Posted: May 8th, 2009 | Author: Alex | Filed under: ICWSM | No Comments »
As previously mentioned, ICWSM is held in San Jose later this month. I won’t be able to attend the conference, but I am looking forward to exploring the research that was compiled for this event. The complete list of papers, abstracts and full-text PDF files are already available here. It is fantastic that AAAI is freely providing this content online.
Lots of last year’s presentations are captured as video clips. Since VideoLectures.net is one of the sponsors of the conference, I am hopeful that they will provide a video archive of this year’s sessions, too.
Posted: February 7th, 2009 | Author: Alex | Filed under: ICWSM | No Comments »
The 3rd International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media will be in San Jose on May 17-20:
Papers are solicited in areas including (but not limited to) the following:
- Psychological, personality-based, sociological, or ethnographic studies of social media, or the relationship between social media and mainstream media.
- Analysis of patterns and/or spreading of influence between bloggers; tools for assessing trust and reputation; social network analysis (e.g.,community identification, expertise discovery, etc), as applied to social media; and analysis of trends and time series in social media.
- Methods for ranking bloggers and/or blogs by user relevance, or ranking web pages based on blogs; and techniques for crawling, spidering and indexing social media.
- Human-computer interaction studies of tools for using social media; novel ways of applying or interacting with social media; and visualization of social media or social networks.
- Application of computational linguistics to of social media (e.g. entity or fact extraction, discourse analysis, summarization, sentiment analysis, etc); probabilistic modeling of social media; and identification of demographic information (e.g., gender, age, etc) in social media.
- Semantic web approaches to managing socially constructed knowledge or collaborative creation of structured knowledge.
The data set is made available by Spinn3r and can be requested here. I am looking forward to the kinds of research that will be conducted based on the data. A list of last year’s papers can be seen here.