This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge, LDK 2017, held in Galway, Ireland, in June 2017. The 14 full papers and 19 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 initial submissions. They deal with language data; knowledge graphs; applications in NLP; and use cases in digital humanities, social sciences, and BioNLP.

This book constitutes the combined refereed proceedings of ISWC Satellite Wor shops KEKIand NLP&DBpedia 2016 which were held in conjunction with ISWC 2016 in Kobe, Japan, inOctober 2016. The 9 papers presented were carefully selected and reviewed from 20submissions. They focus on the use of linguistic linked open data, the linguistic aspectsof DBpedia, the improvement of of DBpedia through NLP applications, on increasing theNLP applications through i...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference, NooJ 2017, held in Kenitra and Rabat, Morocco, in May 2017.The 20 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. NooJ is a linguistic development environment that provides tools for linguists to construct linguistic resources that formalize a large gamut of linguistic phenomena: typography, orthography, lexicons for simple words, multiword uni...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2017, held in Bangkok, Thailand, in November 2017.The 21 full papers and 6 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. The paper topics of ICADL 2017 covered a wide spectrum from various areas, including information visualization, data mining/extraction, cultural heritage preservation, personalized service and ...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second COST Action IC1302 International KEYSTONE Conference on Semantic Keyword-Based Search on Structured Data Sources, IKC 2016, held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in September 2016. The 15 revised full papers and 2 invited papers are reviewed and selected from 18 initial submissions and cover the areas of keyword extraction, natural language searches, graph databases, information retrieval techniques for keyword...

This two-volume set (LNAI 10448 and LNAI 10449) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Collective Intelligence, ICCCI 2017, held in Nicosia, Cyprus, in September 2017.The 117 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 248 submissions. The conference focuseson the methodology and applications of computational collective intelligence, included: multi-agent systems, knowledge engineering and semantic web, social networks and rec...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts, AIST 2015, held in Yekaterinburg, Russia, in April 2015.The 24 full and 8 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 140 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on analysis of images and videos; pattern recognition and machine learning; social network analysis; text mining and natural language processing.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and the Semantic Web, KESW 2017, held Szczecin, Poland, in November 2017.The 16 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions.The papers are organized in topical sections on natural language processing; knowledge representation and reasoning; ontologies and controlled vocabularies; scalable data access and storage solutions; semantic W...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2017, held in Dublin, Ireland, in September 2017.The 7 full papers and 9 short papers presented together with 6 best of the labs papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. In addition, this volume contains the results of 10 benchmarking labs reporting their year long activities in overview talks and lab sessions. The papers address all aspects of inf...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts, AIST 2017, held in Moscow, Russia, in July 2017.The 29 full papers and 8 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 127 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on natural language processing; general topics of data analysis; analysis of images and video; optimization problems on graphs and network structures; analysis of dynamic b...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language, AINL 2017, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in September 2017.The 13 revised full papers, 4 revised short papers papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on social interaction analysis, speech processing, information extraction, Web-scale data processing, computation morphology and word embedding, m...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research, MTSR 2017 2017, held in Tallinn, Estonia, November 28th to December 1st, 2017.The 18 full and 13 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. They focus on the Internet of Things (IoT) and the practical implementation of ontologies and linked data. Further topics are theoretical and foundational principles of metadata; ...