LocWeb 2015

5th International Workshop on Location and the Webat

WWW 2015Florence, Italy

43°46′55″ N 11°14′54″ E

Organizers

Dirk AhlersNTNUTrondheim, Norway

Bruno MartinsUniversity of Lisbon, IST and INESC-IDLisbon, Portugal

Erik WildeSiemensBerkeley, USA

Programme Committee• Luca Aiello, Yahoo! Labs, Spain• Keith Cheverst, Lancaster University, UK• Arjen de Vries, CWI, Netherlands• Max Egenhofer, University of Maine,

USA• Claudia Hauff, Delft University,

Netherlands• Andreas Henrich, University of

Bamberg, Germany• Christopher Jones, Cardiff University, UK• Carsten Kessler, CUNY, USA• Mareike Kritzler, Siemens, USA• Chandan Kumar, OFFIS, Germany• Vanessa Murdock, Bing, USA• Kjetil Nørvåg, NTNU, Norway• Clodoveu Davis Jr., Federal University of

Minas Gerais, Brazil• Francisco J. López-Pellicer, Universidad

Zaragoza, Spain

• Ross Purves, Universität Zürich, Switzerland

• Martin Raubal, ETH Zürich, Switzerland• Massimiliano Ruocco, NTNU, Norway• Mark Sanderson, RMIT, Australia• Johannes Schöning, Hasselt University,

Belgium• Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University,

UK• Tim Schwartz, DFKI, Germany• Rainer Simon, AIT Austrian Institute for

Technology, Austria• Torsten Suel, NYU Poly, USA• Bart Thomee, Yahoo! Labs, USA• Christoph Trattner, Graz University of

Technology, Austria• Yana Volkovich, Barcelona Media, Spain• Xing Xie, Microsoft Research Asia,

China

LocWeb 2015

• Location-aware information access

• Cross-cutting issue in Web research– Search, retrieval, analytics,

mining, extraction, mobility, apps, services, systems

• Interdisciplinary perspective• Discuss and develop the

role of location

Schedule9:00 – 10:30   Session 1• Opening

• Keynote: Chatty, Happy, and Smelly MapsDaniele Quercia

• Reconnecting Digital Publications to the Web using their Spatial Information.

Ben De Meester, Tom De Nies, Ruben Verborgh, Erik Mannens and Rik Van de Walle.

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30 Session 2• Verification of POI and Location Pairs via Weakly-Labeled Web Data.

Hsiu-Min Chuang and Chia-Hui Chang• The Role of Geographic Information in News Consumption.

Gebrekirstos G. Gebremeskel and Arjen P. de Vries.

• Discussion on Open Questions• Closing

12:30 Lunch

Contact

• http://dhere.de/locweb2015/• @locweb• #locweb2015• #www2015

Session I

Keynote

Chatty, Happy, and Smelly MapsDaniele Quercia

Session II

Discussion

Florence Location Details

• Location is interesting and useful• Cities are exciting• Location (use) is highly local• Details can be surprising• Understand the city?• What did you discover?

Open Issues

• What is exciting?• What is difficult?• What is challenging?• What should we work on?

Thoughts for LocWeb201*

• What did you expect, what new things did you learn?

• Things you liked (not?) at LocWeb?• Room for improvement?• Particular ideas for next edition?

Follow-up

• http://dhere.de/locweb2015/– Linking papers from ACM DL and WWW

• Make slides available, please!– And send link

• @locweb• Work on open issues

Keep in touch!LocWeb 2015Florence, Italy

43°46′55″ N 11°14′54″ Ehttp://dhere.de/locweb2015/

@locweb