Hi all,
We’re thrilled to announce the release of WikiConv—a multilingual corpus
reconstructing the complete conversational history of multiple Wikipedia
language editions
<https://github.com/conversationai/wikidetox/tree/master/wikiconv>.
The corpus—a collaboration between Jigsaw, Cornell and Wikimedia
foundation—includes over 100M individual conversation threads and 300M
conversational actions extracted from the English, Chinese, German, Greek,
and Russian Wikipedia talk pages.
WikiConv can be used to understand and model conversational turns in online
collaborative spaces, as we showed in an earlier study, predicting when
conversations go awry <https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05345>.
The reconstruction methodology, as well as its possible applications, are
described in a paper by Hua et al. recently presented at EMNLP 2018
<https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.13181>. You can also watch a video presentation
of this work from the Wikimedia Research showcase
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#June_2018> in
June 2018.
The corpus is released under CC0 (CC BY SA for individual comments). All
the underlying code is available in this Github repository
<https://github.com/conversationai/wikidetox/tree/master/wikiconv>.
If you have any questions about the dataset, feel free to contact us at
yiqing(a)cs.cornell.edu.
Best,
Yiqing
Official site: https://ocs.letras.up.pt/index.php/IWSC2019/IWSC2019
The* International Wiki Scientific Conference 2019 *will be held on *March
11, 12 and 13, 2019 *in Porto (Portugal) and will take place at the Faculty
of Arts of the University of Porto.
*ORGANIZATION:*
*FLUP - Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (PT)*
*CIC.DIGITAL Porto (PT)*
*Wiki Educação Brasil (BR)*
*PPGCI - Universidade Federal Fluminense (RJ-BR)*
CALL FOR PAPERS
https://ocs.letras.up.pt/index.php/iwsc2019/IWSC_2019/author/submit?require…
In 2018, after the European Year of Cultural Heritage was celebrated by the
first time and by the initiative of the European Union, the *IWSC 2019*
promotes *Heritage*, both material and intangible, to draw attention to the
presence of Culture and heritage on Wiki platforms and to the contribution
this digital resource/look could have on social and economic development in
Europe and worldwide.
Therefore, works will be considered provided they focus on Wiki culture as
a topic, source or way of spreading scientific knowledge and teaching tool
and, particularly in the scope of heritage. Texts should be written in
English, Spanish or Portuguese and will be assessed by members of the
Scientific Commission.
Submission period starts on the 15 October and ends on the *30 January 2019*.
Authors will be notified whether their works have been accepted by the *10
February 2019*.
*The papers should be submitted in the following thematic groups:*
- Wiki Culture
- Information accreditation on Wikipedia
- Spreading and promoting Science on Wikipedia
- Dissemination and promotion of material and intangible heritage
- Educational Projects on Wiki Platforms
Posters may be presented (up to 3 pages, including references) or articles
(from 8 to 10 pages, including references).
The papers will be published in the digital proceeding of the event. For
this reason, at least one of the authors must register for the event and
perform oral presentation.
In the case of changes requested by the evaluators, the authors have
until *February
20, 2019* to submit their final versions.
*Opening of Call for Papers: *October 15, 2018
*Call for papers closes:* January 30, 2018
Best regards
Rodrigo Padula
Dear Listserv,
Hope all is well. I am mapping IP address edits per country for 271
language Wikipedias. I would like to exclude IP addresses that are
vandalism. I was thinking of using the ipblocks table for the IP addresses
to be excluded. Because this project is in so many different languages and
my programming skills are intermediate, I would like to use the Wikipedia
tables or registers that the Wikipedians in those language use to mark
vandalism. If anyone has another idea, I would be most grateful. Perhaps I
am missing a way that Wikipedians across languages are using to mark
vandalism.
Thank you,
Tom
--
Thomas Stieve
Ph.D. Candidate
School of Geography and Development
University of Arizona
Hello, everyone,
The next Research Showcase, *Understanding participation in Wikipedia*,
will be live-streamed next Wednesday, January 16, at 11:30 AM PST/19:30
UTC. This presentation is about new editors.
YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc51jE_KNTc
As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You
can also watch our past research showcases here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
This month's presentation:
*Understanding participation in Wikipedia: Studies on the relationship
between new editors’ motivations and activity*
By Martina Balestra, New York University
Peer production communities like Wikipedia often struggle to retain
contributors beyond their initial engagement. Theory suggests this may be
related to their levels of motivation, though prior studies either center
on contributors’ activity or use cross-sectional survey methods, and
overlook accompanied changes in motivation. In this talk, I will present a
series of studies aimed at filling this gap. We begin by looking at how
Wikipedia editors’ early motivations influence the activities that they
come to engage in, and how these motivations change over the first three
months of participation in Wikipedia. We then look at the relationship
between editing activity and intrinsic motivation specifically over time.
We find that new editors’ early motivations are predictive of their future
activity, but that these motivations tend to change with time. Moreover,
newcomers’ intrinsic motivation is reinforced by the amount of activity
they engage in over time: editors who had a high level of intrinsic
motivation entered a virtuous cycle where the more they edited the more
motivated they became, whereas those who initially had low intrinsic
motivation entered a vicious cycle. Our findings shed new light on the
importance of early experiences and reveal that the relationship between
motivation and activity is more complex than previously understood.
--
Janna Layton
Administrative Assistant - Audiences & Technology
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Apologies for cross-posting
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SEMANTiCS 2019 - The Power of Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge
Graphs, September 9 -12, 2019
15th International Conference on Semantic Systems
Karlsruhe, Germany
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Important Dates (specific track dates are given below)
Abstract Submission Deadline: April 23, 2019 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Paper Submission Deadline: April 30, 2019 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Notification of Acceptance: June 17, 2019 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Camera-Ready Paper: July 29, 2019 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Find the detailed calls here: https://2019.semantics.cc/calls
Submission via Easychair on
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2019
Proceedings of SEMANTiCS19 will be published by Springer LNCS & CEUR.
====
SEMANTiCS 2019 particularly welcomes submissions on the following key
topics:
+ Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data
+ Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management and Deep Semantics
+ Machine Learning & Deep Learning Techniques
+ Semantic Information Management & Knowledge Integration
+ Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management
+ Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
+ Reasoning, Rules and Policies
+ Natural Language Processing
+ Data Quality Management and Assurance
+ Explainable Artificial Intelligence
+ Semantics in Data Science
+ Semantics of Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies
+ Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies
+ Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems
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+ Special Sub-Topic: Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
+ Special Sub-Topic: LegalTech
We especially encourage contributions that illustrate the applicability
of the topics mentioned above for industrial purposes and/or illustrate
the business relevance of their contribution for specific industries.
We invite contributions to the following tracks:
====
Research and Innovation Track
The Research and Innovation track at SEMANTiCS welcomes papers on novel
scientific research and/or innovations relevant to the topics of the
conference. Submissions must be original and must not have been
submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must follow the guidelines
given in the author instructions, including references and optional
appendices. Each submission will be reviewed by several PC members who
will judge it based on its innovativeness, appropriateness, and impact
of results in terms of effectiveness at solving real problems.
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline: April 23, 2019 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Paper Submission Deadline: April 30, 2019 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Notification of Acceptance: June 10, 2019 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Camera-Ready Paper: July 29, 2019 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Author instructions: Reviews will be carried out in a single-blind mode.
Long papers should have a maximum length of 15 pages and short papers of
6 pages. Submissions should follow the guidelines of the Springer LNCS
format.
====
Posters and Demos Track
The Posters and Demonstrations Track invites innovative work in
progress, late-breaking research and innovation results, and smaller
contributions in all fields related to the Semantic Web and Linked Data
in a broader sense. These include submissions on innovative applications
with impact on end users, such as demos of solutions that users may test
or that are yet in the conceptual phase but are worth discussing, and
also applications or pieces of code that may attract developers and
potential research or business partners.
Important Dates (Posters & Demos)
Paper Submission Deadline: June 10, 2019 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Notification of Acceptance: July 8, 2019 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Camera-Ready Paper: July 22, 2019 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Author instructions: Proceedings will be published via CEUR Workshop
proceedings and should follow the guidelines of the Springer LNCS format.
====
Industry and Use Case Track
Focusing strongly on industry needs and ground breaking technology
trends SEMANTICS invites presentations on enterprise solutions that deal
with semantic processing of data and/or information. A special focus of
Semantics 2019 will be on the convergence of machine learning techniques
and knowledge graphs. Additional topics of interest are Enterprise
Knowledge Graphs, Semantic AI & Machine Learning, Enterprise Data
Integration, Linked Data & Data Publishing, Semantic Search,
Recommendation Services, Thesaurus and/or Ontology Management, Text
Mining, Data Mining and any related fields. All submissions should have
a strong focus on real-world applications beyond the prototypical stage
and demonstrate the power of semantic systems!
Important Dates:
Proposal Deadline: May 27, 2019 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Notification of Acceptance: June 10, 2019 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
A detailed Call for Industry and Use Case Presentations will be
available soon.
====
Workshops and Tutorials
Workshops and Tutorials at SEMANTiCS 2018 allow your organisation or
project to advance and promote your topics and gain increased
visibility. The workshops and tutorials will provide a forum for
presenting widely recognised contributions and findings to a diverse and
knowledgeable community. Furthermore, the event can be used as a
dissemination activity in the scope of large research projects or as a
closed format for research and commercial project consortia meetings.
Important Dates for Workshops:
Workshop Proposals: March 4, 2019 (23:59 Hawaii Time)
Notification of Acceptance: March 18, 2019 (23:59 Hawaii Time)
Important Dates for Tutorials (and other meetings, e.g. seminars,
show-cases, etc., without call for papers):
Submission deadline: May 6, 2019 (23:59 Hawaii Time)
Notifications: May 13, 2019 (23:59 Hawaii Time)
====
Vocabulary Innovation Award #VIA
Bootstrap your vocabulary project: At the Vocabulary Innovation Award
you can present your ideas, early stage or camera-ready vocabularies in
order to showcase your work, find the right people and get the
discussion going. For this event, we provide both, an academic and
industry track. We use a broad definition of what a vocabulary is. For
instance, ontologies, classification schemes, thesauri, taxonomies,
subject heading and metadata schemes, whichever their format, be it RDF
or not, are all welcome. More details will follow.
Proposal Deadline: May 20, 2019 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Notification of Acceptance: June 03, 2019 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
====
The program committee will be announced on the conference website
https://2019.semantics.cc/
Hello!
### Apologies for cross-postings ###
The 7th AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP
2019) will be held Oct 28–30 at Skamania Lodge in Washington State near
the Columbia Gorge River, just 45 minutes from Portland, Oregon. This
year is the 10-year anniversary of the very first HCOMP workshop in
Paris, and to celebrate, there will be special events, talks, and panels
throughout the conference. HCOMP 2019 --
https://www.humancomputation.com/
HCOMP is the premier venue for disseminating the latest research
findings on human computation and crowdsourcing. While artificial
intelligence (AI) and human-computer interaction (HCI) represent
traditional mainstays of the conference, HCOMP believes strongly in
inviting, fostering, and promoting broad, interdisciplinary research.
The field is particularly unique in the diversity of disciplines it
draws upon and contributes to, ranging from human-centered qualitative
studies and HCI design, to computer science and artificial intelligence,
to economics and the social sciences, all the way to digital humanities,
policy, and ethics. We promote the exchange of advances in human
computation and crowdsourcing not only among researchers, but also
engineers and practitioners, to encourage dialogue across disciplines
and communities of practice.
------------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------------
Abstracts submission: 3 June 2019 (5pm EST)
Full Papers Due: 5 June 2019 (5pm EST)
Notification: 2 August 2019
Main Conference: 29-30 October 2019
Workshops & Doctoral Consortium: 28 October 2019
------------------- CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ---------------------
This year, we especially encourage work that generate new insights into
the “human computation” side of HCOMP, such as new understandings about
human cognition, human-in-the-loop intelligence systems, human-AI
interaction and collaboration, algorithmic and interface techniques for
augmenting human abilities to perform tasks, and other issues that
affect how humans collaborate with AI systems (such as bias, fairness
and interpretability).
###### Topics of Interests ######
HCOMP strongly believes in inviting, fostering, and promoting broad,
interdisciplinary research on crowdsourcing and human computation.
Submissions may present principles, studies, and/or applications of
systems that rely on programmatic interaction with crowds, or where
human perception, knowledge, reasoning, or physical activity and
coordination contributes to the operation of computational systems,
applications, or services. More generally, we invite submissions from
the broad spectrum of related fields and application areas including
(but not limited to):
- Crowdsourcing areas: e.g., citizen science, disaster response and
relief, crowdsourcing in health, travel, journalism, etc., collective
action, collective knowledge, crowdsourcing contests, crowd creativity,
crowd funding, crowd ideation, crowd sensing, distributed work,
freelancer economy, open innovation, microtasks, prediction markets,
wisdom of crowds, the future of work, etc.
- Applications: e.g., gaming and gamification, knowledge bases, fact
verification, computer vision, databases, digital humanities,
information retrieval, machine learning, natural language and speech
processing, optimization, programming languages, systems, etc.
- Crowd/human algorithms: e.g., computer-supported human computation,
crowd/human algorithm design and complexity, mechanism design, quality
control, etc.
- Human-centered crowd studies: human-computer interaction, social
computing, cultural heritage, computer-supported cooperative work,
design, cognitive and behavioral sciences (psychology and sociology),
incentives, management science, economics, policy, ethics, etc.
------------------- FOLLOW UPDATES ---------------------
HCOMP 2019 Website -- https://www.humancomputation.com/
TWITTER -- #HCOMP2019
Cheers,
Ujwal
--
Dr. Ujwal Gadiraju
L3S Research Center
Leibniz Universität Hannover
30167 Hannover, Germany
Hello!
### Apologies for Cross-Posting ###
------------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------------
Abstract submission: 20 Jan 2019
Paper submission 1 Feb 2019
Author notification: 24 Feb 2019
Final version deadline: 3 Mar 2019
Workshop date: 13/14 May 2019
------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------
Human-in-the-loop is a model of interaction where a machine process and
one or more humans have an iterative interaction. In this paradigm the
user has the ability to heavily influence the outcome of the process by
providing feedback to the system as well as the opportunity to grab
different perspectives about the underlying domain and understand the
step by step machine process leading to a certain outcome. Amongst the
current major concerns in Artificial Intelligence research are being
able to explain and understand the results as well as avoiding bias in
the underlying data that might lead to unfair or unethical conclusions.
Typically, computers are fast and accurate in processing vast amounts of
data. People, however, are creative and bring in their perspectives and
interpretation power. Bringing humans and machines together creates a
natural symbiosis for accurate interpretation of data at scale.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners in various areas of AI (i.e., Machine Learning, NLP,
Computational Advertising, etc.) to explore new pathways of the
human-in-the-loop paradigm. We aim to analyze both existing biases in
crowdsourcing, and explore various methods to manage bias via
crowdsourcing. We would like to discuss different types of biases,
measures and methods to track bias, as well as methodologies to prevent
and mitigate different types of bias. We will provide a framework for
discussion among scholars, practitioners and other interested parties,
including crowd workers, requesters and crowdsourcing platform managers.
------------------ RESEARCH TOPICS ----------------------
The old paradigm of computing - where machines do something for the
humans - has changed: more and more humans and machines are working with
and for each other, in a partnership. We can see the effectiveness of
this paradigm in many areas, ranging from human computation (where
humans do some of the computation in place of the machines),
computer-supported cooperative work, social computing, computer-mediated
communication to name a few.
In this workshop we welcome novel work focusing on the partnership
between humans and machines. Topic of interest include (but are not
limited to):
*Human Factors:
**Human-computer cooperative work
**Mobile crowdsourcing applications
**Human Factors in Crowdsourcing
**Social computing
**Ethics of Crowdsourcing
**Gamification techniques
*Data Collection:
**Data annotations task design
**Data collection for specific domains (e.g. with privacy constraints)
**Data privacy
**Multi-linguality aspects
*Machine Learning:
**Dealing with sparse and noisy annotated data
**Crowdsourcing for Active Learning
**Statistics and learning theory
*Applications:
**Healthcare
**NLP technologies
**Translation
**Data quality control
**Sentiment analysis
*Bias in Crowdsourcing:
**Contributor and crowd worker sampling bias during the recruitment
**Effect of cultural, gender and ethnic biases
**Effect of worker training and past experiences
**Effect of worker expertise vs interest
**Bias in experts vs bias in crowdsourcing
**Bias in outsourcing vs bias in crowdsourcing
**Sources of bias in crowdsourcing: task selection, experience, devices,
reward, etc.
**Taxonomies and categorizations of different biases in crowdsourcing
**Task assignment/recommendation for reducing bias
**Effect of worker engagement on bias
**Responsibility and ethics in crowdsourcing and bias management
**Preventing bias in crowdsourcing
**Creating awareness of cognitive biases among crowdsourcing agents
*Crowdsourcing for Bias Management:
**Identifying new types of cognitive bias in data or content using
crowdsourcing
**Measuring bias in data or content using crowdsourcing
**Removing bias in data or content using crowdsourcing
**Presenting bias information to end users to create awareness
**Ethics of data collection for bias management
**Dealing with algorithmic bias using crowdsourcing
**Fake news detection with crowdsourcing
**Diversification of sources by means of crowdsourcing
**Provenance and traceability in crowdsourcing
**Long-term crowd engagement
**Generating benchmarks for bias management through crowdsourcing
------------------------- SUBMISSION ---------------------
Authors can submit four types of papers:
* short papers (up to 6 pages in length), plus unlimited pages for
references
* full papers (up to 10 pages in length), plus unlimited pages for
references
* position papers (up to 4 pages in length), plus unlimited pages for
references
* demo papers (up to 4 pages in length), plus unlimited pages for
references
Page limits include diagrams and appendices. Submissions should be
formatted according to the formatting instructions in the General
Guidelines.
Submit papers through
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=humblwww2019
All submissions must be written in English.
Accepted papers will be published online via CEUR-WS.
----------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRS ------------------
Lora Aroyo, Google, USA
Alessandro Checco, University of Sheffield, UK
Gianluca Demartini, University of Queensland, AU
Ujwal Gadiraju, L3S Research Center, Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, DE
Anna Lisa Gentile, IBM Research Almaden, US
Oana Inel, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL
Cristina Sarasua, University of Zurich, CH
--
Dr. Ujwal Gadiraju
L3S Research Center
Leibniz Universität Hannover
30167 Hannover, Germany
DE811245527
Phone: +49. 511. 762-5772
Fax: +49. 511. 762-19712
E-Mail: gadiraju(a)l3s.de
Web: www.l3s.de/~gadiraju/
CALL FOR PAPERS
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CyberSafety 2019: The Fourth Workshop on Computational Methods in
Online Misbehavior
https://cybersafety2019.github.io/
Description
----------------
The Web provides a valuable space for individuals to interact with each
other, and read, publish and share content. Despite these benefits, the
proliferation of virality and anonymity in the modern Web has resulted in a
breeding ground for online misbehavior and compromised cybersafety in
varying forms such as fraudulent engagement, misinformation and propaganda,
user deception and scams, harassment, hate speech, cyberthreats,
cyberbullying and more. These issues have severe negative impacts in terms
of manipulated user perception and increased exposure to harmful and
offensive content at best, and social, psychological and physical harm at
worst. Thus, they unsurprisingly incur large social and financial costs
from the perspectives of online social platforms who aim to improve user
experience and encourage web activity.
The study of these topics has become especially crucial in recent years,
due to the constant increase in abuse vectors and tactics, and has taken a
social spotlight due to its widespread ramifications. The CyberSafety2019
workshop provides an interdisciplinary venue for researchers in various
computational fields including network science, machine learning, data
mining, human-computer interaction, natural language processing, web
systems, security and privacy and more, to gather and present recent
advances in research.
Topics
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Bots, cyborgs, and automated accounts
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Fraudulent and inflated engagement
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Fake reviewers and reviews
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Scams and deception
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Hate speech
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Harassment and cyberthreats
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Cyberbullying
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Flashers
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Misbehavior and its relation to misinformation
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Misbehavior spread
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Adversarial analysis
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Empirical impacts of online misbehavior
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Enforcement and usable security measures
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Characterization and case studies
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Detection methods
Submission and Publication
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Authors are invited to submit papers of 2-8 pages in length. Papers should
be submitted electronically in PDF format, using the ACM SIG Proceedings
format, with a font size no smaller than 9pt. The formatted manuscript
should be submitted via EasyChair link. (Enter as an author and then select
cybersafety workshop track).
All submissions will be peer-reviewed. All accepted papers will be
presented at the workshop. In addition, accepted papers will be published
in the companion proceedings of the WWW conference and the ACM digital
library, unless the authors choose to opt out from publishing their papers.
We encourage both academic and industry submissions of the following types,
but not limited to:
Novel research papers in full or short length
Work-in-progress papers
Survey papers
Comparison papers of existing methods and tools
Case studies
Demo papers
Extended abstracts
Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline: Sunday, February 3, 2019
Notification of Acceptance: Monday, February 25, 2019
Camera-ready deadline: Sunday, March 3, 2019
Workshop date: May 13 or 14, 2019
Committees
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Workshop Co-Chairs
-
Homa Hosseinmardi, University of Southern California, USA
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Srijan Kumar, Stanford University, USA
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Qin Lv, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
TPC Co-Chairs
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Richard Han, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
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Neil Shah, Snap Inc
Steering Committee
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Jeremy Blackburn, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
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Bert Huang, Virginia Tech, USA
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Shivakant Mishra, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Publicity Chair
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Rahat Ibn Rafiq, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Email: cybersafety2019(a)gmail.com
Phone: +1 303 601 3677
Web: https://cybersafety2019.github.io/
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