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CfP (extended deadline): International Conference on Smart Learning Environments (ICSLE 2020)
by Elvira Popescu 17 Jan '20

17 Jan '20

CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Smart Learning Environments (ICSLE 2020) May 13-15, 2020, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China http://iasle.net/icsle-2020/ * Main conference paper ABSTRACT enter on EasyChair: January 22, 2020 (extended deadline!!) * Main conference paper submission: January 30, 2020 (extended deadline!!) * Workshop/Panel proposal submission: January 30, 2020 (extended deadline!!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The International Conference on Smart Learning Environments (ICSLE 2020) will be held during May 13-15, 2020 at the Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. It aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to discuss issues related to the optimization of learning environments to enhance learning. The focus is on the interplay of pedagogy, technology and their fusion towards the advancement of smart learning environments. ~ Conference Outcomes: * Proceedings in Springers Lecture Notes in Educational Technology series. * Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for Springers Smart Learning Environments journal (Open access journal with no author processing charge). ~ Important dates: Main conference paper ABSTRACT enter on EasyChair: January 22, 2020 (extended deadline!!) Main conference paper submission: January 30, 2020 (extended deadline!!) Workshop/Panel proposal submission: January 30, 2020 (extended deadline!!) Acceptance/Rejection notification: March 1, 2020 Camera ready papers: March 15, 2020 Author registration: March 15, 2020 ~ Submissions: * Full and Short Experience Reports * Full and Short Research Studies * Work-in-progress Papers * Reflection papers * Posters * Workshop proposals * Panel proposals ~ The scope: The scope of the ICSLE 2020 is focused on issues related to smart learning environments. Topics of interest considered to be within the scope of the conference include but are not limited to: * Architectures for smart learning environments * Best practices in smart learning environments implementation * Conceptual frameworks for smart learning environments * Cultural issues in smart learning environments * Designing smart learning environments using sensing technologies * Evaluation approaches for effectiveness and efficiency of smart learning environments * Fusion of pedagogy and technology in smart learning environments * Historical perspectives of smart learning environments * Innovative uses of emerging didactical and pedagogical approaches * Innovative uses of emerging and existing technologies * Methodologies for development of smart learning environments * Mobility in smart learning environments * Pedagogical tools for supporting smart learning environments * Policy issues related to smart learning environments * Reform of learning environments * Strategies for learning assessment in smart learning environments * Technologies and tools to support smart learning environments * Usability criteria and standards for smart learning environments * Creating smart learning environments with AR and VR technologies * Smart learning environments for supporting STEM and STEAM education ~ Conference Chairs: J. Michael Spector, The University of North Texas, USA Demetrios G. Sampson, Curtin University, Australia ~ General Chairs: Kinshuk, The University of North Texas, USA Ronghuai Huang, Beijing Normal University, China ~ Program Chairs: Maiga Chang, Athabasca University, Canada Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania ~ Local Chairs: Junfeng Yang, Hangzhou Normal University, China Guangtao Xu, Hangzhou Normal University, China ~ Workshop/Panel Chairs: Vive Kumar, Athabasca University, Canada Ting-Wen Chang, Beijing Normal University, China ~ Publicity Chairs: Michail Giannakos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Isabelle Guillot, Athabasca University, Canada ~ Technical Operations Chairs: Rébecca Guillot, Athabasca University, Canada Richard Tortorella, University of Eastern Finland, Finland ~ Further details: http://iasle.net/icsle-2020/

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Digital politics: the next ten years
by Colin Delany 17 Jan '20

17 Jan '20

Hi folks, I just wrapped a two-parter on the past and future of digital politics for Campaigns & Elections, which some of you might be interested in. Here are the two pieces. I'm definitely curious to hear what you think. The Future: the next ten years https://www.campaignsandelections.com/campaign-insider/digital-politics-the… The Past: the decade digital politics came of age https://www.campaignsandelections.com/campaign-insider/the-decade-digital-p… Direct neural downlink from the hive-mind? Sign me up! --cpd "How to Use the Internet to Change the World and Win Elections: A Comprehensive Guide to Online Politics for Campaigns & Advocates" [Ebook] http://www.epolitics.com/winning Colin Delany Epolitics.com -- digital strategy for politics and advocacy http://www.epolitics.com 202-422-4682 cpd(a)epolitics.com @epolitics

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DHSI Atlantic (DH Summer School in Ireland)
by James O'Sullivan 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

This is a gentle reminder that registration for DHSI Atlantic, a DH summer school in Ireland offering workshops in *stylometry (Dr Jan Rybicki)*, *topic models (Dr Derek Greene)*, and *mapping (Dr Patricia Murrieta-Flores) *will remain open until April 1st. Workshops have enrollment limits, so the sooner participants register, the better. For more, see: https://www.ucc.ie/en/dhsiatlantic/ -- *James O'Sullivan * josullivan.org

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CfP RGS-IBG 2020: Borders, bordering and sovereignty in cyberspace
by Morris,CJ (pgr) 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

Borders, bordering and sovereignty in cyberspace *Call for Papers for RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London, 1-4 September 2020* Sponsored by: Digital Geography Research Group (DGRG) Session organisers: Dr Chenchen Zhang (QUB) and Carwyn Morris (London School of Economics) National borders continue to operate in the digital space despite predictions otherwise. Scholars have argued that the global communication space and the nation state are both oppositional and co-constituting forces in internet governance. Cyberborders are produced through, for instance, regulatory systems, jurisdictional assertions, censorship regimes, and discourses of cyber sovereignty and cyber security. While governments draw on concepts of sovereignty and national security to assert control over a virtual space that seems essentially borderless, civil society actors have also sought to put forward ideas of digital sovereignty along the lines of freedom and self-determination. This session aims to address theoretical and empirical questions regarding processes of (de)bordering and (de)territorialization in cyberspace. How are the concepts of sovereignty, territory, and borders reproduced and transformed in the context of the digital? What are the emerging patterns of power and contestation with regard to the control over data and information flows? We especially welcome contributions that engage with critical perspectives on the concepts of sovereignty, territory, and borders such as those focused on performance, discourse/practice, and governmentality. Papers might explore the following themes: * The production of digital territories and borders through legal, technological, and other means * Firewalls, censorship regimes, internet disruptions * The territorialization of services, infrastructure and populations * Concepts and discourses of cyber, digital, and data sovereignty * The geopolitics of data and internet control * Cyberborders and data protection law * How borders and practices of territorialization in cyberspace are contested * The impact of territorialization and bordering on populations * Conceptual and theoretical contributions * Contributions beyond methodological nationalism We encourage panellists to present in a creative method, not limited to a formal paper presentation. The session will consist of 4-5 papers, a strictly enforced 15 mins each to enable time for question and answers. Guidelines will be provided for accepted panellists. Whilst we would love to see you in London, we support Skype presentations and pre-recorded video presentations, as long as the presenter can engage in the Q&A. Please email prospective abstracts (max 250 words) or any queries to Chenchen (Chenchen.Zhang(a)qub.ac.uk) and Carwyn (c.j.morris(a)lse.ac.uk) by Friday February 7th, 2020. We look forward to seeing your abstracts! Best wishes, Chenchen and Carwyn <https://twitter.com/carwyn>

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NEW BOOK: Meaningful Inefficiencies
by Eric Gordon 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

I am thrilled to share the news of the publication of my new book. It's called *Meaningful Inefficiencies: Civic Design in an Age of Digital Expediency *(Oxford, 2020). I hope it will be of interest to many on this list, as it looks at the challenge of building trust in legacy civic institutions. Set with the backdrop of smart technologies, the book focuses on practitioners who are actively adapting those tools away from the primary value of efficiency, and towards participation, care and trust. Here's a description: Public trust in the institutions that mediate civic life—from governing bodies to newsrooms—is low, and many organizations assume that greater efficiency will build trust. As a result, these organizations are quick to adopt new technologies to enhance what they do. However, efficiency, in the sense of charting a path to a goal with the least amount of friction, is not always built on a foundation of trust. Meaningful Inefficiencies is about the practices that challenge the normative applications of “smart technologies” in order to build or repair trust with publics. Based on over 60 interviews with change makers in public-serving organizations throughout the United States, as well as detailed case studies, co-authors Eric Gordon and Gabriel Mugar provide a practical and deeply philosophical picture of civic life in transition. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/meaningful-inefficiencies-978019087… -- Eric Gordon, Ph.D. Professor of Media Art Director, Engagement Lab Emerson College http://elab.emerson.edu http://ericgordon.academia.edu

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LSE Digital Ethnography Collective event 6pm GMT tonight
by Glatt,ZA (pgr) 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

Hi AoIRists, Happy New Year! I wanted to let you know about this evening’s LSE Digital Ethnography Collective event as I think some of you will be interested. We will be hosting Rik Adriaans (UCL Digital Anthropology) for a talk titled Meme-Tinted Glasses: Locating the Liberal Self in Digital Postsocialism. Rik's talk will be followed by discussion of his work and broader issues around digital ethnographic research of visual culture. You can book a ticket here: https://red-otter-142.eventbritestudio.com/89591092369 As usual, we will also be livestreaming the event at 6pm GMT, which you can watch either live or later here: https://www.youtube.com/user/Zedstergal Talk info: During the 2010s, internet memes have solidified their place as a global vernacular. Challenging the digital dualism of offline and online, memes are increasingly referenced, reappropriated and performed in a wide range of settings beyond the scope of social media platforms. Drawing on examples from Hungary and Armenia, this presentation examines how memetic sensibilities have become central to the ways in which liberal youth orient themselves in the everyday politics of postsocialist transformations. It explores how perceived remnants of socialism and elements of the illiberal present are turned into a source of the liberal self by apprehending them through the ironic sensibilities of the internet meme form. No longer bound by digital devices such as smartphones, the memeification of reality is key to the everyday negotiation of dichotomies of capitalist modernity versus the socialist past, orient versus occident, as well as class antagonisms and rural-urban divisions. Rik Adriaans is a Teaching Fellow in Digital Anthropology at UCL Anthropology. He is interested in questions of media and mediation, (trans)nationalism, post-socialism and public culture with a regional focus on Armenia and the global Armenian diaspora. His doctoral thesis was a multi-sited ethnography of the media circuits connecting the Armenian diaspora of Los Angeles to post-Soviet transition. The LSE Digital Ethnography Collective hosts talks and workshops at LSE in London every fortnight (usually Mondays 6-7:30pm). If you are interested and would like to hear about future events, then you can join our mailing list (tinyurl.com/y5a6odte) and follow us on Twitter @DigEthnogLSE All the best, Zoe ________________________ Zoë Glatt www.zoeglatt.com<http://www.zoeglatt.com/> ESRC PhD Researcher in Media & Communications London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Managing Editor: Communication, Culture & Critique Co-Founder: LSE Digital Ethnography Collective @DigEthnogLSE<https://twitter.com/DigEthnogLSE> Graduate Student Rep: Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Associate Lecturer in Media & Communications (2019/20): Goldsmiths University YouTube channel<https://www.youtube.com/user/Zedstergal> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/ZoeGlatt> | LSE bio<http://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/people/phd-researchers/zoe-gl…>

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Call for papers for the sixth conference of the International Journal of Press/Politics (Loughborough University, 29-30 June 2020)
by Cristian Vaccari 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

*Call for papers: Sixth Conference of the International Journal of Press/Politics* Also available at https://cristianvaccari.com/2019/12/09/call-for-papers-for-the-sixth-confer… . On *June 29-30, 2020*, the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture at Loughborough University (United Kingdom) will host the sixth conference of the International Journal of Press/Politics, focused on academic research on the relation between media and political processes around the world. Professor Young Mie Kim from the University of Wisconsin will deliver a keynote lecture. A selection of the best full papers presented at the conference will be published in the journal after peer review. The deadline for submission of abstracts is *March 13, 2020*. Attendees will be notified of acceptance by *March 20, 2020*. Full papers based on accepted abstracts will be due *June 12, 2020*. The conference brings together scholars conducting internationally-oriented or comparative research on the intersection between news media and politics around the world. It aims to provide a forum for academics from a wide range of disciplines, countries, and methodological approaches to advance research in this area. Examples of relevant topics include the political implications of current changes in media systems, including the increasing role of digital platforms; the importance of digital media for engaging with news and politics; analysis of the factors affecting the quality of political information and public discourse; studies of the role of entertainment and popular culture in how people engage with current affairs; studies of relations between political actors and journalists; analyses of the role of visuals and emotion in the production and processing of public information; and research on political communication during and beyond elections by government, political parties, interest groups, and social movements. The journal and the conference have a particular interest in studies that adopt comparative approaches, represent substantial theoretical or methodological advances, or focus on parts of the world that are under-researched in the international English language academic literature. Titles and abstracts for papers (*maximum 300 words*) are invited by *March 13, 2020*. The abstract should clearly describe the key question, the theoretical and methodological approach, the evidence the argument is based on, as well as its wider implications and the extent to which they are of international relevance. Please send submissions via the online form available at http://bit.ly/IJPP2020. The registration fee for the conference will be GBP 250, to be paid by *April 30, 2020*. A limited amount of registration fee waivers will be available for early career scholars and scholars from countries that appear in Tiers B and C of the classification adopted by the International Communication Association <https://www.icahdq.org/general/custom.asp?page=tiers>. Applications must be made by *March 13, 2020* via the abstract online submission form available at http://bit.ly/IJPP2020. The conference is organized by Cristian Vaccari (Loughborough University, Editor-in-Chief of IJPP). Please contact Professor Vaccari with questions at c.vaccari(a)lboro.ac.uk. More about the journal, the keynote speaker, the University, and the Centre: *The International Journal of Press/Politics <https://journals.sagepub.com/home/hijb>* The International Journal of Press/Politics is an interdisciplinary journal for the analysis and discussion of the role of the media and politics in a globalized world. The journal publishes theoretical and empirical research which analyzes the linkages between the news media and political processes and actors around the world, emphasizes international and comparative work, and links research in the fields of political communication and journalism studies, and the disciplines of political science and media and communication. The journal is published by Sage Publications and is ranked 11th by Scopus (SJR) and 12th by Journal Citation Reports in Communication. *Professor Young Mie Wim, University of Wisconsin <https://journalism.wisc.edu/staff/young-mie-kim/>*Young Mie Kim is a Professor of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a Faculty Affiliate of the Department of Political Science. Kim is a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Kim’s research concerns data-driven, algorithm-based, digitally mediated political communication. Kim’s recent research project, Project DATA (Digital Ad Tracking & Analysis), empirically investigates the sponsors, content, and targets of digital political campaigns across multiple platforms with a user-based, real-time, ad tracking tool that reverse engineers the algorithms of political campaigns. Kim and her team’s research, “The Stealth Media? Groups and Targets behind Divisive Issue Campaigns on Facebook,” identified “suspicious groups,” including Russian groups on Facebook. The work received the Kaid-Sanders Best Article of the Year in Political Communication (2018), awarded by the International Communication Association. Kim testified at the Federal Election Commission‘s hearings on the rulemaking of internet communication disclaimers and presented her research at the Congressional briefings on foreign interference in elections. Kim also spoke at the European Parliament on her research on data-driven political advertising and inequality in political involvement. *Loughborough University <https://www.lboro.ac.uk/>* Based on a 440-acre, single-site campus at the heart of the UK, Loughborough University is ranked top 10 in every British university league table. Voted University of the Year (The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019) and awarded Gold in the National Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), Loughborough provides a unique student experience that is ranked first in the UK by the Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2018. Loughborough University has excellent transport links to the rest of the UK. It is a short distance away from Loughborough Train station, a 15-minute drive from East Midlands Airport (near Nottingham), an hour drive from Birmingham Airport, and an hour and 15 minutes from London via train. *The Centre for Research in Communication and Culture <https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crcc/>* Since our establishment in 1991, we have developed into the largest research centre of our kind in the UK, and the 2019 QS World University Ranking placed us in the top 50 for communications and media research. We are a proudly interdisciplinary centre, creatively combining social science and humanities approaches for the rigorous exploration of the production and consumption of different forms of communication and creative texts. Our research draws on and contributes to theories and methods in cultural and media studies, sociology, politics, psychology, history and memory studies, textual, visual and computational analysis, and geography. We are interested in exploring how media and cultural texts are produced, how they construct meanings, how they shape the societies we live in, and how they fit within an ever-growing creative economy. Cristian Vaccari ****************************************************** Professor of Political Communication, Loughborough University <http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/socialsciences/staff/cristian-vaccari/> Co-Director, Centre for Research in Communication and Culture <https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crcc/> Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Press/Politics <http://journals.sagepub.com/home/hij> Chair, APSA Information Technology & Politics section <https://www.apsanet.org/section18> ****************************************************** Brockington Building U.3.19 Epinal Way, Loughborough, LE11 3TU United Kingdom ****************************************************** Personal website: https://cristianvaccari.com/ Google Scholar profile <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3_TethEAAAAJ&hl=en> Twitter: @prof_vaccari <https://twitter.com/prof_vaccari>

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UMAP 2020 [Deadline approaching] - Call for papers
by Oghenemaro Anuyah 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

============================ Call for Papers - ACM UMAP 2020 28th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Theme: "Responsible Personalization" Genoa (Italy) July 14-17, 2020 Website: https://www.um.org/umap2020/ ============================ Abstracts due: January 31, 2020 (mandatory) Papers due: February 7, 2020 ============================ BACKGROUND AND SCOPE: ============================ ACM UMAP – User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization – is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB, and organized with User Modeling Inc. as the core Steering Committee, extended with past years’ chairs. The proceedings are published by ACM and will be part of the ACM Digital Library. ACM UMAP covers a wide variety of research areas where personalization and adaptation may be applied. This includes a number of domains in which researchers are engendering significant innovations based on advances in user modeling and adaptation, recommender systems, adaptive educational systems, intelligent user interfaces, e-commerce, advertising, digital humanities, social networks, personalized health, entertainment, and many more. We welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization and adaptation in any area; the conference web site provides a detailed (but not proscriptive) list of topics and sub-topics of importance to the conference. As the theme for UMAP 2020 is “Responsible Personalization,” submissions in all areas that emphasize ethical dimensions of personalized systems are welcome. CONFERENCE TOPICS: ============================ For details, see the conference website (https://www.um.org/umap2020/) * Personalized Recommender Systems * Adaptive Hypermedia and the Semantic Web * Intelligent User Interfaces * Personalized Social Web * Technology-Enhanced Adaptive Learning * Privacy, Fairness, and Transparency * Personalized Health * User Modeling and Personalization Applications * Theory, Opinion, Reflection SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS ============================ Papers will be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2020 Long (8 pages + references) and Short (4 pages + references) papers in ACM style. Original research papers addressing the theory and/or practice of UMAP, and papers showcasing innovative use of UMAP and exploring the benefits and challenges of applying UMAP technology in real-life applications and contexts are welcome. Long papers should present original reports of substantive new research techniques, findings, and applications of UMAP. They should place the work within the field and clearly indicate its innovative aspects. Research procedures and technical methods should be presented in sufficient detail to ensure scrutiny and reproducibility. Results should be clearly communicated and implications of the contributions/findings for UMAP and beyond should be explicitly discussed. Short papers should present original and highly promising research or applications. Merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity, extensive technical validation, and user studies. Separation of long and short papers will be strictly enforced so papers will not compete across categories, but only within each category. Papers that receive high scores and are considered promising by reviewers, but didn’t make the acceptance cut may be revised and resubmitted as posters. Papers must be formatted using the ACM SIG Standard (SIGCONF) proceedings template: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. All accepted papers will be published by ACM and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. To be included in the Proceedings, at least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. Student registration fee is allowed to students who present a student paper. IMPORTANT DATES ============================ Abstracts: January 31, 2020 (mandatory) Full paper: February 7, 2020 Notification: March 27, 2020 Camera-ready: May 3, 2020 Note: The submissions times are 11:59pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) ORGANIZERS ============================ General chairs Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa Ilaria Torre, University of Genoa Program chairs Robin Burke, University of Colorado, Boulder Cristina Gena, University of Turin RELATED EVENTS ============================ Separate calls will be sent for Workshops and Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, Posters, and Late Breaking Results, as these have different deadlines and submission requirements. Regards, Oghenemaro Anuyah Graduate Research Assistant Dept. of Computer Science, Boise State University ACM UMAP Conference 2020 - *Co-publicity Chair* oghenemaroanuyah(a)u.boisestate.edu

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CFP: Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from News (AESPEN) @ LREC 2020
by ali hürriyetoglu 15 Jan '20

15 Jan '20

Apologies for cross-posting --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for papers: Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from News (AESPEN) @ LREC 2020 URL: https://emw.ku.edu.tr/aespen-2020/ Submission deadline: February 22nd, 2020 Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2020/AESPEN2020/ Workshop date: May 12th, 2020 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Automatic construction of event databases has long been a challenge for the natural language processing (NLP) community in terms of algorithmic approaches and language resources. At the same time, social and political scientists have been working on creating socio-political event databases for their studies for decades. The need for collecting data for socio-political science studies has been satisfied by manual, semi-automatic, and automatic approaches. However, the results yielded by these approaches to date are either not of sufficient quality or require tremendous effort to be replicated on new data. On the one hand, manual or semi-automatic methods require high-quality human effort; on the other hand, state-of-the-art event detection systems are not accurate to the point that their output may be directly usable, without human moderation. Finally, the NLP community has not achieved a consensus on the treatment of events both in terms of task definition and appropriate techniques for their detection. Given the aforementioned limitations, there is an increasing tendency to rely on machine learning (ML) and NLP methods to deal better with the vast amount and variety of data to be collected. This workshop aims to inspire the emergence of innovative technological and scientific solutions in the field of event detection and event metadata extraction from news, as well as the development of evaluation metrics for event recognition. Moreover, time the workshop will aim at triggering a deeper understanding of the usability of socio-political event datasets. References: Lorenzini, J., Makarov, P., Kriesi, H., & Wueest, B. (2016). Towards a Dataset of Automatically Coded Protest Events from English-language Newswire Documents. In Paper presented at the Amsterdam Text Analysis Conference URL: http://bruno-wueest.ch/assets/files/Lorenzini_etal_2016.pdf Wang, W., Kennedy, R., Lazer, D., & Ramakrishnan, N. (2016). Growing pains for global monitoring of societal events. Science, 353(6307), 1502-1503. URL: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6307/1502 Motivation and Topics of Interest Automating political event collection requires the availability of gold-standard corpora that can be used for system development and evaluation. Moreover, automated tool performances need to be reproducible and comparable. Although a tremendous effort is being spent on creating socio-political event databases such as ACLED, GDELT, MMAD, and ICEWS, there has not been much progress in harmonization across event schemas and tasks. This limitation causes the definition of the events and automated event information collection tool performances to be restricted to single projects. Consequently, the lack of comparable and reproducible settings hinders progress on this task. We invite contributions from researchers in NLP, ML and AI involved in automated event data collection, as well as researchers in Social and Political Sciences, Conflict Analysis and Peace studies, who make use of this kind of data for their analytical work. Our goal is to enable the emergence of innovative NLP/IE solutions that can help to deal with the current stream of information, manage the risks of information overload, identify different sources and perspectives, and provide unitary and intelligible representations of the larger and long-term storylines behind news articles. Our workshop will provide a venue for discussing the creation and facilitation of language resources in the social and political sciences domain. Social and political scientists will be interested in reporting and discussing their desiderata from automated tools in comparison to their traditional coding approaches. Computational linguistics and machine learning practitioners and researchers will benefit from being challenged by real-world use cases, in terms of event data extraction, representation and aggregation. We invite work on all aspects of automated coding of socio-political events from mono- or multi-lingual news sources. This includes (but is not limited to) the following topics: - Event metadata extraction - Source Bias mitigation - Event Data Schema and representation - Event information duplication detection - Extracting events beyond a sentence in a document - Training Data collection/annotation processes - Event coreference (in- and cross-document) - Sub-event and event subset relations - Event dataset evaluation and validity metrics - Event datasets quality assessments - Defining, populating and facilitating event ontologies - Automated Tools for relevant tasks - Understanding the limits that are introduced by copyright rules - Ethical concerns and ethical design Submissions This call solicits full papers reporting original and unpublished research on the topics listed above. The papers should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Submissions should be between 4 and 8 pages in total. Authors are also invited to submit short papers not exceeding 4 pages (plus two additional pages for references). Short papers should describe: - a small, focused contribution; - work in progress; - a negative result; - a position paper. Proceedings should be submitted on the START system, in compliance with the style sheet adopted for the LREC Proceedings (to be found here: https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/en/submission2020/authors-kit/) Papers should be submitted in PDF form through the AESPEN submission site: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2020/AESPEN2020/ . The reviewing process will be double blind and papers should not include the authors’ names and affiliations. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. If you do include any author names on the title page, your submission will be automatically rejected. In the body of your submission, you should eliminate all direct references to your own previous work. Workshop Proceedings will be published on the LREC 2020 website. Identify, Describe, and Share your LRs! Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about “Sharing LRs” (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new “regular” feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data. As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2020 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org) a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time. Shared Task We will organize a shared-task that will provide a setting that consists of data, task definition, and evaluation schema. Participants of this shared-task will have the possibility to report their results in the workshop after peer-review of their working notes. A session will be dedicated to discuss the results of the shared task during the workshop. Keynote Speaker The keynote speech will be delivered by Prof. Clionadh Raleigh. Title: Too soon? The limitations of AI for event data Bio: Prof. Clionadh Raleigh is a professor of Political Geography focused on modern disorder and political elite networks in developing states. She is the director of the ACLED project which produces and analyzes real-time data on political violence and protest in the world’s most unstable states. Moreover, she is recipient of two European Research Council Grants. Important dates All dates are in 2020 and (23:59 GMT+1) - January 14th: Announcing the shared task - February 14th: Cut-off date for the shared task results - February 22nd: Workshop paper submission deadline - March 1st: Submission deadline for the working notes of the shared task - March 13th: Notification of acceptance - April 2nd: Camera-ready deadline - May 12th, 2020: The workshop date Contact Do not hesitate to contact ahurriyetoglu(a)ku.edu.tr or vanni.zavarella(a)ec.europa.eu for any questions or comments. Organizing Committee Ali Hürriyetoğlu (Koc University) Hristo Tanev (European Commission – Joint Research Center) Erdem Yörük (Koc University and University of Oxford) Vanni Zavarella (European Commission – Joint Research Center) Programme Committee Svetla Boycheva (Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) Fırat Durusan (Koc University) Theresa Gessler (University of Zürich) Christian Göbel (University of Vienna) Burak Gürel (Koc University) Bernardo Magnini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)) Osman Mutlu (Koc University) Arzucan Özgür (Boğaziçi University) Jakub Piskorski (Polish Academy of Sciences) Lidia Pivovarova (University of Helsinki) Benjamin J. Radford (UNC Charlotte) Clionadh Raleigh (University of Sussex) Parang Saraf (Virginia Tech) Philip Schrodt (Parus Analytical Systems) Manuela Speranza (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento) Çağrı Yoltar (Koc University) Aline Villavicencio (The University of Sheffield) Kalliopi Zervanou (Eindhoven University of Technology)

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Checking on list connection
by Pam Estes Brewer 15 Jan '20

15 Jan '20

Hi everyone, The day before yesterday I posted a request for resources for one of my colleagues. Can you all tell me whether or not you received the following email from me? Thank you. Pam ______ Colleagues: I am posting this request on behalf of a colleague who is a doctoral student. Best wishes, Pam My name is Lisa Newman and I work as an instructor in the Technical Communication Department at Mercer U. I am also a Ph.D. student at the University of Georgia in the Learning, Leadership, and Organization Development (LLOD) program. My research focus is Cybersecurity and I am exploring the relationship between human factors, complex systems, and adaptive challenges. The purpose of my email is to request help in finding resources for my topic and also to ask for any advice on persuading faculty members to help me and become a part of my committee since this topic is in a research area with which they are less familiar. I want to thank you in advance for your time and any assistance you can offer! Respectfully, Lisa Newman, M.S. Mercer University School of Engineering Instructor, Technical Communication Department Pam Estes Brewer Professor Mercer University School of Engineering Director, M.S. in Technical Communication Management (online) Fellow, Society for Technical Communication Brewer_pe(a)mercer.edu<mailto:Brewer_pe@mercer.edu> 478.301.4146

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