[Corpora-List] CFP: Social Media (submissions due: 2010-01-08)

Thu Dec 10 21:17:19 UTC 2009

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			   CALL FOR PAPERS

4th Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
http://www.icwsm.org
May 23-26, 2010

George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial
Intelligence
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The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media is a unique
forum 
that brings together researchers from the disciplines in computer
science, 
linguistics, communication, and the social sciences. The broad goal of 
ICWSM is to increase understanding of social media in all its
incarnations. 
Submissions describing research that blends social science and
technology 
are especially encouraged.

The 2010 meeting will be held in Washington D.C.  In addition to the 
usual program of contributed technical talks, tutorials and invited 
presentations, ICWSM 2010 will include a session of invited talks from 
prominent social scientists that are studying social media, and a set of

talks from leaders of government projects who are experimenting with 
social media platforms for various purposes, e.g. to increase 
transparency and better engage the citizenry.

IMPORTANT DATES

- Paper submission: January 8, 2010
- Poster/demo submission: January 8, 2010
- Paper acceptance: March 3, 2010
- Poster/demo acceptance: March 3, 2010
- Workshop submission: March 1, 2010
- Camera ready copies: March 12, 2010

SPEAKERS

Keynote Speakers:

- Robert E. Kraut, Carnegie Mellon Universirty,
  "Designing Online Communities from Theory"

- Michael Kearns, Computer and Information Science, Univ. of
Pennsylvania,
  "Behavioral Experiments in Strategic Networks"

Speakers in Special Sessions:

- Nicole Ellison, Dept. of Telecommunication, Information Studies 
  and Media, Michigan State Univ.
- James Pennebaker, Dept. of Psychology, Univ. of Texas, Austin 
- S. Craig Watkins, Dept. of Radio, TV and Film, Univ. of Texas, Austin

- Don Burke, CIA Directorate of Science and Technology, Intellipedia 
- Haym Hirsh, National Science Foundation IIS Division Director
- Macon Phillips, U.S. White House, Head of New Media 

Tutorial Speakers will include:

- Jake Hofman, Yahoo! Research, 
  "Large-scale social media analytics with Hadoop"

- Cindy Chung and James Pennebaker, Univ. Texas, 
  "Using LIWC to uncover social psychology in social media"

TECHNICAL AREAS

More specifically, ICWSM welcomes submissions from researchers in a
number 
of disciplines:

- Computational Linguistics/NLP 
- Text Mining/Data Mining/Machine Learning
- Psychology 
- Sociology (including Social Network Analysis) 
- Anthropology, Communications, Media Studies 
- Visualization 
- HCI 
- Graph theory, concrete analysis and simulation of graphical models 

Submissions are welcome that study a broad array of types social data, 
including:

- Weblogs, including comments 
- Social Networking Sites 
- Microblogs 
- Wikis (wikipedia) 
- Forums, usenet 
- Community media sites: youtube, flickr 

Technical topics of interest include:

- Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of social
media 
- Analyzing the relationship between social media and mainstream media 
- Qualitative and quantitative studies of social media 
- Centrality/influence of social media publications and authors 
- Ranking/relevance of blogs; web page ranking based on blogs 
- Social network analysis; communities identification; 
  expertise and authority discovery; collaborative filtering 
- Trust; reputation; recommendation systems 
- Human computer interaction; social media tools; navigation and 
  visualization 
- Subjectivity in textual data; sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion 
  identification and extraction 
- Text categorization; topic recognition; demographic/gender/age 
  identification 
- Trend identification and tracking; time series forecasting; 
  measuring predictability of phenomena based on social media 
- New social media applications; interfaces; interaction techniques 

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Author registration:

Authors must register at the ICWSM-10 web-based technical paper 
submission site (http://icwsm10.confmaster.net). The software will
assign 
a password, which will enable the author to log on to submit an abstract

and paper. In order to avoid a rush at the last minute, authors are 
encouraged to register as soon as possible, and well in advance of 
the January 8, 2010 submission deadline.

Abstract and paper submission:

Electronic abstract and paper submission through the ICWSM-10 
paper submission site (http://icwsm10.confmaster.net) is required on or 
(preferably) before January 8. We cannot accept submissions by 
e-mail or fax.

Papers must be in high resolution PDF format, formatted for US Letter 
(8.5" x 11") paper, using Type 1 or TrueType fonts. Papers should be 
at most 8 pages, including references (technical paper), or 4 pages 
(poster or demo description), and formatted in AAAI two-column, 
camera-ready style (see the author instructions page). Please note 
that these formatting instructions are for final, accepted papers; 
no additional pages can be purchased at the review stage. In addition, 
the copyright slug may be omitted in the initial submission phase.

Authors will receive confirmation of receipt of their abstracts or 
papers, including an ID number, shortly after submission. 
AAAI will contact authors again only if problems are encountered 
with papers. Inquiries regarding lost papers must be made no later 
than January 15, 2010. 

Submissions to other conferences or journals:

ICWSM-10 will *not* accept any paper that, at the time of submission, 
is under review for or has already been published or accepted for 
publication in a journal or another conference. This restriction 
does not apply to submissions for workshops and other venues with 
a limited audience. 

Registration:

All accepted papers and extended abstracts will be published in the 
conference proceedings. At least one author must register for the 
conference by the deadline for camera-ready copy submission. 
The registered author must attend the conference to present 
the paper in person. 

PUBLICATION

All accepted papers and abstracts will be allocated up to 8 (eight) 
pages in the conference proceedings. Authors will be required to 
transfer copyright of their paper to AAAI. 

DATA CHALLENGE

ICWSM-10 is hosting its traditional data challenge featuring 
freely-available datasets and a half-day workshop at the end of 
the conference. Data for 2010 includes last year's blog collection 
from Spinn3r.com, multiple derived datasets including a searchable 
Lucene index, and an annotated blog sentiment dataset (mentions, 
coreference, meronymy and sentiment targeting) from 
J.D. Power and Associates described by Kessler and Nicolov at 
ICWSM-09. We are especially interested in mashups of multiple 
datasets. Details on datasets and solicited topics may be found 
on the data challenge website, http://www.icwsm.org/2010/data.shtml.  
Papers for the data challenge workshop are due March 1st, 2010 and 
should follow the ICWSM main conference formatting guidelines for 
technical papers (8 pages max in the specified format).

ORGANIZERS

General Chair:
  Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley School of Information 

Program Chairs:
  William Cohen, CMU Computer Science 
  Samuel Gosling, U Texas Dept of Psychology 

Data challenge chairs:
  Ian Soboroff, NIST
  Akshay Java, Microsoft

Tutorials Chair:
  Chris Diehl, Lawrence Livermore National Labs 

Publicity Chair:
  Nicolas Nicolov, J.D.Power and Associates/McGraw-Hill 

Sponsorship Chair:
  Matthew Hurst, Microsoft 

Senior Program Committee Members:

- Lada Adamic, Univ. of Michigan
- Eugene Agichtein, Emory Univ.
- danah boyd, Microsoft Research
- Claire Cardie, Cornell Univ.
- Kathleen Carley, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
- Cindy Chung, Univ. of Texas at Austin
- Scott Counts, Microsoft Research
- Chris Diehl, Lawrence Livermore National Labs
- Nicole Ellison, Dept of Telecommunication, Information Studies and
Media, 
  Michigan State University
- Tim Finin, UMBC
- Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Yahoo! Research
- Lise Getoor, Univ. of Maryland
- Kristina Lerman, ISI-USC
- Jure Leskovec, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
- Winter Mason, Yahoo! Research
- Gilad Mishne, Yahoo! Labs
- Kate Neiderhoffer, Dachis Corporation 
- Bo Pang, Yahoo! Research
- Marc Smith, Telligent Systems

CONTACT

For more info: icwsm10 at aaai.org

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Dr Nicolas Nicolov
Senior Director, Science
J.D. Power and Associates [McGraw-Hill company]
Web Intelligence Division
4888 Pearl East Circle, Suite 300W
Boulder, CO 80301, U.S.A.

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