26.1337, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Romania

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Subject: 26.1337, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Romania

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Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 17:37:01
From: Diana Trandabat [dtrandabat at info.uaic.ro]
Subject: Workshop on Social Media and the Web of Linked Data

 
Full Title: Workshop on Social Media and the Web of Linked Data 
Short Title: RUMOUR-2015 

Date: 18-Jul-2015 - 18-Jul-2015
Location: Sibiu, Romania, Romania 
Contact Person: Diana Trandabat
Meeting Email: dtrandabat at info.uaic.ro
Web Site: http://eurolan.info.uaic.ro/2015/events/workshop/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 17-May-2015 

Meeting Description:

Social media is a constant in our life, influencing the way we think, interact, learn, consolidate relationships and understand society. As a result of the rapid worldwide acceptance and usage of social media, more and more content is becoming available as each day passes. Both because of its importance and its increasing volume, it is not surprising that information from Social Media is rapidly becoming an essential source for natural language processing (NLP) research.

At the same time, Linked Data is emerging as an increasingly important topic for NLP. Work in the field has produced massive amounts of linguistic data, including annotated corpora, lexicons, databases, and ontologies, in formats that enable their exploitation in the Semantic Web. Linking the contents of these resources to each other as well as to common ontologies can enable access to and discovery of detailed linguistic information and could foster a major leap forward in NLP research and development.

RUMOUR-2015 aims to gather innovative approaches for exploitation of social media using semantic web technologies and linked data by bringing together research on the Semantic Web, Linked Data, and the Social Sciences. The workshop will bring together practitioners, researchers, and scholars to share examples, cases, theories, and analysis of social media and linked data in order to address the intersection among these areas. This intersection includes not only the challenges of problems such as the understanding and acting upon large-scale data of different kinds, provenance, and reliability, but also the use of these media for crisis management, which involves issues of credibility, accountability, trustworthiness, privacy, authenticity, and provision of provenance information.

The workshop is part of EUROLAN-2015 Summer School (the 12th in the series of EUROLAN schools), which will provide a comprehensive overview of Linguistic Linked Open Data, including introduction to formalisms for representing linguistic resources, extracting and integrating knowledge from text, semi-structured and badly structured data, ontologies and reasoning, exploitation of big data using semantic web query languages, reasoning capabilities and much more.

Call for Papers:

Topics:

We invite submissions which may include, but are not restricted, to the following topics:

- Social data mining to create structured social media resources
- New methods for automatically assessing the suitability of (non-trusted) content from social media
- Understanding the content and context of social media streams
- Social media descriptions in accordance with linked data principles
- Integration of social media with Linked Data
- Extracting and linking together social media assets
- Sentiment analysis in social media and linked data
- Online civic identity categorization
- Extracting, understanding and predicting user and group behavior
- Tools and approaches for citizens, organisations, communities based on social media and linked data analysis
- Events detection in social media streams
- Application of social media and linked data methodologies in real-­life scenarios

Submission:

We invite both long (8 pages) and short (4 pages) papers, representing original research, innovative approaches and resource types, use cases or in-depth discussions. Short papers may also represent project proposals or work in progress.

Papers must be submitted in Springer LNCS format. Papers submitted to other conferences or journals must state this fact. If a paper will appear in another conference or journal, it must be withdrawn from RUMOUR 2015. 

The review process will be double-blind and hence the authors are instructed not to include their identity, affiliation(s) or contact details, and to anonymize any references that would reveal the authorship of the paper. Papers must be submitted online through EasyChair system following the submission link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rumour2015. 

Proceedings:

All accepted papers will be presented at RUMOUR-2015 and will appear in the workshop proceeding. Depending on the level of attendance and the quality of submissions, we intend to also prepare a volume that would include best papers and publish it in Springer, under Text, Speech and Language Technology, series editor - Nancy Ide. 

For contact information, submission details and last-minute updates, please consult our website under http://eurolan.info.uaic.ro/2015/events/workshop. 

Organising Committee:

Dan Cristea (''Alexandru Ioan Cuza'' University of Iasi)
Dan Tufiș (Romanian Academy, Bucharest)
Dan Ștefănescu (Vantage Labs, USA)
Daniela Gîfu (''Alexandru Ioan Cuza'' University of Iasi)
Diana Trandabăț (''Alexandru Ioan Cuza'' University of Iasi)
Gabriela Vulcu (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland)
Georgeta Bordea (Insight, Centre for Data Analytics at National University of Ireland, Galway)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College, New York, USA)
Radu Ion (Microsoft Ireland)

Program Committee:

Nuria Bel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)
Paul Buitelaar (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Dan Cristea (Faculty of Computer Science, University Al. I. Cuza of Iasi, Romania)
Thierry Declerck (Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany)
Daniela Gîfu (Faculty of Computer Science, University Al. I. Cuza of Iasi, Romania)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College, USA)
Gerard de Melo (Tsinghua University, Beijing)
Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Vivi Năstase (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy)
Andrei Olariu (University of Bucharest, Romania)
Diana Trandabăț (Faculty of Computer Science, University Al. I. Cuza of Iasi, Romania)
Dan Tufiș (Romanian Academy Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence “Mihai Drăgănescu”)
Piek Vossen (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Michael Zock (Aix-Marseille Université, France)




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