Association for Computing Machinery

26th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, 1-4 September 2015
Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus




Conference Program


Time Event
09:00 - 10:30 Keynote: Barry Smyth
"From Small Sensors to Big Data: How the Sensor Web is Changing our World"
Place: Amphi 2, Culture and Convention Center
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Session 4
Chair: Jana Diesner, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA
  • Sara Salehi, Jia Tina Du and Helen Ashman "Examining Personalization in Academic Web Search" [Long paper]
  • Valentina Beretta, Daniele Maccagnola, Timothy Cribbin and Enza Messina "An Interactive Method for Inferring Demographic Attributes in Twitter" [Long paper]
  • Fred Morstatter, Jürgen Pfeffer, Katja Mayer and Huan Liu "Text, Topics, and Turkers: A Consensus Measure for Statistical Topics" [Long paper]
  • Alexander Dallmann, Florian Lemmerich, Daniel Zoller and Andreas Hotho "Media bias in German online newspapers" [Short paper]
Place: Amphi 2, Culture and Convention Center
12:30 - 14:30 Poster Madness (Poster/Demo and Late Breaking Results) and Lunch
Place: Foyer Area, Culture and Convention Center
14:30 - 15:30 Session 5
Chair: Jacco Van Ossenbruggen, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) and VU University, The Netherlands
  • Acar Tamersoy, Munmun De Choudhury and Duen Horng Chau "Characterizing Smoking and Drinking Abstinence from Social Media" [Long paper]
  • Nugroho Dwi Prasetyo and Claudia Hauff "Twitter-based election prediction in the developing world" [Long paper]
  • Ruth Garcia, Diego Gomez, Denis Parra, Christoph Trattner, Andreas Kaltenbrunner and Eduardo Graells-Garrido "Language, Twitter and Academic Conferences" [Short paper]
Place: Amphi 2, Culture and Convention Center
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30 Session 6
Chair: Charlie Hargood, University of Southampton, UK
  • Eduardo Graells-Garrido, Mounia Lalmas and Filippo Menczer "First Women, Second Sex: Gender Bias in Wikipedia" [Long paper]
  • Imrul Kayes, Nicolas Kourtellis, Daniele Quercia, Adriana Iamnitchi and Francesco Bonchi "Cultures in Community Question Answering" [Long paper]
  • Claudia Orellana-Rodriguez, Ernesto Diaz-Aviles and Wolfgang Nejdl. "Mining Affective Context in Short Films for Emotion-Aware Recommendation" [Long paper]
  • Tom Blount, David E. Millard and Mark J. Weal "An Investigation into the Use of Logical and Rhetorical Tactics within Eristic Argumentation on the Social Web" [Short paper]
Place: Amphi 2, Culture and Convention Center
17:30 - 23:00 Guided Tour of Kyrenia and Gala Dinner in Bellapais

Important Dates


13 March 2015: Workshops and Tutorials proposals deadline

23 March 2015: Workshops and Tutorials notifications

3 April 2015 10 April 2015: Main paper submission deadline

29 May 2015: Main paper notifications

12 June 2015 19 June 2015: Extended proceedings deadline

19 June 2015 8 July 2015: Camera ready deadline

30 June 2015: LBR deadline

10 July 2015: Extended proceedings and LBR notifications

22 July 2015: Extended proceedings and LBR camera ready deadline

1-4 September: Hypertext 2015 conference
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