SocialSensor Data Challenge at SNOW Workshop

Are you a researcher specializing in social news and the web? Do you have an innovative idea, framework or methodology to extract useful information from big social streams of data? This is your opportunity to showcase your work and win 1000$ plus an iPad air as first prize.

SocialSensor is organizing a data challenge at SNOW, WWW 2014 workshop in Seoul, Korea. Our objective with this task is to explore novel and effective solutions. Your task is to mine the Twitter stream to automatically extract topics corresponding to known events (e.g., politics, sports, entertainment).

Prizes

First prize: 1000$ + iPad air

Second prize: Macbook air

Third prize: iPad air Find out more about important dates, evaluation criteria and submission details here

Find out more about evaluation criteria, important dates and submission details here