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Fwd: CfP: Making Sense of Microposts (#MSM2011)
Begin forwarded message: Resent-From: From: Milan Stankovic <> Date: January 5, 2011 5:23:23 AM PST To: , , , , , , online-presence <>, Subject: CfP: Making Sense of Microposts (#MSM2011) =============================================================== Workshop: Making Sense of Microposts (#MSM2011) at ESWC 2011 http://research.hypios.com/msm2011 29/30 May 2011. Heraklion, Crete =============================================================== THEME ------- Making Sense of Microposts: Big things come in small packages Twitter, Facebook Like, Foursquare, and similar low-effort publishing services reduce significantly the effort required to participate on the Web. Enormous quantities of small user input are being piped into the data streams of the Web, leading to a rate of growth never before witnessed. We refer to such user input as "Microposts"; these can range from 'check-in' at a location on a geo-social networking site, through to a status update on a social networking platform. The very large amount of disparate, heterogeneous data that results requires new techniques to glean knowledge from it and provide useful services and applications sitting atop the amalgamation of the semantically rich data. This workshop will examine, broadly: * information extraction and leveraging of semantics from Microposts; * making use of Microposts' semantics in innovative ways; * social studies that guide the design of appealing and usable new systems based on this type of data, by leveraging Semantic Web technologies. The workshop is unique in that it aims to stimulate discussions between the Semantic Web community and researchers in other fields, particularly the Social Sciences, to build more effective and usable tools and techniques for their myriad end users. The interdisciplinary approach aims to help also to break down the barriers to the use of Semantic Web technologies and the very rich semantic data derived from user-generated content. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the areas below. We especially encourage submissions from an interdisciplinary perspective, examining the use of semantic information extracted from microposts from both Semantic Web, Social Sciences and other perspectives. * Microposts and Semantic Web technologies o Knowledge Discovery and Information Extraction o Factual Inference o Ontology/vocabulary modelling and learning from Microposts o Integrating Microposts into the Web of Linked Data * Social/Web Science studies o Analysis of Micropost data patterns o Motivations for creating and consuming Microposts o Relevance of Microposts and factors that influence them o Community/network analysis of Micropost dynamics o Ethics/privacy implications of publishing and consuming Microposts * Context o Utilising context (time, location, feeling) o Contextual inference mechanisms o Social awareness streams and Online Presence o Event Detection * Applying Microposts o User profiling/recommendation/personalization approaches using Microposts o Public opinion mining o Trend prediction o Expertise finding o Business analysis/market scanning o Emergency systems o Urban sensing and location-based applications SUBMISSIONS ----------- * Full papers: 12 pages * Short and position papers: 6 pages * Demos: 2 pages * Mock-up interfaces: 2 page description AND one of: - storyboard (max A3) - video (90 second limit) Written submissions should be prepared according to the Springer LNCS Publications format (see: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0), and should include author names and affiliations. Submission is via the EasyChair Conference System, at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2011. Where a submission includes additional material submission should be made as a single, unencrypted zip file that includes a plain text file listing its contents. Each submission will receive, in addition to a meta-review, at least 2 peer reviews, with full papers up to 3 peer reviews. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------- Submission deadline: 4 March 2011 Author Notification: 1 April 2011 Camera-ready deadline: 15 April 2011 Proceedings published (CEUR): 15 May 2011 Workshop - TBA: 29/30 May 2011 CONTACT ------- E-mail: Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/#!/home.php?sk=group_180472611974910 Twitter hashtag: #msm011 ORGANIZERS ---------- Matthew Rowe, KMi, The Open University, UK Milan Stankovic, Hypios/University Paris-Sorbonne, France Aba-Sah Dadzie, University of Sheffield, UK Mariann Hardey, University of Durham, UK PROGRAM COMMITTEE ---------- A. Elizabeth Cano, University of Sheffield, UK Alexandre Passant, DERI, Galway, Ireland Andres Garcia-Silva, UPM, Spain Bernhard Schandl, University of Vienna, Austria Brian Loader, University of York, UK Claudia Wagner, Joanneum Research, Austria Elena Simperl, University of Innsbruck, Austria Eric T. Meyer, Oxford Internet Institute Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France Guillaume Ereteo, INRIA, France Harald Sack, University of Potsdam, Germany Harith Alani, KMi, Open University, UK Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia John Breslin, NUIG, Ireland Jon Hickman, Birmingham City University, UK Mischa Tuffield, Garlik, UK Oscar Corcho, UPM, Spain Pablo Mendes, Kno.e.sis, Wright State University, USA Philipe Laublet, Universite Paris-Sorbonne, France Sofia Angeletou, KMi, The Open University, UK Raphael Troncy, Eurecom, France Robert Jaeschke, University of Kassel, Germany Sergei Sizov, University of Koblenz, Germany Shenghui Wang, Vrije University, Holland Uldis Bojars, University of Latvia, Latvia Victoria Uren, University of Sheffield, UK Yves Raimond, BBC, UK Ziqi Zhang, University of Sheffield, UK
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