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| # #Microposts2015 Making Sense of Microposts: Big things come in small packages

### Proceedings of the the 5th Workshop on Making Sense of Microposts
co-located with the 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2015)

### Florence, Italy, May 18th, 2015.

Edited by

### Matthew Rowe *
Milan Stankovic **
Aba-Sah Dadzie ***

* School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, England, UK
** Sépage, Paris, France
*** Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, England, UK

## Table of Contents

- Preface

### Section I: Main Research Track

- Semantics-driven Event Clustering in Twitter Feeds 2-9
  Cedric De Boom, Steven Van Canneyt, Bart Dhoedt
- Making the Most of Tweet-Inherent Features for Social Spam Detection on Twitter 10-16
  Bo Wang, Arkaitz Zubiaga, Maria Liakata, Rob Procter
- User Interest Modeling in Twitter with Named Entity Recognition 17-20
  Deniz Karatay, Pinar Karagoz

### Section II: Main Track Extended Abstracts & Posters

- Connections between Twitter Spammer Categories 22-25
  Gordon Edwards, Amy Guy
- A Topical Crawler for Uncovering Hidden Communities of Extremist Micro-Bloggers on Tumblr 26-27
  Swati Agarwal, Ashish Sureka

### Section III: Social Sciences Research Track

- Making Sense of Microposts (#Microposts2015) Social Sciences Track 29-31
  Danica Radovanović, Katrin Weller, Aba-Sah Dadzie
- To Be or Not to Be Charlie: Twitter Hashtags as a Discourse and Counter-discourse in the Aftermath of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo Shooting in France 33-37
  Fabio Giglietto, Yenn Lee
- A Research Design for the Analysis of Contemporary Social Movements 38-42
  Isabel Colucci Coelho, Andrea Lapa, Vinicius Ramos, Fabio Malini

### Section IV: Named Entity Extraction & Linking (NEEL) Challenge — Summary of Results

- Making Sense of Microposts (#Microposts2015) Named Entity rEcognition and Linking (NEEL) Challenge 44-53
  Giuseppe Rizzo, Amparo Elizabeth Cano Basave, Bianca Pereira, Andrea Varga

### Section IVa: NEEL Challenge Submissions I

- An End-to-End Entity Linking Approach for Tweets 55-56
  Ikuya Yamada, Hideaki Takeda, Yoshiyasu Takefuji
- Entity Recognition and Linking on Tweets with Random Walks 57-58
  Zhaochen Guo, Denilson Barbosa
- Combining Multiple Signals for Semanticizing Tweets: University of Amsterdam at #Microposts2015 59-60
  Cristina Gârbacea, Daan Odijk, David Graus, Isaac Sijaranamual, Maarten de Rijke

### Section IVb: NEEL Challenge Submissions II — Posters

- UNIBA: Exploiting a Distributional Semantic Model for Disambiguating and Linking Entities in Tweets 62-62
  Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Giovanni Semeraro, Fedelucio Narducci
- AMRITA — CEN@NEEL: Identification and Linking of Twitter Entities 64-65
  Barathi Ganesh H B, Abinaya N, Anand Kumar M, Vinaykumar R, Soman K P
- Named Entity Extraction and Linking in #Microposts 66-67
  Priyanka Sinha, Biswanath Barik

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