RUMOUR 2018 - 4TH WORKSHOP ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE WEB OF LINKED DATA

Social Media provides potential applications under natural language processing (NLP) area, having a huge influence about how we think, interact, learn, consolidate relationships and understand society. It is not surprising that information from Social Media is rapidly becoming an essential source for natural language processing (NLP) research. At the same time, Linked Data is emerging as an increasingly important topic for NLP. Work in the field has produced massive amounts of linguistic data, including annotated corpora, lexicons, databases, and ontologies, in formats that enable their exploitation in the Semantic Web. Linking the contents of these resources to each other as well as to common ontologies can enable access to and discovery of detailed linguistic information and could foster a major leap forward in NLP research and development. The motivation of the RUMOUR-2018 Workshop is to attract a large number of innovative approaches for exploitation of social media using semantic web technologies and linked data by bringing together research on the Semantic Web, Linked Data, and the Social Sciences. The main objective of this workshop is to extend and consolidate an internationally appreciated forum for scientific research in ICT, with emphasis on crowdsourcing, semantic web, knowledge integration, and data linking.