CFP eRisk @ CLEF 2017 - Early risk prediction on the Internet

[Javier Parapar]

CALL FOR PAPERS

eRisk @ CLEF 2017

Workshop on Early risk prediction on the Internet: experimental foundations

http://early.irlab.org/

to be held in Dublin, at the 8th Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum CLEF 2017 (11-14 Sept 2017)

Workshop description

The main purpose of this workshop is to explore issues of evaluation methodology, effectiveness metrics and other processes related to 

early risk detection. Early detection technologies can be employed in different areas, particularly those related to health and safety. 

For instance, early alerts could be sent when a predator starts interacting with a child for sexual purposes, or when a potential offender 

starts publishing antisocial threats on a blog, forum or social network. The main goal of the workshop is to pioneer a new interdisciplinary 

research area that would be potentially applicable to a wide variety of situations and to many different personal profiles. Examples include 

potential paedophiles, stalkers, individuals that could fall into the hands of criminal organisations, people with suicidal inclinations, 

or people susceptible to depression.

The workshop is open to the submission of papers describing test collections or data sets suitable for early risk prediction, early risk prediction 

challenges, tasks and evaluation metrics or specific early risk detection solutions. 

More Info: http://early.irlab.org/ ("Research Papers" Format)

Workshop co-chairs

David E. Losada, Univ. Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Fabio Crestani, Univ. Lugano, Switzerland

Javier Parapar, Univ. A Coruña, Spain

Important dates

Submission deadline: May 26, 2017

Notification of acceptance: June 16, 2017

Camera-ready proceedings: July 3, 2017

Workshop will be held on 11-14 September 2017

Submission instructions

We solicit papers up to 12 pages in length. The papers must be written in English and should follow the Springer-Verlag LNCS style. 

For details see the Springer LNCS Author Instructions.

Papers (PDF) must be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=clef2017 (eRisk Workshop Papers).  

The proceedings of this workshop will be published in the online CEUR-WS Proceedings and on the conference website.