<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-d8e86d85-7fff-428a-f7f7-a3fb797542bc" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.27636;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Apologies for cross-posting *</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.27636;text-align:center;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">** Call for RESOURCE PAPERS **</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.27636;text-align:center;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In conjunction with</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.27636;text-align:center;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CIKM 2020 (Galway, Ireland - October 19th-23rd, 2020)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.27636;text-align:center;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><a href="https://cikm2020.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://cikm2020.org/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.27636;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">More info at </span><a href="https://cikm2020.org/call-for-resource-papers/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://cikm2020.org/call-for-resource-papers/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CIKM recognises the importance of </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">publicly available scientific resources</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, such as datasets, evaluation benchmarks, tools or libraries as a necessary and important prerequisite for fostering research in core CIKM areas.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Resources Track seeks submissions from both academia and industry that describe resources available to the community. Resources include, but are not restricted to, information retrieval test collections, labelled datasets for machine learning, and software tools and services.  We also seek papers describing original research on building datasets and resources for broad use.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">An ideal resource track paper will fit into one or more of the following categories:</span></p><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Describing a </span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">new and innovative dataset</span></p></li><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To support research on novel application domains;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To support novel evaluation tasks;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Created using novel methods and/or algorithms;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Labeled using novel and well-described annotation and/or crowdsourcing approaches;</span></p></li></ol><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Reusable research prototypes and services</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open software frameworks, tools and libraries</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> which support tasks in data science, data engineering or information & knowledge management".</span></p></li></ol><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Important Dates</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paper abstract submission deadline: June 1, 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paper submission deadline: June 8, 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paper acceptance notification: July 24, 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Camera-ready submission deadline: August 14, 2020</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.37455;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Check our </span><a href="https://cikm2020.org/sponsorship/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">sponsorship options</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant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