Workshop Presentation in Germany

Posted on 05 October 2013

Last week I visited Karlsruhe, in Germany, to give a presentation accompanying a recently-accepted paper. The paper, "Inferring the Interesting Tweets in Your Network", was in the proceedings of the Workshop on Analyzing Social Media for the Benefit of Society (Society 2.0 [1]), which was part of the Third International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications (SCA [2]).

Although I only attended the first workshop day, there was a variety of interesting talks on social media and crowdsourcing. My own talk went well and there was some useful feedback from the attendees.

I presented my recent work on the use of machine learning techniques to help in identifying interesting information in Twitter. I rounded up some of the results from the Twinterest experiment we ran a few months ago and discussed how this helped address the notion of information _relevance_ as an extension to global _interestingness_.

I hadn't been to Germany before this, so it was also a culturally-interesting visit. I was only there for two nights but I tried to make the most of seeing some of Karlsruhe and enjoying the traditional food and local beers!