The First International Workshop on Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness (SMERP) (website: http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~dganguly/smerp2017/) was organized at Aberdeen, Scotland, UK on April 9, 2017 in conjunction with the 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR). We organized two tracks in the workshop this year:

Abstract

We organized two tracks in the workshop this year: 1. Peer-review track: In this track, we invited original research papers related to the theme of the workshop. 2. Data challenge track: In this track, we organized a TRECstyle evaluation platform by sharing a dataset and inviting researchers to submit their results on the same. This track comprised two tasks, namely, Text Retrieval and Text Summarization, each consisting of two levels of evaluation.

-

We look forward to continuing this effort in near future. It will be heartening for us if the shared dataset and research findings reported in SMERP 2017 contribute to the dissemination of knowledge in the social media community worldwide.

References