Marti Hearst

University of California, Berkeley

William Cohen

Carnegie Mellon University

Samuel Gosling

Univ of Texas, Dept of Psychology

Nicolas Nicolov

J.D.Power and Associates, McGraw-Hill

Matthew Hurst

Microsoft

Chris Diehl

Lawrence Livermore National Labs

Ian Soboroff

NIST

Akshay Java

Microsoft

Ramnath Balasubramanyan

Carnegie Mellon University

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:

• Computational Linguistics/NLP
• Text Mining/Data Mining
• Psychology
• Sociology (including Social Network Analysis)
• Anthropology, Communications, Media Studies
• Visualization
• HCI
• Graph theory, concrete analysis and simulation of graphical models

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

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

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


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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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


Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley School of Information

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

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

Matthew Hurst, Microsoft

Chris Diehl, Lawrence Livermore National Labs

Ian Soboroff, NIST
Akshay Java, Microsoft

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