CFP: Third International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-2009)
William Cohen
Third International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-2009)
May 17-20, 2009
San Jose, California, U.S.A.
http://www.icwsm.org/2009
Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
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
Tutorial Proposals: December 1, 2009
Paper Submission: January 21, 2009
Poster/Demo Submission: January 21, 2009
Paper Acceptance: February 27, 2009
Poster/Demo Acceptance: February 27, 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
(available by November 15, 2008). 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
ICWSM-09 is planning to release a large blog dataset in conjunction
with the conference. This data will include the full content and
markup of the blog post as well as extracted text. The conference
invites researchers to explore the dataset and submit their findings
as technical papers. More information will appear soon on the
conference website.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AND TUTORIAL SPEAKERS
Traditionally the conference invites world renowned experts to present
tutorials and give keynote talks. These will be announced soon.
GENERAL CHAIRS
William W. Cohen, Carnegie Mellon/Google
Nicolas Nicolov, J.D.Power and Assoc., 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
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Lada Adamic, University of Michigan, USA
Navot Akiva, Pudding Media, Israel
Noor Ali-Hasan, Microsoft, USA
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 Assoc., McGraw-Hill, USA
Raymond Elferink, RayCom B.V., The Netherlands
Andrew Fiore, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Michael Gamon, Microsoft, USA
Kathy E Gill, University of Washington, USA
Scott Golder, Cornell University, 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
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
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
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, USA
Siddharth Suri, Yahoo!, USA
Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
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 icw...@aaai.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