SocialNLP 2014 - Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media (SocialNLP 2014)

SocialNLP is a new inter-disciplinary area of natural language processing (NLP) and social computing. We consider three plausible directions of SocialNLP: (1) addressing issues in social computing using NLP techniques; (2) solving NLP problems using information from social networks or social media; and (3) handling new problems related to both social computing and natural language processing.
Through this workshop, we anticipate to provide a platform for research outcome presentation and head-to-head discussion in the area of SocialNLP, with the hope to combine the insight and experience of prominent researchers from both NLP and social computing domains to contribute to the area of SocialNLP jointly.
Topics
Relevant topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
1. Content analysis on Social Media
? Summarization of posts/replies on social media
? Name entity Recognition on Social media
? Relationship extraction on social media.
? Entity resolution for social media
? Search, Indexing, and Evaluation on Social Web
? Improving Speech Recognition using Social Media Content
? Multilingual and Language-specific Information Retrieval on Social Web
2. Natural language processing on Web 2.0
? Folksonomy and Social Tagging
? Trend analysis on Wikipedia
? Trustworthiness analysis on Wikipedia
? Human computing for social-media corpus generation
? Social structure and position analysis using Microblog content
? Trust and Privacy analysis in social contexts
? Community detection using blog or Microblog content
3. Sentiment and Opinion Analysis on Social Media
? Lexical semantic resources, corpora and annotations of social media for sentiment analysis
? Opinion retrieval, extraction, classification, tracking and summarization
? Domain specific sentiment analysis and model adaptation
? Emotion detection
? Sentiment analysis for automatic public opinion poll and surveys of user satisfaction
? Improvement of NLP tasks using subjectivity and/or sentiment analysis on social platform
? Sentiment analysis and human computer interface on social platform
? Real-world sentiment applications and systems on social platform
4. Models and Tools Development for SocialNLP
? Social-network motivated methods or tools for natural language processing
? Advanced topic model for social media
? Learning to rank for social media
? Clustering and Classification tools for Social Media
? Content-based and social-based Recommendation
? Multi-lingual machine translation on Microblog
Organizers
? Shou-de Lin (National Taiwan University)
? Lun-Wei Ku (Academia Sinica)
? Erik Cambria (Nanyang Technological University)
? Tsung-Ting Kuo (National Taiwan University)
Program Committee
? Prof. Chia-hui Chang (National Central University)
? Prof. Berlin Chen (National Taiwan Normal University)
? Prof. Hsin-Hsi Chen (National Taiwan University)
? Prof. Min-Yuh Day (Tamkang University)
? Prof. Jennifer Foster (Dublin City University)
? Dr. Wen-Lian Hsu (Academia Sinica)
? Prof. June-Jei Kuo (National Chung Hsing University)
? Prof. Chuan-Jie Lin (National Taiwan Ocean University)
? Prof. Rada Mihalcea (University of North Texas)
? Prof. Fuji Ren (The University of Tokushima)
? Prof. Yohei Seki (University of Tsukuba)
? Dr. Ker-yi Su (Behavior Design Corp)
? Prof. Ming-Feng Tsai (National ChengChi University)
? Dr. Hsin-Min Wang (Academia Sinica)
? Prof. Jenq-Haur Wang (National Taipei University of Technology)
? Prof. Shih-Hung Wu (Chaoyang University of Technology)
? Prof. Yungfang Wu (Peking University)
? Prof. Ruifeng Xu (Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School)
? Dr. Yi-Hsuan Yang (Academia Sinica)
? Dr. Kevin Zhang (Beijing Institute of Technology)
? Prof. Yunqing Xia, Tsinghua University (China)
? Prof. Rui Xia, Nanjing University of Science and Technology (China)
? Prof. Rafal Rzepka, Hokkaido University (Japan)
? Prof. Amir Hussain, University of Stirling (UK)
? Prof. Amitava Das, Samsung Research India (India)
? Prof. Dipankar Das, National Institute of Technology (India)