It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2014 ACM Workshop on Location and the Web -- LocWeb'14. This is the fourth workshop in its series which is hosted by CIKM after having been held previously at WWW, CHI, and IoT.
The main objective of the workshop is to bring together a community of researchers at the intersection of location and the Web, serving as a unique venue to integrate different backgrounds and to stimulate the exchange of ideas and closer cooperation. LocWeb will provide a topicspecific venue where researchers from different fields, be it data mining, recommendation, search, systems, social media, applications, or standards, can discuss and develop the role of location.
In the context of LocWeb 2014, the location topic is understood as a cross-cutting issue that not only concerns information retrieval, but databases, knowledge management, and systems as well. The workshop establishes an integrated venue where the location aspect can be discussed in depth within an interested community. LocWeb follows the main theme of Location-Aware Information Access, with subtopics related to Search, Analytics, Mobility, Apps, Services, and Systems. It is designed to reflect the multitude of fields that demand and utilize location features from an interdisciplinary perspective.
We also encourage attendees to attend the highly relevant keynote presentation. It will give an interesting overview of different ways to think about human mobility and explore research into modeling approaches: Two Ways of Thinking About Where People Go, Vanessa Murdock (Microsoft).
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On the Semantic Annotation of Daily Places: A Machine-Learning Approach
Over the recent years smart devices have become a ubiquitous medium supporting various forms of functionality and are widely accepted for common users. One distinguishing feature for smart devices is the ability of positioning the physical location of a ...
Automatic Identification of Locative Expressions from Social Media Text: A Comparative Analysis
With the proliferation of smartphones and the increasing popularity of social media, people have developed habits of posting not only their thoughts and opinions, but also content concerning their whereabouts. On such highly-interactive yet informal ...
Hybrid Quantized Resource Descriptions for Geospatial Source Selection
Location nowadays is an important aspect of the Web. One scenario in this respect are archives or collections of geo-tagged media items. More concretely, we can think of collections in the arts and humanities available via OAI-PMH (a protocol for ...
Considering Common Data Model for Indoor Location-aware Services
Indoor positioning system (IPS) identifies positions of various indoor objects, and is a key technology to achieve sophisticated Indoor Location-Aware Services (InLAS). In most conventional systems, InLAS and IPS are tightly coupled. That is, one system ...
HMM-based Address Parsing with Massive Synthetic Training Data Generation
Record linkage is the task of identifying which records in one or more data collections refer to the same entity, and address is one of the most commonly used fields in databases. Hence, segmentation of the raw addresses into a set of semantic fields is ...
Automatic Zoom Level Prediction for Informal Location Descriptions
This paper is concerned with the automatic prediction of the zoom level at which to present a map with results for an informal location description. We propose the use of identifiability (relative uniqueness) and zoom level of each component geospatial ...
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Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Location and the Web
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Acceptance Rates
Year | Submitted | Accepted | Rate |
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LocWeb '14 | 5 | 4 | 80% |
Overall | 5 | 4 | 80% |