Hi everyone! Sharing the call for ICWSM-2024’s Tutorials Track! This is a great venue for tutorials at the intersection of NLP, Computational Social Science, Social Media Analysis, and Social Computing topics.
*Tutorial Submission Deadline*: January 26, 2024 *Tutorial Acceptance Notification*: February 9, 2024 *ICWSM-2024 Tutorial Day*: June 3, 2024 *Submit to*: tutorials@icwsm.org
ICWSM-2024 invites proposals for Tutorials Day at the 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). ICWSM-2024 is seeking proposals for tutorials on topics related to the computational analysis and understanding of social phenomena in the following formats:
- *Lecture-style*: Traditional tutorials to teach concepts, methodologies, tools, and software packages. Tutorials on novel and fast growing directions and significant applications are highly encouraged. The conference is paying particular attention to themes around new perspectives in social theories, as well as computational algorithms for analyzing new forms of social media. Lecture-style tutorials on these themes are highly encouraged. - *Hands-on*: Interactive, in-depth, hands-on training on cutting edge systems and tools (with a proven track record in the community), targeted at novice as well as moderately skilled users, with a focus on providing an engaging experience. The pace of the tutorial should be set such that beginners can follow along comfortably. - *Translation*: Tutorials that aim to translate concepts between disciplines. For example, such a tutorial could introduce social science concepts to computer scientists, or computational concepts to social scientists. Thus, these tutorials should be geared towards a beginner audience. - *Case study*: Focused tutorials that emphasize real world applications of ICWSM work. These tutorials should walk the audience through how research insights and tools were applied in practice. We welcome submissions from practitioners in industry, government, local communities, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in addition to academics. - *Free-style*: We also welcome proposals for creative and unconventional training sessions, such as hackathons, competitions/challenges, etc., as long as participants can learn practical skills and participate in an active way.
We welcome tutorials of various lengths (1, 2, 4, or up to 8 hours). We are looking for contributions from experts in both the social and computational sciences, in industry, academia, and beyond. For a list of tutorials from previous years, we encourage you to visit the tutorials page for 2018 https://www.icwsm.org/2018/program/tutorial/, 2019 http://www.icwsm.org/2019/program/tutorial/, 2020 https://www.icwsm.org/2020/index.html#tutorials_schedule, 2021 https://www.icwsm.org/2021/#tutorials_schedule, 2022 https://www.icwsm.org/2022/index.html/#tutorials-schedule, and 2023 https://icwsm.org/2023/index.html/#tutorials-schedule.
We especially encourage applications from first-time proposers and scholars with research communities beyond ICWSM. We also welcome tutorials on obtaining data from understudied platforms, the use of large language models (LLMs) for and their impact on computational social science and social computing, mixed methods approaches, and other topics of cutting-edge and enduring interest.
*Tutorial Proposal Content and Format* Proposals for tutorials should be no more than three (3) pages in length. Proposal submissions should include the following information:
- *Title*. A concise title. - *Abstract*. A short description (200 words) of the main objective of the tutorial, to be published on the main ICWSM website. - *Type*. The type of tutorial you are proposing: lecture-style, hands-on, translation, case study, or free-style. - *Names, affiliations, emails, and personal websites of the tutorial organizers*. A main contact author should be specified. A typical proposal should include no more than three presenters (more people can be involved in the organization). - *Duration*. A short timeline description of how you plan to break down the material over the proposed duration (1, 2, 4, or 8 hours). Please mention here the proposed duration, but keep in mind that the Tutorial Chairs might conditionally accept a proposal and suggest a different duration to best fit the organization of the whole event. - *Tutorial schedule and activities*. A description of the proposed tutorial format, a schedule of the proposed activities (e.g., presentations, interactive sessions) along with a *detailed* description for each of them. - *Target audience, prerequisites and outcomes*. A description of the target audience, the prerequisite skill set for the attendee (if any) as well as a brief list of goals for the tutors to accomplish by the end of the tutorial. - *Materials*. The organizers of accepted tutorials will be required to set up a web page containing all the information for the tutorial attendees before the tutorial day (roughly 2 weeks before the tutorial day). The proposal should contain the list of materials that will be made available on the website. - *Past precedent (when available)*. A list of other tutorials held previously at related conferences, if any, together with a brief statement on how the proposed tutorial relates to previous events. If the authors of the proposal have organized other tutorials in the past, pointers to the relevant material (e.g., slides, videos, web pages, code) should be provided. - *Additional info for hands-on tutorials*:
1. Operating system and required installed tools on attendees’ devices. 2. List of software licenses required for the tools. 3. Setup instructions for attendees. (The setup should not take more than 1 hour to complete.)
If you have questions on any of the submission requirements or for pre-submission feedback/questions, please reach out to the tutorial chairs (Joshua Uyheng, Indira Sen, and Carlos Toxtli) at the address tutorials@icwsm.org.
*Joshua Uyheng, Indira Sen, and Carlos Toxtli* (ICWSM-2024 Tutorial Chairs | tutorials@icwsm.org)