Call For Posters and Demos: Making Sense of Microposts (#MSM2011)

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CALL FOR POSTERS, DEMOS AND LATE-BREAKING WORK
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1st Workshop on Making Sense of Microposts #MSM2011
7th Extended (former European) Semantic Web Conference ESWC 2010
30 May 2011
Heraklion, Greece
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http://research.hypios.com/msm2011/
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The topic of Making Sense of Microposts generated a lot of interest in the
Semantic Web research community, confirmed by 19 high quality paper
submissions, out of which 9 were accepted. We are now opening a second call
for a poster and demo track for presenting ideas, late-breaking results,
ongoing research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress.
Posters and Demos are intended to provide authors and participants with the
ability to connect with one another and to engage in discussions about the
work. The call is intended for presentations of both work in research and
industry.

Authors are invited to submit a 2-page paper (PDF, Springer LNCS style [1])
with a separate abstract (up to 150 words). The paper must clearly
demonstrate relevance to the #MSM2011 topics. Decisions about acceptance
will be based on relevance to the Semantic Web area, originality, potential
significance, topicality and clarity.

The accepted posters and demos will be presented in the coffee breaks during
the Workshop, thus giving the poster authors the opportunity to interact
with other participants and obtain feedback on their work. The poster
abstracts will be available on the Workshop website, but will not be
included in the official proceedings.

An award for the most innovative poster/demo will be given by the workshop
chairs.

For more information about the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS) please visit:
[1] http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0

*Topics of Interest*
We encourage submissions from, but not limited to, the following topics of
interest:

Microposts and Semantic Web technologies


   - Knowledge Discovery and Information Extraction
   - Factual Inference
   - Ontology/vocabulary modelling and learning from Microposts
   - Integrating Microposts into the Web of Linked Data


Social/Web Science studies


   - Analysis of Micropost data patterns
   - Motivations for creating and consuming Microposts
   - Relevance of Microposts and factors that influence them
   - Community/network analysis of Micropost dynamics
   - Ethics/privacy implications of publishing and consuming Microposts


Context


   - Utilising context (time, location, feeling)
   - Contextual inference mechanisms
   - Social awareness streams and Online Presence
   - Event Detection


Applying Microposts


   - User profiling/recommendation/personalization approaches using
   Microposts
   - Public opinion mining
   - Trend prediction
   - Expertise finding
   - Business analysis/market scanning
   - Emergency systems
   - Urban sensing and location-based applications



*Important Dates*
Submission (Posters/Demos): May 1, 2011 (23:59 Hawaii time)
Notification (Posters/Demos): May 15, 2011
Camera Ready (Posters/Demos): May 20, 2011


*Submission*
Submission and reviewing of poster papers will be electronic, via the
MSM2011 EasyChair installation at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2011

*General contact*
If you have any questions, please contact: msm.orgcom@gmail.com

*#MSM Chairs*
Matthew Rowe
Milan Stankovic
Aba-Sah Dadzie
Mariann Hardey