2012 saw the worldwide sales of smartphones surpass those of personal computers for the first time.  Our increasing capability to interact with social media on the go (using also other small devices such as tablets and even mobile  phones) has giving rise to the growth of “microposts” such as Twitter status updates, Facebook likes, Google recommends, Instagram photos and Foursquare check-ins.

However the increased quantity of new content available comes with a price: low information content, potential misinterpretation and large quantities to analyze. Analyzing microposts represents a major challenge that needs to be solved in order to help extract what is usable knowledge and with this build more intelligent end-user systems.

To tackle this challenge, the WWW this year offers a totally focused workshop on the subject: Making Sense of Microposts #MSM2013. There will be three sessions of multidisciplinary papers, from “Using Topic Models for Twitter Hashtag Recommendation” to  “MicroFilter – A Real Time Filtering Engine For Micro-Blogs”. Data mining in microposts, microposts and the web of linked data, network analysis and community detection, citizen empowerment through microposts, event detection, crowd tracking and geo-location will be among the topics discussed.

See the full programme of workshops below:

Session I

13:00 – 13:10: Welcome and Introduction

13:10 – 14:00: Keynote

14:00 – 14:20: Main track paper presentations

14:20 – 14:30: Lightning round – demos & posters

14:30 – 15:00: Coffee break with demos & posters

Session II

15:00 – 15:15: Demos & posters (main track & IE challenge)

15:15 – 16:15: Main track paper presentations

16:15 – 16:30: Lightning round – challenge submissions

16:30 – 17:00: Coffee break with demos & posters

Session III

17:00 – 17:15: Demos & posters (main track & IE challenge)

17:15 – 18:35: Main track paper presentations

18:35 – 19:40: IE Challenge presentations

19:40 – 20:00: Award Ceremony and Closing