Reminder: CfP: 3rd Workshop on Making Sense of Microposts (#MSM2013) & Concept Extraction Challenge

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UPCOMING DEADLINES:
Submission of Abstracts: 20 Feb 2013
Paper Submission deadline: 25 Feb 2013

Intent to submit to challenge: 03 Mar 2013


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       3rd Workshop on Making Sense of Microposts (#MSM2013)
                     	at WWW 2013
	        http://oak.dcs.shef.ac.uk/msm2013

           	13th May 2013. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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THEME
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Making Sense of Microposts: Big things come in small packages


Microposts (e.g. Twitter status updates, Facebook likes, Google 
recommends, Instagram photos, Foursquare checkins) are now primarily 
published from mobile devices using platform-specific applications - 
2012 saw smart phone sales surpass personal computers worldwide for the 
first time. With increasing capability to interact with social media on 
the go (using also other small devices such as tablets and even feature 
phones), we anticipate the rate of publication of Microposts to continue 
to increase. The consumption of such data is spread across a range of 
use cases and needs, from emergency response and crowd tracking, to 
financial risk forecasting and political sentiment analysis. In each 
case it is imperative that we can make sense of Microposts in order to 
extract and act upon this useful information.

#MSM2013 aims to discuss and critique current efforts toward making 
sense of Microposts - i.e. information posted on the Web that is small 
in size (typically not more than 140 characters per post) and that 
requires minimal effort to publish. Naturally, low-effort publishing 
services that result in Microposts are popular among users due to their 
ease of exchange; however, the increased quantity of new content 
available comes with a price: low information content, potential 
misinterpretation and large quantities to analyse. The analysis of 
Microposts therefore represents a major challenge that needs to be 
solved in order to help extract what is undebatable knowledge, and use 
this to build more intelligent end-user systems.

The workshop will foster discussion about research on how best to 
analyse Microposts, given their rate of publication and scale, focusing 
on: how information can be gleaned from Microposts, given their noisy 
nature and abbreviated format that requires novel methods to glean 
important information; how Microposts can be applied in novel contexts, 
e.g. for emergency response and crowd tracking; in sentiment and public 
opinion assessment; and in the teaching and learning environment.

Microposts are both a technical and a social phenomenon, and the nature 
of the challenge related to their treatment is therefore 
multi-disciplinary. We continue to promote a multidisciplinary workshop, 
as achieved in the past two in the series, by also encouraging social 
scientists and other non-Computer Science researchers to submit work 
that looks at the theories behind Micropost usage and communication 
through this medium. The workshop also encourages demonstration of 
practical application of the results of analysis of Micropost data, both 
within the research community and in everyday, real-world scenarios.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The workshop will focus on topics including, but not exclusive to, the 
four main areas below. The first two concern information extraction and 
enrichment using existing and novel algorithms, the third targets 
research on Microposts outwith a pure Computer Science perspective, and 
the last addresses the application of research on and analysis of 
Micropost data.

1. Microposts and Semantic Web technologies
	* Concept and entity extraction from Microposts
	* Modelling Microposts using ontologies
	* Inference from Microposts
	* Microposts and the Web of Linked Data
	
2. Data Mining from Microposts
	* Network analysis and community detection
	* Influence detection and social contagion modeling
	* Opinion mining and sentiment analysis
	* Content recommendation and link prediction
	* Scalable processing techniques
         * Micropost aggregation and mapping to other content
	
3. Social and Web Science Studies
	* Attention economics in Micropost systems
	* Political and polemical aspects of Microposts
	* Citizen empowerment through Microposts
	* Community/network analysis of Micropost dynamics
	* Ethics, legal and privacy implications
	* Cultural and regional differences in Micropost publishing

4. Applications
	* Brand management, business analysis / market scanning
	* Collective intelligence
	* Event detection, crowd tracking and geo-location
	* Public consensus & citizen participation
	* Emergency response & health
	* User profiling and expert-finding
	* Discovery of information & people through Microposts
	* e-Learning via Microposts
	* Visualisation of Microposts as a decision support tool

  	

CONCEPT EXTRACTION CHALLENGE
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#MSM2013 will host a 'Concept Extraction Challenge', with a US$1,500 
prize sponsored by eBay, where participants must label Microposts in a 
given dataset with the concepts referenced. Existing concept extraction 
tools are intended for use over news corpora and similar document-based 
corpora with relatively long length. The aim of the challenge is to 
foster research into novel, more accurate concept extraction for (much 
shorter) Micropost data.
Further information on how to enter the challenge is available at: 
http://oak.dcs.shef.ac.uk/msm2013/challenge.html



WORKSHOP STRUCTURE
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A keynote address from an invited speaker will open the day. This will 
be followed by paper presentations. We will hold a poster and demo 
session to trigger further, more in-depth interaction between workshop 
participants. New this year, the workshop will terminate with brief 
presentations of the outcome of a 'Concept Extraction from Microposts' 
challenge, sponsored by eBay.


SUBMISSIONS
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   * Full papers: 8 pages
   * Short and position papers: 4 pages
   * Demos & Posters: 2 pages
   * Mock-up interfaces: 2 page description AND one of:
     - storyboard (max A3)
     - video (90 second limit)

   * Challenge extended abstracts: 2 pages
	- classification results captured to a TSV file (detail at 
http://oak.dcs.shef.ac.uk/msm2013/challenge.html)

Written submissions should be prepared according to the ACM SIG 
Proceedings Template (see 
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates), and should 
include author names and affiliations, and 3-5 keywords.
Submission is via the EasyChair Conference System, at: 
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm20130. 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 at least 3 peer reviews.


IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission of Abstracts: 20 Feb 2013
Paper Submission deadline: 25 Feb 2013
Paper Notification: 13 Mar 2013
Camera-ready (hard) deadline (short & long papers): 03 Apr 2013

Challenge Data release: 17 Jan 2013
Intent to submit to challenge: 03 Mar 2013
Challenge Submission deadline: 17 Mar 2013
Challenge Notification: 31 Mar 2013
Challenge camera-ready deadline: 07 Apr 2013

(all deadlines 23:59 Hawaii Time)

Workshop program issued: 09 Apr 2013
Proceedings to be published by ACM
Workshop - 13 May 2013 (registration open to all)


CONTACT
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E-mail: msm2013-0@easychair.org
Mailing list: http://lists.dcs.shef.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/msm2013

Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/#!/home.php?sk=group_180472611974910
Facebook Public Event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/116134955169543
Twitter hashtag: #msm2013
W3C Microposts Community Group: http://www.w3.org/community/microposts


ORGANISERS
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Matthew Rowe, Lancaster University, UK
Milan Stankovic, Hypios, France
Aba-Sah Dadzie, The University of Sheffield, UK


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Steering Committee & Local Chair:
Bernardo Pereira Nunes, PUC-Rio, Brazil / L3S Research Center, Germany

Challenge Chair:
A. Elizabeth Cano, KMi, The Open University, UK
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Gholam R. Amin, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
Pierpaolo Basile, University of Bari, Italy
Julie Birkholz, Vrije University, The Netherlands
Uldis Bojars, University of Latvia, Latvia
John Breslin, NUIG, Ireland
Marco A. Casanova, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, 
Brazil
Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Danica Damljanovic, Kuato Studios, London, UK
Ali Emrouznejad, Aston Business School, UK
Guillaume Erétéo, INRIA, France
Miriam Fernandez, KMi, The Open University, UK
Fabien Gandon, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France
Andrés García-Silva, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Anna Lisa Gentile, University of Sheffield, UK
Jon Hickman, Birmingham City University, UK
Seth van Hooland, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Robert Jäschke, University of Kassel, Germany
Vita Lanfranchi, University of Sheffield, UK
Philippe Laublet, Université Paris-Sorbonne, France
João Magalhães, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, UK
José M. Morales del Castillo, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Fabrizio Orlandi, DERI, Galway, Ireland
Alexandre Passant, seevl.net / MDG Web, Ireland
Danica Radovanovic, Oxford Internet Institute, UK
Yves Raimond, BBC, UK
Guiseppe Rizzo, Eurecom, France
Harald Sack, University of Potsdam, Germany
Bernhard Schandl, University of Vienna, Austria
Sean W. M. Siqueira, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 
Brazil
Andreas Sonnenbichler, KIT, Germany
Raphaël Troncy, Eurecom, France
Mischa Tuffield, PeerIndex, UK
Victoria Uren, Aston Business School, UK
Claudia Wagner, Joanneum Research, Austria
Shenghui Wang, OCLC Research, The Netherlands
Katrin Weller, University of Düsseldorf, Germany


CHALLENGE EVALUATION COMMITTEE:
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Naren Chittar, eBay, USA
Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research, Spain
Alan Ritter, University of Washington, USA
Andrea Varga, University of Sheffield, UK

Received on Wednesday, 6 February 2013 15:19:30 UTC