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Date: 13-Apr-2010
From: Xiaohui Yu < xhyu at yorku.ca >
Subject: 1st International Workshop on Opinion Mining for Business Intelligence

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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:15:28
From: Xiaohui Yu [xhyu at yorku.ca]
Subject: 1st International Workshop on Opinion Mining for Business Intelligence

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Full Title: 1st International Workshop on Opinion Mining for Business Intelligence 
Short Title: OMBI 

Date: 31-Aug-2010 - 31-Aug-2010
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada 
Contact Person: Xiaohui Yu
Meeting Email: xhyu at yorku.ca
Web Site: http://www.yorku.ca/xhyu/OMBI10 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 23-Apr-2010 

Meeting Description:

The First International Workshop on Opinion Mining for Business Intelligence
(OMBI'10)

Co-located with The 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences
on Web Intelligence (WI'2010) and Intelligent Agent Technology(IAT'2010)
August 31, 2010, Toronto, Canada

Website: http://www.yorku.ca/xhyu/OMBI10/ 

Call for Papers

News:

The workshop will feature an invited keynote speech by Professor
Bing Liu of University of Illinois, Chicago.

With the rapid growth of Web 2.0, the Internet has become an excellent source
for gathering the voice of the public. People are now encouraged to post reviews
of products or express their views on almost everything on bulletin boards,
Internet forums, news groups, etc. These word-of-mouth discussions provide
valuable source of knowledge for both information promulgators and readers.
However, it is an extremely daunting and time-consuming task for the users to
sift through the sheer volume of user-generated content in order to distill
useful knowledge and then act accordingly.

The academic community as well as practitioners have recognized the importance
of opinion mining, and are working on various approaches to facilitate automated
opinion analysis and knowledge discovery from user-generated contents. The
research on opinion mining is highly inter-disciplinary and its success depends
on advances in all related fields. As such, this workshop aims to provide a
forum to foster the communication and interaction between researchers and
practitioners from all related computer science, business, and social science
disciplines, including but not limited to, data mining, information retrieval,
Web, natural language processing, marketing, an linguistics.

Suggested topics of this workshop include, but are not limited to:

Opinion retrieval, extraction, categorization, and summarization
Topic-sentiment analysis
Sentiment identification and filtering
Domain-driven opinion mining and sentiment analysis
Economic value of user-generated contents
Recommender systems
Evaluation methodologies
Performance issues, scalability and efficiency
Applications in different contexts (e.g., politics, business intelligence, 
sociology, and marketing research)
Benchmarks

Proceedings and post-workshop publications:
The Workshop proceedings volume will be published by IEEE Computer
Society Press, to be indexed by EI. All accepted contributions will be included
in the volume. The best papers from the workshop may get the
recommendation and support from members of the Program Committee to
submit extended versions of their work to leading journals in the field.

Submission procedure and instructions for authors:
Regular research papers reporting original scientific results, as well as vision
and work-in-progress papers that have the potential to stimulate debate on
existing solutions or identify emerging challenges are encouraged. All submitted
papers will be reviewed by program committee members on the basis of technical
quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Paper submissions should be
limited to a maximum of 4 pages (only one additional page is allowed and extra
payment is required for the additional page). The papers must be in English and
should be formatted according to the IEEE 2-column format (see the Author
Guidelines at
http://www.yorku.ca/wiiat10/submissions.php). The workshop only
accepts on-line submissions. Please use the Workshop Submission Page
on the WI-IAT'2010 website to submit your paper. The authors of accepted
contributions will be asked to submit final version and register for the conference.

Important Dates:
Due date for full workshop papers submission: April 23, 2010
Notification of paper acceptance to authors: June 7, 2010
Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers:  June 21, 2010
Workshop day: August 31, 2010

Keynote Speaker
Dr. Bing Liu
Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)

Workshop Organization
Workshop General Chair
Nick Koudas, University of Toronto & Sysomos Inc.

Workshop Program Committee Co-Chairs
Xiaohui Yu, York University, Canada
(Email: xhyu at yorku.ca)
Yang Liu, Shandong University, China
(Email: yliu at sdu.edu.cn)

Program Committee (to be expanded)
Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology
Lee Hyun Chul, University of Toronto and Thoora Inc.
Anindya Ghose, New York University
Yue Lu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bo Pang, Yahoo
Ken Pu, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Stuart W. Shulman, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Yabo Xu, Sun Yat-sen University
Bei Yu, Syracuse University
Daniel Dajun Zeng, Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of
Arizona

Contact Information
For all questions regarding local organization, registration and the
main WI-IAT'2010 conference please refer to contacts at main WI-IAT
2010 Website(s).

For questions specific to the OMBI Workshop please contact:
Xiaohui Yu (xhyu at yorku.ca)

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