SoMeRi 2015 - International Workshop on Social Media and Risk (SoMeRiS2015)

The aim of this workshop is to address state-of-the-art techniques in machine learning, graph and text mining to leverage information available in social media to enrich and improve predictive algorithms for risk assessment and management, such as the insurance sector or the online industry. A (non restrictive) list of topics follows:
Risk management
Social media for risk assessment in online industry
Social media for risk in the insurance sector
The nature of risk in the insurance sector
Social media
Graph/Text Mining for social media
Dynamics of social networks
Privacy
Privacy in Social media
Fraud detection and prevention
Sharing economics, social networks and peer-to-peer insurance
The workshop will host two keynotes by a major insurance company (AXA), and several academic and industrial talks. The objective is to create an interface between academics and practitioners, to exchange and create synergies about challenging problems at the crossing of machine learning on social media and industrial applications that involve risk assessment and management. This topic is particularly relevant and unexplored. The exploitation of such sources of information for risk-based businesses is a relatively recent topic. It requires new developments both on the methodological and technological aspects: from new statistical models that describe accurately the dynamics of social media and information diffusion, to the use of APIs and relevant databases to crawl, structure and exploit data from social media.