DETECT 2011

International Workshop on DETecting and Exploiting Cultural diversiTy on the Social Web

24 Oct 2011, Glasgow, UK :: co-Located with CIKM 2011

Welcome

With the constantly increasing reach of the Web in general and Social Media in particular, more and more people of different nationalities, cultures, origins and beliefs contribute and access online information. These differences express themselves in language, habits, behavioural patterns, socio-cultural norms and values. They also strongly influence the way users provide and formulate content as well as the way they request, acquire, interpret and access information. Therefore, the detection and use of cultural differences and diversity will become more and more a key challenge in both, Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management.

With our workshop we aim at bringing together researchers and practitioners dealing with inter-cultural, multi-lingual and multi-national information environments in distinct contexts, and discover synergies between their research fields.

The workshop is co-located with CIKM 2011. Accepted DETECT papers will be published in the CIKM'11 workshop proceedings, which will be distributed on CD and indexed by the ACM Digital Library.

Scope

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The rapid growth of Social Media originates in the ease of collaborative content generation and content sharing for non-expert mass users. In the recent years, substantial research progress was achieved regarding information retrieval, text mining, information filtering and recommendation in social media. However, some fundamental questions remain still open.

One of the key challenges for Social Web research is the deeper understanding of the intercultural and multi-lingual nature of online communities like Wikipedia, Facebook, or Twitter. This does in particular hold for settings involving differences in culture and language, e.g. text corpora generated in African, Arabian, Asian and Western languages. Understanding content and user relations across languages and countries, intercultural opinion differences, and country/language-specific topics of interest may allow for gaining deeper insights into such Social Web communities. Promising research directions include multi-lingual retrieval, mining of inter-cultural societal trends, as well as detecting controversial opinions across countries, cultures, and languages. Existing solutions and models in the field of Social Web research are often reduced to particular languages (or countries) which are then considered in a - more or less - isolated manner.

In contrast, our workshop DETECT (an acronym for DETecting and Exploiting Cultural diversiTy on the social web) aims to facilitate inter-disciplinary research on complex dependencies between culture, language, and content on the social web.

Topics of Interest

With our workshop we aim at bringing together researchers and practitioners dealing with inter-cultural, multi-lingual collaborative environments in distinct contexts, and discovering synergies between their research fields. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• cultural, ethnical and linguistic aspects of user behaviour in social media
• user models to capture cultural context
• data mining to detect and analyze cultural differences
• comparison of evolving semantics in social media across languages and cultures (tags, category systems, taxonomies, ...)
• detection of synergies in social semantics across languages and cultures
• analyzing cultural diversity in event coverage (elections, political events)
• organization of multilingual content (e.g. classification, clustering)
• search result diversification considering cultural aspects
• cultural and temporal evolution of terminologies
• stylistic analysis of different cultural groups and web environments
• cross-cultural and cross-lingual opinion mining and sentiment analysis
• multi-lingual and cross-lingual search and retrieval
• new evaluation measures capturing the diversity of search results (in the context of a specific topic or across topics)
• evaluation methodologies for cultural diversification of search results
• personalized search in social media based on cultural and linguistic background of users
• cross-lingual topic discovery and trend detection
• multi-lingual recommenders (content, contacts, topics of interest)
• multi-lingual semantics of social media
• ontology generation from multilingual resources

The mentioned topics are in the key scope of recent IR research on social media. However, they also offer the possibility of intensive inter-disciplinary cooperation of experts from computer science, linguistics, psychology, sociology, and other domains. Consequently, DETECT aims to establish and to facilitate inter-disciplinary collaboration of researchers from these fields in the context of Social Web communities. Given the focus on cultural aspects, we are particularly interested in work addressing multiple cultural contexts covering a diversity of languages coming from an African, Arabian, Asian, and Western background.

DETECT contributions will be published in CIKM'11 Workshop Proceedings and indexed by ACM Digital Library. At least one author per accepted paper is expected to register for CIKM 2011, to attend the DETECT workshop, and to present the contribution in one of the workshop sessions.

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DETECT Chairs

• Sergej Sizov, University of Koblenz, Germany
• Thomas Gottron, University of Koblenz, Germany
• Stefan Siersdorfer, L3S Research Centre, Hannover, Germany
• Philipp Sorg, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

DETECT Program Committee

• Nedim Lipka, University of Weimar, Germany
• Paul Buitelaar, DERI Galway, Irland
• Maik Anderka, University of Weimar, Germany
• Tania Tudorache, Stanford University, USA
• Andreas Hotho, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
• Xiangru Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
• Julia Preusse, University of Koblenz, Germany
• Tim Weninger, University of Illinois, USA
• Christoph Kling, University of Koblenz, Germany
• Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, University of Maryland, USA
• Arifah Che Aladi, University of Koblenz, Germany

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Key dates

• Individual Workshop Papers Due: 31 July 2011
• Notification of Acceptance: 05 August 2011
  
  
• Camera Ready: 12 August 2011 (hard !! deadline for publication, instructions here)
  
  
• Early CIKM 2011 registration: until 31 Aug 2011 (here)
• Workshop: 24 Oct 2011 at CIKM 2011

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Key Organizers

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Dr.Dr. Sergej Sizov University of Koblenz  -  UKob Institute for Web Science and Technologies  -  WeST Assistant Professor Universitätsstrasse 1 Dept. of Computer Science  - FB4 56070 Koblenz Germany Phone: +49 261 287 2736 Fax: +49 261 287 100 2736 Email: sizov@uni-­koblenz.de Geo: 50.362938 7.558973

Dr. Stefan Siersdorfer L3S Research Center  -  L3S Intelligent Access to Information  -  IAI Senior Researcher Appelstr. 9a L3S Group IAI 30167 Hannover Germany Phone: +49 511-762-17739 Fax: +49 511-762-9779 Email: siersdorf­er@l3s.de Geo: 52.388663 9.712718

Dr. Thomas Gottron University of Koblenz  -  UKob Institute for Web Science and Technologies  -  WeST Research Assistant Universitätsstrasse 1 Dept. of Computer Science  - FB4 56070 Koblenz Germany Phone: +49 261-287-2862 Fax: +49 261-287-100-2862 Email: gottron@uni­-koblenz.de Geo: 50.362938 7.558973

Dipl.-Inf. Philipp Sorg Karlsruhe Institute of Technology  -  KIT Institut für Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren  -  AIFB Researcher Kaiserstr. 89 Building 05.20 76133 Karlsruhe Germany Phone: +49 721 608 44754 Fax: +49 721 608 46580 Email: philipp.so­rg@kit.edu Geo: 49.010177 8.411528

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