Call For Posters and Demos: Making Sense of Microposts (#MSM2011)

[Milan Stankovic]

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CALL FOR POSTERS, DEMOS AND LATE-BREAKING WORK
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1st Workshop on Making Sense of Microposts #MSM2011
7th Extended (former European) Semantic Web Conference ESWC 2010
30 May 2011
Heraklion, Greece
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http://research.hypios.com/msm2011/
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The topic of Making Sense of Microposts generated a lot of interest in the Semantic Web research community, confirmed by 19 high quality paper submissions, out of which 9 were accepted. We are now opening a second call for a poster and demo track for presenting ideas, late-breaking results, ongoing research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress. Posters and Demos are intended to provide authors and participants with the ability to connect with one another and to engage in discussions about the work. The call is intended for presentations of both work in research and industry.

Authors are invited to submit a 2-page paper (PDF, Springer LNCS style [1]) with a separate abstract (up to 150 words). The paper must clearly demonstrate relevance to the #MSM2011 topics. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the Semantic Web area, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity.

The accepted posters and demos will be presented in the coffee breaks during the Workshop, thus giving the poster authors the opportunity to interact with other participants and obtain feedback on their work. The poster abstracts will be available on the Workshop website, but will not be included in the official proceedings.

An award for the most innovative poster/demo will be given by the workshop chairs.

For more information about the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS) please visit:
[1] http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0

*Topics of Interest*
We encourage submissions from, but not limited to, the following topics of interest:

Microposts and Semantic Web technologies

• Knowledge Discovery and Information Extraction
• Factual Inference
• Ontology/vocabulary modelling and learning from Microposts
• Integrating Microposts into the Web of Linked Data

Social/Web Science studies

• Analysis of Micropost data patterns
• Motivations for creating and consuming Microposts
• Relevance of Microposts and factors that influence them
• Community/network analysis of Micropost dynamics
• Ethics/privacy implications of publishing and consuming Microposts

Context

• Utilising context (time, location, feeling)
• Contextual inference mechanisms
• Social awareness streams and Online Presence
• Event Detection

Applying Microposts

• User profiling/recommendation/personalization approaches using Microposts
• Public opinion mining
• Trend prediction
• Expertise finding
• Business analysis/market scanning
• Emergency systems
• Urban sensing and location-based applications

*Important Dates*
Submission (Posters/Demos): May 1, 2011 (23:59 Hawaii time)
Notification (Posters/Demos): May 15, 2011
Camera Ready (Posters/Demos): May 20, 2011


*Submission*
Submission and reviewing of poster papers will be electronic, via the
MSM2011 EasyChair installation at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2011

*General contact*
If you have any questions, please contact: msm.o...@gmail.com

*#MSM Chairs*
Matthew Rowe
Milan Stankovic
Aba-Sah Dadzie
Mariann Hardey