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Report on the Second Workshop on Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness (SMERP 2018) at the Web Conference (WWW) 2018

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The Second Workshop on Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness (SMERP) was held in conjunction with The Web Conference (WWW) 2018 at Lyon, France. A primary aim of the workshop was to promote multi-modal and multi-view information retrieval from the social media content in disaster situations. The workshop programme included keynote talks, a peer-reviewed paper track, and a panel discussion on the relevant research problems in the scope of the workshop.

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  • (2023)Workshop On Large Language Models' Interpretability and Trustworthiness (LLMIT)Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management10.1145/3583780.3615311(5290-5293)Online publication date: 21-Oct-2023

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cover image ACM SIGIR Forum
ACM SIGIR Forum  Volume 52, Issue 2
December 2018
177 pages
ISSN:0163-5840
DOI:10.1145/3308774
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Published: 17 January 2019
Published in SIGIR Volume 52, Issue 2

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  • (2023)Workshop On Large Language Models' Interpretability and Trustworthiness (LLMIT)Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management10.1145/3583780.3615311(5290-5293)Online publication date: 21-Oct-2023

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