Search Beyond the Web: User-Generated Content from Social Networks and Native Apps
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Special session at FQAS 2013, Granada, Spain, September 18-20, 2013
Cancelled; accepted papers merged with regular conference on related topics
Conference program
We want to encourage discussion and sharing of ideas and research
results on search techniques that tailor together social networks, native apps,
various recommendation platforms, and online information databases.
The session addresses some of the serious research challenges we face in developing methodologies and in
understanding how different technical approaches can be used to enhance the quality and satisfaction of information search.
Call for contributions
Confirming all prior predictions we are witnessing now that time spent
on native apps overpass the time spent on the desktop or mobile Web.
The Internet users tend to navigate and discover new information not
only through the traditional Web sources (e.g. Search and online
information databases Wikipedia, IMDB) but rather through the native
apps: Social networking platforms (e.g. Facebook, Twitter) or
specific apps (e.g. Spotify, Instagram). The concept of the
Information search has been adapted to this new reality, however, this
adaptation is slow.
During this special session we aim to discuss various techniques for
collecting, organizing and providing relevant online and onsite
information to the end users (both through using the traditional Web
and app access).
A number of possible challenges that one could be addressed while
building new-generation search system include, but are not restricted
to the following.
- Representing real-world objects in search results: Native apps are
typically designed for a specific domain and operate with a particular
kind of objects representing some real-world entities. The data
describing these objects is media-rich: location, images, comments,
time characteristics, etc.
- Natural language search interface: The traditional keyword-based
language search interface is not working for the Native app data,
which is well-structured with every object having multiple attributes.
One of the possible good candidates to express queries to search by
attributes can be natural language interface.
- Grouping data to build coherent stories: Computational storytelling
aims to provide techniques to build a story from an elementary data
items, with natural language generation and building visual
composition.
Paper Submission: March 1st, 2013 NEW: April 12, 2013
Notification: May 1st, 2013
Final Paper Due: June 1st, 2013
Submissions
Authors are invited to submit original previously unpublished
research papers written in English, of up to 12 pages, strictly following the LNCS/LNAI
format guidelines.
Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three PC members.
Authors can download the Latex (recommended) or Word templates available at Springer's web site.
Submissions not following the format guidelines will be rejected without review.
Upload your paper at
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=fqas2013.
Remember to select "FQAS 2013 Special Session 3 - Search Beyond the Web: User-Generated Content from Social Networks and Native Apps".
Registration
Participants in this special session must register for the FQAS conference.
Follow the instructions at the official FQAS 2013 web site.
Program committee
Yana Volkovich, Barcelona Media-Innovation Centre, Spain;
Suzan Verberne, Radboud University, Netherlands;
Carlos D. Barranco González, Pablo de Olavide University, Spain;
Maria Grineva, Yandex Labs, USA;
Henning Christiansen, Roskilde University, Denmark.
Organizers
