ICWSM 2010 - 4th Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media ICWSM 2010

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Category ICWSM 2010

Deadline: January 10, 2010 | Date: May 23, 2010

Venue/Country: Washington, U.S.A

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

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 icwsm10aaai.org. More details about the CFP and the conference will appear on the website over time.

INVITED SPEAKERS

Michael Kearns, Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania

Behavioral Experiments in Strategic Networks

Professor Bob Kraut, Carnegie Mellon Universirty

Designing Online Communities from Theory

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

Sponsorship Chair

Matthew Hurst, Microsoft

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, Telligent Systems, USA