ICWSM 2008 - Papers
Sunday, March 30, 2008
A number of authors have started to put their papers and posters online:- Polling the Blogosphere: a rule-based approach to belief classification. Jason Kessler http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~jaskessl
- Exploring Social Media Scenarios for the Television. Noor Ali-Hasaan http://www.noor.bz/pdf/alihasan_socialtv.pdf
- A Social Network Based Approach to Personalized Recommendation of Participatory Media Content. A. Seth and J. Zhang http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~a3seth/modelv3.pdf
- Wikipedian Self-Governance in Action: Motivating the Policy Lens. Ivan Beschastnikh, Travis Kriplean, David McDonald http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/ivan/
- Link-PLSA-LDA: A new unsupervised model for topics and influence of blogs. Ramesh Nallapati, William Cohen http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wcohen/postscript/icwsm-2007-ramesh.pdf
- Document Representation and Query Expansion Models for Blog Recommendation. Jaime Arguello, Jonathan Elsas, Jamie Callan, Jaime Carbonellhttp://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jaime/ICWSM1ArguelloJ.pdf
- Competing to Share Expertise: the Taskcn Knowledge Sharing Community. Jiang Yang, Lada Adamic, Mark Ackerman http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ladamic/papers/taskcn/YangICWSM2008TaskCn.pdf
- Thin Slices of Online Profile Attributes. Kristin Stecher, Scott Counts http://students.washington.edu/stech/ICWSM_ThinSlices.pdf
- Spontaneous Inference of Personality Traits from Online Profiles. Kristin Stecher, Scott Counts http://students.washington.edu/stech/ICWSM_SpontInf.pdf
- BLEWS: Using Blogs to Provide Context for News Articles, Michael Gamon, Sumit Basu, Dmitriy Belenko, Danyel Fisher, Matthew Hurst, Arnd Christian Konig http://research.microsoft.com/projects/blews/blews.aspx
Posters
- Understanding the Efficiency of Social Tagging Systems using Information Theory, Ed H. Chi, Todd Mytkowicz http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~echi/papers/2008-ICWSM/2008-03-tagging-encoding-ICWSM.pdf
- The MultiRank Bootstrap Algorithm: Self-Supervised Political Blog Classification and Ranking Using Semi-Supervised Link ClassificationFrank Lin, William W. Cohen http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wcohen/postscript/icwsm-2007-frank-abstract.pdf
- Communicative Informatics: A Social Media Perspective for Online Communities, Linda Gallant, Gloria Boone http://infoacrs.com/socialmedia/ICWSM2GallantL.pdf
- Collecting and Analyzing Japanese Splogs based on Characteristics of Keywords, Yuuki Sato, Takehito Utsuro, Tomohiro Fukuhara, Yasuhide Kawada, Yoshiaki Murakami, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Noriko Kando http://nlp.iit.tsukuba.ac.jp/papers/utsuro/ICWSM2008-yuuki.pdf
- Cross-Lingual Blog Analysis based on Multilingual Blog Distillation from Multilingual Wikipedia Entries, Mariko Kawaba, Hiroyuki Nakasaki, Takehito Utsuro, Tomohiro Fukuhara http://nlp.iit.tsukuba.ac.jp/papers/utsuro/ICWSM2008-kawaba.pdf
If you have put your paper online and it is not listed here, please leave a link as a comment - I'll check back and update this post.
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ICWSM 2008 Sponsors
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
We are happy to welcome two new sponsors: The School of Information at the University of Michigan, and SezWho.com.posted by ICWSM at 7:51 AM -- 0 comments
CrowdVine for ICWSM
Sunday, February 24, 2008
We have launched a CrowdVine social network for ICWSM - jump in!Labels: icwsm
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TNO Sponsors ICWSM
Monday, January 7, 2008
We are very happy to add TNO to our growing list of sponsors!Labels: icwsm
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Visible Technologies to Sponsor ICWSM
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Great news: Visible Technologies is sponsoring ICWSM in 2008. Visible Technologies is a Seattle based social media analysis company.Look for other sponsorship news coming in the next few days.
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Brad Fitzpatrick to Speak
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
We're very pleased to announce a third invited speaker atICWSM'08. Brad Fitzpatrick, LiveJournal Founder, and the author of the much discussed Thoughts on the Social Graph will be speaking.Brad's bio:
Brad Fitzpatrick was the founder and CTO of Danga Interactive, best known for the popular community blogging and social networking site LiveJournal.com. Fitzpatrick grew LiveJournal from its early days as a hobby project in college to a site with over 13 million accounts. Throughout LiveJournal's history, Fitzpatrick led the development of a number of open source tools and projects including memcached, OpenID, MogileFS, Perlbal, and DJabberd. Since August 2007, Brad has been working at Google.
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BuzzLogic joins ICWSM Sponsors
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
We are very happy to have BuzzLogic on board as sponsors of our 2008 meeting. BuzzLogic is doing a lot of interesting stuff in the social media analysis space, especially in terms of influence analysis. The company joins our other exceptional partners in supporting the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media 2008.Labels: icwsm
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David Sifry to Speak at ICWSM
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
We are very excited to announce that David Sifry - the visionary behind Technorati - is going to be joining us at ICWSM 2008 in Seattle. David joins Bernardo A. Huberman on our programme of invited speakers.Labels: icwsm
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Bernardo Huberman to Speak at ICWSM
Monday, September 24, 2007
We've just updated our Invited Speaker's page with an abstract for Bernardo Huberman's talk. We are really excited to have Bernardo join us in Seattle. Look out for more updates in the near future!Labels: icwsm
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Tutorials
Thursday, September 6, 2007
We've just posted information about our two tutorials on the ICWSM 2008 website. We have two exiting tutorials to look forward to:- Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis, given by Jan Weibe and
- Graph Mining Techniques for Social Media Analysis, given by Mary McGlohon and Christos Faloutsos.
Visit the website for more details.
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Sponsorship Program
Sunday, September 2, 2007
We've just updated the sponsorship page. As well as our first set of sponsors, the page includes information about the sponsorship program. Part of our commitment to being the premier conference in the field of social media analysis research is a sponsorship program that is inclusive of both the big players in the space and the smaller industrial players who make the field so compelling. If you'd like to support the event and be associated with some of the best academic and industrial research currently being produced, don't hesitate to contact us.Labels: icwsm
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Sponsorship Updates
Monday, August 20, 2007
We have a few bits of exciting news to share with you about next year's conference, including invited speakers and tutorials. Right now, I want to let you know about some initial sponsors for the event: Microsoft and Google have both made generous contributions. Both of these companies are deeply involved with social media in a number of ways - from Google's blog search, blogging platform and Google Earth communities, to Microsoft's Spaces product and IM system. We are very excited to have them both support us and provide the kind of backing that will ensure a successful and exciting event.We will be announcing a number of additional sponsors in the near future. If you would like to be associated with the premier social media research event, please contact us at info-at-icwsm.org.
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Welcome to the ICWSM 2008 Blog
The old blog is still available at http://www.icwsm.org/blog/index-2007.htmlposted by ICWSM at 5:22 PM -- 0 comments