Monitoring Reputation in the Wild Online West

                                                     Julio Gonzalo
                                                         UNED
                                                     Madrid, Spain



                                                                Biography
                                                                Julio Gonzalo (UNED, Madrid, Spain) is head of the
                       Abstract
                                                                UNED research group in Natural Language Process-
    Monitoring Online Reputation has already be-                ing and IR (nlp.uned.es). He has recently been co-
    come a key part of Public Relations for orga-               organizer of the RepLab Evaluation Campaign for On-
    nizations and individuals; and current search               line Reputation Management Systems, co-organizer of
    technologies do not suffice to help reputation              the WePS evaluation campaign for Web People Search
    experts to cope with the vast stream of on-                 systems, and co-recipient of a Google Faculty Research
    line content flooding reputation management                 Award. His research interests include Entity-Oriented
    experts.                                                    and Semantic Search, Evaluation Methodologies and
                                                                Metrics in Information Access, and Information Ac-
    In the talk we will summarize some of                       cess Technologies for Social Media. A list of his pub-
    the main challenges that Information Access                 lications can be found at Google Scholar:
    Technologies must face to assist online reputa-             https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=opFCmpYAAAAJ.
    tion monitoring tasks, and present some of the
    results obtained by the UNED research group
    in the areas of entity name disambiguation,
    topic tracking for reputation analysis, iden-
    tification of opinion makers, and reputation-
    oriented summarization. We will make a spe-
    cial emphasis on the Replab test collections for
    Online Reputation Monitoring, which provide
    over half a million manual annotations pro-
    vided by reputation experts on Twitter data.




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NewsIR’16 Workshop, Padua, Italy, 20-March-2016, published
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