SoMeRA 2014: International Workshop on Social Media Retrieval and Analysis in conjunction with the 37th annual international ACM SIGIR conference (SIGIR 2014) Date: July 11, 2014 Location: Room 7 > News > Call for Papers > Committee > Submit Paper > Contact

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09.00 - 09.15	Opening and Welcome
09.15 - 10.00	Keynote Prof. Tat-Seng Chua From Social Media Data to Actionable Analytics
10.00 - 10.30	Coffee
10.30 - 11.30	Paper Session (2 papers): Maram Hasanain; Rana Malhas; Tamer Elsayed. Query Performance Prediction for Microblog Search: A Preliminary Study Tarek El-Ganainy; Walid Magdy; Ahmed Rafea. Hyperlink-Extended Pseudo Relevance Feedback for Improved Microblog Retrieval
11.30 - 13.15	Lunch (own arrangements)
13.15 - 14.55	Poster Session (8 posters): Chen Wang; Sarvnaz Karimi. Differences Between Social Media and Regulatory Databases in Adverse Drug Reaction Discovery Alejandro Metke; Sarvnaz Karimi; Cecile Paris. Evaluation of Text Processing Algorithms for Adverse Drug Event Extraction from Social Media Zhongyu Wei, Wei Gao, Tarek El-Ganainy, Walid Magdy; Kam-Fai Wong. Ranking Model Selection and Fusion for Effective Microblog Search Gabriel Vigliensoni; Ichiro Fujinaga. Identifying time zones in a large dataset of music listening logs Dhiraj Joshi; Francine Chen; Lynn Wilcox. Finding Selfies of Users in Microblogged Photos Fatiha Sadat; Farnazeh Kazemi; Atefeh Farzindar. Automatic Identification of Arabic Dialects in Social Media Peter Knees. The Use of Social Media for Music Analysis and Creation Within the GiantSteps Project Markus Schedl. Social Media and Classical Music? - A first analysis within the PHENICX project: ``Performances as Highly Enriched aNd Interactive Concert eXperiences''
14.55 - 15.25	Coffee
15.25 - 16.55	Paper Session (3 papers): Reyyan Yeniterzi; Jamie Callan. Constructing Effective and Efficient Topic-Specific Authority Networks for Expert Finding in Social Media Yekyung Kim; Bongwon Suh; Kyogu Lee. #nowplaying the Future Billboard: Mining Music Listening Behaviors of Twitter Users for Hit Song Prediction Stefano Mizzaro; Marco Pavan; Ivan Scagnetto; Martino Valenti. Short Text Categorization Exploiting Contextual Enrichment and External Knowledge
16.55 - 17.15	Wrap-up and Final Remarks

Keynote

Prof. Tat-Seng Chua National University of Singapore

Title: From Social Media Data to Actionable Analytics Abstract: Given the popularity of social networks, users are sharing information on multiple aspects of their life on a wide variety of social networks. For any given topic, there are wide varieties of both social and non-social information from multiple sources. The challenges in social media analysis are multi-fold. The first and most fundamental problem is the ability to gather “representative” data about the topic from multiple sources. With the social media contents becoming increasingly multimedia, the next problem is how to infer user signals from non-textual contents. The third problem is the detection and tracking of sub-events on this topic. Finally, for most organizations, they would like to know what social media posts or sub-events related to them are likely to become viral, and what actions they can take. This talk describes a live social observatory system that we have developed and our research efforts to tackle the above challenges. In particular, we outline our research to transform unstructured social media data to descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics. Biography: Dr. Chua is the KITHCT Chair Professor at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore. He was the Acting and Founding Dean of the School during 1998-2000. His main research interest is in multimedia information retrieval and social media analysis. In particular, his research focuses on the extraction, retrieval and question-answering (QA) of text, video and live media arising from the Web and social networks. He is the co-Director of a multi-million-dollar joint Center between NUS and Tsinghua University to develop technologies for live social observatory. Dr. Chua is active in the international research community. He has organized and served as program committee member of numerous international conferences in the areas of multimedia, text processing and computer graphics. He was the conference co-chair of ACM Multimedia 2005, ACM CIVR 2005, and ACM SIGIR 2008. He serves in the editorial boards of: ACM Transactions of Information Systems (ACM), Foundation and Trends in Information Retrieval (NOW), The Visual Computer (Springer Verlag), and Multimedia Tools and Applications (Kluwer). He is the member of steering committee of ICMR (International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval) and Multimedia Modeling conference series. Dr Chua is the Director of several companies, including a publicly listed one in Singapore.

 Call for Papers

Topics of Interest

• Models for retrieval in social media
• Multimedia and cross-media retrieval and recommendation
• Domain-specific social media analysis for multimedia, such as:
• Real-time popularity and trend detection (for music, movies, books, etc.)
• New paradigms for linking social data and cultural data (e.g., classical compositions)
• Information extraction for music representation and composition support
• Context-aware retrieval and recommendation
• Multimodal browsing interfaces
• Large-scale multimedia content analysis
• User modeling and personalization
• Social network analysis
• Semantic content analysis and indexing
• Opinion mining and sentiment analysis
• Information extraction from social media
• Information visualization of social media data
• Evaluation techniques targeted at social media
• Novel data sets
• Ranking and reranking

Important Dates

Workshop Committee

Organizers / Program Chairs

Markus Schedl	Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
Peter Knees	Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
Jialie Shen	Singapore Management University, Singapore

Program Committee

Christine Bauer	Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Bettina Berendt	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Iván Cantador	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Mehdi Elahi	University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
Katayoun Farrahi	Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Arthur Flexer	Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, Austria
Fabien Gouyon	Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Shengbo Guo	Samsung Media Solution Center America, San Jose, USA
Bogdan Ionescu	University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Noam Koenigstein	Microsoft R&D Center Herzliya; Tel Aviv University, Israel
Cynthia Liem	Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Dietmar Jannach	Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany
Brian McFee	Columbia University, New York, USA
Nicola Orio	University of Padova, Italy
Jeremy Pickens	Catalyst Repository Systems, Denver, CO, USA
Alan Said	Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Giovanni Semeraro	Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Mohammad Soleymani	Imperial College London, UK
Sebastian Stober	University of Western Ontario, Canada
Markus Strohmaier	University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Douglas Turnbull	Ithaca College, NY, USA
Julian Urbano	Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Lin Wu	University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Eva Zangerle	University of Innsbruck, Austria
Jian Zhang	University of Melbourne, Australia
Rui Zhang	University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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