[Corpora-List] Call For Participation: Social Media (Seattle, Mar 30-Apr 2, 2008)

[Nicolas Nicolov]

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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ICWSM 2008

2nd Annual International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

http://www.icwsm.org

March 30 -- April 2, 2008
Seattle, WA, USA

*** Advance registration until Fri, March 7 ***


The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media provides a
forum for researchers and industrial practitioners to present and to
discuss new research, applications, thoughts and ideas that are shaping
the future of social media analysis.  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 conference consists of a half day of tutorials (Sunday, March 30,
2008) and two and half days of an exciting technical program (Monday,
March 31 - April 2nd).  We will also be hosting two evening receptions
(Monday and Tuesday evenings).

We are also happy to announce tha for the first time, ICWSM will be
organized by AAAI.

Conference registration is now open at
http://www.icwsm.org/2008/registration.shtml

Thanks to our sponsors, we are able to support some travel support to
students and encourage students to submit an application.

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Tutorials
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* Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis
  Jan Wiebe, University of Pittsburgh

* Graph Mining Techniques for Social Media Analysis
  Mary McGlohon and Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University
  School of Computer Science

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Invited Speakers
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Bernardo Huberman, Senior Fellow, HP Labs Brad Fitzpatrick, LiveJournal
Founder David Sifry, Technorati Founder

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Technical Papers
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The following 20 full papers (25% acceptance) will be presented:

* Wikipedian Self-Governance in Action: Motivating the Policy Lens

* Link-PLSA-LDA: A new unsupervised model for topics and influence of
blogs

* Polling the Blogosphere: a Rule-Based Approach to Belief
Classification

* Document Representation and Query Expansion Models for Blog
Recommendation

* Space Planning for Online Community

* A Large-Scale Study of MySpace: Observations and Implications for
Online Social Networks

* Competing to Share Expertise: the Taskcn Knowledge Sharing Community

* What Elements of an Online Social Networking Profile Predict
Target-Rater Agreement in Personality?

* Exploring Social Media Scenarios for the Television

* Spontaneous Inference of Personality Traits from Online Profiles

* The Politics of Sourcing: A Study of Journalistic Practices in the
Blogosphere

* A Social Network Based Approach to Personalized Recommendation of
Participatory Media Content

* The Psychology of Word Use in Depression Forums in English and in
Spanish

* Thin Slices of Online Profile Attributes

* Recovering Implicit Thread Structure in Newsgroup Style Conversations

* On TREC Blog Track

* Wikipedia as an Ontology for Describing Documents

* BLEWS: Using Blogs to Provide Context for News Articles

* International Sentiment Analysis for News and Blogs

* Finding the Influencers and the Consumer Insights

An additional 35+ posters and demos will be presented at a poster
reception, more information at http://www.icwsm.org/2008/program.shtml

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Sponsors
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We are grateful for the generous support of our sponsors:

* Microsoft
* Google
* TNO
* Visible Technologies
* Nielsen Online
* Attentio
* SentiMetrix
* BuzzLogic
* Klostu
* VideoLectures.net

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Committee
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Chairs

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

Co-chairs

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






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

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