> Submissions that focus on legal questions stemming<br>> from snooping, spying, privacy infringement or violation, etc., will not be<br>> considered relevant to the Theme of the Workshop<div><br></div><div>Hey we're the guys inventing the next Atom Bomb, we're much too busy to discuss ethics<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/8/11 Jakub Piskorski <span dir="ltr"><jakub.piskorski@frontex.europa.eu></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
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Mining User-Generated Content for Security - MINUCS 2009<br>
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9 December 2009, Venice, Italy<br>
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web: <a href="http://www.usercentricmedia.org/workshops/minucs" target="_blank">http://www.usercentricmedia.org/workshops/minucs</a><br>
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email: minucs [ad] cs [dot] helsinki [dot] fi<br>
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This event is co-located with the First International Conference on User<br>
Centric Media - UCMedia 2009 (<a href="http://www.usercentricmedia.org" target="_blank">http://www.usercentricmedia.org</a>) in Venice,<br>
9-11 December 2009<br>
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AIM AND SCOPE<br>
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The vast and growing amount of user-generated textual content, including<br>
online news streams, blogs, electronic encyclopedias (e.g., the Wikipedia),<br>
and other openly accessible and dynamically changing data readily available<br>
on the Web has led to the emergence of new approaches to extracting<br>
valuable, structured, and previously unknown information from such data. The<br>
aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from academia and<br>
industry who develop technologies for mining open-source user-generated<br>
textual data on the Web, as well as end-users interested in exploiting such<br>
technologies for knowledge discovery. The emphasis is placed on large-scale<br>
text mining systems and application-oriented approaches to processing<br>
on-line textual content in the context of security-related applications.<br>
Examples of such applications include:<br>
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* global medical and epidemic surveillance,<br>
* conflict early warning,<br>
* early detection of man-made or environmental hazards,<br>
* risk assessment,<br>
* border surveillance,<br>
* cross-border crime detection,<br>
* terrorism counterintelligence,<br>
* other applications relevant for security, law enforcement, and public<br>
health institutions<br>
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Due to a multitude of challenges of diverse and complex nature that are<br>
related to automating the process of mining user-generated content on the<br>
Web, we believe that this workshop will serve as a forum to bring together<br>
researchers from different areas, including data mining, language<br>
technology, computational linguistics, information sciences, information<br>
retrieval and Web mining, for sharing ideas and discussion. In particular,<br>
we believe that there is an important gap to be filled, since the<br>
aforementioned research communities have had limited interaction previously<br>
in the context of the topic of the Workshop. The second major goal is to<br>
engage governmental and inter-state user communities, and to bring them<br>
together with scientists and funding agencies.<br>
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TOPICS OF INTEREST<br>
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* Mining from news streams, blogs, document repositories, and other openly<br>
accessible and dynamically changing data, including Web 2.0 content, for the<br>
purpose of identifying threats to security or public health,<br>
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* Emphasis on multilingual approaches, and work on languages other than<br>
English,<br>
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* Applications, such as information extraction, classification,<br>
summarization, sentiment detection, event detection, event forecasting,<br>
trend detection, information fusion, and more,<br>
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* Contributions in the form of applications (working systems and<br>
prototypes) as well as theoretical results are welcome,<br>
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* Application domains include crisis-related event reporting, political and<br>
environmental analysis, and medical intelligence, under the general umbrella<br>
of the security intelligence domain,<br>
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* Methods including machine learning, rule-based, and hybrid approaches.<br>
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NB: Please note, this Workshop welcomes all work on computational approaches<br>
to the analysis of textual data for gathering information from openly<br>
accessible sources only. Submissions that focus on legal questions stemming<br>
from snooping, spying, privacy infringement or violation, etc., will not be<br>
considered relevant to the Theme of the Workshop, and the Committee will not<br>
be able to review them.<br>
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SUBMISSION<br>
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We invite papers addressing primarily the language technology, natural<br>
language processing, data mining and information retrieval communities, as<br>
well as the relevant end-user groups.<br>
Submissions are invited in two categories:<br>
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* regular: research papers presenting novel approaches and solutions, and<br>
* short (posters): system demonstrations, descriptions, and work in<br>
progress<br>
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Submissions are electronic and in PDF format via a web-based submission<br>
server.<br>
Authors are encouraged to use Springer LNICST style for LaTeX in producing<br>
the PDF document.<br>
More information on this style can be found at:<br>
<a href="http://www.springer.com/computer?SGWID=0-146-6-564009-0" target="_blank">http://www.springer.com/computer?SGWID=0-146-6-564009-0</a><br>
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The page limit for regular papers is 6 pages, whereas short papers are<br>
limited to 4 pages.<br>
The information about the author(s) should be omitted in the submitted<br>
papers since the review process wil be blind.<br>
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More detailed information about submission is available on:<br>
<a href="http://www.usercentricmedia.org/workshops/minucs/authors.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.usercentricmedia.org/workshops/minucs/authors.shtml</a><br>
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Each submissions will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program<br>
Committee.<br>
Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce<br>
camera-ready versions.<br>
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PUBLICATION<br>
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All workshop papers will be published in the official proceedings, Springer<br>
Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and<br>
Telecommunications Engineering - LNICST, of the main conference.<br>
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Selected workshop papers will be published in "ACM Springer Mobile Networks<br>
and Applications (MONET) Journal Special Issue on Mobility and User-Centric<br>
Media".<br>
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All workshop papers will be also published on the UCMedia2009 Website.<br>
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IMPORTANT DATES<br>
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Paper submissions due: 27 September 2009<br>
Notification of acceptance: 20 October 2009<br>
Camera-ready versions due: 8 November 2009<br>
Workhop Date: 9 December 2009<br>
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be extended)<br>
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Fabio Crestani (University of Lugano (USI) - Faculty of Informatics,<br>
Switzerland)<br>
Gregory Grefenstette (Exalead, France)<br>
Marko Grobelnik (Jožef Stefan Institute,Slovenia)<br>
Ben Hachey (Macquarie University, Australia)<br>
David L. Hicks (Aalborg University, Denmark)<br>
Mijail Kabadjov (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy)<br>
Sadao Kurohashi (Kyoto University, Japan)<br>
Nasrullah Memon (The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, Denmark)<br>
Maria Milosavljevic (Capital Markets CRC, Australia)<br>
Marie-Francine Moens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)<br>
Horacio Saggion (University of Sheffield, UK)<br>
Satoshi Sekine (New York University, USA)<br>
Ralf Steinberger (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy)<br>
Mark Stevenson (University of Sheffield, UK)<br>
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ORGANISING COMMITTEE<br>
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Ulf Brefeld (Technische Universität Berlin, Department of Computer Science,<br>
Germany)<br>
Jakub Piskorski (FRONTEX, Research&Development, Warsaw, Poland)<br>
Roman Yangarber (University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science,<br>
Finland)<br>
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