<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><div><span style="font-size: 13px; ">*** Apologies for cross-posting ***</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">==================================================================</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">The 4th Making Sense of Microposts Workshop (#Microposts2014) </span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">at WWW 2014</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13px; ">http://www.scc.lancs.ac.uk/microposts2014</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">7 April 2014, Seoul, Republic of Korea</span></div><div><span
style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13px; ">==================================================================</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">THEME</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">-------------------</span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; font-size: small;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Making Sense of Microposts: Big things come in small packages</span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; font-size: small;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Microposts, such as Twitter status updates, Instagram likes and photos and Foursquare checkins, form a notable part of published web content. Smart phones, after overtaking sales of personal computers in 2012, now play a significant role in enabling ubiquitous communication, and have
contributed to the steep increase in publication of Microposts, via native mobile apps and mobile-specific web sites. The increase in Micropost publication is evident across Twitter, where 500 million posts are now published every day, up from 175 million in 2012. Facebook sees 30 billion pieces of content shared on it every month. Such statistics reflect the growing production and consumption of data by users and the widespread sharing of information through social networks. The utility of Microposts is such that we are now providing up-to-date information about a range of topics formed in disparate contexts, providing information about emerging events, online presence, emergency response and crowd movem</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">ent. Being able to make sense of Microposts therefore impacts on the ability to act upon information quickly and effectively, and aids the understanding of evolving user behaviour, events and public
perception and opinion about their worlds. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">The central objective of the #Microposts workshop is to bring together researchers from multiple disciplines to discuss and debate current efforts toward analysing and understanding Microposts. We define a Micropost as information published on the Web that is small in size (e.g. a Tweet, Facebook share, Instagram like) and that requires minimal effort to publish. Although individual Microposts are small, collectively they provide a rich source of current information about a range of topics across all walks of life. Gleaning information from such content effectively requires a degree of understanding of what is being discussed and, with very large amounts, semi- to fully automated analytical and extraction approaches. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">The workshop aims to provide a
forum to enable discussion and hence, improve understanding of social and cultural phenomena that influence the publication and reuse of Microposts; and to discuss applications of Micropost data in a variety of contexts, including emergency response, crowd and event tracking, public opinion and sentiment analysis. Enabling the understanding and application of Micropost content requires analytical techniques and tools that function at scale and that can handle the high rate at which Microposts are published. The workshop invites submissions that deal with publication rate and scale, and approaches that facilitate understanding of Microposts through their semantics and where available, contextual information. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Microposts are both a technical and a social phenomenon, and the nature of the challenge related to their treatment is therefore
multi-disciplinary. We continue to promote a multidisciplinary workshop, as achieved in the past three in the series, by also encouraging social scientists and other non-Computer Science researchers to submit work that looks at the theories behind Micropost usage and communication through this medium. The workshop also encourages demonstration of practical application of the results of analysis of Micropost data, both within the research community and in everyday, real-world scenarios. We encourage submissions using this and last year’s challenge data for contributions to the main track.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">TOPICS OF INTEREST</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">-------------------</span></div><div><span style="font-size:
small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">The workshop will focus on topics including, but not exclusive to, the three areas below: </span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Data mining from Microposts</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">-Emergent semantics</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">-Opinion mining, sentiment and sentic analysis</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">-Network analysis and community detection</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">-Influence detection and social contagion modelling</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">-Prediction approaches</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">-Linking Microposts into the Web of Data </span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">-Semantic entity disambiguation</span></div><div><span style="font-size:
small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Social & Web Science Studies</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">-Collective awareness</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">-Education & citizen empowerment, data journalism </span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">-Civil action, media & politics</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">-Political and polemical aspects of Microposts</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">-Ethics, legal and privacy issues</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">-Psychological profiles and psychological aspects of Micropost-based interactions</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">-Cultural and regional differences in access and use</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Applications </span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">-Collective
intelligence, including user profiling, personalisation & recommendation</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">-Business analytics & market intelligence</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">-Event & topic detection and tendency tracking</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">-Microposts as second screen to TV</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">-Geo-localized, Micropost-based services</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">-Public consensus & citizen participation</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">-Security, emergency response & health</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">-Linking social and physical signals, in, e.g., crowd tracking</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span"
style="white-space:pre"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">ENTITY EXTRACTION & DISAMBIGUATION CHALLENGE</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">----------------------------</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">#Microposts2014 will host an 'Entity Extraction & Disambiguation Challenge', where participants must label Microposts in a given dataset with the entities referenced and their semantic web URIs. Existing entity extraction and</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">disambiguation tools are intended for use over news corpora and similar document-based corpora with relatively long length. The aim of the challenge is to foster research into novel, more accurate entity extraction and disambiguation </span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">for (much shorter) Micropost
data. Detailed information on how to enter the challenge will be provided in a separate call for challenge submissions as well as on the workshop website.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">WORKSHOP STRUCTURE</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">-------------------</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">A keynote address from an invited speaker will open the day. This will be 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 Entity Extraction & Disambiguation Challenge The workshop will close with the presentation of awards
for the best paper and the highest ranking challenge submission.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">SUBMISSIONS</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">------------</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"> * Full papers: 8 pages ACM SIG format</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"> * Short and position papers: 4 pages ACM SIG format</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"> * Demos & Posters: 2 pages ACM SIG format</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"> * Challenge extended abstracts: 5 pages Springer LNCS format </span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Main track 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 keywords.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Further detail for challenge submissions will be provided in a separate call.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Submission is via the EasyChair Conference System, at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=microposts2014. 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.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Each submission will receive, in addition to a meta-review, at least 2 peer reviews, with full papers at least 3 peer reviews.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span
style="font-size: small;">The workshop proceedings will be published through the ACM Digital Library.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">IMPORTANT DATES</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">----------------</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Paper Submission deadline: ***7 Jan 2014***</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Paper Notification: 4 Feb 2014</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Camera-ready (hard) deadline (short & long papers): 12 Feb 2014</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">(all deadlines 23:59 Hawaii Time)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Workshop program issued: 15 Mar 2014</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Main track
proceedings to be published by ACM</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Workshop - 7 April 2014 (Registration open to all)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">CONTACT</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">-------</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">E-mail: microposts2014@easychair.org</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/#!/home.php?sk=group_180472611974910</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Facebook Public Event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/116134955169543</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Twitter hashtag: #microposts2014</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">W3C Microposts Community Group:
http://www.w3.org/community/microposts</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">ORGANISERS</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">-----------</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Matthew Rowe, Lancaster University, UK</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Milan Stankovic, Université Paris-Sorbonne & Sépage, France</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Aba-Sah Dadzie, University of Birmingham, UK </span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">PROGRAM COMMITTEE</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">------------------</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:
small;">Gholam R. Amin, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Pierpaolo Basile, Dipartimento di Informatica, University of Bari, Italy</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Julie Birkholz, Vrije University, The Netherlands</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Uldis Bojars, SIOC Project</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">John Breslin, NUI Galway, Ireland</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Amparo E. Cano, Aston University, UK </span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Marco Antonio Casanova, PUC - Rio, Brazil</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Óscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain </span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Ali Emrouznejad, Aston Business School, UK</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Guillaume Erétéo, Orange Labs</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Miriam
Fernandez, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Fabien Gandon, Inria, France</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Andrés García-Silva, Ontology Engineering Group, Facultad de Informática, Univesidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">João Magalhães, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Anna Lisa Gentile, The University of Sheffield, UK</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Jonathan Hickman, Birmingham City University, UK</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Robert Jäschke, L3S Research Center, Germany</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Mathieu Lacage, France</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Vitaveska Lanfranchi, The University of
Sheffield, UK</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Philippe Laublet, Université Paris-Sorbonne, France</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Diana Maynard, The University of Sheffield, UK</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">José M. Morales-Del-Castillo, El Colegio de México, Mexico</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Fabrizio Orlandi, DERI Galway, Ireland</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Alexandre Passant, seevl.net, MDG Web ltd</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Bernardo Pereira Nunes, PUC-Rio, Brazil</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Danica Radovanovic, Oxford Internet Institute, UK</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Giuseppe Rizzo, Università degli studi di Torino, Italy</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Harald Sack, Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT Systems Engineering, University of Potsdam, Germany</span></div><div><span
style="font-size: small;">Bernhard Schandl, Gnowsis.com</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Sean Siqueira, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Brazil</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Raphaël Troncy, EURECOM, France</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Mischa Tuffield, PeerIndex</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Victoria Uren, Aston University, UK</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Shenghui Wang, OCLC Research, The Netherlands</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Seth Van Hooland, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Katrin Weller, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Ziqi Zhang, The University of Sheffield, UK</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:
small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">CHALLENGE EVALUATION COMMITTEE:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">--------------------------------</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Challenge Chairs: </span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">A. Elizabeth Cano, Aston University, UK</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Giuseppe Rizzo, Università degli studi di Torino, Italy</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Dataset Chair: </span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Andrea Varga, The University of Sheffield, UK</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Challenge
Committee</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">--------------------------------</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Pierpaolo Basile, Dipartimento di Informatica - University of Bari, Italy</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Uldis Bojars, SIOC Project</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Óscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain </span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Guillaume Erétéo, Orange Labs</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Miriam Fernandez, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Andrés García-Silva, Ontology Engineering Group, Facultad de Informática, Univesidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Anna Lisa Gentile, The University of Sheffield, UK</span></div><div><span style="font-size:
small;">Robert Jäschke, L3S Research Center, Germany</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Diana Maynard, TheUniversity of Sheffield, UK</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">José M. Morales-Del-Castillo, El Colegio de México, Mexico</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Georgios Paltoglou, University of Wolverhampton, UK</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Bernardo Pereira Nunes, PUC-Rio, Brazil</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro, The University of Sheffield, UK</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Raphaël Troncy, EURECOM, France</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Mischa Tuffield, PeerIndex</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Victoria Uren, Aston University, UK</span></div></div></div></body></html>