<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dear colleagues,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">(Apologies for cross-posting.)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">We are pleased to announce </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">the special session on Machine Learning for Social Data Analytics (ML-SDA 2022) that will be held under the 14^th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2022) (<b>Core ranking: B</b>)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> on September 28^th to 30^th, 2022 in </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Hammamet, a beautiful Mediterranean town on the shores of Tunisia</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">You can find further information below.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">We appreciate it if you kindly forward this call to anyone who may be interested in submitting a proposal.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">ML-SDA 2022 chairs,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">-----------------------------------------------------------</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Submission Deadline: <b>Mar 15, 2022</b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">-----------------------------------------------------------</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">ML-SDA 2022</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;fo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ethods for:</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Sentiment and opinion mining</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Emotion detection</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Hate speech analysis</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Streaming data processing</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Multilingual content processing</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Hot Topic detection and tracking</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Abnormal and fake content identification</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Irony and sarcasm detection</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">User behavior modeling and prediction</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Link prediction</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Community detection</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Opinion evolution modeling</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Social influence modeling</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Influencer detection</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Popularity prediction</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">User Profiling from social data</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Recommendation systems using social data</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,240)">SUBMISSION:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">All contributions should be original and not published elsewhere or intended to be published during the review period. Authors are invited to submit their papers electronically in pdf format, through EasyChair. All the special sessions are centralized as tracks in the same conference management system as the regular papers. Therefore, to submit a paper please activate the following link and select the track: ML-SDA 2022: Special Session on Machine Learning for Social Data Analytics.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccci20220" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccci20220</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Authors are invited to submit original previously unpublished research papers written in English, of up to 13 pages, strictly following the LNCS/LNAI format guidelines. Authors can download the Latex (recommended) or Word templates available at Springer's website. Submissions not following the format guidelines will be rejected without review. To ensure high quality, all papers will be thoroughly reviewed by the ML-SDA 2022 Program Committee. All accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors who must register for the conference and pay the fee. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the prestigious series <b><span style="color:rgb(237,125,49)">LNCS/LNAI</span></b><span style="color:rgb(237,125,49)"> </span>(<span style="color:rgb(131,60,11)">indexed by ISI CPCI-S, included in ISI Web of Science, EI, ACM Digital Library, dblp, Google Scholar, Scopus, etc</span>.).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,240)">IMPORTANT DATES:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Submission Deadline: Mar 15, 2022</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Notification Due: Apr 15, 2022</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Final Version Due: May 1, 2022</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,240)"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,240)">SPECIAL SESSION CHAIRS:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Salma Jamoussi (University of Sfax, Tunisia)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Hanen Ameur (University of Sfax, Tunisia)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Hasna Njah (University of Gabes, Tunisia)</span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hasna NJAH, PhD</div><div>Computer Sciences - Datamining <br></div><div>Assistant Professor at Higher Institute of Computer Sciences and Multimedia of Gabes</div><div>University of Gabes - Tunisia</div><div>Member at Multimedia, InfoRmation Systems and Advanced Computing Laboratory (MIRACL) - Tunisia</div><div><u><a href="http://www.miracl.rnu.tn" target="_blank">www.miracl.rnu.tn</a></u></div><div><a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0050-7173" target="_blank">http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0050-7173</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>