[Asis-l] ECIR 2017 Workshop on "Social Media for Personalization And Search"

[Ludovico Boratto]

Workshop on "Social Media for Personalization And Search" (SoMePeAS 2017)
ECIR 2017: 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval
Aberdeen, Scotland (UK) - April 9, 2017

CALL FOR PAPERS
In order to improve the web experience of the users, classic personalization technologies (e.g., recommender systems) and search engines usually rely on static schemes. Indeed, users are allowed to express ratings in a fixed range of values for a given catalogue of products, or to express a query that usually returns the same set of webpages/products for all the users.
With the advent of social media, users have been allowed to create new content and to express opinions and preferences through likes and textual comments. Moreover, the social network itself can provide information on who influences who. Being able to mine usage and collaboration patterns in social media and to analyze the content generated by the users opens new frontiers in the generation of personalization services and in the improvement of search engines. Moreover, recent technological advances, such as deep learning, are able to provide a context to the analyzed data (e.g., Google’s word2vec provides a vector representation of the words in a corpus, considering the context in which a word has been used).
This workshop will solicit contributions in all topics related to employing social media for personalization and search purposes, focused (but not limited) to the following list:
Recommender systems
Search and tagging
Query expansion
User modeling and profiling
Advertising and ad targeting
Content classification, categorization, and clustering
Using social network features/community detection algorithms for personalization and search purposes

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: December 30, 2016
Notification of acceptance: February 11, 2017
Camera-ready version: February 25, 2017
Workshop date: April 9, 2017

TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS
We will consider three different submission types, all in the LNCS format: regular (12 pages), short (6 pages), and extended abstracts (2-4 pages).
Research and position papers (regular or short) should be clearly placed with respect to the state of the art and state the contribution of the proposal in the domain of application, even if presenting preliminary results. In particular, research papers should describe the methodology in detail, experiments should be repeatable, and a comparison with the existing approaches in the literature should be made where possible.
Position papers (short) should introduce novel point of views in the workshop topics or summarize the experience of a researcher or a group in the field.
Practice and experience reports (short) should present in detail the real-world scenarios in which social media is employed for personalization and search purposes.
Demo proposals (extended abstract) should present the details of a prototype or complete application that employs social media is employed for personalization and search purposes. The systems will be demonstrated to the workshop attendees.

The reviewing process will be coordinated by the organizers. Each paper will receive three reviews: two externals to the organizing committee and one internal. The external reviewers will be contacted according to their expertise in the paper topic.

PROCEEDINGS
All accepted papers will be made available on the workshop website together with the material generated during the meeting.
The SoMePeAS 2017 Workshop proceedings will also be available in the CEUR series, and indexed on DBLP and Scopus.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version in a journal special issue.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
All submission must be written in English and follow the ECIR paper guidelines <http://irsg.bcs.org/proceedings/ECIR_Draft_Guidelines.pdf>. All papers must be formatted according to the LNCS format <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0> style.
Papers should be submitted in PDF format, electronically, using the EasyChair submission system, available at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=somepeas2017 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=somepeas2017> 

INVITED SPEAKER
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CONTACTS
For general enquires regarding the workshop, send an email to: somepeas at di.uniroma1.it <mailto:somepeas at di.uniroma1.it> 
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/somepeas/ <https://www.facebook.com/somepeas/> 

ORGANIZERS
Ludovico Boratto (Eurecat, Spain)
Andreas Kaltenbrunner (Eurecat, Spain)
Giovanni Stilo (Sapienza University, Italy)