ICWSM 2009

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.

Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

Topics
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
 * 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 (available by November 15, 2008). 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.

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.
 * REGISTRATION

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.
 * PUBLICATION

ICWSM-09 is planning to release a large blog dataset in conjunction with the conference. This data will include the full content and markup of the blog post as well as extracted text. The conference invites researchers to explore the dataset and submit their findings as technical papers. More information will appear soon on the conference website.
 * DATA CHALLENGE

Traditionally the conference invites world renowned experts to present tutorials and give keynote talks. These will be announced soon.
 * KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AND TUTORIAL SPEAKERS

Commitee

 * General Co-Chairs
 * has general chair::William W. Cohen, Carnegie Mellon/Google
 * has general chair::Nicolas Nicolov, J.D.Power and Assoc., McGraw-Hill


 * Program Chairs
 * has program chair::Natalie Glance, Google
 * has program chair::Matthew Hurst, Live Labs, Microsoft


 * Data Chairs
 * has OC member::Ian Soboroff, NIST
 * has OC member::Akshay Java, UMBC


 * Local Chair
 * has local chair::Cameron Marlow, Facebook


 * Program Committee Members
 * has PC member::Lada Adamic, University of Michigan, USA
 * has PC member::Navot Akiva, Pudding Media, Israel
 * has PC member::Noor Ali-Hasan, Microsoft, USA
 * has PC member::Bettina Berendt, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Germany
 * has PC member::Chris Brooks, University of San Francisco, USA
 * has PC member::Claire Cardie, Cornell University, USA
 * has PC member::Steve Cayzer, HP Labs, UK
 * has PC member::Lili Cheng, Microsoft, USA
 * has PC member::Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 * has PC member::Thierry Declerck, DFKI GmbH, Germany
 * has PC member::Brian Dennis, Lockheed Martin Corporation, USA
 * has PC member::Chris Diehl, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA
 * has PC member::Joan Morris DiMicco, IBM Research, USA
 * has PC member::Nathan Eagle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
 * has PC member::Miriam Eckert, J.D. Power and Assoc., McGraw-Hill, USA
 * has PC member::Raymond Elferink, RayCom B.V., The Netherlands
 * has PC member::Andrew Fiore, University of California, Berkeley, USA
 * has PC member::Michael Gamon, Microsoft, USA
 * has PC member::Kathy E Gill, University of Washington, USA
 * has PC member::Scott Golder, Cornell University, USA
 * has PC member::Marko Grobelnik, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia
 * has PC member::Michelle Gumbrecht, Palo Alto Research Center, USA
 * has PC member::John Henderson, MITRE, USA
 * has PC member::Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA
 * has PC member::Steliana Ivanova, Umbria Inc., USA
 * has PC member::Heng Ji, The City University of New York, USA
 * has PC member::Anupam Joshi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
 * has PC member::Jussi Karlgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
 * has PC member::Jason Kessler, Indiana University, USA
 * has PC member::Pranam Kolari, Yahoo!, USA
 * has PC member::Christian Konig, Microsoft, USA
 * has PC member::Moshe Koppel, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
 * has PC member::Gueorgi Kossinets, Google, USA
 * has PC member::Andrea La Pietra, University of California, Berkeley, USA
 * has PC member::Thomas Lento, Facebook, USA
 * has PC member::Kristina Lerman, University of Southern California, USA
 * has PC member::Jure Leskovec, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
 * has PC member::Naohiro Matsumura, Osaka University, Japan
 * has PC member::Charles Mi, Opinmind, USA
 * has PC member::Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, USA
 * has PC member::Gilad Mishne, Yahoo!, USA
 * has PC member::Paola Monachesi, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
 * has PC member::Mor Naaman, Rutgers University, USA
 * has PC member::Kate Niederhoffer, Nielsen, USA
 * has PC member::Scott Nowson, Appen, Australia
 * has PC member::Manabu Okumura, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
 * has PC member::Livia Polanyi, Powerset/Microsoft, USA
 * has PC member::John Prager, IBM Research, USA
 * has PC member::Stephan Raaijmakers, TNO ICT, The Netherlands
 * has PC member::Drago Radev, University of Michigan, USA
 * has PC member::Laura Ripamonti, UniversitÃ degli Studi di Milano, Italy
 * has PC member::Tamas Sarlos, Yahoo!, USA
 * has PC member::Jonathan Schler, Peer39, Israel
 * has PC member::David A. Shamma, Yahoo! Research, USA
 * has PC member::James G. Shanahan, USA
 * has PC member::Xiaolin Shi, University of Michigan, USA
 * has PC member::Sanjay Sood, allvoices, USA
 * has PC member::Ellen Spertus, Google, USA
 * has PC member::Siddharth Suri, Yahoo!, USA
 * has PC member::Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
 * has PC member::Jiang Yang, University of Michigan, USA
 * has PC member::Cheng Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
 * has PC member::Jun Zhang, University of Michigan, USA
 * has PC member::Ding Zhou, Facebook, USA