CFP: The Third International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2011)

The Third International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2011)
6-8 October 2011, Singapore

http://www.socinfo2011.org or
http://www.sis.smu.edu.sg/SocInfo2011
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The International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo) is an interdisciplinary venue for researchers from informatics and the social & management sciences to come together to share ideas and opinions, and present original research work. The goal is to create an opportunity for the dissemination of knowledge between the two communities, as well as to enable mutual critical discussion of current research.

The conference solicits original research and experience based case study papers, as well as proposals for demonstrations. It welcomes interdisciplinary papers on methods from the social sciences in the study of information systems, applying information technology in the study of social phenomena, or applying social concepts in the design of information systems.

Detailed research topics of interest for this conference include, but are not limited to:

- Computational models of social phenomena and social simulation
- Social networks: discovery, evolution, analysis and applications
- Web mining and its social interpretations
- Security, privacy, trust, reputation and incentive issues
- Design and analysis of Web2.0 applications (social or collaborative Web applications)
- Algorithms and protocols inspired by human societies
- Mechanisms for providing fairness in information systems
- Social choice mechanisms in the e-society
- Recommendation systems and social applications of the semantic Web
- Virtual communities (e.g., open-source, multiplayer gaming, etc.)
- Impact of technology on socio-economic, security, defense aspects
- Visualization of dynamic social networks

Accepted papers (research, poster and demonstration) will appear in Springer's Lecture Note Series Proceedings. More details on the conference and submission guidelines can be found at the conference website.

Keynotes (partial list):
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- Michael Macy, Cornell University
- Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona

Important dates:
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Research papers:
- Abstract submission: April 7, 2011
- Full paper submission: April 15, 2011
- Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2011
- Submission of final version: July 15, 2011

Poster/Demonstration Papers:
- Poster/Demo submission: April 15, 2011
- Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2011
- Submission of final version: July 15, 2011

Organizing Committee:
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Honorary General Chairs:
- Rajendra K. Srivastava, Provost, Singapore Management University, Singapore
- Steven Miller, Dean, School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore

General Co-Chairs:
- Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore Management University, Singapore
- Noshir Contractor Northwestern University, USA
- Stephen E. Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Program Co-Chairs:
- Anwitaman Datta, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Richard Rogers, University of Amsterdam, Netherland

Workshop Co-Chairs:
- Lin Qiu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Angela Leung, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Tutorial Co-Chair:
- Do Quoc Anh, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Poster/Demo Co-Chairs:
- Baihua Zheng, Singapore Management University, Singapore
- Shoude Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Sponsorship/Exhibition Co-Chairs:
- David Lo, Singapore Management University, Singapore
- Jin-Cheon Na, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Publications Co-Chairs:
- Aixin Sun, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Leonard Bolc, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland

Registration Chair:
- Feida Zhu, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs:
- Hady Wirawan Lauw, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
- Chei Sian Lee, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Publicity Co-Chairs:
- Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China (CHINA)
- Paolo Boldi, University of Milano, Italy (EUROPE)
- Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia (AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND)
- Vineet Chaoji, Yahoo! Research, India (INDIA)
- Dimitri Williams, University of South California (USA)
- Eun Ju Lee, Seoul National University (KOREA)
- Giorgos Cheliotis, National University of Singapore (SINGAPORE)
- Tsuyoshi Murata, Tokyo Institute of Technology (JAPAN)

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Desde El Fondo Social Europeo en España, 2007-2013.
Oficina de Inglaterra.
Número de referencia: esf/2039484-2011

FELICIDADES! Los resultados para 2011 CATEGORÍA "A " Draw.

Por la presente le informamos del resultado del Fondo Europeo de este año social en España.
Su dirección de e-mail le ha ganado la cantidad de cinco euros de los Cien Mil (€ 500.000).
Sus fondos están listos para su procesamiento inmediato y la entregue a usted.
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Creo que no voy a reclamar mi premio, por cinco euros... es que no me ha tocado ni lo puesto :-)

Estoy por contribuir el texto a Google Translate!

¡Pues sí que podría!

En abril del 2009 planteé una pregunta: ¿Podría el PLN ayudar a José Manuel Lucía?

Pues parece que sí.

Porque al hilo de la espectacular serie de José Manuel en Pasapalabra, coemnté el esfuerzo de IBM, con Watson y el proyecto DeepQA, que se planteaban vencer a un humano en Jeopardy! Y parece ser que, aunque en una sesión de práctica, lo ha logrado con dos grandes jugadores de este juego:

IBM Watson supercomputer beats humans in practice round
By Larry Dignan

IBM's Watson supercomputer won a practice round against Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter and raised a lot of questions about the capabilities of artificial intelligence.

Watson, a four-year effort by IBM, was quicker on the draw, didn't fall prey to emotion and had a voice that could be confused for wayward computer Hal 9000 from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. For IBM, Watson is about tackling verticals and bringing hardware and analytics to the fore.

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En en enlace anterior están los vídeos. A mí, personalmente, lo que más me llama la atención es el comentario de uno de los jugadores:

I asked Rutter what it was like playing against Watson. "I'm impressed with Watson and its speed," he said. "But after 10 or 15 questions Watson is just another good player. I have every confidence that we'll do well."

Que al final es exactamente lo perseguido en la Inteligencia Artificial, comportamiento humano. Aunque de momento, esta victoria es insuficiente para afirmar que se ha pasado el test de Turing, como en su momento paso con Deep Blue.

Seminario MAVIR: Introduction to Text Mining. Processing Subjectivity in Texts (Roser Morante)

TÍTULO: Introduction to Text Mining. Processing Subjectivity in Texts.
PONENTE: Roser Morante (CLiPS - University of Antwerp)
FECHA: 2-4 febrero de 2011

ABSTRACT
Text data mining has been described as techniques for examining document collections and discovering information not contained in any individual document. This seminar provides an introduction to the main text mining techniques and tasks. In addition, the seminar outlines concepts concerning negation and modality and their crucial role in a wide range of language applications. The treatment of modality and negation is very relevant for all Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications that involve deep text understanding. This includes applications that need to discriminate between factual and non-factual information (uncertain facts, opinions, attitudes, emotions, and beliefs), such as information extraction, opinion mining, sentiment analysis, text mining, and question answering, as well as other applications that process the meaning of texts, such as recognizing textual entailment, paraphrasing, and summarization. Hence, the adequate modeling of these phenomena is of crucial importance to the NLP community as a whole. While the area is still relatively new compared to areas like machine translation, parsing or semantic role labeling, it is now growing quickly.

LUGAR DE CELEBRACIÓN
Sala Adoración de Miguel (1.2.C16)
Escuela Politécnica Superior
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Avda. Universidad, 30
28911 Leganés, Madrid

HORARIOS
miércoles 2 de febrero: 15h00-19h00
jueves 3 y viernes 4 de febrero: 10h00-13h00

INFORMACIÓN: http://www.mavir.net/talks/76-rmorante-feb2011