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Marti Hearst
University of California, Berkeley

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William Cohen
Carnegie Mellon University
Samuel Gosling
Univ of Texas, Dept of Psychology

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

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Matthew Hurst
Microsoft

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Chris Diehl
Lawrence Livermore National Labs

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Ian Soboroff
NIST
Akshay Java
Microsoft

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Carnegie Mellon University


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

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

Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.


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:

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TOPICS INCLUDE
IMPORTANT DATES
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

AUTHOR REGISTRATION
Authors must register at the ICWSM-10 web-based technical paper submission site (http://icwsm10.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, and well in advance of the January 8 abstract deadline.

ABSTRACT AND PAPER SUBMISSION
Electronic abstract and paper submission through the ICWSM-10 paper submission site (http://icwsm10.confmaster.net) is required on or (preferably) before January 8. We cannot accept submissions by e-mail or fax.

Papers must be in trouble-free, high resolution PDF format, formatted for US Letter (8.5" x 11") paper, using Type 1 or TrueType fonts. Papers may be no longer than 8 pages, including references (technical paper), or 4 pages (poster or demo description), and formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style (see the author instructions page). Please note that these formatting instructions are for final, accepted papers; no additional pages can be purchased at the review stage. In addition, the copyright slug may be omitted in the initial submission phase.

Authors will receive confirmation of receipt of their abstracts or papers, including an ID number, shortly after submission. AAAI will contact authors again only if problems are encountered with papers. Inquiries regarding lost papers must be made no later than January 15, 2010.

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.

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 is hosting its traditional data challenge featuring freely-available datasets and a half-day workshop at the end of the conference. Data for 2010 includes last year's blog collection from Spinn3r.com, multiple derived datasets including a searchable Lucene index, and an annotated blog sentiment dataset from JDPA described by Kessler and Nicolov in ICWSM-09. We are especially interested in mashups of multiple datasets. Details on datasets and solicited topics may be found on the data challenge website, http://www.icwsm.org/2010/data.shtml. Papers for the data challenge workshop are due March 1st, 2010 and should follow the ICWSM main conference formatting guidelines for technical papers (8 pages max in the specified format).

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.

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

General Chair
Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley School of Information

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

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

Sponsorship Chair
Matthew Hurst, Microsoft

Tutorials Chair
Chris Diehl, Lawrence Livermore National Labs

Data Challenge Chairs
Ian Soboroff, NIST
Akshay Java, Microsoft

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
Niki Kittur, Carnegie Mellon University
Kristina Lerman, ISI-USC, USA
Jure Leskovec, Stanford, 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



Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. For more info: icwsm10@aaai.org