SOMA 2012 - Workshop on Social Media Analytics (SOMA 2012)

We invite papers on all forms of Social Media including blogs (Blogger, LiveJournal), micro-blogs (Twitter, FMyLife), social networking (Facebook, LinkedIn), wikis (Wikipedia, Wetpaint), social bookmarking (Delicious, CiteULike), social news (Digg, Mixx), reviews (ePinions, Yelp), and multimedia sharing (Flickr, Youtube).
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Assessing relevance of blogs, posts and tweets
Determining subjectivity in text - sentiment analysis and opinion mining
Metrics, models and measurement of influence of blogs and individuals
Detecting emerging topics and buzz
Relevance classification of blogs/posts based on content and link structure
Validating measures of influence and authority in blog/twitter networks
Identifying topic-specific sentiment expressed in posts
Adapting sentiment detection to different domains, e.g. by transfer learning
Tracking topics or the evolution of topics over time
Modeling and influencing diffusion of information in networks
Scaling algorithms to the size of the blogosphere
Notions of trust and reliability of information
Coping with information overload
Novel social media applications