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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">IEEE VisWeek 2011 Workshop on Interactive Visual Text Analytics for Decision Making
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Website: <a href="http://vialab.science.uoit.ca/textvis2011/">
http://vialab.science.uoit.ca/textvis2011/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dates: October 23-28, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Location: Providence, RI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Analyzing text documents has become increasingly an important part of decision making in large corporations, small businesses, and households. This workshop will explore advanced research in the field of text visualization
and analytics and their applications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and industry practitioners interested in text visualization, text analytics, and visual analytics, to define the emerging fields of visual text analytics, and
to discuss ideas, techniques, and applications to support decision making in different domains.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Important Dates:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Papers Due: Sep 2, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Notification of Papers: Sep 16, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Final Papers Due: Sep 30, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Madness Participation Registration: Oct 10, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Topics:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We invite paper submissions that address any topic related to visual text analytics and application domains especially how interactive visual text analytics can facilitate decision making. Topics of interest include but
are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:宋体">·</span><span lang="EN-US"> Visual and interaction design for text analytics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:宋体">·</span><span lang="EN-US"> Visual representation, structure, metaphors for text<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:宋体">·</span><span lang="EN-US"> Perception and cognition in text visualizations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:宋体">·</span><span lang="EN-US"> Systems, languages, and architectures for text analytics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:宋体">·</span><span lang="EN-US"> Methodologies, processes for visual text analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:宋体">·</span><span lang="EN-US"> Collaborative analysis of text corpora<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:宋体">·</span><span lang="EN-US"> Real-time visualization of streaming text data
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:宋体">·</span><span lang="EN-US"> Visual text analytics in social media<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:宋体">·</span><span lang="EN-US"> Industry-specific applications of visual text analytics (e.g. Retail, Healthcare, Government, etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:宋体">·</span><span lang="EN-US"> Studies of analytic work on document collections<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:宋体">·</span><span lang="EN-US"> Evaluation of visualization techniques; Metrics and bench-marks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:宋体">·</span><span lang="EN-US"> Datasets and tasks for visual text analytics to facilitate decision making<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:宋体">·</span><span lang="EN-US"> Representations of uncertainty in text analytics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Submission:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We are looking for research and industry papers related to visual text analytics with a focus on facilitating human decision making. Papers are limited to 4 pages. A subset of the accepted papers will be invited for a
15 minute (plus 5 minutes for questions) oral presentation at the workshop. All other accepted papers will be presented as posters during the poster session. Papers must be formatted according to VisWeek format (see http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html).
Papers must be submitted by email to the conference organizers (eser@us.ibm.com) by September 2, 2011. Final versions of the papers are due September 30, 2011.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The program will also include a madness session at the beginning of the workshop to allow anyone attending the workshop to briefly introduce themselves, their work, and state their positions and goals related to the scope
of the workshop. If you are planning to attend the workshop you are welcome to send an email to conference organizers to ensure a slot in the madness session by Oct 10, 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For more information please visit the workshop web page at http://vialab.science.uoit.ca/textvis2011/, or send email to Eser Kandogan (eser@us.ibm.com)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Christopher Collins, Eser Kandogan, Michelle Zhou, and Shixia Liu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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