3rd Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
May 17 - 20, 2009, San Jose, California
Full Papers | Poster Papers | Demonstrations | Data Challenge Workshop
Full Papers
17 : Community Structure and Information Flow in Usenet: Improving Analysis with a Thread Ownership ModelMary McGlohon, Matthew Hurst
18 : Modeling Blog Dynamics
Michaela Goetz, Jure Leskovec, Mary McGlohon, Christos Faloutsos
26 : RevRank: A Fully Unsupervised Algorithm for Selecting the Most Helpful Book Reviews
Oren Tsur, Ari Rappoport
32 : Stochastic Models of User-Contributory Web Sites
Tad Hogg, Kristina Lerman
34 : You Are Where You Edit: Locating Wikipedia Contributors through Edit Histories
Michael Lieberman, Jimmy Lin
57 : Content Based Recommendation and Summarization in the Blogosphere
Ahmed Hassan, Dragomir R. Radev, Junghoo Cho, Amruta Joshi
70 : Motivational, Structural and Tenure Factors that Impact Online Community Photo Sharing
Oded Nov, Mor Naaman, Chen Ye
74 : Personal Information Management vs. Resource Sharing: Towards a Model of Information Behavior in Social Tagging Systems
Markus Heckner, Michael Heilemann, Christian Wolff
81 : Does Showing Off Help to Make Friends? Experimenting a Sociological Game on Self-Exhibition and Social Networks
Dominique Cardon, Christophe Aguiton, Aymeric Castelain, Pierre Fremaux, Hélène Girard, Fabien Granjon, Charles Nepote, Zbigniew Smoreda, Dilara Trupia, Cezary Ziemlicki
86 : Diversity of User Activity and Content Quality in Online Communities
Tad Hogg, Gabor Szabo
90 : A Categorical Model for Discovering Latent Structure in Social Annotations
Said Kashoob, James Caverlee, Ying Ding
95 : Sidelines: An Algorithm for Increasing Diversity in News and Opinion Aggregators
Sean Munson, Daniel Xiaodan Zhou, Paul Resnick
100 : Targeting Sentiment Expressions through Supervised Ranking of Linguistic Configurations
Jason Kessler, Nicolas Nicolov
106 : Using Transactional Information to Predict Link Strength in Online Social Networks
Indika Kahanda, Jennifer Neville
114 : Seeking and Offering Expertise across Categories: A Sustainable Mechanism Works for Baidu Knows
Jiang Yang, Xiao Wei
128 : Spectrum: Retrieving Different Points of View from the Blogosphere
Jiahui Liu, Lawrence Birnbaum, Bryan Pardo
133 : Predicting Outcome for Collaborative Featured Article Nomination in Wikipedia
Meiqun Hu, Ee-Peng Lim, Ramayya Krishnan
134 : What Are They Blogging About? Personality, Topic and Motivation in Blogs
Alastair Gill, Scott Nowson, Jon Oberlander
137 : A Social Identity Approach to Identify Familiar Strangers in a Social Network
Nitin Agarwal, Huan Liu, Sudheendra Murthy, Arunabha Sen, Xufei Wang
147 : Gesundheit! Modeling Contagion through Facebook News Feed
Eric Sun, Itamar Rosenn, Cameron Marlow, Thomas Lento
150 : CourseRank: A Closed-Community Social System through the Magnifying Glass
Koutrika Georgia, Benjamin Bercovitz, Filip Kaliszan, Henry Liou, Hector Garcia-Molina
Poster Papers
11 : Event Detection and Tracking in Social StreamsHassan Sayyadi, Matthew Hurst, Alexey Maykov
13 : Blogging Together: An Examination of Group Blogs
Marti Hearst, Susan Dumais
19 : Optimal Heterophily for Word-of-Mouth Diffusion
Hikaru Yamamoto, Naohiro Matsumura
21 : Local Lexical Alignment in the Flickr Social Network
Alain Barrat, Ciro Cattuto
22 : Social Knowledge-Driven Music Hit Prediction
Kerstin Bischoff, Claudiu S. Firan, Mihai Georgescu, Wolfgang Nejdl, Raluca Paiu
23 : Who Do You Follow? Exploring Social Capital in the Brazilian Twittersphere
Raquel Recuero, Gabriela Zago
25 : High-level Features for Learning Subjective Language across Domains
Dinko Lambov, Gael Dias, Veska Noncheva
31 : Identifying Differences in News Coverage between Cultural/Ethnic Groups
Charles Ward, Mikhail Bautin, Steven Skiena
33 : An Examination of Language Use in Online Dating Profiles
Meenakshi Nagarajan, Marti Hearst
39 : Analysis of Social Influence in Online Book Reviews
Patty Sakunkoo, Nathan Sakunkoo
40 : Characterization of FriendFeed - A Web-based Social Aggregation Service
Trinabh Gupta, Sanchit Garg, Mahanti Anirban, Niklas Carlsson, Martin Arlitt
44 : Dreamcatcher: Synthesizing the Cognitive Maps of Collectivities
Myriam Abramson
49 : A Comparative Analysis of Trust-Enhanced Recommenders for Controversial Items
Patricia Victor, Chris Cornelis, Martine De Cock, Ankur Teredesai
50 : Characterizing the Portuguese Blogosphere
Telmo Couto, Cristina Ribeiro, Sérgio Nunes
51 : The Evolution of Scientific Paper Title Networks
Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir R. Radev
55 : Collecting and Sharing Observations with Semantic Support
Sari Vainikainen, Antti Nummiaho, Asta Bäck, Timo Laakko
56 : Visualizing Cross-Lingual/Cross-Cultural Differences in Concerns in Multilingual Blogs
Hiroyuki Nakasaki, Mariko Kawaba, Sayuri Yamazaki, Takehito Utsuro, Tomohiro Fukuhara
58 : The Use of Weblogs in Spanish Mainstream Media
Bella Palomo, Koldo Meso
60 : Compositionality Principle in Recognition of Fine-Grained Emotions from Text
Alena Neviarouskaya, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka
61 : Self-Presentation of Personality during Online Profile Creation
Scott Counts, Kristin Stecher
63 : Large Scale Book Annotation with Social Tags
Sharon Givon, Victor Lavrenko
67 : The Distribution of Online Reputation: Audience and Influence of Musicians on MySpace
Jean-Samuel Beuscart, Thomas Couronne
72 : Connecting Corresponding Identities across Communities
Reza Zafarani, Huan Liu
77 : Trust Incident Account Model: Preliminary Indicators for Trust Rhetoric and Trust or Distrust in Blogs
Victoria Rubin
82 : Adaptive Weblog Post Filtering Based on User Browsing History
Ali Farahmand-Nejad, Sadegh Kharazmi, Shahabedin Bayati, Hassan Abolhassani
83 : From Episodes to Sagas: Understanding the News by Identifying Temporally Related Story Sequences
Ramnath Balasubramanyan, Frank Lin, William W. Cohen, Matthew Hurst, Noah A. Smith
84 : Network Analysis of an Emergent Massively Collaborative Creation Community: How Can People Create Videos Collaboratively without Collaboration?
Hamasaki Masahiro, Hideaki Takeda, Takuichi Nishimura
89 : Navigation Patterns from and to Social Media
Michael Gamon, Christian Konig
91 : Salsa: Leveraging Email to Create a Social Network for the Enterprise
Kristin Stecher, Scott Counts, Lili Cheng, Shane Williams, Andrzej Turski
96 : MakeMyPage: Social Media Meets Automatic Content Generation
Francisco Iacobelli, Kristian Hammond, Lawrence Birnbaum
98 : Information Cascades in the Blogosphere: A Look Behind the Curtain
Manos Papagelis, Nilesh Bansal, Nick Koudas
101 : Connecting Users with Similar Interests Across Multiple Web Services
Haewoon Kwak, Hwa-Yong Shin, Jong-Il Yoon, Sue Moon
102 : Information Diffusion in Computer Science Citation Networks
Xiaolin Shi, Belle Tseng, Lada Adamic
103 : Considering the Sources: Comparing Linking Patterns in Usenet and Blogs
Mary McGlohon, Matthew Hurst
105 : Blogs as Predictors of Movie Success
Eldar Sadikov, Aditya Parameswaran, Petros Venetis
107 : Finding Opinionated Blogs Using Statistical Classifiers and Lexical Features
Feifan Liu, Bin Li, Yang Liu
110 : Is Your Profile Picture Worth 1000 Words? Photo Characteristics Associated with Personality Impression Agreement
Fitzgerald Steele, Jr., David Evans, Rachel Green
113 : Distinguishing Knowledge vs Social Capital in Social Media with Roles and Context
Vladimir Barash, Marc Smith, Lise Getoor, Howard Welser
115 : Delta TFIDF: An Improved Feature Space for Sentiment Analysis
Justin Martineau, Tim Finin
116 : JAM: Joint Action Matrix Factorization for Summarizing a Temporal Heterogeneous Social Network
Yu-Ru Lin, Hari Sundaram, Aisling Kelliher
117 : A Utility for Estimating the Relative Contributions of Wiki Authors
Ofer Arazy, Eleni Stroulia
118 : Predicting the Polarity Strength of Adjectives Using WordNet
Gbolahan K. Williams, Sarabjot Singh Anand
120 : Analyzing and Predicting Community Preference of Socially Generated Metadata: A Case Study on Comments in the Digg Community
Elham Khabiri, Chiao-Fang Hsu, James Caverlee
121 : Detecting Topic Drift with Compound Topic Models
Daniel Knights, Michael Mozer, Nicolas Nicolov
122 : I Think You Know Who I Am: Bloggers' Perceived Identifiability
Chyng-Yang Jang
123 : Regression-Based Summarization of Email Conversations
Jan Ulrich, Giuseppe Carenini, Gabriel Murray, Raymond Ng
124 : Leaders and Negotiators: An Influence-based Metric for Rank
Rumi Ghosh, Kristina Lerman
127 : Guanxi in the Chinese Web
Louis Yu, Valerie King, Yan Zhuang
129 : Emotionality in Text as Predictor of Behavior
Elliot Onn, Carey Morewedge
131 : Search in Social Tagging Systems Using Ontological User Profiles
Andriy Shepitsen, Noriko Tomuro
139 : Information Extraction as Link Prediction: Using Curated Citation Networks to Improve Gene Detection
Andrew Arnold, William W. Cohen
140 : Stylometric Analysis of Bloggers' Age and Gender
Goswami Sumit, Sudeshna Sarkar, Mayur Rustagi
144 : User Evaluation of a System for Classifying and Displaying Political Viewpoints of Weblogs
Alice Oh, Hyunjong Lee, Youngmin Kim
152 : Contextuality and Beyond: Investigating an Online Diary Corpus
Laura Teddiman
Demonstrations
12 : Gephi: An Open Source Software for Exploring and Manipulating NetworksMathieu Bastian, Sebastian Heymann, Mathieu Jacomy
66 : From Generating to Mining: Automatically Scripting Conversations Using Existing Online Sources
Nathan Nichols, Lisa Gandy, Kristian Hammond
69 : BlogTrackers: A Tool for Sociologists to Track and Analyze Blogosphere
Nitin Agarwal, Shamanth Kumar, Huan Liu, Mark Woodward
75 : Attentio Brand Maps
Frizo Janssens
87 : Open Domain Collaborative Storytelling With Say Anything
Reid Swanson, Andrew Gordon
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