[Corpora-List] CFP: NAACL/HLT Workshop on Language Analysis in Social Media (LASM 2013)

Tue Jan 29 22:33:12 UTC 2013

Call For Papers

NAACL/HLT Workshop on Language Analysis in Social Media (LASM 2013)

Date: June 13 or 14, 2013
Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Hosted in conjunction with NAACL-HLT 2013

Workshop Organizers:
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil (Stanford University, US / Max Planck Institute SWS, Germany)
Atefeh Farzindar (NLP Technologies, Canada)
Michael Gamon (Microsoft Research, US)
Diana Inkpen(University of Ottawa, Canada)
Meena Nagarajan (IBM Almaden, US)

Description

Over the last few years, there has been a growing public and enterprise interest in 'social media' and their role in modern society. At the heart of this interest is the ability for users to create and share content via a variety of platforms such as blogs, micro-blogs, collaborative wikis, multimedia sharing sites, social networking sites.

Previous iterations:
Language in Social Media 2012
Semantic Analysis in Social Media 2012

The unprecedented volume and variety of user-generated content as well as the user interaction network constitute new opportunities for understanding social behavior and building socially aware systems.

This workshop is intended to serve as a forum for sharing research efforts and results in the analysis of language with implications for fields such as computational linguistics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics. The workshop will also focus on work that addresses development of benchmark corpora and task-oriented evaluation methods for linguistic analysis.

While the workshop relates to the NAACL Social Media Analysis and Processing track and to other conferences and workshops that focus on social media analysis, it has a specific goal: to bring together researchers from different fields that have a common interest in exploring the characteristics and challenges associated with language on social media.

Key Dates
Mar 01, 2013       Paper due date
Mar 29, 2013       Notification of acceptance
Apr 12, 2013       Camera-ready deadline
Jun 13 or 14, 2013       Workshop

We invite original and unpublished research papers on all topics related the analysis of language in social media, including but not limited to the sample topics listed below.  Demos of working or under development systems are encouraged.
- What are people talking about on social media?
- What are the topics and entities that people are referring to?
- What is an effective way to summarize contributions in social media or around a news-worthy event that offer a lens into the society's perceptions?
- How are cultures interpreting any situation in local contexts and supporting them in their variable observations on a social medium?
- What are the dynamics of conversations in social communities?
- Emotion, mood and affect analysis on social media
- How are they expressing themselves?
- What does language tell us about the community or about individual members and their allegiances to group practices?
- Can users be meaningfully grouped in terms of their language use (e.g. stylistic properties)?
- Why do they scribe?
- What are the underlying motivations for generating and sharing content on social media?
- How are community structures and roles evidenced via language usage? Can content analysis shed more light on network properties of community such as link-based diffusion models?
Natural language processing techniques for social media analysis:
- To what extent can existing NLP techniques be adapted to this medium?
- Evaluation methods for testing and benchmarking social media data
- Semantic analysis in sentences and web content from social networks
- Machine translation and social media
- Language and network structure: How do language and social network properties interact?
- What is the relation between network properties and the language that flows through them?
- Semantic Web / Ontologies / Domain models to aid in social data understanding:
- Given the recent interest in the Semantic Web and LOD community to expose models of a domain, how can we utilize these public knowledge bases to serve as priors in linguistic analysis?
Language across verticals:
- What challenges and opportunities in processing language on social media are common or different across industry or topic or language verticals?
- What differences appear in how users ask for or share information when they are interacting with a company vs. with friends?
- What language signals on social media are relevant for public health and crisis management?

Characterizing Participants via Linguistic Analysis:
- Can we infer the relation between the participants via properties of language used in dyadic interactions?
- Are we seeing differences in how users self-present on this new form of digital media?
- What effect do participants have on an evolving conversation?
- Security, identity and privacy issues from linguistic analysis over social media
Language, Social Media and Human Behavior:
- What can language in Social Media tell us about human behavior?
- How does language in Social Media reflect human conditions such as power relations, emotional states, distress, mental conditions?
Program Committee: (to be confirmed)

Alan Ritter (University of Washington)
Alena Neviarouskaya (University of Tokyo)
Alessandro Valitutti (University of Helsinki)
Alexander Osherenko (University of Augsburg)
Amit Sheth (Wright State)
Cindy Chung (University of Texas)
Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues (University of Porto)
Guy Lapalme (Université de Montréal)
Hassan Sayyadi (University of Maryland)
Jennifer Foster (Dublin City University)
Julien Velcin (Université de Lyon)
Kevin Haas (Microsoft)
Mathieu Roche (Université de Montpellier)
Mike Thelwall (University of Wolverhampton)
Munmun De Choudhury (Microsoft Research)
Nicolas Nicolov (Microsoft)
Patrick Pantel (Microsoft Research)
Scott Spangler (IBM Research)
Victoria Rubin (University of Western Ontario)

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Diana Inkpen
Professor, PhD, PEng
University of Ottawa
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
800 King Edward, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1N 6N5
http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~diana
tel: 613-562-5800 ext. 6711
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