CALL FOR PAPERS
HAWAI’I INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES
HICSS’47
JANUARY 6-9, 2014
HILTON WAIKOLOA, BIG ISLAND

MINITRACK IN TEXT ANALYTICS

This minitrack is focused on systems and tools that enable people
to engage in meaningful ways with the information encapsulated in
massive textual datasets. The papers and the discussions will
centre on the extraction and visualization of concepts and
relationships, real-time interaction with text datasets including
novel visualization and interaction techniques for users. This
minitrack complements the Decision Support and Operational
Management Analytics and the Social Media and Data Analytics
Minitracks in the Digital and Social Media Track.

PAPERS ARE INVITED, BUT NOT LIMITED, TO THE FOLLOWING AREAS:

- Extraction and visualization of concepts, names, and relations
from large, noisy text corpora

- Knowledge sources, such as Wikipedia, lexicons, thesauri, and
Google n-grams, applied to text mining tasks, including, but not
limited to, semantic similarity, named entity extraction,
sentiment classification.

- Real-time visualization of and interaction with text corpora

- Personal and corporate text information management

- New models and sense-making experiences using information
retrieval, lexical analysis, and other text mining techniques

- Evaluation metrics for measuring usability of text analytics
systems

- Applications in a wide range of government, research, and
business data functions

- High performance computing applied to text analytics

http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu
Dates:
June 15: full papers due
Aug 15: notification of decision
Sep 15: final papers ude

Minitrack Leaders :
Evangelos Milios, Dalhousie University, eem@cs.dal.ca and
Carolyn Watters, Dalhousie University, Carolyn.watters@dal.ca