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William W. Cohen
Carnegie Mellon/Google
Nicolas Nicolov
J.D.Power and Associates, McGraw-Hill

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Natalie Glance
Google Inc
Matthew Hurst
Live Labs, Microsoft

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Ian Soboroff
NIST
Akshay Java
Live Labs, Microsoft

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Kathy Gill
University of Washington

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Cameron Marlow
Facebook

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Chris Diehl
Johns Hopkins University

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3rd Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

May 17 - 20, 2009, San Jose, California

Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.


Call for papers - 2009


Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

The social and community driven aspects of our digital lives continue to rapidly increase, resulting in transformative behaviours and, significantly, publishing and distributing huge amounts of fascinating data. The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media will meet once more in 2009 to discuss the latest research analyzing and leveraging this resource. As with previous meetings, we will bring together a wide range of researchers and industry practitioners from many disciplines providing a unique opportunity for sharing ideas and collaboration in this space.

AREAS OF INTEREST
Disciplines which are relevant to our meeting include computer science, linguistics, psychology, statistics, sociology, multimedia and semantic web technologies. The following are key areas of interest:
[01] Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of social media
[02] Analyzing relationship between social media and mainstream media
[03] Centrality/influence of social media publications and authors both within genres and between genres of data
[04] Ranking/relevance of blogs; web page ranking based on blogs
[05] Data acquisition: crawling/spidering and indexing
[06] Human computer interaction; social media tools; navigation and visualization
[07] Multimedia: tools and techniques for distribution, sharing, and analysis of social activity with/around multimedia.
[08] Semantic analysis; cross-system and cross-media name tracking; named relations and fact extraction; discourse analysis; summarization
[09] Semantic Web; unstructured knowledge management; collaborative creation of structured knowledge
[10] Subjectivity in textual data; sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion identification and extraction
[11] Social network analysis; communities identification; expertise and authority discovery; collaborative filtering
[12] Text categorization; topic recognition; demographic/gender/age identification
[13] Trend identification and tracking; time series forecasting; measuring predictability of phenomena based on social media
[14] New social media applications; interfaces; interaction techniques
[15] Trust; reputation; recommendation systems

IMPORTANT DATES
Tutorial Proposals: December 1, 2008
Paper Submission: January 21, 2009
Poster/Demo Submission: January 21, 2009
Paper Acceptance: February 27, 2009
Poster/Demo Acceptance: February 27, 2009
Workshop Submission: March 1, 2009
Camera Ready Copies: March 10, 2009
Tutorials: May 17, 2009
Conference: May 18-20, 2009

SUBMISSION
People interested in participating should submit through the ICWSM-09 website a technical paper (up to 8 pages), poster or demo description (up to 2 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). Authors must register at the ICWSM-09 technical paper submission web site http://icwsm-09.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.

Submissions to Other Conferences or Journals
ICWSM-09 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
Continuing the tradition of previous years, ICWSM 2009 is making a new dataset available to researchers. The ICWSM-2009 dataset contains 44 million blog posts made between August 1st and October 1st, 2008. The organizers of ICWSM-2009 especially encourage submissions that make use of this data. A special "data challenge workshop" will be held on May 20th (the last day of ICWSM-2009) for shorter, more focused, and/or late-breaking papers that use this ICWSM-2009 dataset; the deadline for data challenge workshop papers is March 1st.

AWARDS
Awards will be presented at the conference for: Please see http://www.icwsm.org/2009/data/ for more details.

TUTORIAL SPEAKERS
We expect to have two or three tutorials. Tutorial speakers be announced later on.

INVITED SPEAKERS

General Chairs
Program Chairs Data Chairs Local Chair Tutorials Chair Program Committee For general information regarding ICWSM-09, please write to icwsm09@aaai.org.





Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. For more info: icwsm09@aaai.org