DWMV25: 6th Workshop on Data for the Wellbeing of Most Vulnerable International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) Copenhagen, Denmark, June 23, 2025 |
Conference website | https://sites.google.com/view/dataforvulnerable25 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dwmv25 |
Submission deadline | March 31, 2025 |
The scale, reach, and real-time nature of the Internet is opening new frontiers for understanding the vulnerabilities in our societies, including inequalities and fragility in the face of a changing world. From tracking seasonal illnesses like the flu across countries and populations, to understanding the context of mental conditions such as anorexia and bulimia, web data has the potential to capture the struggles and wellbeing of diverse groups of people. Vulnerable populations including children, elderly, racial or ethnic minorities, socioeconomically disadvantaged, underinsured or those with certain medical conditions, are often absent in commonly used data sources. The recent developments in machine learning (e.g. large language models (LLMs)) render these issues even more urgent, introducing potential biases to these populations.
Thus, the aim of this workshop is to encourage the community to use new sources of data as well as methodologies to study the wellbeing of vulnerable populations. The selection of appropriate data sources, identification of vulnerable groups, and ethical considerations in the subsequent analysis are of great importance in the extension of the benefits of big data revolution to these populations. As such, the topic is highly multidisciplinary, bringing together researchers and practitioners in computer science, epidemiology, demography, linguistics, and many others.
Submission Guidelines
We invite submissions of technical papers and abstract proposals.
- Technical papers should be up to 4 pages (short papers) or up to 8 pages (long papers). Technical papers must contain novel, previously-unpublished material related to the topics of the workshop. Accepted papers will be presented orally and will appear in the workshop proceedings.
- Abstract proposals must be up to 2 pages presenting an ongoing study, or a topic of discussion related to the workshop's topics of interest.
Papers must adhere to the ICWSM guidelines and be submitted through Easychair.
List of Topics
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Establishing cohorts, data de-biasing
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Validation via individual-level or aggregate-level data
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Linking data to disease and other well-being
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Population data sources for validation
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Correlation analysis and other statistical methods
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Longitudinal analysis on social media
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Spatial, linguistic, and temporal analyses
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Privacy, ethics, and informed consent
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Biases and quality concerns around vulnerable groups in LLMs
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Data quality issues
Organizing Committee
- Kyriaki Kalimeri, ISI Foundation
- Yelena Mejova, ISI Foundation
- Daniela Paolotti, ISI Foundation
Publication
Long and Short papers will be published in ICWSM Workshop proceedings by the AAAI Press. Please follow the AAAI format.
Abstract proposals will not be published.
Venue
The workshop will be held on June 23, 2025 in Copenhagen, Denmark, on the first day of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM).
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Kyriaki Kalimeri kyriaki.kalimeri@isi.it and Yelena Mejova yelena.mejova@isi.it