<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">*Apologies for multiple postings*</span><br></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><div id="yiv1007047469"><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><div><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Call for Papers</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span class="yiv1007047469Apple-style-span">**Social Media and Linked Data
for Emergency Response (SMILE) Workshop co-located</span> with ESWC 2013</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">**26-30 May, Montpellier, France**</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span class="yiv1007047469Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(73, 73, 73); font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "><h4 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; "><br></h4></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">SMILE 2013 http://oak.dcs.shef.ac.uk/?q=smile</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:
'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Emergencies require significant effort in order for emergency
workers and the general public to respond effectively. Emergency Responders must rapidly gather information, determine where to deploy resources and make prioritization decisions regarding how best to deal with the emergency. Good situation awareness is therefore paramount to ensure a timely and effective response. Thus, for an incident to be dealt with effectively, citizens and responders must be able to share reliable information and help build an understanding of the current local and global situation and how this may evolve over time. Information available on Social Media is increasingly becoming a fundamental source for Situation Awareness. During a crisis, citizens share their own experiences, feelings and often, critical local knowledge. Integrating this information with Linked Open Data, (such as geographic or demographic data) could greatly enrich its value to better prevent and respond to disasters and crisis.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0,
0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">These
characteristics make the automation of the intelligence gathering task hard, especially when considering that (i) documents must be processed in (near) real-time and (ii) the relevant information may be in the long-tail of the distribution, i.e. mentioned very infrequently. Common techniques for extracting information from text have been applied to Social Media content with alternate success. For e.g., Named Entity Recognition (NER) techniques that extract semantic concepts have been shown to perform poorly on short and noisy social media content. While annotation services and APIs are a highly stimulating research direction for understanding the content and context of social media streams, the aggregation and integration of multi-dimensional datasets, from different domains and large volumes of data still pose a significant technical challenge to development in this area.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york',
times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Understanding and acting upon large–scale data of
different nature, provenance and reliability is a significant knowledge management challenge. Decision-support and visualization techniques must be developed to enable data exploration and discovery for crisis management purposes. Social challenges involved in exploiting social media and Linked Open Data for crisis situations include: credibility, accountability, trustworthiness, privacy, authenticity and provenance of information.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">SMILE aims to gather innovative approaches for exploitation of social media using semantic web technologies and linked data for emergency response and crisis management. The workshop would cover advancements in the relevant areas. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times
new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">SMILE aims to bring together expertise from three research
areas:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">-Semantic Web and Linked Data;</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">-Social Sciences;</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">-Emergency Response and Crisis Management;</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Important dates:</div><div><font
class="Apple-style-span" color="#494949" face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span">*Submission deadline: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(73, 73, 73); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><del>March 4, 2013</del> <ins><b>March 17, 2013</b></ins></span><span class="Apple-style-span">*</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Acceptance notification: April 1, 2013</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Camera-ready deadline: April 15, 2013</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new
york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Submissions:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Full research papers, up to 12 pages</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Short papers and position papers, up to 6 pages</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Posters and Demonstrations, 4 pages with the description of the application and a link to a live online demo (for demonstrations).</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;
"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Paper submissions will have to be formatted in the style of Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Submissions will be made using EasyChair Conference Systems, and the proceedings of the papers will be provided by
CEUR-WS.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Organising Committee</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Dr. Vitaveska Lanfranchi, University of Sheffield, UK</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Suvodeep Mazumdar, University of Sheffield, UK</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Dr. Eva Blomqvist, Linköping University, Sweden</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york',
times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Dr. Christopher Brewster, Aston University, UK</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">More Information:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">SMILE 2013 http://oak.dcs.shef.ac.uk/?q=smile</div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>