[ecrea] Call for Papers: 5th Making Sense of Microposts Workshop (#Microposts2015), at WWW2015 - with social science track

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the 5th Making Sense of Microposts Workshop (#Microposts2015)

at WWW 2015



http://www.scc.lancs.ac.uk/microposts2015



18th/19th May 2015



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To foster collaboration between Computer Science and Social Sciences, 
and continue to encourage contribution from the latter domain to improve 
on 'Making Sense of Microposts', there will be a special track dedicated 
to Social Science papers at #Microposts2015.





THEME: Big things come in small packages

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The #Microposts workshops aim to bring together researchers from 
multiple disciplines to debate current, leading edge effort toward 
analysing and understanding Microposts - "information published on the 
Web that is small in size and requires minimal effort to publish (e.g. a 
Tweet, Facebook share, Instagram like, Google +1)". Although individual 
Microposts are small and therefore typically focus on a single thought, 
message or theme, collectively they provide a rich source of information 
and opinion about a range of topics. The workshop aims to continue to 
provide a forum to enable discussion and hence, improve understanding of 
social and cultural phenomena that influence the publication and reuse 
of Microposts; to assess different approaches to gleaning the 
information content of Micropost data; and discuss application of this 
knowledge content in a variety of contexts, including emergency 
response, crowd and event tracking, mass communication, opinion mining 
and sentiment analysis. Enabling the understanding and application of 
Microposts requires techniques and tools that function at scale, and 
that are able to handle the very high rate at which Microposts are 
published.









TOPICS OF INTEREST

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The special Social Sciences track at #Microposts2015 will focus on 
topics including, but not exclusive to, first:





Social & Web Science Studies

- Collective awareness

- Education & citizen empowerment, data journalism

- Civil action, media & politics

- Political and polemical aspects of Microposts

- Ethics, legal and privacy issues

- Psychological profiles and psychological aspects of Micropost-based 
interactions

- Cultural, generational and regional differences in access and use

- Inequality in access and use of digital, social media

- Emerging social and communication dynamics resulting from 
Micropost-based services





Additionally, the topics below, detailed in the CfP for the main track, 
include topics of interest to the Social Sciences community, regarding 
obtaining understanding about, discovering knowledge content of, add 
application of Micropost data:



- 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)



APPLICATIONS:

- Collective intelligence, user profiling, personalisation & recommendation

- Business analytics & market intelligence

- Event & topic detection and tendency tracking

- Microposts as second screen to television

- Geo-localised, Micropost-based services

- Public consensus & citizen participation

- Security, emergency response & health

- Effortless posting and wearable devices on communication

- Linking social and physical signals for, e.g., crowd tracking









WORKSHOP STRUCTURE

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A keynote address from an invited speaker will open the day, and 
followed by paper presentations. We will hold a poster and demo session 
to trigger further, in-depth interaction between workshop participants. 
The last set of presentations will be brief overviews of selected 
submissions to the Challenge. The workshop will close with the 
presentation of awards.









SUBMISSIONS

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Full papers: 4 pages

Position papers & extended abstracts: 2 pages



All 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 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://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=microposts2015.



Each submission will receive, in addition to a meta-review, 2 peer reviews.





The #Microposts2015 proceedings will be published as a single volume 
containing all three tracks, via CEUR (at http://ceur-ws.org), a free, 
open access, online platform for publishing workshop proceedings. 
CEUR-WS.org is a recognised ISSN publication series.



Submissions to the Social Sciences track may, in addition to presenting 
novel work, include extended abstracts summarising or discussing 
previously published work or presenting position statements. One author 
of each accepted paper is expected to register for and give a 
presentation at the workshop - registration fees and details may be 
found at: http://www.www2015.it/registrations



The main workshop website (above) provides more detail, as well as the 
dedicated track page at: 
http://www.scc.lancs.ac.uk/microposts2015/socsci_track.html







IMPORTANT DATES

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Submission deadline: *07 Feb 2015*

Notification: 25 Feb 2015

Camera-ready deadline: 12 Mar 2015





(all deadlines 23:59 Hawaii Time)



Early Bird Registration: 1 Mar 2015

Workshop - 18/19 May 2015 (open to all)







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BEST PAPER AWARD: sponsored by GESIS, Germany ( http://www.gesis.org )



Award: €250 to highest ranking submission

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CONTACT

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E-mail: (microposts2015 /at/ easychair.org)

Mailing list: (microposts2015 /at/ googlegroups.com)



Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/#!/home.php?sk=group_180472611974910



Twitter persona: @microposts2015

Twitter hashtag: #microposts2015



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







TRACK CHAIRS

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Danica Radovanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Katrin Weller, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany





Workshop Organisers

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Matthew Rowe, Lancaster University, UK

Milan Stankovic, Université Paris-Sorbonne & Sépage, France

Aba-Sah Dadzie, University of Birmingham, UK





Program Committee (to be completed)

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Tim Davies, University of Southampton, UK

Munmun De Choudhury, Georgia Tech, USA

Fabio Giglietto, Università di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy

Simon Hegelich, Universität Siegen, Germany

Kim Holmberg, University of Turku, Finland

Athina Karatzogianni, University of Leicester, UK

Raquel Recuero, Universidade Católica de Pelotas, Brazil

Luca Rossi, Università di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy

Saskia Vanmanen, The Open University, UK

Alistair Willis, The Open University, UK

Taha Yasseri, Oxford Internet Institute, UK











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Dr. Katrin Weller

GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

Datenarchiv für Sozialwissenschaften

Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8

D-50667 Köln


E-Mail: (katrin.weller /at/ gesis.org)

Twitter: @kwelle






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