26.2572, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Romania

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Subject: 26.2572, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Romania

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Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 13:16:24
From: Diana Trandabat [dtrandabat at info.uaic.ro]
Subject: Workshop on Social Media and the Web of Linked Data

 
Full Title: Workshop on Social Media and the Web of Linked Data 
Short Title: RUMOUR-2015 

Date: 18-Jul-2015 - 18-Jul-2015
Location: Sibiu, Romania, Romania 
Contact Person: Diana Trandabat
Meeting Email: dtrandabat at info.uaic.ro
Web Site: http://eurolan.info.uaic.ro/2015/events/workshop/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 07-Jun-2015 

Meeting Description:

Social media is a constant in our life, influencing the way we think, interact, learn, consolidate relationships and understand society. As a result of the rapid worldwide acceptance and usage of social media, more and more content is becoming available as each day passes. Both because of its importance and its increasing volume, it is not surprising that information from Social Media is rapidly becoming an essential source for natural language processing (NLP) research.

At the same time, Linked Data is emerging as an increasingly important topic for NLP. Work in the field has produced massive amounts of linguistic data, including annotated corpora, lexicons, databases, and ontologies, in formats that enable their exploitation in the Semantic Web. Linking the contents of these resources to each other as well as to common ontologies can enable access to and discovery of detailed linguistic information and could foster a major leap forward in NLP research and development.

RUMOUR-2015 aims to gather innovative approaches for exploitation of social media using semantic web technologies and linked data by bringing together research on the Semantic Web, Linked Data, and the Social Sciences. The workshop will bring together practitioners, researchers, and scholars to share examples, cases, theories, and analysis of social media and linked data in order to address the intersection among these areas. This intersection includes not only the challenges of problems such as the understanding and acting upon large-scale data of different kinds, provenance, and reliability, but also the use of these media for crisis management, which involves issues of credibility, accountability, trustworthiness, privacy, authenticity, and provision of provenance information.

The workshop is part of EUROLAN-2015 Summer School (the 12th in the series of EUROLAN schools), which will provide a comprehensive overview of Linguistic Linked Open Data, including introduction to formalisms for representing linguistic resources, extracting and integrating knowledge from text, semi-structured and badly structured data, ontologies and reasoning, exploitation of big data using semantic web query languages, reasoning capabilities and much more.

Venue:

The Workshop on Social Media and the Web of Linked Data will be held Saturday, 18 July 2015, in Sibiu, Romania. RUMOUR-2015 will be a satellite event of EUROLAN-2015, the Summer School on Linguistic Linked Open Data, an event that will last two weeks, between 13 and 25 July 2015.

In addition to the excellence of its academic program, the EUROLAN sequence of summer schools is well known for the camaraderie among professors and students, who may enjoy common activities and social events during dinners and later in the evenings, as well as an excursion in the middle school weekend.

Sibiu is a wonderful city of art and culture, placed in the middle of Transylvania (a Romanian province being known before by Germans as Siebenbürgen and by Hungarians as Erdély), who has preserved its Medieval flavour. Former European capital of culture in 2007, Sibiu has an attractive and stimulating atmosphere. With its rich range of restaurants, pavement cafes and beer gardens, Sibiu is a city easy to explore on foot, inspiring social and scientific networking.

2nd Call for Papers:

Workshop on Social Media and the Web of Linked Data (RUMOUR-2015)
18 July 2015 – Sibiu, ROMANIA 
http://eurolan.info.uaic.ro/2015/events/workshop/
A satellite event of EUROLAN-2015 Summer School on Linguistic Linked Open Data
http://eurolan.info.uaic.ro/2015/

Update:

Workshop’s proceedings will be published in Springer’s Communications in Computer and Information Science series (indexed in Scopus ISI Proceedings).
Deadlines were extended.
Abstract submission (not mandatory but encouraged): 24 May 2015 
(Extended) Full paper submission: 07 June 2015

Topics:

We invite submissions which may include, but are not restricted, to the following topics:

- Social data mining to create structured social media resources
- New methods for automatically assessing the suitability of (non-trusted) content from social media
- Understanding the content and context of social media streams
- Social media descriptions in accordance with linked data principles
- Integration of social media with Linked Data
- Extracting and linking together social media assets
- Sentiment analysis in social media and linked data
- Online civic identity categorization
- Extracting, understanding and predicting user and group behavior
- Tools and approaches for citizens, organizations or communities, based on social media and linked data analysis
- Events detection in social media streams
- Application of social media and linked data methodologies in real-life scenarios

Submission:

We invite submissions of both long (8-10 pages) and short (4-6 pages) papers, representing original research, innovative approaches and resource types, use cases or in-depth discussions. Short papers may also represent project proposals or work in progress. Any number of references may be included after the page limit. Authors are advised not to shorten the references and to put DOIs wherever possible, as this would allow for correct citation attribution.

Papers must be submitted in Springer conference paper format. Information about the format can be found in the author’s instruction page http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. Papers submitted to other conferences or journals must state this fact. If a paper will appear in another conference or journal, it must be withdrawn from RUMOUR 2015.

All papers have to be written in English language. 

The review process will be double-blind and hence the authors are instructed not to include their identity, affiliation(s) or contact details, and to anonymize any references that would reveal the authorship of the paper. Abstracts (not mandatory but encouraged) and full papers must be submitted online through EasyChair system following the submission link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rumour2015 .

Proceedings:

All accepted papers should be presented at RUMOUR-2015 to appear in the workshop proceeding. The proceedings will be published with Springer in the series Communications in Computer and Information Science. CCIS is abstracted/indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus. CCIS volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings.

Depending on the level of attendance and the quality of submissions, we intend to also prepare a volume that would include best papers and publish it under Springer's series Text, Speech and Language Technology, series editor - Nancy Ide.

For contact information, submission details and last-minute updates, please consult our website under http://eurolan.info.uaic.ro/2015/events/workshop.

Registration:

For a paper to be published in the proceedings, one author of each paper needs to register to the workshop within the registration deadline. The registration form is available at http://eurolan.info.uaic.ro/2015/registration. 

The fee for participation in RUMOUR-2015 is 100 EURO for Students, 150 EURO for Academic and 200 EURO for Industry representative. The fee includes admission to workshop’s scientific sessions, bag and name badge, workshop program, lunch and coffee/tea breaks.

To encourage a simultaneous participation in the workshop AND the EUROLAN Summer School, a discount of the School’s fee is announced for people attending both EUROLAN and RUMOUR-2015. 

Details on http://eurolan.info.uaic.ro/2015/registration/ 

Important Dates:

24 May 2015: Abstract submission (not mandatory but encouraged!)
7 June 2015: Extended full paper submission
21 June 2015: Notification of accepted papers
6 July 2015: Camera-ready and copyright form for SPRINGER
13-25 July 2015: EUROLAN-2015 Summer School
18 July 2015: RUMOUR-2015 Workshop

Organizing Committee:

Dan Cristea (''Alexandru Ioan Cuza'' University of Iasi)
Dan Tufiș (Romanian Academy, Bucharest)
Dan Ștefănescu (Vantage Labs, USA)
Daniela Gîfu (''Alexandru Ioan Cuza'' University of Iasi)
Diana Trandabăț (''Alexandru Ioan Cuza'' University of Iasi)
Gabriela Vulcu (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland)
Georgeta Bordea (Insight, Centre for Data Analytics at National University of Ireland, Galway)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College, New York, USA)
Radu Ion (Microsoft Ireland)

Program Committee:

Georgeta Bordea (Insight, Centre for Data Analytics at National University of Ireland, Galway)
Paul Buitelaar (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Steve Cassidy (Macquarie University, Australia)
Dan Cristea (Faculty of Computer Science, ''Alexandru Ioan Cuza'' University of Iași, Romania)
Thierry Declerck (Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany)
Daniela Gîfu (Faculty of Computer Science, ''Alexandru Ioan Cuza'' University of Iași, Romania)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College, USA)
Radu Ion (Microsoft Ireland)
Gerard de Melo (Tsinghua University, Beijing)
Vivi Năstase (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy)
Andrei Olariu (University of Bucharest, Romania)
Dan Ștefănescu (Vantage Labs, USA)
Diana Trandabăț (Faculty of Computer Science, ''Alexandru Ioan Cuza'' University of Iași, Romania)
Dan Tufiș (Romanian Academy Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence “Mihai Drăgănescu”)
Piek Vossen (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Gabriela Vulcu (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland)
Michael Zock (Aix-Marseille Université, France)

Welcome to RUMOUR-2015!




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