SWSM 2011 - 3rd Workshop on Social Web Search and Mining (SWSM2011)

Objectives

The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss ideas related to searching and mining the social Web.

The ubiquitous nature of Web-enabled devices, including desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobile phones, enables people to participate and interact with each other in various Web communities. Examples of such communities include forums, newsgroups, blogs, microblogs, bookmarking services, photo sharing platforms, and location-based services. Hence, the rapidly evolving social Web provides a platform for communication, information sharing, and collaboration. A vast amount of heterogeneous data (composed of e.g., text, photos, video, links) has been generated by the users of various social communities, which offers an unprecedented opportunity for studying novel theories and technologies for social Web search and mining.

The broader context of the workshop relates to Web search and information retrieval, Web mining, social network analysis, semantic Web, natural language processing, and computational advertising. In addition to paper presentations, we will solicit invited talks and a panel that will stress the interdisciplinary challenges of social search and mining.

Topics of Interest
Search and mining algorithms for large-scale social networks
Real-time social search and mining infrastructures
Microblog (e.g., Twitter, QQ, Jaiku) search and mining
Search across heterogeneous user generated content
Content aggregation, summarization, and reasoning across multiple data streams
Personalized search for social interactions
Credibility and provenance of social Web content
Computational advertising for user generated content
Cross-media search and mining of user generated content
Collaborative filtering and recommender systems
Community detection and network evolution analysis
Sentiment analysis/opinion mining
Social network analysis and social influence analysis
Spam detection of social media
Geospatial and temporal analysis of social media
Applications of social search and mining
Important dates and guidelines

Submission deadline: May 1st, 2011
Notification date: June 1st, 2011
Camera ready: June 14th, 2011
Workshop: July 28, 2011

http://www.arnetminer.org/SWSM2011
Papers should be no more than 10 pages total in length, where up to 8 pages (including appendices, if any) are used for the content of the paper and the final two pages are used only for references. All submissions must be prepared using the ACM camera‐ready template (available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html). Authors are required to submit their papers electronically in PDF format to the paper submission site. All submissions should clearly present the author information including the names of the authors, the affiliations and the emails.