PROGRAM

Call For Participation

ICWSM 2021 is hosting the second ICWSM data challenge to bring together researchers from across disciplines to solve society-relevant problems together as a community. This will be enabled by fostering collaboration and exchange of ideas in a structured setting. This year’s data challenge theme is Cross-platform analysis. While connecting to others and sharing opinions online, people use a number of social platforms. As such, ideas are not constrained to single online social networks, but rather flow on multiple ones. Sometimes, ideas and movements start on a community and later spread to others. Other times, different communities discuss the same topics in completely different ways. Yet, the research community has a limited understanding of the cross-platform dynamics of information sharing, and of how these influence online discourse. To begin filling this gap, we invite papers exploring novel and thought-provoking approaches to answer research questions by looking at multiple platforms.

For this challenge, we ask authors to take two datasets of their choice, selected from the ones released as ICWSM Dataset Papers between 2018 and 2020. You can find a list of these papers here. The two dataset should be used to answer one or more research questions. There is no restriction to the type of analysis to be performed (i.e., qualitative or quantitative) and to the type of research questions to be investigated. Examples of potential topics include looking at how the same news story (e.g., a political election) was discussed on two platforms or comparing hateful speech on multiple platforms.

ICWSM data challenge is a fully virtual event taking place on June 7th, 2021 in conjunction with ICWSM 2021, Atlanta, USA. Challenge participants will have the opportunity to present their work and discuss with other workshop participants at the workshop.

Workshop URL: https://sites.google.com/view/icwsm2021datachallenge

Submission Site: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICWSMDC2021

For any question or clarification, please contact the Data Challenge Chairs at data.challenge@icwsm.org

Important Dates:

• Data Challenge opens: Feb 22nd, 2021

• Paper Submission deadline - May 14th, 2021 May 28th, 2021

• Data Challenge notification - May 24th, 2021 June 2nd, 2021

• ICWSM Data Challenge Full day Workshop - June 7th, 2021

Participation

The data challenge is open to everyone.

Submission instructions

Submission should be made via EasyChair and must follow the formatting guidelines for ICWSM-2021. All submissions must be anonymous and conform to AAAI standards for double-blind review. Both short papers (4 pages including references) and posters (2 pages including references) that adhere to the 2-column AAAI format will be considered for review.

The top ranked papers presented to the Data Challenge will be awarded Distinguished Paper Awards and will be included in the ICWSM Workshop Proceedings, published openly online (http://workshop-proceedings.icwsm.org/).

Submission Site: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICWSMDC2021

Data Challenge Chairs

• Ghita Mezzour, CEO & Founder, Data in Seconds (DASEC)

• Gianluca Stringhini, Assistant Professor, Boston University

• Kai Shu, Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology