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Publishing, linking and translating news in multilingual communities: a mirror of cultural differences?
No full textMultilingual countries are made of communities with their own history and traditions that maintain their identity but, at the same time, have strong social interactions and exchanges. This paper proposes a particular perspective to look at these communities: news circulation and translation. The hypothesis is that understanding how the same news is treated by different communities, and how each community focuses on some news instead of others, can be a proxy for their cultural similarities and differences. The paper presents a pilot analysis run on Switzerland news and exploits a fully quantitative approach. The experiments confirmed the feasibility of such an automatic approach and gave valuable insights about possible improvements and applications
Special track on web technologies
No full textThe World Wide Web is changing. The advent of HTML 5, the increasing
importance of AJAX and client-side scripting, the explosion of Web-based
Social Networks as well as the advent of the Federated Social Web, the
new frontiers of Semantic Web are only some examples of this general
trend.
Web applications are progressively evolving into rich and flexible
environments where users can easily access documents, publish content,
listen to music, watch videos, draw pictures, and play directly via
browser. This class of ubiquitous software systems is gaining momentum
and fosters the evolution of new ways for people to interact and
cooperate. Novel approaches and techniques, new tools and frameworks are
needed to address the increasing complexity of these applications.
This track aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from
industry and academia working on both practical and foundational aspects
of Web technologies, as well as other technologies that in the Web
framework have found new and unexpected application fields
Investigating news coverage and circulation over time in a quantitative manner: the TARO framework
No full textNowadays news spread all over the world at incredible speed, thanks to news channels and social media. This is of great value not only for readers, who benefit from a huge amount of available information, and publishers, who gain visibility and connections but also for scholars who can investigate publication processes and public debate in depth. This paper presents a framework for studying news circulation in quantitative and computational terms. The framework is called TARO and is able to capture how “the same news” has been treated by different outlets, in different languages and in different moments in time. The key contribution of TARO is the capability to collect and process hard data about online news publishing processes, and to be easily adaptable to multiple sources and target analyses. This article in particular presents the details of the whole TARO framework—including the core conceptual model and some recent extensions, together with a software implementation—and shows how TARO can be successfully used to compare strategies for publishing and re-publishing news over time
Special track on web technologies
No full textThe World Wide Web is changing. The advent of HTML 5, the increasing importance of AJAX and client-side scripting, the explosion of Web-based Social Networks as well as the advent of the Federated Social Web, the new frontiers of Semantic Web are only some examples of this general trend.
Web applications are progressively evolving into rich and flexible environments where users can easily access documents, publish content, listen to music, watch videos, draw pictures, and play directly via browser. This class of ubiquitous software systems is gaining momentum and fosters the evolution of new ways for people to interact and cooperate. Novel approaches and techniques, new tools and frameworks are needed to address the increasing complexity of these applications.
This track aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia working on both practical and foundational aspects of Web technologies, as well as other technologies that in the Web framework have found new and unexpected application fields
Web Technologies: Selected & extended papers from WT ACM SAC 2012
No full textThis special issue of Science of Computer Programming contains extended versions of the best papers accepted for the Web Technologies (WT) track of the 27th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), which was held in Riva del Garda (Trento), Italy in March 2012
Editorial - Special Issue on the Web Technologies tracks of the 28th and 29th ACM Symposiums on Applied Computing (SAC)
No full textThis special issue of the Journal of Web Engineering contains extended versions of the best
papers accepted for the Web Technologies (WT) tracks of the 28th and 29th ACM Symposiums
on Applied Computing (SAC), which were held in Coimbra, Portugal in March 2013 and
Gyeongju, Korea in March 2014
Capturing and managing knowledge using social software and semantic web technologies
No full textIt has often been claimed that implicit knowledge is the most important kind of knowledge within organizations. The surge of social software offers new ways to elicit and diffuse this kind of knowledge. Social software also proved to be effective knowledge management instruments, particularly when combined with semantic web technologies. The logical next step - supporting the management of implicit knowledge by using semantic web-enabled social softwareâhas been only episodically explored. In this article we present KnowBest, a platform based on social software and semantic web tools to manage a specific class of implicit how-to knowledge in organizations. Our approach leverages social software intrinsic characteristics and extends them to allow for both knowledge and its structure to emerge and be collectively managed in a cooperative way using online tools with simplified interfaces. We use semantic web technologies to externalize implicit knowledge and enable reasoning on the knowledge base; we exploit reasoning within the platform itself in the form of a semantic recommender that is meant to enhance the ability of the users to find documented practices possibly related to the work they have at hand, affecting positively internalization too. We performed an evaluation in the context of a specific case study collecting feedbacks from users and showing that KnowBest can be successfully deployed to effectively promote how-to knowledge circulation within a community
Semantic Publishing Challenge – Assessing the Quality of Scientific Output
No full textThe Semantic Publishing Challenge series aims at investigating novel approaches for improving scholarly publishing using Linked Data technology. In 2014 we had bootstrapped this effort with a focus on extracting information from non-semantic publications - computer science workshop proceedings volumes and their papers - to assess their quality. The objective of this second edition was to improve information extraction but also to interlink the 2014 dataset with related ones in the LOD Cloud, thus paving the way for sophisticated end-user services
Variants and versioning between textual bibliography and computer science
No full textSome challenging questionsarise today on the relationsbetween textual bibliography and computer science: can philologists and computer scientists collaborate not only for encoding variants in digital form -Critical Editions -but also for interpreting these variants from a qualitative and quantitative point of view? Which are the potentialities of a critical approach to the textual bibliography, supported by versioning categories and tools? And, in general, are the studies of text variants fated to disappear or will computer science be able to provide new methods and tools to investigate the originsand evolutionsof a text? In this paper we address some of these research questions by presenting a fruitful collaboration over a qualitative analysis ofthe variants of the first chapter of "I Promessi Sposi"by Alessandro Manzoni. PhiloEditor, a web tool for displaying and annotating text variants, successfully supported such analysis and introduced a new methodology that has been already successfully applied to the legal domain
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