Dal 18 al 22 maggio arriva a Firenze la 24esima edizione dell’International World Wide Web Conference, la conferenza annuale per presentare e discutere i progressi nel campo della ricerca, dello sviluppo e le applicazioni dei temi legati al web. Tantissimi i panel e gli workshop, oltre a tutorial, sessioni di ricerca e dimostrazioni in programma; da segnare in agenda è sicuramente lo workshop di lunedì 18 maggio sul Social Web for Disaster Management, arrivato alla terza edizione, che ha l’obiettivo di fare il punto sulla ricerca sulla gestione delle emergenze legata all’uso dei social network. Questo workshop riunisce i ricercatori che studiano e si occupano di creare e migliorare i metodi e i sistemi di gestione delle catastrofi sul web e i social network.

Tra i paper accettati per partecipare allo workshop sarà presente anche quello di Maurizio Tesconi del CNR di Pisa con il progetto di Social Sensing.

Ecco l’elenco completo dei paper che saranno presentanti:

• Maria Grazia Busà, Maria Teresa Musacchio (University of Padua), Shane Finan (Trinity College Dublin), Cilian Fennel (Stillwater Communications): “Trust-Building through Social Media Communications in Disaster Management” (Full Paper)
• Seigo Baba, Fujio Toriumi, Takeshi Sakaki (The University of Tokyo); Kosuke Shinoda, Satoshi Kurihara (The University of Electro-Communications); Kazuhiro Kazama (Wakayama University); Itsuki Noda (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology): “Classification Method for Shared Information on Twitter Without Text Data” (Full Paper)
• Irina Temnikova, Sarah Vieweg, Carlos Castillo (QCRI): “The Case for Readability of Crisis Communications in Social Media” (Full Paper)
• Muhammad Imran, Carlos Castillo (QCRI): “Towards a Data-driven Approach to Identify Crisis-Related Topics in Social Media Streams” (Full Paper)
• Antonia Saravanou, George Valkanas, Dimitrios Gunopulos (University of Athens): “Twitter Floods When it Rains. A Case Study of the UK Floods in Early 2014” (Full Paper)
• Soudip Roy Chowdhury (INRIA); Hemant Purohit (Wright State University); Muhammad Imran (QCRI): “D-Sieve: A Novel Data Processing Engine for Efficient Handling of Crises-Related Social Messages” (Full Paper)
• Alfredo Cobo, Denis Parra, Jaime Navón (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile): “Identifying Relevant Messages in a Twitter-based Citizen Channel for Natural Disaster Situations” (Full Paper)
• Sophie Parsons, Peter M. Atkinson, Elena Simperl, Mark Weal (University of Southampton): “Thematically Analysing Social Network Content During Disasters Through the Lens of the Disaster Management Lifecycle” (Full Paper)
• Stefano Cresci, Maurizio Tesconi, Andrea Cimino, Felice Dell’Orletta (IIT-CNR): “A Linguistically-Driven Approach to Cross-Event Damage Assessment of Natural Disasters from Social Media Messages” (Full Paper)
• Leif Romeritch Syliongka (De La Salle University), Nathaniel Oco (National University, Philippines), Alron Jan Lam, Cheryll Ruth Soriano, Ma. Divina Gracia Roldan (De La Salle University), Francisco Magno (La Salle Institute of Governance ) and Charibeth Cheng (De La Salle University): “Combining Automatic and Manual Approaches: Towards a Framework for Discovering Themes in Disaster-Related Tweets” (Full Paper)
• Davide Buscaldi (LIPN); Irazú Hernández Farias (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia): “Sentiment Analysis on Microblogs for Natural Disasters Management: a Study on the 2014 Genoa Floodings” (Short Paper)
• Nathan Hodas (PNNL); Greg Ver Steeg (ISI); Joshua Harrison, Satish Chikkagoudar, Eric Bell, Courtney Corley (PNNL): “Disentangling the Lexicons of Disaster Response in Twitter” (Short Paper)
• Yafeng Lu, Xia Hu, Feng Wang, Shamanth Kumar, Huan Liu, Ross Maciejewski (ASU): “Visualizing Social Media Sentiment in Disaster Scenarios” (Short Paper)
• Richard Mccreadie (University of Glasgow); Karolin Kappler (Barcelona Media); Magdalini Kardara (National Technical University of Athens); Andreas Kaltenbrunner (Barcelona Media); Craig Macdonald, John Soldatos, Iadh Ounis (University of Glasgow): “SUPER: Towards the Use of Social Sensors for Security Assessments and Proactive Management of Emergencies” (Short Paper)