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| # #Microposts2016 Making Sense of Microposts: Big things come in small packages

### Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on 'Making Sense of Microposts'
co-located with the 25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2016)

### Montréal, Canada, April 11, 2016.

Edited by

### Aba-Sah Dadzie *
Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro **
Danica Radovanović ***
Amparo E. Cano Basave ****
Katrin Weller *****

* Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, England, UK
** Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania, US
*** Basic Internet Foundation / UNIK, Oslo, Norway
**** Aston Business School, Aston University, England, UK
***** GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany

## Table of Contents

- Preface

### Invited Talk

- Leveraging Blogging Activity on Tumblr to Infer Demographics and Interests of Users for Advertising Purposes 2-11
  Mihajlo Grbovic, Vladan Radosavljevic, Nemanja Djuric, Narayan Bhamidipati, Ananth Nagarajan

### Section I: Main Research Track

- ClaimFinder: A Framework for Identifying Claims in Microblogs 13-20
  Wee Yong Lim, Mong Li Lee, Wynne Hsu
- Birds of a Feather Tweet Together: Computational Techniques to Understand User Communities in Social Networks 21-27
  David Burth Kurka, Alan Godoy, Fernando J. Von Zuben

### Section II: Computational Social Science Track

- Making Sense of Microposts (#Microposts2016) Social Sciences Track 29-32
  Katrin Weller, Aba-Sah Dadzie, Danica Radovanović

### Section IIa: SocSci Track Submissions I

- Comparing Social Media and Traditional Surveys around the Boston Marathon Bombing 34-41
  Cody Buntain, Erin McGrath, Jennifer Golbeck, Gary LaFree

### Section IIb: SocSci Track Submissions II – Posters

- Studying the Role of Elites in U.S. Political Twitter Debates 43-45
  Sebastian Stier
- CEOs on Twitter 46-48
  Alex Jeongwoo Oh, Pramuan Bunkanwanicha

### Section III: Named Entity rEcognition and Linking (NEEL) Challenge

- Making Sense of Microposts (#Microposts2016) Named Entity rEcognition and Linking (NEEL) Challenge 50-59
  Giuseppe Rizzo, Marieke van Erp, Julien Plu, Raphaël Troncy

### Section IIIa: NEEL Challenge Submissions I

- Named Entity Linking in #Tweets with KEA 61-63
  Jörg Waitelonis, Harald Sack
- Kanopy4Tweets: Entity Extraction and Linking for Twitter 64-66
  Pablo Torres-Tramón, Hugo Hromic, Brian Walsh, Bahareh R. Heravi, Conor Hayes
- A Reverse Approach to Named Entity Extraction and Linking in Microposts 67-69
  Kara Greenfield, Rajmonda Caceres, Michael Coury, Kelly Geyer, Youngjune Gwon, Jason Matterer, Alyssa Mensch, Cem Sahin, Olga Simek
- UniMiB: Entity Linking in Tweets using Jaro-Winkler Distance, Popularity and Coherence 70-72
  Davide Caliano, Elisabetta Fersini, Pikakshi Manchanda, Matteo Palmonari, Enza Messina

### Section IIIb: NEEL Challenge Submissions II – Posters

- Feature Based Approach to Named Entity Recognition and Linking for Tweets 74-76
  Souvick Ghosh, Promita Maitra, Dipankar Das

### Section IV: Late-Breaking Work

- Named Entity Recognition in 140 Characters or Less 78-79
  Kelly Geyer, Kara Greenfield, Alyssa Mensch, Olga Simek

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