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===================  Call for Papers =====================

CONTENT ANALYSIS IN WEB 2.0 (CAW2.0)

Madrid  21 April 2009 collocated with the WWW2009 conference

http://caw2.barcelonamedia.org

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The organizer committee of the first CAW2 (Content Analysis in Web 2.0) workshop, The Universitat Pompeu Fabra and The Barcelona Media Innovation Center invites you to participate in this workshop, belonging to the International World Wide Web Conference WWW-2009 to be held in Madrid.

The general topic of this workshop is the analysis of the content generated by users in the web 2.0. This first year, the content is restricted to text. Two different paper modalities will be considered for the workshop:

  • General papers:
    Papers describing new tasks, evaluation procedures or any other relevant issue related to mining of user generated contents in the web 2.0 will be considered.
  • Shared task papers:
    Papers describing research work and results related to any of the following three shared tasks will be considered:
    1. Text normalization
    2. Sentiment and opinion analysis
    3. Misbehavior Detection

For those teams participating in any of the shared tasks, there will be a set of data available for training and testing  in order to be able to compare the results produced by different teams. It is important to know that the paper submission deadline will be previous to the test data release date. In this sense, the paper should report all the work done with the training dataset. After paper acceptance, results on test data can be added to the final version of the manuscript without exceeding the eight page limit. .

Each workshop submission will be evaluated by two or three evaluators. A blind review process will be followed, so author’s names and direct references to author’s previous works should be avoided in the first version of the manuscript. We are attempting to organize an independent program committee for each shared task and paper modality.

Papers will be evaluated according to their technical soundness as well as their originality and innovative contributions to the field. Paper length should not exceed eight pages. See the submissions page, for the conditions to submit your papers. http://caw2.barcelonamedia.org/node/16

================= Important dates: ==============================

01/03/09    Sunday    Deadline for paper submissions
02/03/09    Monday    Test data release
08/03/09    Sunday    Deadline for experimental result submissions
22/03/09    Sunday    Notification of acceptance
29/03/09    Sunday    Deadline for camara ready submissions
21/04/09   Tuesday    Workshop

===================  Organizing Committee ========================
Joan Codina - Pompeu Fabra University
Andreas Kaltenbrunner - Barcelona Media Innovation Centre
Rafael E. Banchs - Barcelona Media Innovation Centre
Ricardo Baeza-Yates - Yahoo! Research