27.2444, Summer Schools: International Summer School on Web Science and Technology/Spain

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Subject: 27.2444, Summer Schools: International Summer School on Web Science and Technology/Spain

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Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2016 11:01:00
From: Florentina-Lilica Voicu [florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat]
Subject: International Summer School on Web Science and Technology/Spain

International Summer School on Web Science and Technology/Spain

Host Institution: Universidad de Deusto
Coordinating Institution: Rovira i Virgili University
Website: http://grammars.grlmc.com/WebST2016/

Dates: 18-Jul-2016 - 22-Jul-2016
Location: Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain

Focus: WebST 2016 is a research training event addressed to graduates and postgraduates in the first steps of their academic career. With a global scope, it aims at updating them about the most recent advances in the critical, multidisciplinary and fast developing area of web studies, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation from computing and technologies to social sciences and the humanities and has turned out to be the largest socio-technical infrastructure in human history. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.
Minimum Education Level: No Minimum

Description:
Most subareas of web science and technology will be displayed, namely: content
analysis and information extraction, information networks, search, data and
semantics, ontologies, user behavior and personalization, online communities,
social networks, economic transactions, mobility, security and privacy, graph
analysis, web mining and applications. Main challenges and opportunities will
be identified through 4 keynote lectures, 16 six-hour courses, and 1 round
table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics from various
perspectives: philosophy, sociology, politics, digital humanities, economics,
computer science, engineering and mathematics.

The organizers believe outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and
most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event.

The event is addressed to graduates and postgraduates from around the world.
There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of academic degrees. However,
since there will be differences in the course levels, specific knowledge
background may be assumed for some of them. WebST 2016 is also appropriate for
more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments
and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with
major researchers, scholars, industry leaders and innovators.

Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to
attend as well as to move from one to another. They will be delivered a
certificate of attendance.

Keynote Speakers: 

- Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Pompeu Fabra University), Distributed Web Search
- Jiawei Han (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), From Data to
Knowledge: A Data-to-Network-to-Knowledge (D2N2K) Paradigm
- Prabhakar Raghavan (Google), Three Vignettes from the Theory and Practice of
Large Data Analysis
- Amit P. Sheth (Wright State University), Semantic, Cognitive and Perceptual
Computing – three intertwined strands of a golden braid of intelligent
computing

Professors and Courses: 

- Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne), [intermediate] Social Media and
Text Analytics
- Boualem Benatallah (University of New South Wales), [advanced] API
Engineering and Management
- Vassilis Christophides (INRIA, Paris), [introductory/intermediate] Entity
Resolution in the Web of Data
- Brian D. Davison (Lehigh University), [introductory] Useful Web Mining with
R
- Marco Gori (University of Siena), [advanced] Learning Semantic-based
Structures from Textual Sources
- Alon Halevy (Recruit Institute of Technology), [introductory] Structured
Data on the Web
- Jiawei Han (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [intermediate]
Construction and Mining of Text-Rich Heterogeneous Information Networks
- Andreas Hotho (University of Würzburg), [intermediate] Social Semantics in
the Web
- Ravi Kumar (Google), [introductory/intermediate] Computing at Scale: Models
and Algorithms
- Haewoon Kwak (Qatar Foundation), [introductory/intermediate] From Social
Network Analysis to Social Media Analytics and beyond: Challenges and
Opportunities
- Mirco Musolesi (University College London), [introductory/intermediate]
Mining Big (and Small) Mobile Data
- Bijan Parsia (University of Manchester), [introductory] The Semantic Web and
Linked Data
- Prabhakar Raghavan (Google), [intermediate] Introduction to Web Search
Engines
- Uli Sattler (University of Manchester), [introductory] OWL, Underlying
Logics, and What This Reasoning Is All about
- Barry Smith (University at Buffalo), [introductory] Towards Ontological
Foundations for Web Science
- Raphael Volz (Pforzheim University of Applied Science), [introductory]
Improving Prediction Models with Open Data

Open Session: 

An open session will collect 5-minute presentations of work in progress by
participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title,
authors, and summary of the research to florentinalilica.voicu (at) urv.cat by
July 15, 2016.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                      Computational Linguistics
                      Discourse Analysis
                      Pragmatics
                      Semantics
                      Sociolinguistics
                      Text/Corpus Linguistics

Tuition: 490 EUR

Tuition Explanation: Fees are a flat rate covering the attendance to all courses during the week
and lunches. Fees (early - 490 or regular - 550) depend on the registration
deadline (by June 23 or after).

Registration: 28-May-2016 to 18-Jul-2016

Contact Person: Florentina-Lilica Voicu
                Phone: +34977559543
                Email: florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat

Apply on the web: http://grammars.grlmc.com/WebST2016/Registration.php

Registration Instructions:
The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is
only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be
helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course.

Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be
processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be
closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the
venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event.

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