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Workshop on Understanding the Positive and Negative Sides of Social
Media (PANSOM'13)
at IJCAI-13 2013
http://soccom.kmi.open.ac.uk/pansom2013/
3-5th Aug 2013. Beijing, China
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THEME
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In recent years, social media has continued to grow in popularity and has
become a powerful platform for people to unite together under common
interests. The explosive use of social media has turned it into a
double-edged sword. On the one hand, social media is seen to have a
positive impact in, for example, bringing information out of conflicted
nations to the World and word spreading-based mobilisation in emergency
response and crisis situations. On the other hand, social media platforms
have appeared to be also the catalyst in fuelling violent events (e.g.
during the UK riots in 2011). The proliferation of insults and personal
attacks online along with the appearance of socially disruptive patterns
in online social behaviour has become more and more common. Young people
are becoming increasingly narcissistic, and obsessed with self-image and
shallow friendships partly due to the use of Facebook and other social
media platforms. Social media addiction also leads to low self-esteem and
even anti-social behaviours.
This workshop will explore the novel use of techniques from machine
learning, data mining, text mining, information retrieval, statistics,
information security and privacy, and user modelling, to identify patterns
of potentially positive and negative activities in social media by
examining the online content, social interactions, and user behaviours. It
will also study the metrics in measuring the positive and negative impact
of social media on individuals, business organisations, and government
agencies. The analysis and mining of these patterns aim to promote
positive activities in social medial, while at the same time reveal
harmful aspects of social media and suggest ways to tackle and to overcome
the negative side.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from various
backgrounds including those from computer science, social science, and
psychology, to discuss the current and emergent topics, and cutting-edge
approaches to address issues relating to both positive and negative sides
of social media.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
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1. Social Media Content Understanding
* Credibility of social media content
* Information diffusion and propagation
* Event detection and prediction
* Linked data in social media
* Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
2. Promoting Positive Activities in Social Media
* Topic-based recommendation systems
* Location-based recommendation systems
* Social media in education
* Social business
* Social media in emergency response and crisis situations
* Social media-based knowledge management
* Citizen journalism
* Promoting tolerance and diversity in social media
* Supply chains for social content delivery
3. Tackling the Negative Side of Social Media
* Violence contents detection from social media
* Offensive language identification
* Cyberbullying
* Cyberterrorism
* Inducing opinion bias in social media
* Fake opinion recognition
* Boycott in topic diffusion
* Rumour and spam detection
* Social bot detection
* Adult content in social media
* Socially disruptive behaviours
SUBMISSIONS
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We invite authors to submit papers in one of the following types:
* Long papers: up to 6 pages
* Short papers: up to 4 pages
* Position and demo papers: up to 2 pages
Papers should be formatted according to the style guide of IJCAI13 and
should be submitted in PDF format through easychair. There will be no
double blind review process. Author names and affiliations should be
included in the paper. Paper selection will be based on a peer review
process.
IMPORTANT DATES
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April 20, 2013 - Paper submission deadline
May 20, 2013 - Paper acceptance notification
May 30, 2013 - Camera-ready copy due
ORGANISERS
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A. Elizabeth Cano, KMi, The Open University, UK
Yulan He, Aston University, UK
Kang Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Daniele Quercia, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Luca Aiello, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
Sofia Angeletou, BBC, UK
Miriam Fernandez, Open University, UK
Wei Gao, Qatar Foundation, Qatar
Grégoire Burel, Open University, UK
Marcel Karnstedt, DERI, Ireland
Daniel Peotriuc, University of Sheffield, UK
Neal Lathia, University of Cambridge, UK
Matthew Rowe, Lancaster University, UK
Hassan Saif, Open University, UK
Irina Temnikova, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Chenghua Lin, University of Aberdeen, UK
Milan Stankovic, Hypios & University Paris-Sorbonne, France
Andrea Varga, University of Sheffield, UK
Claudia Wagner, Joanneum Research, Austria
Bin Wang, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Aba-Sah Dadzie, The University of Sheffield, UK
Xin Zhao, Peking University, China
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