[Corpora-List] NAACL 10 Workhop on Social Media

[Miles Osborne]

Computational Linguistics in a World of Social Media:  #socialmedia

http://conferences.inf.ed.ac.uk/socialmedia10/

Workshop at NAACL 10
June 5 - 6 2010
Los Angles, USA

Social Media {eg Twitter, Blogs, Forums, FaceBook} has exploded over
the last few years. FaceBook is now the second most visited site on
the Web, with Blogger being the 7th and Twitter the 13th. These sites
contain the aggregated beliefs and opinions of millions of people on
an epic range of topics, and in a large number of languages.

The workshop is intended to be a venue for people to meet and talk
about Social Media and Human Language Technologies. Submissions can
describe work-in-progress, resources, position papers as well as
traditional unpublished work.

Suggested topics for this workshop include, and are not limited to:

    * Social Media as resources for Computational Linguistics (eg
language models, opinions).
    * How Computational Linguistics can help Social Media (eg
translating Tweets, generating Social Media).
    * Data: corpora of Social Media as standard resources.
    * Algorithms for computing summary statistics over terabytes of
unstructured, noisy data.
    * Text prediction and forecasting: modelling the aggregated
beliefs about concrete outcomes in the world (eg stock prices,
prediction markets).
    * Sentiment prediction in the large (modelling the changing
beliefs of people about political figures over time, measuring
buy/sell signals in trading forums).
    * Relationships between new and old media (how does one affect the
other, what are lagging and leading indicators).
    * Tracking information flow across sources.
    * Real-time trending (measuring and tracking pandemic spread).
    * Topic and event detection (email fraud, market manipulation).
    * Community dynamics and social network analysis.

Organisers:

Ben Hachey
Miles Osborne http://twitter.com/milesosborne


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