[Corpora-List] DIMPLE: DIsaster Management and Principled Large-scale information Extraction for and post emergency Logistics.

[Khurshid Ahmad]

Call for Papers:
DIMPLE: DIsaster Management and Principled Large-scale information 
Extraction.

This workshop will take place at LREC 2014 Conference.  Venue: the 
Harpa Conference Centre, Reykjavik (Iceland) on Saturday, 31 May 2014 
between 9.30 am and 12.30pm.

DIMPLE is a half-day workshop involving experts in civil protection, in 
information extraction, and in ethics and societal matters, to discuss 
the role of digital media in disaster management and emergency relief 
and logistics (DMEL).  The use of social media and of formal media, has 
been instrumental in disaster monitoring and management during 
hurricanes in the United States of America recently and during the SARS 
emergency to a lesser extent.  Systems that have been reported almost 
exclusively rely on textual information but there has been increasing 
use of images/videos in DMEL.  There is an increasing debate on the 
ethical and broader societal impact, of the use of social media in 
situations as intrusive as disaster and emergency relief.  This workshop 
will have three plenary lectures: on information extraction, on civil 
protection using social media, and the societal impact of the use of 
digital media comprising information about people, places and events.   
The topics include ontology and terminology of disasters and disaster 
relief; capture and real time analysis of textual and visual information 
from social media and formal media in a multilingual and multicultural 
environment; 'Big Data' narratives of disaster management; ethical and 
societal issues in mass surveillance; civil protection and social media.

The aim of this workshop is to explore the intrinsic connection between 
civil protection, information gathering and analysis, and societal 
impact.  The mediation of these connections through the agency of 
language will be the central theme of the workshop.  The workshop will 
explore how this mediation can be situated in the context of broader 
societal impact especially the impact of the value system of one 
stakeholder on others.

Surveillance based on information extraction from social and formal 
media is developing apace.  Some systems provide early warning systems 
for mitigating a disaster and providing relief by capturing and 
analysing textual and pictorial information in real time.  The advent of 
the Internet has meant that documents in all three modes can be 
circulated quickly, especially thorough social media, such as Twitter, 
TwitPic, Flickr, YouTube and Facebook. This viral spread has its own 
advantages and disadvantages. This surveillance information is used by 
civil protection forces for disseminating early warning and relief 
information.  The use of such systems and methods has considerable 
societal impact: there is a concern about the potential risks as well as 
benefits when collecting information about people, places and events, 
the manner in which the information is stored, and the ways in which the 
results of analysis are used in protecting the citizens at large.  The 
difference in the value systems of the stakeholders in a disaster 
management scenario has to be understood and resolved.

This workshop will bring together experts in, and users of, intelligent 
information gathering and processing. The topics covered will include 
the ontology and terminology of disaster management, real-time textual 
and pictorial extraction of information from social media, and ethics 
and societal impact of surveillance information systems.

This half-day workshop will take place at the Harpa Conference Centre, 
Reykjavik (Iceland)on Saturday, 31 May 2014 (9.30am-12.30pm)..
 
Summary of the Call:
Papers are invited on the use of information extraction from digital 
media text and image streams with a focus on disaster monitoring, early 
warning systems, and post-disaster emergency relief.  This is an 
interdisciplinary workshop where experts in textual and visual 
information extraction will discuss the issues of disaster management 
with experts in civil protection and with scholars in ethics and value 
systems.  The workshop will provide a welcoming forum for presenting 
advances in analytical methods. This workshop is intended for academics 
in information extraction, disaster arrangement and civil protection 
professionals.
The topics include the following: ethics and societal dimensions of 
social media in disaster management; ontology and terminology of 
disaster and relief management; ontology, terminology and NLP methods 
for text analysis; extraction of information from text and image 
streams; information aggregation across modalities; ethics of 
surveillance systems; civil protection and social media; communicating 
early warning and disaster relief in multilingual environments; 
information extraction from social media; value pluralism in disaster 
relief; data provenance, data protection.

Important Dates:
Submission deadline: 10 February 2014
Notification of acceptance: 10 March 2013
Final submission of manuscripts: 21 March 2014
Workshop date: 31 May 2014 (morning session)
Main Conference Dates:  May 28-30, 2014.

Submission Guidelines
The language of the workshop is English and submissions should conform 
to LREC 2014 paper submission instructions. We will accept submission of 
both long (up to 8 pages) and short papers (up to 4 pages) to be 
presented as long or short oral presentation at the workshop. The papers 
of the workshop will be published as online proceedings. We will aim to 
publish selected papers either in a special journal issue or as an 
edited collection. All papers will be peer reviewed by three independent 
referees.  Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format to the 
STAR system. When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will 
be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad 
sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that 
have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result 
of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share 
the language resources described in their papers, to enable the reuse, 
replications, evaluations of such resources.

Organising Committee
Khurshid Ahmad, Trinity College Dublin, IRELAND.
Gerhard Heyer, University of Leipzig, GERMANY
Linda Hogan, Trinity College, Dublin, IRELAND.
Bodil Madsen, Copenhagen Business School, DENMARK.
Sadhbh McCarthy, Centre for Irish and European Security, Dublin, 
IRELAND.
Teresa Musacchio, University of Padova, ITALY.
Carl Vogel, Trinity College, Dublin, IRELAND.


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Best wishes

Khurshid Ahmad.
Professor of Computer Science
School of Computer Science and Statistics
Trinity College
Dublin 2
IRELAND

Phone: 00353 1 896 8429 (Labs: 00 353 1 8968435)
Fax 353 1 677 2204
Webpage: www.cs.tcd.ie/khurshid.ahmad

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