Program - Confernce Template 2525

Workshop Program (Times are East Coast Time):

Platform: Zoom (with the Zoom invitation in your registered email)

9:30am

A/V media check for presenters

10:00am

Workshop official start: Introduction to the Workshop

10:10am	Keynote: Information Surgeon
	Heng Ji, University of Illinois

11:00am

Break

11:10am	Contributed Paper Session: Twitter Data Analysis
	Hao Sha, Mohammad Al Hasan, George Mohler and P. Jeffrey Brantingham.
	Dynamic Topic Modeling of the COVID-19 Pandemic Twitter Narrative Among U.S. Governors and Cabinet Executives

	Allison Koenecke and Jordi Feliu-Fabà.
	Learning Twitter User Sentiments on Climate Change with Limited Labeled Data

12:00pm

Lunch Break

1:00pm	Panel: Operational Value of Narrative Research
	Bill Casebeer, Scientific Systems Company, Inc. Brian Kettler, DARPA Edward Palazzolo, Army Research Office Jonathan Pfautz, Leidos

2:00pm

Break

2:10pm	Contributed Paper Session: Narrative and Aspect Detection
	Mack Blackburn, Ning Yu, Alex Memory and Graham Mueller.
	Detecting and Annotating Narratives in Social Media: A Vision Paper

	Francielle Alves Vargas and Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo.
	Linguistic Rules for Fine-grained Opinion Extraction

3:00pm

Break

3:10pm

Open Discussion: Top 10 Future Challenges in Social Sensing

3:50pm

Final Comments

4:00pm

Adjourn