SOMMER22: Workshop on Social Media for Emergency Response ICWSM Atlanta, GA, United States, June 9, 2022 |
Conference website | https://2022sommer.github.io/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sommer22 |
Call for Papers
Website:https://2022sommer.github.io/
Submissions Deadline: April 29th, 2022 AoE
The International Workshop on Social Media for Emergency Response (SOMMER) will be held in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media 2022 (ICWSM) on June 6th, 2022.
Social media platforms have evolved to play multiple roles in contemporary society - such as primary sources for communication, acting as a proxy for information needs, and also becoming a medium for seeking assistance. One of the interesting roles social media platforms have started being used nowadays for is - emergency response. During emergency events, delivering the right information in a timely manner is crucial, not only for emergency response organizations but also for other social media users in the vicinity. Social media platforms allow people who are actually at ground zero to express their opinions and provide information about the event, thus becoming in most cases, primary sources of information. However, mining social media data to provide insights that can be used by emergency response comes with significant technical challenges, such as real-time information extraction, information ranking, credibility, multimodality, information visualization, data sampling, etc. Tackling these problems require researchers to take a truly inter-disciplinary approach to enable the use-case of using social media data for emergency response holistically. Through this workshop, we want to provide a inter-disciplinary forum for researchers from different fields to present and discuss research on this topic from different perspectives.
This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners in computer and social sciences from both academia and industry to exchange ideas on understanding how social media can be leveraged for emergency response during crisis events.
Two types of submissions for participation in the workshop are accepted:
Short Research Paper should not exceed 4 pages in AAAI format (author guidelines for ICWSM). These papers, if accepted, will be included in the ICWSM workshop proceedings. The 4-page format will be ideal for dataset related papers i.e. papers that present to the community a new novel dataset that can be useful for this community, or demos i.e. papers explaining tools or novel frameworks that are aimed at easing the use of social media data for emergency response.
Long Research Paper should not exceed 8 pages in AAAI format. Papers should cover topics described above. These papers will ideally be aimed at presenting novel research. Higher preference will be given to papers having clarity in describing the problem setting, including detailed description of how it fits the theme of the workshop and provides details on how the work can be applied in real-world and hence limitations thereof.
Topics of interest for the workshop include the following (using text, images, video, and any combination):
- All aspects of event detection (where an event happened, its impact, etc.)
- Information ranking for emergency response
- Tools and techniques for emergency management that use social media
- Techniques to identify emerging topics in large-scale disasters, including unexpected events
- Tools and techniques to identify aid requests
- Emergency event summarization
- Techniques in social network analysis that can help identify communities of need or that can be effective at responding (e.g., in fundraising in response to an emergency)
- Ontologies specifically for emergency response
- Tools and techniques for identifying credible messages during emergency response
- Techniques to enable real-time (or instantaneous) information extraction from social media during crisis events
- Studies that help identify causality and other relationships between events, particularly in large-scale emergencies
- Perspectives from practitioners and academics in any relevant field, on the impact of social media in emergencies and how to better leverage social media data for good
- Privacy preserving techniques to extract important information that is relevant to emergency response
- Studies or perspectives on human behavior during emergencies, particularly in relation to social media use
- Systems that use social media for training in emergency response
- Techniques or systems to leverage social media data for disaster prevention or mitigation
- Perspectives on policy as it relates to social media and emergency response
- Datasets and data collection methods which can be useful to researchers in the field, as it relates to emergency response
- Bias and fairness persepctive on use of social media for emergency response
Co-organizers
Hemank Lamba, Dataminr, Inc., USA (Email: hlamba@dataminr.com)
Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Vanderbilt University, USA
Alex Jaimes, Dataminr, Inc., USA