4th Int’l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2010)

4th Int’l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

May 23-26, 2010, George Washington University, Washington, DC

<!–center>http://www.icwsm.org/2009/<br–> Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.

Featuring a keynote by Professor Bob Kraut on “Designing Online Communities from Theory”

The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media is a unique venue that brings together researchers from the disciplines of NLP, Social Psychology, Data Mining, Sociology and Visualization to increase our understanding of social media in all its incarnations. Research that blends social science and technology is especially encouraged.

The 2010 meeting will be held in Washington DC, where government innovators are experimenting with the use of social media to increase transparency and better engage with the citizenry. The conference will take advantage of this venue to invite leaders from “The Goverati” to share their experiences in the use of social media.

The conference brings together researchers working in a number of disciplines with a broad array of social data:

DISCIPLINES

• Computational Linguistics/NLP
• Text Mining/Data Mining
• Psychology
• SNA, Sociology
• Visualization
• HCI
• Graph theory, concrete analysis and simulation of graphical models

MEDIA

• Weblogs, including comments
• Microblogs
• Wikis (wikipedia)
• Forums, usenet
• Community media sites: youtube, flickr

TOPICS INCLUDE

• Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of social media
• Analyzing the relationship between social media and mainstream 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

IMPORTANT DATES

Tutorial Proposals: December 1, 2009 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

SUBMISSION

People interested in participating should submit through the ICWSM-10 website a technical paper (up to 8 pages, not including references), poster or demo description (up to 4 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). Details for the submission procedure will appear at the conference website: http://icwsm.org

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 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-10 will once again hold a data challenge featuring a freely-available dataset and a half-day workshop at the conference. Details will be posted on the conference website.

CONFERENCE WEBSITE

www.icwsm.org

For general information regarding ICWSM-10, please write to icwsm10@aaai.org. More details about the CFP and the conference will appear on the website over time.

ORGANIZERS

Program Chairs:

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

General Chair

Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley School of Information

Publicity Chair

Nicolas Nicolov, J.D.Power and Associates, McGraw-Hill

Tutorials Chair

Chris Diehl, Lawrence Livermore National Labs

Senior Program Committee Members(Preliminary)

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