Workshop on Social Media and the Web of Linked Data

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Papers
Abbreviated Title: 
RUMOUR-2015
Location: 
“Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu
Saturday, 18 July 2015
Country: 
Romania
City: 
Sibiu
Contact: 
Diana Trandabat
Daniela Gifu
Dan Cristea
Submission Deadline: 
Sunday, 17 May 2015

Workshop 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.

Submission
We invite both long (8 pages) and short (4 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.

Papers must be submitted in Springer LNCS format. Information about the Springer LNCS format can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. 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.

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. Papers must be submitted online through EasyChair system following the submission link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rumour2015.

Proceedings
All accepted papers will be presented at RUMOUR-2015 and will appear in the workshop proceeding. We are currently negociationg with Springer for inclusion of workshop papers into Communications in Computer and Information Science series. 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 Text, Speech and Language Technology.

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

Registration
The registration is available at http://eurolan.info.uaic.ro/2015/registration. The fee for participation in RUMOUR-2015 starts at 100 Eur. To encourage a simultaneous participation in the workshop AND the School, a discount of the School’s fee will be announced for people also attending RUMOUR-2015.

Date and 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.

Important Dates
9 March 2015 - First Call for Papers launched
17 May 2015 - paper submission
31 May 2015 - notification of accepted papers
7 June 2015 - early registration deadline
22 June 2015 - final papers due
12 July 2015 - final (late) registration deadline

Organising 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
Nuria Bel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)
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)
Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
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!