CALL FOR PAPERS

Extended submission deadline: Oct. 4, 2024

The Semantic Technology (ST) track (https://sites.google.com/view/sac2025-st/home)
in the 40th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2025). (https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/)
March 31 - April 5, 2025, in Sicily, Italy.

ACM SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING
For the past forty years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum
for applied computer scientists, computing engineers, software engineers, and application developers worldwide.

SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGY TRACK CALL FOR PAPERS
The technical track "Semantic Technology" focuses on the topics related to Semantic Technologies and their Applications using artificial intelligence. The semantic technologies range from semantic web technologies to more advanced techniques to understand natural language using machine learning and artificial intelligence.

The focus of this track is to present research concerning issues such as 1) learning/constructing ontologies for Semantic Technology; 2) utilizing ontologies and artificial intelligence for data management, integration, and interoperability in Semantic applications; 3) architectures for achieving Semantic Technology for specific application domains; and 4) improving search techniques (or engines) with Semantic Technologies.

This track aims to tackle research problems and practical applications for Semantic Technology. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers on the theoretical, technical, and practical issues of Semantic Technology and its Applications. We are particularly interested in applying Semantic Technology to specific application domains (e.g., e-learning, e-business, social networks, geographic information systems, medical informatics, and bioinformatics).

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Semantic interoperability
Ontology-enabled interoperability among e-sources
Ontology, Taxonomy, and Folksonomy
Schema mapping/matching and integration
Ontology generation/learning
Building/utilizing ontologies and knowledge bases
Semantics and ontologies in data integration
Ontology-enabled search (engines)
Advanced search (engines)
Semantic technology-enabled question-answering
Ontology-enabled information retrieval
Semantic Technology-enabled information retrieval
Semantic Technology-enabled Information Extraction
Data management and integration for Semantic Technology-enabled applications
Semantic annotation
Semantic Technology-enabled personalization
Semantic Technology-enabled user modeling
Semantic Technology-enabled recommendation
Reasoning
Semantic Technology-enabled Web/text mining
Semantic Technology-enabled Natural language understanding
Semantic Social Network
Semantic Social Informatics
Recommendations via Semantic Technologies
Semantic Knowledge Discovery
Visual Analytics with Semantics
Data Analytics with Semantics
Semantics and information retrieval with deep learning
Semantic Technology-enabled applications with deep learning
Semantic Aspects in Privacy and Security of Semantic Web Applications
Semantic Aspects in Social Network
Semantic Aspects in Geographic Information System
Geospatial semantics
Knowledge graph and applications
Deep learning (or neural network) on semantics
Deep learning (or neural network) on NLP applications
LLM applications
Semantic Technology in ChatGPT
Language Modeling in Semantic Technology
The development and training of LLMs
The application of LLMs to natural language processing tasks
The ethical and societal implications of LLMs

SUBMISSION TYPES

Submissions should fall into the following categories:
• Original and unpublished research work
• Reports of innovative computing applications in sciences, engineering, and business areas
• Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains
• Reports of industrial experience and demos of new innovative systems

Each paper will be double-blindly reviewed by at least three reviewers.
Please adhere to this requirement when you prepare your paper.
Double-blindly means that the author of a paper does not know the reviewers of his/her paper, and
reviewers do not know the authors of the papers they reviewed.
The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must NOT appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference
should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review.
Only the title should be shown on the top of the first page without the author's information.
A paper cannot be submitted to more than one track.
All paper submissions MUST BE "Original, unpublished work."

Paper registration is required to allow the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings.
An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster
to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of scheduled papers and posters will result in
exclusion from the ACM/IEEE digital library.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURES
Authors are invited to submit original papers in PDF format.
Since the track papers will be published by ACM proceedings, authors must submit manuscripts using the ACM format.
For template files and details, refer to the ACM SAC author kit (https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/authorkit.php).

RESEARCH PAPERS
• For accepted regular papers, full papers are limited to 8 pages with the option for up to 2 additional pages.
• For accepted poster papers, posters are limited to 2 pages with the option for up to 1 additional page.
Submission to the research papers program should be in electronic form via the following:
https://easychair.org/account2/signin_timeout?l=2442073501763439641

STUDENT RESEARCH COMPETITION (SRC)
The details of SRC is here: https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/src_program.php
As before, SAC 2025 organizes a Student Research Competition (SRC) Program to allow graduate students
to meet and exchange ideas with researchers and practitioners in their areas of interest.
Submission to the SRC program should be in electronic form via the following:
https://easychair.org/account2/signin_timeout?l=4474576676143398626

IMPORTANT DUE DATES
October 4, 2024: Submission of regular papers and SRC research abstracts. (*** Final Extended deadline)
October 30, 2024: Notification Paper acceptance/rejection and SRC Acceptance
November 29, 2024: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers/SRC
December 6, 2024: Author registration due date

PROGRAM CHAIRS
Hyoil Han, Illinois State University, USA
Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York, USA
Sangsoo Sung, Rivian Inc., USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
TBA

CONTACT
For further information on this track, please contact the Semantic Technology Track chairs:
hyoil.han@acm.org, soon.chun@csi.cuny.edu, or sangsoosung@rivian.com.