<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">***********************************************************************************<br class=""><br class=""> CALL FOR PAPERS<br class=""><br class=""> AI4BigData'19 - Artificial Intelligence for Big Social Data Analysis<br class=""><br class=""> <a href="http://www.ir.disco.unimib.it/ai4bigdata19/" class="">http://www.ir.disco.unimib.it/ai4bigdata19/</a><br class=""><br class=""> Special Track @ FLAIRS-32<br class=""><br class="">The 32nd International FLAIRS Conference - Sarasota, Florida, USA - May 19-22, 2019<br class=""><br class="">***********************************************************************************<br class=""><br class="">AI4BigData is the AAAI FLAIRS Special Track on the application of Artificial <br class="">Intelligence tools for Big Data Analysis. The track includes data-related tasks <br class="">such as analysis, capture, curation, search, sharing, storage, transfer, <br class="">visualization, and information credibility and privacy, with a special focus on <br class="">social data on the Web.<br class=""><br class="">***********************************************************************************<br class=""><br class="">TOPICS OF INTEREST<br class=""><br class="">The broader context of the Special Track comprehends Artificial Intelligence,<br class="">Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Computational Social Science, <br class="">Web Mining, Semantic Web. <br class=""><br class="">Topics of interest include but are not limited to:<br class=""><br class="">- Sentiment Analysis: polarity detection and emotion recognition<br class="">- Social Network Analysis: community identification and authority discovery<br class="">- Visual Analytics: social media tools for navigation and visualization<br class="">- Social content and recommender systems<br class="">- Organization and group behavior on social media<br class="">- Cultural influences on the use and adoption of social media<br class="">- Text categorization: topic recognition and demographic identification<br class="">- Multi-modal affective computing and sentiment analysis<br class="">- Multi-domain & cross-domain evaluation<br class="">- Sentiment topic detection & trend discovery<br class="">- Predicting real-world phenomena based on social media<br class="">- Social innovation and change through social media<br class="">- Ethnographic studies of social media<br class="">- Online information credibility assessment<br class="">- Information/misinformation diffusion<br class="">- Trust and reputation in virtual communities<br class="">- Retrieval of credible information<br class="">- Gold standard datasets generation with respect to the credibility of information<br class="">- Credibility of crowdsourced data<br class=""><br class="">***********************************************************************************<br class=""><br class="">SUBMISSION GUIDELINES<br class=""><br class="">Papers should not exceed 6 pages (4 pages for a poster) and are due by November 19, <br class="">2018. Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting <br class="">guidelines, by using the latest AAAI Press Word template or LaTeX macro package,<br class="">available on the conference Website: <a href="http://flairs-32.info/" class="">http://flairs-32.info/</a><br class=""><br class="">Papers must be submitted as PDF files through the EasyChair conference system. <br class="">Authors should indicate the "Artificial Intelligence for Big Social Data Analysis" <br class="">track for submissions.<br class=""><br class="">Paper submission site: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=flairs32" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=flairs32</a><br class=""><br class="">All FLAIRS papers are reviewed using a double-blind process. Author names and <br class="">affiliations MUST NOT appear on submitted papers (do NOT use a fake name for your <br class="">EasyChair login; your EasyChair account information is hidden from reviewers).<br class=""><br class="">The proceedings of FLAIRS will be published by the AAAI. Authors of accepted papers <br class="">will be required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to AAAI. <br class="">FLAIRS requires that there be at least one full author registration per paper.<br class=""><br class="">***********************************************************************************<br class=""><br class="">IMPORTANT DATES<br class=""><br class="">November 19, 2018 – Paper submission deadline<br class="">January 21, 2019 – Paper acceptance notification<br class="">February 4, 2019 – Poster abstract submission<br class="">February 11, 2019 – Poster abstract notification<br class="">February 18, 2019 – AUTHOR registration<br class="">February 25, 2019 – Camera-ready version due<br class="">April 08, 2019 – Early registration<br class="">May 13, 2019 – Regular registration<br class="">May 19-22, 2019 – Conference<br class=""><br class="">***********************************************************************************<br class=""><br class="">ORGANIZATION<br class=""><br class="">Special Track Co-Chairs<br class=""><br class="">- Eric Bell, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (USA), eric.bell [at] <a href="http://pnnl.gov" class="">pnnl.gov</a><br class="">- Viviana Patti, University of Turin (Italy), patti [at] <a href="http://di.unito.it" class="">di.unito.it</a><br class="">- Marco Viviani, University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy), marco.viviani [at] <a href="http://unimib.it" class="">unimib.it</a><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">***********************************************************************************</div></div></body></html>