2nd edition
2nd International Workshop on Social Media World Sensors - Sideways 2016
2nd International Workshop on
Social Media World Sensors
(SIdEWayS
The 2016 edition of the International 2016)
Workshop on Social Media World Sensors -
Sideways 2016 has been held in conjunction with the 10th Edition of its Language
Resources and Evaluation Conference.- LREC 2016 in Portoroz, Slovenia.
This second edition
This second of the
edition of theworkshop
workshop aimed aims atatbringing
bringing together
together academics academics
and and
practitioners from different areas to promote the vision of social media as social sensors.
practitioners from different areas to promote the vision of social media as social
Nowadays, social Nowadays,
sensors. platforms have social become
platforms the have
most become
popular communication
the most popular system all
over the world. In fact, due to the short format of messages and the accessibility of these
communication system all over the world. In fact, due to the short format of
systems, messages
users tend andto the
shift from traditional
accessibility of thesecommunication
systems, users tend toolsto(suchshift as blogs, web
from
sites and mailing lists) to social network for various purposes. Billions of messages
traditional communication tools (such as blogs, web sites and mailing lists) to are
appearingsocial
dailynetwork
in these forservices such as Billions
various purposes. Twitter,ofTumblr,
messagesFacebook,
are appearing etc.daily
Theinauthors of
these messages share content
these services about their
such as Twitter, Tumblr, private life, exchanging
Facebook, etc. The authors opinions of theseon a variety
of topics messages
and discussing a wideabout
share content range ofprivate
their information news. opinions on a variety
life, exchanging
Even if of topics and discussing a wide range of information news.
this system cannot represent an alternative to the authoritative information
media, considering
Even the number
if this system of its users
cannot represent and thetoimpressive
an alternative the authoritative response
informationtime of their
contributions,
media, they represent
considering a sort of its
the number real-time
users andnews sensor that
the impressive can also
response time predate
of the
best newspapers in informing the web community about the emerging topics and trends.
their contributions, they represent a sort of real- time news sensor that can also
In fact, the mosttheimportant
predate information
best newspapers media
in informing thealways need a certain
web community about theamount
emergingof time to
react to a news event; i.e. professional journalists require time, collaborators
topics and trends. In fact, the most important information media always need a and/or
technology support
certain amountto provide
of time atoprofessional
react to a news report. However
event; a user can
i.e. professional easily report, in
journalists
few characters, what is happening in front of the user’s eyes, without any concern about
require time, collaborators and/or technology support to provide a professional
the readers or the
report. writing
However style.
a user can These aspects
easily report, make
in few social services
characters, the mostin powerful
what is happening
sensor for events detection and automatic news generation. The aim of this
front of the user’s eyes, without any concern about the readers or the writing style.workshop
was to ask researchers
These aspects make to enter
socialinto suchtheview,
services most by studying
powerful sensor how for social platforms can be
events detection
used in real-time scenarios to detect emerging events and enrich them with contextual
and automatic news generation. The aim of this workshop was to ask researchers
information.
to enter into such view, by studying how social platforms can be used in real-time
scenarios to detect emerging events and enrich them with contextual information.
Co-Chairs
Luigi Di Caro
Mario Cataldi
Claudio Schifanella
Editors
Mario Cataldi Université Paris 8, France
Department of Computer Science – University
Luigi Di Caro
of Turin, Italy
RAI – Centre for Research and Technological
Claudio Schifanella
Innovation, Turin, Italy
Workshop Organizers/Organizing Committee
Mario Cataldi Université Paris 8, France
Department of Computer Science – University
Luigi Di Caro
of Turin, Italy
RAI – Centre for Research and Technological
Claudio Schifanella
Innovation, Turin, Italy
Workshop Programme Committee
Luca Aiello Yahoo! Labs, London
Andrea Ballatore University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Iván Cantador Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Federica Cena University of Torino, Italy
Martin Chorley Cardiff University, Wales
Emilio Ferrara Indiana University Bloomington, USA
Simon Harper University of Manchester, England
Dino Ienco Irstea, UMR TETIS, Montpellier, France
Séamus Lawless Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Emmanuel Malherbe Multiposting, France
Rosa Meo University of Torino, Italy
Ruggero G. Pensa University of Torino, Italy
Rossano Schifanella University of Torino, Italy
Thomas Steiner Google, USA
RAI – Centre for Research and Technological
Luca Vignaroli
Innovation, Turin, Italy
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