Call for Papers
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We are seeking the submission of full and short papers, representing original research, preliminary research results, proposals for new work, and position and opinion papers. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed through double-blind reviewing process.
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, and will have to be presented at the workshop either as an oral presentation or as a poster. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and attend the workshop to present the paper.
Topics of Interest
We encourage submissions on all topics related to the theme of analysis of broad and dynamic topics over social media, focused on (but not limited to) the following tasks:
- Adaptive high-recall high-precision filtering / topic tracking
- Adaptive summarization
- Topic/sub-topic or event/sub-event detection over time
- Retrospective generation of timelines
- Following controversial political events/crises: identification of decision makers, credibility/information source finding, stance/opinion mining, troll detection, fact checking
- Cross-media filtering (i.e., over heterogeneous sources)
- Multilingual topic/event detection
- Online/dynamic topic modeling
- Real-time/scalable techniques of processing high-volume streams
- Evaluation techniques and novel test collections (specific for broad dynamic topics)
- Spam and hashtag-spam detection
- Bot and automatically-generated content detection
- Data visualization
- Recommendation (e.g., of hashtags/topics/sub-topics)
- Learning techniques/deep learning over social streams
We encourage (but not require) submissions describing experiments using the GE2017 (a dataset of around 18M tweets on the British General Elections 2017) and USPresElect016 (a dataset of 3,450 labelled tweets on the US Presidential Elections 2016) datasets. Find more details here.
Submission Instructions
All submissions must be written in English following the LNCS author guidelines. Full papers must not exceed 12 pages and short papers must not exceed 6 pages, including figures and references. Papers should be submitted as PDF files electronically through EasyChair.
To submit your paper, please click here and then choose "Workshop on Analysis of Broad Dynamic Topics over Social Media".