NewsWWW 2015 - 2nd workshop on Web and Data Science for News Publishing

2nd workshop on Web and Data Science for News Publishing
http://ailab.ijs.si/~marko/NewsWWW/
at WWW 2015, Florence, Italy,
19th May, 2015
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Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=newswww201...
IMPORTANT DATES
- Submission Date: Jan 24, 2015 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)
- Notification of Acceptance: Feb 22, 2015
- Final copy deadline: Mar 8, 2015
- Workshop date: May 19, 2015
DESCRIPTION
The workshop covers many aspects of news publishing related to the Web technologies and data science. News publishing is a domain with a lot of specifics related to data processing spanning interdisciplinary across many fields of Web and data related research. The aim of this workshop is to cover analytic, semantic, linguistic, standardization research, approaches and solutions for numerous data challenges related to news publishing.
Target audience will include data researchers and professionals from publishing industry:
- Data scientists from publishing houses of all types (traditional-, social-, TV-media)
- Journalists, editors and bloggers operating primarily in online publishing
- Data Journalists and Info-graphics creators
- Software engineers from publishing houses or vendor companies
- Researchers and students in social sciences related to news domain
- Standardization bodies (W3C and IPTC)
- Broader public interested in advances in data analytics for news publishing
The workshop is a continuation of the “NewsKDD” workshop from KDD 2014.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
We invite submissions on all topics which appear as relevant for research and production in news publishing including back-office, online publishing and user feedback.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- news editorial support (media monitoring, data journalism, news bias, demand prediction),
- content management (search, ranking, semantics),
- user management (user profiling, recommendation, social media),
- visualization (visualize complexity of news, visual summarization of news),
- news archives (organization, access, status of news archives),
- news standardization (W3C and IPTC standardization initiatives)
Research papers should be submitted through the EasyChair Submission page:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=newswww201...
ORGANISERS
- Marko Grobelnik, Jozef Stean Institute, Slovenia
- James Hodson, Bloomberg Labs, New York, USA
- Stefano Pacifico, Bloomberg Labs, New York USA
- Evan Sandhaus, New York Times, New York, USA
- Blaz Fortuna, iMinds - Ghent University, Belgium