[Corpora-List] Call for Papers: Mining User-Generated Content for Security - MINUCS 2009

Wed Aug 12 06:16:09 UTC 2009

> Submissions that focus on legal questions stemming
> from snooping, spying, privacy infringement or violation, etc., will not
be
> considered relevant to the Theme of the Workshop
Hey we're the guys inventing the next Atom Bomb, we're much too busy to
discuss ethics

2009/8/11 Jakub Piskorski <jakub.piskorski at frontex.europa.eu>

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