The final program for the #Microposts2016 workshop at the 25th International World Wide Web conference is ready. We’ll be in Room 520F, see you in Montreal!
SESSION I
9:00 – 9:20 Welcome & Introduction
9:20 – 10:20 Invited Talk – Mihajlo Grbovic (Yahoo Labs)
10:20 – 10:30 Lightning Round – Posters
10:30 – 11:00 Tea Break with Posters (Room 517AB – Tradeshow Area)
SESSION II
11:00 – 12:00 Main Track Presentations
12:00 – 12:30 Social Sciences Track Presentations
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break
SESSION III
14:00 – 14:30 Social Sciences Track Presentations
14:30 – 14:45 NEEL Challenge Sponsor presentation
14:45 – 15:30 NEEL Challenge Presentations
15:30 – 16:00 Tea Break with Posters (Room 517AB – Tradeshow Area)
SESSION IV
16:00 – 16:30 Poster Session
16:30 – 16:45 NEEL Challenge Results
16:45 – 17:00 Awards and Closing
Session I – 9:00 – 11:00 Invited Talk & Poster Presentations
9:00 – 9:20 Welcome & Introduction
9:20 – 10:20 Invited Talk – Mihajlo Grbovic (Yahoo Labs)
- Leveraging Blogging Activity on Tumblr to Infer Demographics and Interests of Users for Advertising Purposes
Mihajlo Grbovic, Vladan Radosavljevic and Nemanja Djuric
10:20 – 10:30 Lightning Round – Posters
- Named Entity Recognition in 140 Characters or Less
Kara Greenfield, Kelly Geyer, Alyssa Mensch, Olga Simek - CEOs on Twitter
Alex Jeongwoo Oh - Studying the Role of Elites in U.S. Political Twitter Debates
Sebastian Stier - UniMiB: Entity Linking in Tweets using Jaro-Winkler Distance, Popularity and Coherence
Davide Caliano, Elisabetta Fersini, Pikakshi Manchanda, Matteo Palmonari, Enza Messina - Kanopy4Tweets: Entity Extraction and Linking for Twitter
Pablo Torres-Tramon, Hugo Hromic, Brian Walsh, Buhareh R. Heravi, Conor Hayes - Named Entity Linking in #Tweets with KEA
Jorg Waitelonis, Harald Sack - A Reverse Approach to Named Entity Extraction and Linking in Microposts
Kara Greenfield - Feature Based Approach to Named Entity Recognition and Linking for Tweets
Souvick Ghosh, Promita Maitra, Dipankar Das
10:30 – 11:00 Tea Break with Posters (Room 517AB – Tradeshow Area)
Session II – 11:00 – 12:30 Main & Social Sciences Track Presentations
11:00 – 12:00 Main Track Presentations
- 11:00 – 11:30
ClaimFinder: A Framework for Identifying Claims in Microblogs
Wee Yong Lim, Mong Li Lee, Wynne Hsu
- 11:30 – 12:00
Birds of a Feather also Tweet: Computational Techniques to Understand User Communities in Social Networks
David Burth Kurka, Alan Godoy, Fernando J. Von Zuben
12:00 – 12:30 Social Sciences Track Presentations
- Comparing Social Media and Traditional Surveys Around the Boston Marathon Bombing
Cody Buntain, Erin McGrath, Jennifer Golbeck, Gary LaFree
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break
Session III – 14:00 – 16:00 Social Sciences & NEEL Challenge Presentations
14:00 – 14:30 Social Sciences Track Presentations
- 14:00 – 14:15
CEOs on Twitter
Alex Jeongwoo Oh
- 14:15 – 14:30
Studying the Role of Elites in U.S. Political Twitter Debates
Sebastian Stier
14:30 – 14:45 NEEL Challenge Sponsor presentation
14:45 – 15:30 NEEL Challenge Presentations
- 14:45 – 14:55
UniMiB: Entity Linking in Tweets using Jaro-Winkler Distance, Popularity and Coherence
Davide Caliano, Elisabetta Fersini, Pikakshi Manchanda, Matteo Palmonari, Enza Messina
- 14:55 – 15:05
Kanopy4Tweets: Entity Extraction and Linking for Twitter
Pablo Torres-Tramon, Hugo Hromic, Brian Walsh, Buhareh R. Heravi, Conor Hayes
- 15:05 – 15:15
Named Entity Linking in #Tweets with KEA
Jorg Waitelonis, Harald Sack
- 15:15 – 15:25
A Reverse Approach to Named Entity Extraction and Linking in Microposts
Kara Greenfield
- 15:25 – 15:30
Feature Based Approach to Named Entity Recognition and Linking for Tweets
Souvick Ghosh, Promita Maitra, Dipankar Das
15:30 – 16:00 Tea Break with Posters (Room 517AB – Tradeshow area)
Session IV – 16:00 – 17:00 Poster Session & Awards
16:00 – 16:30 Poster Session
16:30 – 16:45 NEEL Challenge Results
16:45 – 17:00 Awards and Workshop Closing