[Corpora-List] Call for Participation: AAAI-11 Workshop on Analyzing Microtext

[Dave Uthus]

AAAI-11 Workshop on Analyzing Microtext
Call for Participation

Description

Text and dialogue analysis are important areas of AI research, and
there have been many advances for several types of communications
(e.g., news feeds, emails, technical support forums, and
blogs). However, fewer efforts have focused on studying
microtext (Ellen, ICAART-11) (e.g., instant messages, chat rooms,
and microblog sevices such as Twitter, Buzz, and the DoD's Chirp
service), which are semi-structured and are also distinguished by
their short length, informality, lexicon, and (in the case of group
chat) multiple interwoven conversations.  Along with their typically
poor grammar, misspellings, and frequent use of icons, these
characteristics make microtext content challenging to analyze,

The goal of this workshop is to provide a research forum for
cross-fertilization of ideas pertaining to analysis of microtext,
including discussion on tasks of interest, investigations of analysis
techniques, surveys on related work, presentation of recent
accomplishments, reports on relevant applications (e.g., marketing,
alerting, expertise finding, crime prevention, anti-terrorism,
collaborative learning, and communication patterns in teams for
training and performance assessment), and recommendations for future
research foci.

Topics

- Thread and topic detection/extraction
- Identifying individual message and user characteristics (e.g.,
   urgency, gender, expertise, age)
- Summarization (e.g., of a chat room's threads)
- Author attribution
- NLP issues specifically pertaining to microtext analysis
- Message analysis databases and applications (e.g., educational, law
   enforcement)

Format

This one-day workshop will include a comprehensive introductory
presentation, invited talks from active researchers, paper and poster
presentations, and a panel focusing on key research issues and
directions. Additional time will be reserved for Q/A and discussion of
workshop topics/presentations. Interested and curious researchers are
most welcome!

Attendance

This workshop is limited to (75) invited attendees. Please notify
Co-Chair David Uthus (david.uthus.ctr at nrl.navy.mil) if you wish
to attend.

Submission requirements

Please email AAAI-styled PDF submissions (max 6 pages) or letters of
interest (1-2 pages) to Co-Chair David Uthus (Naval Research Laboratory, Code
5514; 4555 Overlook Ave., SW; Washington, DC 20375;
david.uthus.ctr at nrl.navy.mil; 202 767-0018; 202 767-2166 (FAX)).

Workshop Organizing Committee

David W. Aha (Naval Research Laboratory;david.aha at nrl.navy.mil),
Douglas W. Oard (University of Maryland;oard at umd.edu),
Sowyma Ramachandran (Stottler-Henke Associates, Inc.;sowmya at stottlerhenke.com),
David C. Uthus (National Research Council&  Naval Research Laboratory;david.uthus.ctr at nrl.navy.mil)

URL:http://home.earthlink.net/~dwaha/research/meetings/aaai11-amw


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