[Corpora-List] CFP: Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM'08)

Thu Nov 1 19:07:40 UTC 2007

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CFP: 2nd Int. Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM'08)

March 31 -- April 2 2008
Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.

http://www.icwsm.org/2008/
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CALL FOR PAPERS
===============

The rapid creation and consumption of social media content continues to
drive the evolution of the Internet and the Web. Social media content
now accounts for the majority of content published daily on the web.

As the space evolves, researcher and industrial practitioners find
themselves at a key point for collaborating on research, implementation
and deployment of a wide range of analyses and applications. The
International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media invites researchers
in the broad field of social media analysis to submit papers for its
second meeting. Following in the tradition of earlier workshops and the
first meeting in Boulder, USA in 2007, we anticipate an exciting, high
quality event which will bring together academic and industrial
practitioners to present and to discuss new research, applications,
thoughts and ideas that are shaping the future of social media analysis.

AREAS OF INTEREST
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The conference aims to bring together researchers from different subject
areas including computer science, linguistics, psychology, statistics,
sociology, multimedia and semantic web technologies and foster
discussions about ongoing research in the following areas:

[01] Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of social
media

[02] Analyzing relationship between social media and mainstream media

[03] Centrality/influence of bloggers/blogs; ranking/relevance of blogs;
web pages ranking based on blogs

[04] Data acquisition: crawling/spidering and indexing

[05] Human computer interaction; social media tools; navigation

[06] Multimedia; audio/visual processing; aggregating information from
different modalities

[07] Semantic analysis; cross-system and cross-media name tracking;
named relations and fact extraction; discourse analysis; summarization

[08] Semantic Web; unstructured knowledge management; collaborative
creation of structured knowledge

[09] Sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion identification and extraction

[10] Social network analysis; communities identification; expertise
discovery; collaborative filtering

[11] Text categorization; topic recognition; gender/age identification

[12] Time series forecasting; measuring predictability of phenomena
based on social media

[13] Trend identification/tracking

[14] Visualization

[15] New social media applications; interfaces; interaction techniques

[16] Trust; reputation; recommendation systems

INVITED SPEAKERS
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* Bernardo A. Huberman, HP Labs.
* David Sifry, Technorati.
* Brad Fitzpatrick, LiverJournal Founder.

TUTORIALS
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* Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis,
Jan Wiebe, University of Pittsburgh.

* Graph Mining Techniques for Social Media Analysis,
Mary McGlohon & Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University.

VENUE
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Hilton Hotel, Seattle, USA.

IMPORTANT DATES
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* Paper Submission: December 3, 2007
* Tutorial Proposals: December 3, 2007
* Poster/Demo Submission: January 6, 2007
* Paper Acceptance: February 1, 2008
* Poster/Demo Acceptance: February 8, 2008
* Camera Ready Copies: February 15, 2008
* Tutorials: 30 March, 2008
* Conference: 31 March, 2008 - 2 April, 2008

SUBMISSION
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People interested in participating should submit through the conference
website a technical paper (up to 8 pages), poster or demo description
(up to 2 pages) by the deadlines given above (Midnight PST). Each
submission should indicate a list of relevant areas from the list above.

CHAIRS
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* Eytan Adar, University of Washington
* Matthew Hurst, Microsoft Live Labs

CO-CHAIRS
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* Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
* Natalie Glance, Google
* Nicolas Nicolov, Umbria
* Belle Tseng, Yahoo

DEMO CHAIR
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* Franco Salvetti, Powerset Inc. & University of Colorado at Boulder

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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* Lada Adamic, University of Michigan, USA
* Navot Akiva, BuzzMetrics, USA
* Adam Arvidsson, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
* Michael Bauwens, P2P Foundation, Thailand
* Bettina Berendt, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
* Bran Boguraev, IBM T,J, Watson Research Center, USA
* John Breslin, DERI, National University of Ireland, Ireland
* Chris Brooks, Univ. of San Francisco, USA
* Scott Carter, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, USA
* Steve Cayzer, HP Labs Bristol, UK
* Kumar Chellapilla, Microsoft, USA
* Lili Cheng, Microsoft USA
* Thierry Declerck, DFKI Language Lab, Germany
* Brian Dennis, ISX Lab, Lockheed Martin ATL, USA
* Chris Diehl, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Lab, USA
* Raymond Elferink, RayCom B.V., The Netherlands
* Donghui Feng, ISI, Univ. of Southern California, USA
* Kathy Gill, Univ. of Washington, USA
* Scott Golder, HP Labs, USA
* Sam Gosling, Univ. of Texas, USA
* Mark Greaves, Vulcan Inc., USA
* Marko Grobelnik, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia
* Tom Gruber, RealTravel, USA
* Michelle Gumbrecht, Stanford Univ., USA
* John Henderson, MITRE, USA
* Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA
* Akshay Java, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
* Anupam Joshi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
* Jussi Karlgren, SICS, Sweden
* Laura Knudsen, OSC, USA
* Pranam Kolari, Yahoo!, USA
* Moshe Koppel, Bar-Ilan Univ., Israel
* Ravi Kumar, Yahoo! Research, USA
* Kristina Lerman, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA
* Jure Leskovec, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
* Cameron Marlow, Yahoo! Research, USA
* Lluis Marquez, Univ. Poli. de Catalunya, Spain
* Naohiro Matsumura, Osaka University, Japan
* Yutaka Matsuo, National Institute of AIST, Japan
* Rada Mihalcea, Univ. of North Texas, USA
* Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
* Gilad Mishne, Yahoo! USA
* Paola Monachesi, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
* Tomoyuki Nanno, Google, Japan
* Kate Niederhoffer, BuzzMetrics, USA
* Kamal Nigam, Google, USA
* Scott Nowson, Appen Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia
* Jon Oberlander, Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland
* Manabu Okumura, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
* Livia Polyani, Powerset, USA
* John Prager, IBM Research, USA
* Maarten de Rijke, Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* Laura Ripamonti, Univ. of Milan, Italy
* James G. Shanahan, Turn Inc., USA
* Carlo Strapparava, ITC-irst, Italy
* Jonathan Schler, BuzzMetrics, Israel
* V.S. Subrahmanian, Univ. of Maryland, USA
* Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
* Fernanda Viegas, IBM, USA
* Ansgar Zerfass, University of Leipzig, Germany
* Tong Zhang, Yahoo! Research, USA

SPONSORS
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* Microsoft Live Labs
* Klostu/BoardTracker
* Attentio
* BuzzLogic

ICWSM is endorsed by:

* IW3C2 (http://www.iw3c2.org)
* AAAI (http://www.aaai.org)

Best wishes
Nicolas
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Dr Nicolas Nicolov
Chief Scientist
Umbria Inc.
4888 Pearl East Circle, Suite 300W
Boulder, CO 80301, U.S.A.

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