*First Call for Abstracts* Workshop on Social Media Analysis in the Arab World Co-located with Social Informatics 2019, November 18-21, Doha, Qatar.
*Workshop website* https://sites.google.com/view/socialmedia-arabic2019 *Workshop Date*: November 18, 2019 *Abstracts submission deadline:* September 10, 2019 (23:59 Anytime on Earth ) In recent years, social media network mediums have revolutionized the way people communicate, particularly in the Arab World. The adoption of social media platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, is not only high in Arabic speaking countries, such platforms have been credited with playing a major role in the Arab Spring. Since social media can provide a peering glass into the lives of users, doing the same for Arab users requires: a) the effective processing and analysis of Arabic text, including Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and different Arabic dialects; and b) the understanding of general phenomena that characterize social media in the Arab World. In this half-day workshop we encourage researchers to contribute their recent research works that: showcase recent advances in Arabic NLP as they relate to social media; and highlight specific phenomena that characterize Arabic social media. The workshop aims to break barriers to using technologies to address research questions related to social sciences research in Arabic speaking world. The Arabic speaking region expands from the Middle East to North Africa covering a wide area with distinct geographies, ethnicities, governments and more. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: - Challenges of Arabic social media processing - Mining Arabic social data - Opinion mining and social media analytics of the Arabic language - Credibility of online Arabic content - Arabic social media and health behaviors - Annotated corpora and resources for the Arabic language in social media - Methods and Algorithms - Dialectal Arabic processing in social media - Sentiment analysis - Arabic dialect modeling - Detecting of hate speech on Arabic social media - Market analysis and surveys using Arabic social media - Demographics of Arabic users: gender, age, country, religion, etc. - Code switching between MSA and dialects - Basic core technologies for Arabic in Social Media such as morphological analysis, disambiguation, tokenization, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking, parsing, semantic role labeling. *Submission Format* Participants would be asked to submit abstracts that would address one of the topics above from the perspective of: use cases; tools; resources; and preliminary experimental results. Abstracts would be reviewed by the workshop organizers and authors of selected abstracts would be offered a time slot for a short presentation (10 minutes each) to present their ideas. The submitted abstract will be published online in this website. To Submit your 1-2 pages long abstract, please send it by email before the deadline, Sept 10th 2019, to : arabic-social-media-analy...@googlegroups.com The submitted Abstracts should follow the Socinfo format <https://www.springer.com/gb/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines> in Word or Latex Format. *Workshop Organisers* Wajdi Zaghouani (HBKU) Walid Magdy (University. of Edinburgh) Ahmed Abdelali (QCRI) Hamdy Mubarak (QCRI) Houda Bouamor (CMUQ) Kareem Darwish (QCRI) ---- *Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D.* *Assistant Professor* College of Humanities and Social Sciences P.O. Box 34110 | Education City | Doha, Qatar tel: +974 4454 5601 | mob: +974 33454992 wzaghou...@hbku.edu.qa| Office A141, LAS Building
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