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CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Session on Social Media Retrieval and Filtering (SMRF)
at the
9th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing
13-15 June 2011, Madrid, Spain
http://www-vpu.eps.uam.es/cbmi2011/specialsessions.html#smrf
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Nowadays, an ever increasing amount of multimedia content is available on content sharing websites such as Flickr, Youtube or Facebook. This content consists of text and multimedia data, enriched with additional metadata (annotations, comments, tags, etc.). In addition, semantic relationships between content and content sharers can be inferred by considering the structure of the social content sharing websites. However, this social factor has hardly been studied in the information retrieval and recommendation domain. This special session aims at state-of-the-art research approaches that address the underlying social structure for retrieval and filtering of multimedia content.

Scope and Topics
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We are interested in works in multimedia retrieval and filtering on the Social Web, including, but not limited to the following research topics:

* Analysis, indexing, search and retrieval of social media content
* Scalable indexing and structure of social media content
* Semantic-based retrieval and filtering of social media content
* Learning, personalization, content adaptation, and relevance fedback in social media systems
* Personal multimedia content management in social media systems
* Social and content-based multimedia recommendation
* Summarization, organization, browsing, and exploration of social media content
* User interfaces for management, presentation and visualization of social media content
* Social media data indexing, search and retrieval in mobile environments
* Context-awarenes in social media systems


Paper submission
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Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers of not more than
six (6) pages including results, figures and references. Papers will be
accepted only by electronic submission through the Easychair site. Style
files (Latex and Word) will be provided for the convenience of the authors.


Important dates
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* Submission of full paper (to be received by): January 14, 2011
* Notification of acceptance: February 25, 2011
* Submission of camera-ready papers: March 11, 2011


Organizers
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Frank Hopfgartner, ICSI Berkeley, USA
David Vallet, IRG-UAM, Spain
Iván Cantador, IRG - UAM, Spain