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.
Schedule
May 17th (Sun) ||
May 18th (Mon) ||
May 19th (Tue) ||
May 20th (Wed)
Pre-Conference Tutorials
Sunday, May 17, 2009
1:30 - 3:30 pm |
Tutorial 1: Predictive Modeling with Social Networks Jennifer Neville (Purdue University) and Foster Provost (New York University) |
3:30 - 4:00 pm | Break |
4:00 - 6:00 pm | Tutorial 2: The Psychology of Social Media Sam Gosling (University of Texas, Austin); Kate Niederhoffer (Dachis Corporation) |
Technical Program - Accepted Papers
Monday, May 18, 2009
8:45 - 9:00 am
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Opening Remarks
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9:00 - 10:00 am
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Invited Speaker: Lillian Lee, Cornell University
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10:00 - 10:30 am
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Break
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10:30 - 12:00 pm
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Community
Session Chair: Charles Mi
Gesundheit! Modeling Contagion Through Facebook News Feed [Best paper nominee] Eric Sun, Itamar Rosenn, Cameron Marlow, Thomas Lento
Seeking and Offering Expertise across Categories: A Sustainable Mechanism Works for Baidu Knows Jiang Yang, Xiao Wei
Community Structure and Information Flow in Usenet: Improving analysis with a thread ownership model Mary McGlohon, Matthew Hurst
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12:00 - 1:30 pm
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Lunch
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1:30 - 3:30 pm
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Psychology & Users
Session Chair: Andrew Gordon
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, Hèléne Girard, Fabien Granjon, Charles Nepote, Zbigniew Smoreda, Dilara Trupia, Cezary Ziemlicki
What are they blogging about? Personality, topic and motivation in blogs Alastair Gill, Scott Nowson, Jon Oberlander
A Social Identity Approach to Identify Familiar Strangers in a Social Network Nitin Agarwal, Huan Liu, Sudheendra Murthy, Arunabha Sen, Xufei Wang
You Are Where You Edit: Locating Wikipedia Contributors Through Edit Histories Michael Lieberman, Jimmy Lin
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3:30 - 4:00 pm
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Break
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4:00 - 5:30 pm
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Ranking
Session Chair: Jennifer Neville
CourseRank: A Closed-Community Social System through the Magnifying Glass [Best paper nominee] Koutrika Georgia, Benjamin Bercovitz, Filip Kaliszan, Henry Liou, Hector Garcia-Molina
Using Transactional Information to Predict Link Strength in Online Social Networks Indika Kahanda, Jennifer Neville
RevRank: a Fully Unsupervised Algorithm for Selecting the Most Helpful Book Reviews Oren Tsur, Ari Rappoport
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6:30 - 10:00 pm
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Reception at San Jose Tech Museum
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
8:45 - 9:00 am
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Opening Remarks
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9:00 - 10:00 am
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Invited Speaker: Duncan Watts, Columbia University and Yahoo! Resarch
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10:00 - 10:30 am
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Break
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10:30 - 12:00 pm
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Data Mining & Sentiment Analysis
Session Chair: James G. Shanahan
A Categorical Model for Discovering Latent Structure in Social Annotations Said Kashoob, James Caverlee, Ying Ding
Content Based Recommendation and Summarization in the Blogosphere Ahmed Hassan, Dragomir R. Radev, Junghoo Cho, Amruta Joshi
Supervised Ranking of Syntactic Configurations for Finding Targets of Sentiment Expressions Jason Kessler, Nicolas Nicolov
Cancelled - Predicting Outcome for Collaborative Featured Article Nomination in Wikipedia Meiqun Hu, Ee-Peng Lim, Ramayya Krishnan
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12:00 - 1:30 pm
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Lunch
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1:30 - 2:30 pm
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Panel Discussion
Moderator: Kathy E. Gill, University of Washington
System Design and Community Culture
The role of rules and algorithms in shaping human behavior
Panelists:
Lukas Biewald, Dolores Labs
Rashmi Sinha, Slideshare
Cameron Marlow, Facebook
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2:30 - 3:00 pm
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Break
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3:00 - 5:00 pm
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Modeling Social Dynamics
Session Chair: Marti Hearst
Stochastic Models of User-Contributory Web Sites Tad Hogg, Kristina Lerman
Personal Information Management vs. Resource Sharing: Towards a Model of Information Behavior in Social Tagging Systems Markus Heckner, Michael Heilemann, Christian Wolff
Motivational, Structural and Tenure Factors that Impact Online Community Photo Sharing [Best paper nominee] Oded Nov, Mor Naaman, Chen Ye
Modeling Blog Dynamics Michaela Goetz, Jure Leskovec, Mary McGlohon, Christos Faloutsos
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5:00 - 6:00 pm
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Poster Madness
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6:30 - 8:30 pm
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Poster Reception at the Marriott San Jose
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
8:45 - 9:00 am
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Opening Remarks
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9:00 - 10:00 am
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Invited Speaker: Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University, USA
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10:00 - 10:30 am
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Break
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10:30 - 12:00 pm
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Leveraging Diversity
Session Chair: Michael Gamon
Sidelines: An Algorithm for Increasing Diversity in News and Opinion Aggregators Sean Munson, Daniel Xiaodan Zhou, Paul Resnick
Diversity of User Activity and Content Quality in Online Communities Tad Hogg, Gabor Szabo
Spectrum: Retrieving Different Points of View from the Blogosphere Jiahui Liu, Lawrence Birnbaum, Bryan Pardo
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12:00 - 12:15 pm
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Closing Remarks
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2:00 - 3:30 pm
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Data Workshop I
Welcome and introduction Ian Soboroff (10 min)
Overview of Spinn3r.com and the Spinn3r dataset Kevin Burton, Spinn3r.com (30 min)
Flash Floods and Ripples: The Spread of Media Content through the Blogosphere [Best Data workshop paper] Meeyoung Cha, Juan Antonio Navarro Perez, and Hamed Haddadi (25 min)
Identifying Personal Stories in Millions of Weblog Entries Andrew Gordon and Reid Swanson (25 min)
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3:30 - 3:45 pm
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Break
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3:45 - 5:30 pm
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Data Workshop II
SentiSearch: Exploring Mood on the Web Sara Sood and Lucy Vasserman (25 min)
Event Intensity Tracking in Weblog Collections Viet Ha Thuc, Yelena Mejova, Christopher Harris and Padmini Srinivasan (25 min)
Quantification of Topic Propagation using Percolation Theory: A study of the ICWSM Network Ali Azimi Bolourian, Yashar Moshfeghi and C. J. van Rijsbergen (25 min)
Open discussion: What do you want in a dataset, and what would you do with it? (30 min)
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Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. For more info: icwsm09@aaai.org