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# #MSM2011
Making Sense of Microposts 2011

### Proceedings of the ESWC2011 Workshop on 'Making Sense of Microposts': Big things come in small packages

#### co-located with the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC2011

### Heraklion, Crete, May 30, 2011.

Edited by

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

* The Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton-Keynes, England, UK
** Hypios & Université Paris-Sorbonne, France
*** The Oak Group, The University of Sheffield, England, UK
**** Durham Business School, The University of Durham, England, UK

## Table of Contents

- Preface

### Section I: Information Diffusion and Influence

1. Citation Analysis in Twitter: Approaches for Defining and Measuring Information Flows within Tweets during Scientific Conferences 1-12
   Katrin Weller, Evelyn Dröge, Cornelius Puschmann
2. Making Sense of Location-based Micro-posts Using Stream Reasoning 13-18
   Irene Celino, Daniele Dell'Aglio, Emanuele Della Valle, Yi Huang, Tony Lee, Stanley Park, Volker Tresp
3. DEMO: Polemical Video Annotation by Twitter 19-21
   Samuel Huron, Yves-Marie Haussonne, Alexandre Monnin, Yves-Marie L'hour

### Section II: Entity Extraction and Semantics

4. Extracting Semantic Entities and Events from Sports Tweets 22-32
   Smitashree Choudhury, John Breslin
5. Follow Me: Capturing Entity-Based Semantics Emerging from Personal Awareness Streams 33-44
   Amparo E. Cano, Simon Tucker, Fabio Ciravegna
6. Does Size Matter? When Small is Good Enough 45-56
   Anna Lisa Gentile, Amparo Elizabeth Cano Basave, Aba-Sah Dadzie, Vitaveska Lanfranchi, Neil Ireson
7. Discovering the Dynamics of Terms' Semantic Relatedness through Twitter 57-68
   Nikola Milikic, Jelena Jovanovic, Milan Stankovic

### Section III: Politics and Sentiment

8. The Pragmatics of Political Messages in Twitter Communication 69-80
   Jurģis Šķilters, Monika Kreile, Uldis Bojārs, Inta Brikše, Jānis Pencis, Laura Uzule
9. Automatic Detection of Political Opinions in Tweets 81-92
   Diana Maynard, Adam Funk
10. A New ANEW: Evaluation of a Word List for Sentiment Analysis in Microblogs 93-98
    Finn Årup Nielsen

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06-May-2011: submitted by Aba-Sah Dadzie
10-May-2011: published on CEUR-WS.org