News

• 14 May 2013 — #MSM2013 Award winners
  • Best paper — main track:
    Lisa Posch, Claudia Wagner, Philipp Singer & Markus Strohmaier, Meaning as Collective Use: Predicting Hashtag Semantics on Twitter
  • Best IE challenge submission:
    Mena Habib, Maurice Van Keulen & Zhemin Zhu, University of Twente at #MSM2013
  
  
• 13 May 2013 — #MSM2013 Workshop Day — thanks to all participants for making this a success!
  


• 10 Apr 2013 — Preliminary workshop programme out


• 05 Apr 2013 — Concept Extraction Challenge
  • Gold standard released
  • 6 challenge submissions accepted for presentation
  
  
• 25 Mar 2013 — Daniele Quercia confirmed as keynote speaker; he will talk on: Urban*: Crowdsourcing for the good of London


• 16 Mar 2013 — Concept Extraction Challenge dataset — final update (list of changes)


• 15 Mar 2013 — Concept Extraction Challenge dataset update (update for parsing and encoding in training dataset)


• 14 Mar 2013
  • 6 papers accepted for main track
  • Dataset update (correction of errors & omissions in training dataset)


• 13 Mar 2013 — Deadline extension: Concept Extraction Challenge: now due 20 Mar 2013 (submission details)


• 06 Mar 2013 — Concept Extraction Challenge
  • Reminder: submissions due 17 Mar 2013
  • Dataset update (correction of errors & omissions in training dataset)


• 22 Feb 2013 — Deadline extension: paper track submissions: 25 Feb 2013, now due 01 Mar 2013, 19:00 GMT (submission details)


• 18 Feb 2013 — Reminder: abstracts due 20 Feb 2013


• 30 Jan 2013 — Mailing list now open; subscribe to receive alerts about deadlines and workshop events, and join in WiP and challenge discussions


• 17 Jan 2013 — Concept Extraction Challenge dataset available for download


• 11 Jan 2013 — CfP available for download [text] [PDF]


• 21st December 2012 — Making Sense of Microposts workshop proposal is accepted at the World Wide Web Conference 2013
  • eBay are sponsoring the Concept Extraction Challenge, with a prize of US$1500

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