******************************************************************** SPECIAL SESSION: NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FOR SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYSIS ******************************************************************** The exploitation of natural language from social media data is an intriguing task in the fields of text mining and natural language processing (NLP), with plenty of applications in social sciences and social media analytics. In this special session, we call for research papers in the broader field of NLP techniques for social media analysis. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): sentiment analysis in social media and beyond (e.g., stance identification, sarcasm detection, opinion mining), computational sociolinguistics (e.g., identification of demographic information such as gender, age), and NLP tools for social media mining (e.g., topic modeling for social media data, text categorization and clustering for social media, social media visual analytics). https://sites.google.com/site/specom2017/special-sessions ORGANIZERS The special session is organized by: • Vasiliki Simaki (Lund University, Sweden) • Carita Paradis (Lund University, Sweden) • Fragkiskos D. Malliaros (UC San Diego, USA) • Andreas Kerren (Linnaeus University, Sweden) • Michalis Vazirgiannis (École Polytechnique, France) CONTACT Vasiliki Simaki, vasiliki.simaki@englund.lu.se Fragkiskos D. Malliaros, fmalliaros@ucsd.edu SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 10 pages formatted in the LNCS style. Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision on the presentation format will be based upon the recommendation of three independent reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2017 PROCEEDINGS Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, COMPENDEX. SPECOM Proceedings are included in the list of forthcoming proceedings for September 2017. IMPORTANT DATES April 06, 2017 ............ Submission of full papers (no extension will be given) May 15, 2017 ............ Notification of acceptance May 26, 2017 ............ Final papers (camera ready) and registration Sept. 12-16, 2017 ......... Conference dates VENUE The special session will be organized in at the campus of the University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK, alongside with the main conference. ************************************************************* SPECOM-2017 - 19th International Conference on Speech and Computer ************************************************************* Venue: Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK, September 12-16, 2017 WWW: http://specom.nw.ru