AI/Social media research in 2010

Posted: November 11th, 2009 | Author: Alex | Filed under: Artificial Intelligence | No Comments »

There is already lots to look forward to in terms of next year’s research at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and social media.

ICWSM 2010 – the 4th Internationall AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media will be at George Washington University, Washington, DC from May 23-26. The full proceedings for the previous two conferences are still available online. So are video recordings for both 2008 and 2009.

AAAI-10 will be in Atlanta from July 11-15, 2010. It will feature the AI and the Web Special Track. Likewise, the AAAI Spring Symposium, at Stanford from March 22-24, will have a Linked Data Meets Artificial Intelligence track.

IEEE Intelligent Systems has two special issues on social media topics on next year’s calendar:

  1. Social Learning (July/August 2010):

    This special issue will accept papers related to all aspects of learning and knowledge discovery based on the social Web. On one hand, many existing intelligent systems such as natural language processing, information retrieval and multi-agent systems can benefit from utilizing the social Web as an additional knowledge source. On the other hand, the social Web is also an emerging domain for new techniques and applications of intelligence systems. We solicit high quality research papers demonstrating challenging research issues, presenting state-of-the-art theories, techniques and showcasing successfully deployed applications.

  2. Social Media Analytics and Intelligence (November/December 2010). Paper submissions are still accepted until next May:

    This special issue seeks innovative contributions to SM [social media] analytics and intelligence research. Contributions must show relevance (from an either methodological or domain perspective) to at least one AI subfield; we strongly encourage multidisciplinary research with substantive findings in real-world, context-rich settings. The issue will provide an integrated, synthesized view of the current state of the art, identify challenges and opportunities for future work, and promote cross-cutting community-building.

I am sure, I am missing lots of others – I will probably post about those, as I come across them over the coming months.

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