paper Submissions
The workshop is now accepting position papers from 2 to 6 pages
(including references) describing approaches or ideas/challenges on the
topics of the workshop are invited. In particular, three types of papers
are solicited: (1) papers describing available infrastructure that
could be used to capture data for shared evaluation challenges; (2)
papers describing available datasets that could be exploited for
shared challenge generation; (3) papers describing challenges and
potential solutions around shared challenge generation in the UMAP space.
Submissions should be in ACM Standard SIGCONF format. LaTeX and Word
templates are available
at<http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates>http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template
<http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template>.
Papers should be submitted in pdf format through the EasyChair
systemhttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evalumap2017no later than
midnight 11:59pm Hawaii time on April 20, 2017. Submissions will be
reviewed by members of the workshop program committee. Accepted papers
will be included in the extended UMAP 2017 Proceedings and will be
available via the ACM Digital Library. In addition, the EvalUMAP
workshop proceedings will be indexed with CEUR. Authors of select papers
may be invited to contribute to a journal publication which describes
the outcomes of the workshop.
Important Dates
April 20, 2017: Deadline for paper submission (11:59pm Hawaii time)
May 20, 2017: Notification to authors
May 28, 2017: Camera-ready paper due
July 9, 2017: EvalUMAP Workshop at UMAP
Further Information
Further information is available on the workshop website
athttp://evalumap.adaptcentre.ie/or by emailing the workshop organizers
at [log in to unmask]
Workshop Organizers
Owen Conlan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Liadh Kelly, Dublin City University, Ireland
Kevin Koidl, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Séamus Lawless, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Athanasios Staikopoulos, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Programme Committee
Paul De Bra, Eindhoven University of Technology, The NetherlandsIván
Cantador, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, SpainDavid Chin, University of
Hawaii, USA
William Wright, University of Hawaii, USA
Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Hannover, GermanyGeert-Jan Houben,
Delft University of Technology, The NetherlandsJudy Kay, University of
Sydney, AustraliaTsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, IsraelAlexandros
Paramythis, Contexity, SwitzerlandFrancesco Ricci, University of Rome,
ItalyAlan Said, Recorded Future, SwedenVincent Wade, Trinity College
Dublin, IrelandStephan Weibelzahl, Private University of Applied
Sciences Göttingen, Germany*
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