Topics of interest

SMUC workshop represents a multidisciplinary forum for researchers and practitioners that work on knowledge extraction, management and exploitation in Social Media, and belong to different, but complementary fields such as Web (content/structure/usage) mining, information retrieval, opinion mining and sentiment analysis, user modeling, personalization and recommendation, and multimedia processing and retrieval.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Searching in Social Media

• Social search and ranking algorithms
• Multi-entity search
• Multifaceted search
• Distributed and high performance algorithms: scalability and efficiency

Mining Social Media

• Knowledge discovery in Social Media
• Social network analysis/mining, community detection and evolution
• Collaborative tagging analysis/mining
• Topic detection, and trend discovery
• Influence, trust, and privacy analysis
• Spamming, phishing, and vandalism detection
• Cross-lingual and cross-domain text mining

Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis

• Opinion extraction, classification, summarization, and visualization
• Irony detection
• Opinion spam
• Plagiarism detection of duplicate or near-duplicate opinions
• Temporal sentiment analysis
• Cross-lingual and cross-domain sentiment analysis
• Blog analysis, and micro-blog mining
• Product review analysis

Multimedia processing and retrieval in Social Media

• Multimedia information extraction and retrieval in Social Media
• Multimodal retrieval
• Audio, music and video (clip) processing and analysis
• Context-based multimedia retrieval
• Detection of cyber-bullying, cyber-stalking, cyber-pedophilia

Intelligent systems & applications in Social Media

• User modeling, personalization, and recommender systems
• Market analysis, and Business Intelligence applications (direct marketing, branding, etc.)