CFP: WWW 2012, Internet Monetization and Incentives Track

Call for Papers: WWW 2012, Internet Monetization and Incentives Track

The Web has become as a major economic phenomenon, acting both as a conduit for traditional endeavourstransactions such as business-to-business and business-to-consumer commerce, and as an arena for a specific variety of other economic activities such as Web advertising, digital payment systems, and bandwidths provisioning. The WWW track on Internet Monetization is a forum for theoretical and applied research related to web-specific economic activities.

The track will be interdisciplinary in nature. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) :

• Computational advertising: sponsored search, content match, graphical ads delivery, targeting
• Machine learning and data mining applied to auction theory and user modeling in the context of Internet monetization
• Internet auctions, markets, and exchanges
• Economics aspects of online reviews, reputations, and ratings
• Monetizing digital media, user generated content, and the social web
• User-experience design aspects of Web monetization mechanisms
• Web analytics for e-commerce
• Economics of information/digital goods
• Advertising infrastructure: tools, platforms, networks, exchanges, automation, audience intelligence
• Economic approaches to spam/fraud control
• Social and crowdsourcing commerce
• E-commerce issues in cloud computing and and Web apps
• Mobile web advertising and locating-based e-commerce

Important dates

All submission deadlines are at 9:00pm PST.

• November 1st, 2011 Abstracts for papers due
• November 7th, 2011 Papers due
• January 30th, 2012 Paper notifications out
• February 28th, 2012 Camera ready papers due
• April 16th, 2012 Conference begins

All submissions must be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template.

Submission can be made at: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=www2012

Via SIGIRList.

ACM Author-Izer: it is for you, it is for the ACM

A win-win, absoultely. The ACM has developed a new service, now live, named "Author-Izer". A relatively long explanation of the service is there, but I strongly recommend to take a look at the presentation; it will give you an idea of what you get, and how to get it. However, and in few words, you make the final version of your papers at ACM publications available for free to your readers, and in turn, you allow the ACM to get a more precise account of cites and downloads. A win-win, because you benefit from knowing (and posting) your (registered) cites and downloads, as well.

It would be redundant to explain the process here, but although it seems easy, it takes a while. And that is important, because you may want to get your papers made public for free instantly. But well, it does not work so quickly. Some hints of the process:

1. All right, you are told to create an ACM Digital Library Web user account. That is easy, just sign up. But the user name is automatically generated, so do not forget it or you will have to answer your secret question as you filled in the registration and read your email (delay!), or to re-create the account.
2. Then you are requested to make at least a change to your "author profile". But where is it? You can not find it in the ACM DL page, nor even being logged. That is because there is no link between you as a Web user and you as an author. So the quickest way to find the profile is to search for your name in the DL, and click on your author name at one of your papers. Then you edit it (suggestion, fill the form completely), and your changes stay pending until somebody at the DL authorizes them. Wait. It took a day on my case, but it can be hours if you ar in the same time frame as the ACM - it means, the US.
3. Once your changes are admitted, you can access your author profile page. This should be mine: ACM DL author profile for Jose Maria Gomez Hidalgo. If you are logged as a user, you will see a new export link at your pubs in the ACM journals/conferences: "ACM Author-Izer Service". You can export all of them with the same link at the begining of the page, but unless you have dozens and dozens, I do not recommend it. It is more easy going one by one.
4. When you click one of the Author-Izer links, you get a popup for filling some details, and you get the code to insert in your papers page. Beware, you cave to write the URL of the page that will be hosting your paper page, or it will not be working. In my case, I tried several times until I got it: http://www.esp.uem.es/jmgomez/papers/. Copy the code in your page, and that is it. It is done instantly.

So that is all. Now you can have a link to your camera-ready version, and the citation stats, in your page. Simple but with some delays. As a note, every time you make a change at your author profile, it is manually reviewed, so it may take time to get it live.

JRC-Names - A freely available, highly multilingual named entity resource

JRC-Names is a highly multilingual named entity resource for person and organisation names ('entities'). It consists of large lists of names and their many spelling variants (up to hundreds for a single person), including across scripts (Latin, Greek, Arabic, Cyrillic, Japanese, Chinese, etc.). The named entity resource file with the list of spelling variants is accompanied by Java-implemented demonstrator software that (a) allows to produce - for any input name - a list of known spelling variants, and that (b) analyses UTF8-encoded text files to find known entity mentions, returning the name variant found, the preferred display name for that entity, the unique name identifier for that name, the position of the entity name in the text, and its length in characters.

To see examples, go to any of the over one million entity pages on EMM-NewsExplorer (e.g. that for Muammar Gaddafi at http://emm.newsexplorer.eu/NewsExplorer/entities/en/262.html) to see the list of spelling variants automatically collected for that entity.

JRC-Names is a /technical/ resource that can be used to find names even if they are spelled differently and to normalise name spellings in databases or other repositories. It is also a useful ingredient for IT systems that process text, e.g. for text mining, machine translation, social network generation, and other text mining applications involving named entities.

JRC-Names is a by-product of the analysis of about 100,000 news reports per day by the *Europe Media Monitor* (EMM) family of applications (freely accessible at http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html). It was mostly compiled automatically, by analysing hundreds of millions of news articles since the year 2004 in up to twenty languages, identifying names of entities (mostly persons, but also organisations, event names, and more), and detecting which of these newly found names are variant spellings of each other. Most name variants in JRC-Names are thus spellings that were found in real-life text (including frequent spelling mistakes). Additionally, for a subset of the collection of entities, software automatically extracted spelling variants in many further languages (e.g. Chinese, Thai, Japanese, ...) from the cross-lingual links in Wikipedia. For highly frequent or otherwise important names, the named entity resource was additionally manually verified. As JRC-Names was mostly produced automatically, it will contain some errors.

At http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/, you find more information on the JRC's multilingual language technology activity, a download link for JRC-Names and a reference paper explaining the named entity resource, as well as a page pointing to other multilingual resources.

Via MAVIR and Elsnet lists.

VI Jornadas MAVIR: Tecnologías de Acceso a la Información: Estado actual y reto

VI Jornadas MAVIR
Tecnologías de Acceso a la Información: Estado actual y retos
15 y 16 de noviembre de 2011
ETSI Informática, URJC

Registro gratuito: http://6jmavir.appspot.com
Información completa: http://www.mavir.net/events/96-jornadas-mavir-2011

PROGRAMA

martes 15/11/2011. Jornada Científica y Empresarial
Salón de Grados, Edificio Interdepartamental II, URJC

9h00: Recepción y entrega de documentación

9h30: Graph Distance Distribution for Social Network Mining
Paolo Boldi (Università degli Studi di Milano)

11h00: pausa café

11h30: Ceremonia de Apertura de las Jornadas y Entrega del Premio MAVIR
Raquel Martínez, Coordinadora Adjunta del Consorcio MAVIR
Abraham Duarte, Investigador Principal del grupo GAVAB-URJC

12h30: Exposición del Premio MAVIR 2011

13h00: pausa almuerzo

15h00: Understanding Text with Knowledge Bases and Random Walks
Eneko Agirre (Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea)

16h30: Mesa Redonda Empresas

17h30: fin del primer día

miércoles 15/11/2011. Jornada Académica
Salón de Grados, Edificio Interdepartamental II, URJC

9h30: Recepción y entrega de documentación

10h00: Presentación de las líneas de investigación actuales del Consorcio MAVIR
Ronda de presentaciones a cargo de investigadores de los grupos
CybermetricsLab-CSIC, HTL&IR-UAM, LABDA-UC3M, GSI-UEM, NLP&IR-UNED,
THALES-UPM y GAVAB-URJC.

13h30: clausura de las jornadas

PRESENTACIÓN

La Universidad Rey Juan Carlos acoge los próximos 15 y 16 de noviembre de 2011 la sexta edición de las Jornadas MAVIR. Este año, bajo el título "Tecnologías de Acceso a la Información: Estado actual y retos", reunimos charlas científicas a cargo de ponentes de prestigio internacional y presentaciones de empresas de base tecnológica que trabajan en las líneas de investigación prioritarias del consorcio. Entre los temas que se tratarán destacan el análisis de grafos para el análisis de las redes sociales, las técnicas de semántica computacional aplicadas a la comprensión de información textual y el estado actual de las tecnologías de acceso inteligente a la información.

Como en años anteriores, aprovechamos la celebración de las jornadas para entregar la quinta edición del Premio MAVIR al mejor Trabajo de Fin de Carrera o Tesis de Máster en las áreas de investigación del consorcio. El premio está patrocinado por las empresas Bitext, Corex, Daedalus e iSOCO y cuenta con una dotación en metálico de 1.600 €.

El Consorcio MAVIR es una red de investigación co-financiada por la Comunidad de Madrid y el Fondo Social Europeo bajo los programas de I+D en TIC MA2VICMR (2010-2013) y MAVIR (2006-2009). El núcleo del consorcio está formado por un equipo multidisciplinar de más de 50 ingenieros, científicos, lingüistas y documentalistas provenientes de grupos consolidados, 15 PYMEs de base tecnológica y empresas integradoras. Las actividades de I+D del consorcio se centran en el campo de las tecnologías lingüísticas aplicadas a los sistemas inteligentes de acceso y tratamiento de la información multimedia y multilingüe.

DESTINATARIOS

• Empresas de base tecnológica relacionadas con las Tecnologías del Lenguaje Humano, los Sistemas Inteligentes de Acceso a la Información, los sistemas de Reconocimiento Automático del Habla, los buscadores y la Web, especialmente aquellas con interés en el acceso y gestión de contenidos multimedia y multilingües.
• Empresas integradoras con intereses en Sistemas Inteligentes de Acceso a la Información.
• Grupos de investigación y spin-offs con intereses en Transferencia de Tecnología en TIC.
• Organismos públicos y privados para los cuales la presencia en la Web es un factor estratégico.
• Investigadores y estudiantes interesados en áreas como el acceso a la información multimedia y multilingüe, el procesamiento del lenguaje natural, la creación de recursos lingüísticos, la extracción de información, los sistemas de búsqueda de respuestas, el reconocimiento del habla y la Web semántica.

LUGAR DE CELEBRACIÓN

Salón de Grados, Edificio Interdepartamental II
ETSI Informática, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
c/ Tulipán, s/n
28933 Móstoles, Madrid

REGISTRO

La asistencia es abierta y gratuita. Dado lo limitado del aforo, es necesario registrarse y reservar plaza en el formulario de registro: http://registro.mavir.net