Final call for papers: ICWSM 2009 (3rd Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media)
William Cohen
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3rd Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
May 17-20, 2009, San Jose, California
http://www.icwsm.org/2009/
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Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI)
The social and community driven aspects of our digital lives continue
to rapidly increase, resulting in transformative behaviours and,
significantly, publishing and distributing huge amounts of fascinating
data. The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media will
meet once more in 2009 to discuss the latest research analyzing and
leveraging this resource. As with previous meetings, we will bring
together a wide range of researchers and industry practitioners from
many disciplines providing a unique opportunity for sharing ideas and
collaboration in this space.
AREAS OF INTEREST
Disciplines which are relevant to our meeting include computer
science, linguistics, psychology, statistics, sociology, multimedia
and semantic web technologies. The following are key areas of
interest:
[01] Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of social media;
[02] Analyzing relationship between social media and mainstream media;
[03] Centrality/influence of social media publications and authors
both within genres and between genres of data;
[04] Ranking/relevance of blogs; web page ranking based on blogs;
[05] Data acquisition: crawling/spidering and indexing;
[06] Human computer interaction; social media tools; navigation and
visualization;
[07] Multimedia: tools and techniques for distribution, sharing, and
analysis of social activity with/around multimedia;
[08] Semantic analysis; cross-system and cross-media name tracking;
named relations and fact extraction; discourse analysis;
summarization;
[09] Semantic Web; unstructured knowledge management; collaborative
creation of structured knowledge;
[10] Subjectivity in textual data; sentiment analysis;
polarity/opinion identification and extraction;
[11] Social network analysis; communities identification; expertise
and authority discovery; collaborative filtering;
[12] Text categorization; topic recognition; demographic/gender/age
identification;
[13] Trend identification and tracking; time series forecasting;
measuring predictability of phenomena based on social media;
[14] New social media applications; interfaces; interaction techniques;
[15] Trust; reputation; recommendation systems.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper/Poster/Demo Submission: January 21, 2009
Paper/Poster/Demo Acceptance: February 27, 2009
Workshop Submission: March 1, 2009
Camera Ready Copies: March 10, 2009
Tutorials: May 17, 2009
Conference: May 18-20, 2009
SUBMISSION
People interested in participating should submit through the ICWSM-09
website a technical paper (up to 8 pages), poster or demo description
(up to 2 pages) by the deadlines given above (Midnight PST). Papers
must be must be formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style (see
the AAAI author instructions page at
http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php). Authors must
register at the ICWSM-09 technical paper submission web site
http://icwsm-09.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.
SUBMISSIONS TO OTHER CONFERENCES OR JOURNALS
ICWSM-09 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 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. In
addition, the registered author must attend the conference to present
the paper in person.
PUBLICATION
All accepted papers and abstracts will be allocated eight (8) pages in
the conference proceedings. Authors will be required to transfer
copyright of their paper to AAAI.
DATA CHALLENGE
Continuing the tradition of previous years, ICWSM 2009 is making a new
dataset available to researchers. The ICWSM-2009 dataset contains 44
million blog posts made between August 1st and October 1st, 2008. The
organizers of ICWSM-2009 especially encourage submissions that make
use of this data. A special "data challenge workshop" will be held on
May 20th (the last day of ICWSM-2009) for shorter, more focused,
and/or late-breaking papers that use this ICWSM-2009 dataset; the
deadline for data challenge workshop papers is March 1st.
AWARDS
Awards will be presented at the conference for:
* Best conference paper.
* Best student paper.
* Best paper using the dataset. Please see
http://www.icwsm.org/2009/data/ for more details.
TUTORIAL SPEAKERS
We expect to have two or three tutorials. Tutorial speakers be
announced later on.
INVITED SPEAKERS
* Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University, USA
* Lillian Lee, Cornell University, USA
* Duncan Watts, Columbia University, USA and Yahoo! Research
GENERAL CHAIRS
* William W. Cohen, Carnegie Mellon/Google
* Nicolas Nicolov, J.D.Power and Associates, McGraw-Hill
PROGRAM CHAIRS
* Natalie Glance, Google
* Matthew Hurst, Live Labs, Microsoft
DATA CHAIRS
* Ian Soboroff, NIST
* Akshay Java, UMBC
LOCAL CHAIR
* Cameron Marlow, Facebook
TUTORIALS CHAIR
* Chris Diehl, Johns Hopkins University
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Lada Adamic, University of Michigan, USA
* Eugene Agichtein, Emory University, USA
* Navot Akiva, Pudding Media, Israel
* Noor Ali-Hasan, Microsoft, USA
* Bettina Berendt, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Germany
* Chris Brooks, University of San Francisco, USA
* Claire Cardie, Cornell University, USA
* Steve Cayzer, HP Labs, UK
* Lili Cheng, Microsoft, USA
* Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* Thierry Declerck, DFKI GmbH, Germany
* Brian Dennis, Lockheed Martin Corporation, USA
* Chris Diehl, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA
* Joan Morris DiMicco, IBM Research, USA
* Nathan Eagle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
* Miriam Eckert, J.D. Power and Associates, McGraw-Hill, USA
* Raymond Elferink, RayCom B.V., The Netherlands
* Donghui Feng, AT&T Interactive, USA
* Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA
* Andrew Fiore, University of California, Berkeley, USA
* Michael Gamon, Microsoft, USA
* Kathy E Gill, University of Washington, USA
* Scott Golder, Cornell University, USA
* Sam Gosling, University of Texas, USA
* Marko Grobelnik, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia
* Michelle Gumbrecht, Palo Alto Research Center, USA
* John Henderson, MITRE, USA
* Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA
* Steliana Ivanova, Umbria Inc., USA
* Heng Ji, The City University of New York, USA
* Anupam Joshi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
* Jussi Karlgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
* Jason Kessler, Indiana University, USA
* Laura Knudsen, OSC, USA
* Pranam Kolari, Yahoo!, USA
* Christian Konig, Microsoft, USA
* Moshe Koppel, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
* Gueorgi Kossinets, Google, USA
* Andrea La Pietra, University of California, Berkeley, USA
* Thomas Lento, Facebook, USA
* Kristina Lerman, University of Southern California, USA
* Jure Leskovec, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
* Suresh Manandhar, Univ. of York, UK
* Naohiro Matsumura, Osaka University, Japan
* Charles Mi, Opinmind, USA
* Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, USA
* Gilad Mishne, Yahoo!, USA
* Paola Monachesi, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
* Mor Naaman, Rutgers University, USA
* Kate Niederhoffer, Nielsen, USA
* Scott Nowson, Appen, Australia
* Manabu Okumura, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
* Livia Polanyi, Powerset/Microsoft, USA
* John Prager, IBM Research, USA
* Stephan Raaijmakers, TNO ICT, The Netherlands
* Drago Radev, University of Michigan, USA
* Laura Ripamonti, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
* Franco Salvetti, Powerset/Microsoft, USA
* Tamas Sarlos, Yahoo!, USA
* Jonathan Schler, Peer39, Israel
* David A. Shamma, Yahoo! Research, USA
* James G. Shanahan, USA
* Xiaolin Shi, University of Michigan, USA
* Sanjay Sood, allvoices, USA
* Ellen Spertus, Google and Mills College, USA
* Siddharth Suri, Yahoo!, USA
* Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
* Zeynep Tufekci, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA
* Jiang Yang, University of Michigan, USA
* Cheng Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
* Jun Zhang, University of Michigan, USA
* Ding Zhou, Facebook, USA
For general information regarding ICWSM-09, please write to:
icwsm09 (at) aaai (dot) org
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William W. Cohen
wco...@cs.cmu.edu
http://www.wcohen.com
Associate Research Professor
Machine Learning Department, CMU
June 2008-2009: on sabbatical at Google