#Microposts2016
Making Sense of Microposts: Big things come in small packages

Table of Contents

• Preface
  
  

Invited Talk

• Leveraging Blogging Activity on Tumblr to Infer Demographics and Interests of Users for Advertising Purposes 2-11
  Mihajlo Grbovic , Vladan Radosavljevic , Nemanja Djuric , Narayan Bhamidipati , Ananth Nagarajan

Section I: Main Research Track

• ClaimFinder: A Framework for Identifying Claims in Microblogs 13-20
  Wee Yong Lim , Mong Li Lee , Wynne Hsu
• Birds of a Feather Tweet Together: Computational Techniques to Understand User Communities in Social Networks 21-27
  David Burth Kurka , Alan Godoy , Fernando J. Von Zuben

Section II: Computational Social Science Track

• Making Sense of Microposts (#Microposts2016) Social Sciences Track 29-32
  Katrin Weller , Aba-Sah Dadzie , Danica Radovanović

Section IIa: SocSci Track Submissions I

• Comparing Social Media and Traditional Surveys around the Boston Marathon Bombing 34-41
  Cody Buntain , Erin McGrath , Jennifer Golbeck , Gary LaFree

Section IIb: SocSci Track Submissions II – Posters

• Studying the Role of Elites in U.S. Political Twitter Debates 43-45
  Sebastian Stier
• CEOs on Twitter 46-48
  Alex Jeongwoo Oh , Pramuan Bunkanwanicha

Section III: Named Entity rEcognition and Linking (NEEL) Challenge

• Making Sense of Microposts (#Microposts2016) Named Entity rEcognition and Linking (NEEL) Challenge 50-59
  Giuseppe Rizzo , Marieke van Erp , Julien Plu , Raphaël Troncy

Section IIIa: NEEL Challenge Submissions I

• Named Entity Linking in #Tweets with KEA 61-63
  Jörg Waitelonis , Harald Sack
• Kanopy4Tweets: Entity Extraction and Linking for Twitter 64-66
  Pablo Torres-Tramón , Hugo Hromic , Brian Walsh , Bahareh R. Heravi , Conor Hayes
• A Reverse Approach to Named Entity Extraction and Linking in Microposts 67-69
  Kara Greenfield , Rajmonda Caceres , Michael Coury , Kelly Geyer , Youngjune Gwon , Jason Matterer , Alyssa Mensch , Cem Sahin , Olga Simek
• UniMiB: Entity Linking in Tweets using Jaro-Winkler Distance, Popularity and Coherence 70-72
  Davide Caliano , Elisabetta Fersini , Pikakshi Manchanda , Matteo Palmonari , Enza Messina

Section IIIb: NEEL Challenge Submissions II – Posters

• Feature Based Approach to Named Entity Recognition and Linking for Tweets 74-76
  Souvick Ghosh , Promita Maitra , Dipankar Das

Section IV: Late-Breaking Work

• Named Entity Recognition in 140 Characters or Less 78-79
  Kelly Geyer , Kara Greenfield , Alyssa Mensch , Olga Simek

 

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