CfP: Making Sense of Microposts

Mark
December 19, 2015

Post navigation

←→

Archives

  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • February 2014
  • January 2014
  • December 2013
  • November 2013
  • October 2013
  • September 2013
  • August 2013
  • July 2013
  • June 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • February 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • November 2012
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • July 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • April 2012
  • March 2012
  • February 2012
  • January 2012
  • December 2011
  • November 2011
  • October 2011
  • September 2011
  • August 2011
  • July 2011
  • June 2011
  • April 2011
  • February 2011
  • January 2011
  • December 2010
  • November 2010

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in

Skip to content
  • Home
  • Stuff I Like
  • Research Blogging
    • Reflexive scholarship and digital academic culture
    • Personal morphogenesis and platform socialisation
    • Education, civics and social change
    • The practice of social theory
  • Publications
  • Get In Touch

CfP: Making Sense of Microposts

This is very interesting. This terminology is totally new to me:

=====================================================================

the 6th Making Sense of Microposts Workshop (#Microposts2016)
at WWW 2016

http://microposts2016.seas.upenn.edu

11/12th Apr 2016

=====================================================================

THEME: Big things come in small packages
——————-

Microposts – “information published on the Web that is small in size and requires minimal effort to publish” – remain a popular means for
communicating information. Microposts include tweets (using plain text or with embedded links and objects); social network endorsement using
Instagram hearts; check-ins via Facebook and Foursquare, pins on Pinterest; links to brief, pre-recorded and streaming video via Snapchat and Meerkat.

Microblogging apps for the ubiquitous smartphone and other small, personal devices, which support capturing photos and short videos, allow these to accompany text or serve in themselves as the Micropost. Services such as those provided by WhatsApp, Viber, Snapchat, LINE and Saya, piggybacking on SMS/MMS and augmented with social media features, are also growing in popularity, especially in emerging markets where the Internet is often accessible mainly via mobile networks. Such services typically sync with desktop or web front-ends, allowing seamless switching between devices. Microposts are also used as a portal to other services, alerting users to, e.g., live video streams on Periscope and Meerkat.

Individual Microposts typically focus on a single thought, message or
theme, often written on the go or in the moment, as events transpire.
Collectively, however, Microposts  comprise a very large amount of
heterogeneous data – a source of valued, collective intelligence about a range of topics that may be mined for a variety of end uses, including opinion mining and crowd tracking, emergency response and community services. The #Microposts workshops aim to continue to provide a forum to enable discussion and hence, improve understanding of the social and cultural phenomena that influence the publication and reuse of Microposts; to assess different approaches to gleaning the information content. Enabling the understanding and application of Microposts in various contexts requires techniques and tools that function at scale, and that are able to handle the very high rate of publication.

Despite advances in tools to tackle the specific challenges inherent to
Micropost data, applications and approaches for analysing Microposts still rely on third party text extraction tools. An important aim of the workshop is to promote formal evaluation of the accuracy of text extraction tools specifically for Micropost data, as opposed to more typical comparative assessment using corpora of well-formed, normal length, natural language documents. To address this issue, starting in 2013 the workshop hosted an information extraction challenge in which participants detected named entities typed with corresponding concepts. In 2014, the challenge was extended to require also the linking of entities extracted to relevant DBpedia sources. 2015 saw further extension that tested the accuracy and runtime efficiency of entrants’ systems for entity extraction and linking.

#Microposts2016 will consolidate the 2015 task and provide a base from
which participants will deploy live systems. Evolution of the challenge
each year addresses a current need of researchers and others who rely on the output of text extraction tools specifically built to support or
adapted to Micropost data, and where reliability and computation time are important when dealing with large-scale datasets.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
——————-

#Microposts2016 will focus on topics including, but not exclusive to, the
three areas below:

MAKING SENSE/UNDERSTAND – focusing on the human in Micropost data
generation and analysis, we encourage submissions that look at
understanding how situation and context drive individual and collective
generation of Microposts, whether targeted at the general public, a
specific person or other entity, e.g. a ruling government or a cause. We particularly encourage interdisciplinary work and that driven by research in Social & Computational Science and Information and Web Sciences, that lead to deeper understanding of Micropost content, and how this content influences the contribution of Micropost data to, among others:
– Collective awareness
– Education & citizen empowerment, data & citizen journalism
– Civil action, media & politics
– Political and polemical aspects of Microposts
– Ethics, legal and privacy issues
– Psychological profiling and psychological aspects of Micropost-based
interaction
– Cultural, generational and regional differences in access and use of
Microposts
– Humans as sensors
– Impact of effortless posting and wearable devices on communication

DISCOVER – The extraction of information content from Microposts and
subsequent analysis contribute to the discovery of patterns and trends in the data. This information is key to further knowledge discovery and
application, using a number of approaches including:
– Emergent semantics
– Data mining from Microposts
– Opinion mining, sentiment and sentic analysis
– Network analysis and community detection
– Influence detection and social contagion modelling
– Prediction approaches
– Linking Microposts into the Web of Linked Data (i.e. entity extraction and URI disambiguation)

APPLY – Applications papers and case studies describing systems that
make use of Micropost data. This includes tools developed to support the generation and sharing of Microposts using a variety of devices and media, piggybacking where necessary on other communication methods, including SMS/MMS and even radio. Areas of interest include:
– Collective intelligence, user profiling, personalisation & recommendation
– Business analytics & market intelligence with particular attention to big
data
– Event & topic detection and tendency tracking
– Microposts as a second screen to television, large screens and stages at
public events
– Geo-localised, Micropost-based services
– Public consensus & citizen participation
– Security, emergency response & health
– Linking social and physical signals for, e.g., crowd tracking
– Identification and use of geo-location information embedded in or
attached to Microposts
– Increasing importance of multilingual and non-English Microposts

#Microposts2016 BEST PAPER AWARD
————————————–
The best paper award for the main track will be sponsored by the MK:Smart
project (http://www.mksmart.org), with an award of £500.

(COMPUTATIONAL) SOCIAL SCIENCES TRACK
————————————–
To foster collaboration between Computer Science and (Computational) Social Science, and continue to encourage contribution from the latter domain to improve on ‘Making Sense of Microposts’, we will include again a special track dedicated to Social Science papers and other related fields. The best paper award for this track will for the second time be sponsored by GESIS, Germany, with an award of €300.
This track will be chaired by Katrin Weller (GESIS, Germany). Further
detail will be sent out in a separate call for papers.

Web page: http://microposts2016.seas.upenn.edu/socsci_track.html

NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION AND LINKING CHALLENGE
———————————————–
Held since 2013, each year the challenge has allowed a valuable overview of the state of the art and has received expressions of interest and submissions from both industry and academia. We have also seen continued interest after publication of the results each year. We expect this to continue in 2016 with further extension of the challenge and with the provision of a base for the deployment of live systems. In line with the overall workshop goals, we envisage that the outcomes of the challenge will continue to advance work in the domains of named entity recognition and disambiguation, with a specific focus on function over the short length information snippets in Microposts. A detailed description of the challenge will be published in a separate call, with intent to participate to be registered in Jan 2016.

Web page: http://microposts2016.seas.upenn.edu/challenge.html

WORKSHOP STRUCTURE
——————-

We aim to start with a keynote address, followed by regular paper
presentations and brief overviews of selected submissions to the Challenge. We will hold a poster and demo session to trigger further, in-depth interaction between workshop participants. The workshop will close with the presentation of awards.

SUBMISSIONS
————

Full papers: 8 pages
Short and position papers: 4 pages
Demos & Posters: 3 & 2 pages resp.
Social Sciences track: 6 pages (full); 3 pages (short)
Challenge extended abstracts: 3 pages (with challenge results)

All written submissions should be prepared according to the ACM SIG
Proceedings Template (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates), should include
author names and affiliations, and 3-5 author-selected keywords. Where a submission includes additional material submission this should be made as a single, unencrypted zip file that includes a plain text file listing its contents.

Submission is via EasyChair, at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=microposts2016

Each submission will receive, in addition to a meta-review, at least 2 peer reviews, with full papers at least 3 peer reviews.

We aim to publish the #Microposts2016 proceedings as a single volume
containing all three tracks, via CEUR. The same publication conditions
however apply as for other workshop proceedings included in the WWW
conference companion:
“Any paper published by the ACM, IEEE, etc. which can be properly cited
constitutes research which must be considered in judging the novelty of a WWW submission, whether the published paper was in a conference, journal, or workshop. Therefore, any paper previously published as part of a WWW workshop must be referenced and suitably extended with new content to qualify as a new submission to the Research Track at the WWW conference.”

Note this caveat does not apply to extended abstracts submitted to the
special Social Sciences track summarising or discussing previously
published work or presenting position statements.

IMPORTANT DATES
—————-

Main Track submission deadline:  *06 Jan 2016*
Social Sciences Track submission deadline: *13 Jan 2016*

Notification: 02 Feb 2016
Camera-ready (hard) deadline (Main & Social Sciences tracks): 08 Feb 2016

NEEL Challenge – Release of training set: *from 7 Dec 2015*
– Release of dev set: *30 Dec 2015*

(all deadlines 23:59 Hawaii Time)

Workshop – 11/12 Apr 2016 (registration open to all)

CONTACT
——-

E-mail: microposts2016@easychair.org

Twitter persona: @Microposts2016
Twitter hashtag: #Microposts2016

W3C Microposts Community Group: http://www.w3.org/community/microposts

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)

Related

This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Digital Capitalism and Digital Social Science. Bookmark the permalink.

Website Powered by WordPress.com.

  • Follow Following
    • Mark Carrigan
    • Join 5,590 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Mark Carrigan
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Copy shortlink
    • Report this content
    • View post in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar