PROGRAM
  •  8:30- 9:30 Invited talk - Mor Naaman: “The Past and Future of Systems for Current Events”
  • 9:30-10:30 Paper presentations (3 papers)
    • Tie-breaker: Using language models to quantify gender bias in sports journalism (best paper award)
       Liye Fu, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil and Lillian Lee 
    • A Model for Multi-Perspective Opinion Inferences
      Manfred Klenner 
    • Tell me who you are, I’ll tell whether you agree or disagree: Prediction of agreement/disagreement in news blogs
      Fabio Celli, Evgeny Stepanov and Giuseppe Riccardi 
  • 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 
  • 11:00-12:30 Paper presentations (4 papers)
    • Creation, Visualization and Edition of Timelines for Journalistic Use
      Xavier Tannier and Frederic Vernier 
    • Towards Semantic Story Telling with Digital Curation Technologies
      Julian Moreno Schneider, Peter Bourgonje, Jan Nehring, Georg Rehm, Felix Sasaki and Ankit Srivastava 
    • Automatic Creation of Flexible Catchy Headlines
      Lorenzo Gatti, Gozde Ozbal, Marco Guerini, Oliviero Stock and Carlo Strapparava 
    • Helping News Editors Write Better Headlines: A Recommender to Improve the
      Keyword Contents & Shareability of News Headlines
      Terrence Szymanski, Claudia Orellana-Rodriguez and Mark Keane 
  • 12:30-13:30 Lunch time
  • 13:30-14:30 Invited talks - Journalists' point of view
  • 14:30-15:10 Paper presentation (2 papers)
    • Getting to know large newsflows: Automatically induced information structures as
      keyphrases for news content analysis
      Samia Touileb and Katherine Duarte 
    • A multi-lingually applicable journalist toolset for the big-data era
      George Kiomourtzis, George Giannakopoulos, Aris Kosmopoulos and Vangelis Karkaletsis 
  • 15:10-15:30 Best paper award announcement
  • 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
  • 16:00-17:00 Poster presentations (9 posters)
    • A Computational Approach to the Study of Portuguese Newspapers Published in Macau
      Marcos Zampieri, Shervin Malmasi, Octavia-Maria Sulea and Liviu P. Dinu 
    • NLP-driven Data Journalism: Time-Aware Mining and Visualization of International Alliances
      Xavier Tannier 
    • Semantic and Context-aware Linguistic Model for Bias Detection
      Sicong Kuang and Brian Davison 
    • Argumentative ranking
      Marco Lippi, Paolo Sarti and Paolo Torroni 
    • Extracting Predictions and their Scopes from News Articles
      Navya Yarrabelly, Kamalakar Karlapalem and Yashaswi Pochampalli 
    • Annotating Satire in Italian Political Commentaries with Appraisal Theory
      Michele Stingo and Rodolfo Delmonte 
    • An exploratory analysis of news trends on twitter
      Konstantinos Bougiatiotis, Anastasia Krithara, Georgios Paliouras and George Giannakopoulos 
    • Labeled Topics for News Corpora Using Word Embedding and Keyword Identification
      Abdulkareem Alsudais, Hovig Tchalian and Brian Hilton 
    • Diachronic Evaluation of Newspapers Language between Different Idioms
      Daniela Gifu 
  • 17:00-18:00 Panel and conclusive remarks