The document summarizes the program for the DERIVE 2012 workshop on event detection, representation, and exploitation in the semantic web. The workshop goals are to bring together researchers in this area and continue discussions from the previous year's workshop. The program includes sessions on event detection, demonstrations and lightning talks, and event representation and visualization. It concludes with information about joining the DERIVE and COLD workshop crowds for drinks that evening.

1. DERIVE 2012
2nd Workshop on
Detection, Representation and Exploitation
of Events in the Semantic Web
Monday 12 November 2012
Marieke van Erp
Laura Hollink
Willem Robert van Hage
Raphaël Troncy
David A. Shamma

2. Willem Robert van Hage
David A. Shamma

3. WORKSHOP GOALS
• Bring together researchers working on event detection,
representation, and exploitation
• Continue on baselines set in DeRiVE 2011
• Discussions
• Twitter: #derive2012
• http://cli.gs/derive2012pad
• Build a community

4. PROGRAMME (1)
• Session 1 – Event Detection: 14:00 – 15:30
• 14:00 - 14:20: Automatic Classification and Relationship Extraction for Multi-
Lingual and Multi-Granular Events from Wikipedia Daniel Hienert, Dennis
Wegener and Heiko Paulheim.
• 14:20 - 14:40: Hyperlocal Event Extraction of Future Events Tobias Arrskog,
Peter Exner, Håkan Jonsson, Peter Norlander and Pierre Nugues.
• 14:40 - 15:00: Automatic Extraction of Soccer Game Events from Twitter
Guido van Oorschot, Marieke van Erp and Chris Dijkshoorn.
• 15:00 - 15:20: Harnessing Disagreement for Event Semantics Chris Welty and
Lora Aroyo

5. PROGRAMME (1I)
• Session 1I – Demo and lightning talks: 16:00 – 16:45
• 16:00 - 16:05: Events Extraction by Learning from Existing Linked Data Events Kia Teymourian, Abir Ayed and Adrian
Paschke.
• 16:05 - 16:10: Friends via Events Javier Paniagua, Ivan Tankoyeu and Fausto Giunchiglia.
• 16:10 - 16:15: Modeling and Reconciling Nightlife Events from Public Event Databases for the Automatic
Generation of Magazines Thomas Steiner, Ruben Verborgh, Raphael Troncy, Giuseppe Rizzo, José Luis Redondo Garcia,
Joaquim Gabarro and Rik Van De Walle.
• 16:15 - 16:20: “And the winner is…” – Representing awards on the Web of Data Alexandre Passant and Julien Plu.
• 16:20 - 16:25: Exploiting Computer Usage Events via Semantics and Tag Clouds Xingjian Zhang, Dezhao Song,
Sambhawa Priya, Yang Yu and Jeff Heflin.
• 16:25 - 16:30: Tracking Movements and Attention of Crowds in Real Time Analysing Social Streams. The case of
the Opening Ceremony of London 2012 Marco Balduini and Emanuele Della Valle
• 16:30 - 16:45: Discussion

6. PROGRAMME (III)
• Session 3 – Event Representation and Visualisation: 16:50 – 18:00
• 16:50 - 17:10: Using Syntactic Dependencies and WordNet Classes for
Noun Event Recognition Yoonjae Jeong and Sung-Hyon Myaeng.
• 17:10 - 17:30: Bringing Parliamentary Debates to the Semantic
Web Damir Juric, Laura Hollink and Geert-Jan Houben.
• 17:30 - 17:50: Making Sense of the Arab Revolution and Occupy: Visual
Analytics to Understand Events Thomas Ploeger, Bibiana Armenta, Lora
Aroyo, Frank de Bakker and Iina Hellsten.
• 17:50 - 18:00: Closing

7. DERIVE + LOD
• Drinks tonight with the COLD Workshop crowd
• RSVP at: http://cold2012linkeddatagathering.eventbrite.com/

8. ENJOY!