ICWSM 2010 - 4th Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media ICWSM 2010

The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media is a unique venue that brings together researchers from the disciplines of NLP, Social Psychology, Data Mining, Sociology and Visualization to increase our understanding of social media in all its incarnations. Research that blends social science and technology is especially encouraged.

The 2010 meeting will be held in Washington DC, where government innovators are experimenting with the use of social media to increase transparency and better engage with the citizenry. The conference will take advantage of this venue to invite leaders from "The Goverati" to share their experiences in the use of social media.

The conference brings together researchers working in a number of disciplines with a broad array of social data:
DISCIPLINES
Computational Linguistics/NLP
Text Mining/Data Mining
Psychology
SNA, Sociology
Visualization
HCI
Graph theory, concrete analysis and simulation of graphical models
MEDIA
Weblogs, including comments
Microblogs
Wikis (wikipedia)
Forums, usenet
Community media sites: youtube, flickr
TOPICS INCLUDE
Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of social media
Analyzing the relationship between social media and mainstream media
Centrality/influence of social media publications and authors
Ranking/relevance of blogs; web page ranking based on blogs
Social network analysis; communities identification; expertise and authority discovery; collaborative filtering
Trust; reputation; recommendation systems
Human computer interaction; social media tools; navigation and visualization
Subjectivity in textual data; sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion identification and extraction
Text categorization; topic recognition; demographic/gender/age identification
Trend identification and tracking; time series forecasting; measuring predictability of phenomena based on social media
New social media applications; interfaces; interaction techniques
IMPORTANT DATES
Tutorial Proposals: December 1, 2009 Paper Submission: January 8, 2010 Poster/Demo Submission: January 8, 2010 Paper Acceptance: March 3, 2010 Poster/Demo Acceptance: March 3, 2010 Workshop Submission: March 1, 2010 Camera Ready Copies: March 12, 2010

SUBMISSION
People interested in participating should submit through the ICWSM-10 website a technical paper (up to 8 pages, not including references), poster or demo description (up to 4 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). Details for the submission procedure will appear at the conference website: http://icwsm.org

SUBMISSIONS TO OTHER CONFERENCES OR JOURNALS
ICWSM-10 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.

REGISTRATION
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.

PUBLICATION
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.

DATA CHALLENGE
ICWSM-10 will once again hold a data challenge featuring a freely-available dataset and a half-day workshop at the conference. Details will be posted on the conference website.

CONFERENCE WEBSITE
www.icwsm.org

For general information regarding ICWSM-10, please write to icwsm10-AT-aaai.org. More details about the CFP and the conference will appear on the website over time.

INVITED SPEAKERS
Michael Kearns, Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
Behavioral Experiments in Strategic Networks

Professor Bob Kraut, Carnegie Mellon Universirty
Designing Online Communities from Theory

ORGANIZERS
Program Chairs:
William Cohen, CMU Computer Science
Samuel Gosling, U Texas Dept of Psychology

General Chair
Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley School of Information

Publicity Chair
Nicolas Nicolov, J.D.Power and Associates, McGraw-Hill

Sponsorship Chair
Matthew Hurst, Microsoft

Tutorials Chair
Chris Diehl, Lawrence Livermore National Labs

Senior Program Committee Members(Preliminary)
Lada Adamic, University of Michigan, USA
Eugene Agichtein, Emory University, USA
danah boyd, Microsoft Research
Claire Cardie, Cornell University, USA
Kathleen Carley, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Cindy Chung, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Scott Counts, Microsoft Research, USA
Chris Diehl, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, USA
Nicole Ellison, Dept of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media, Michigan State University, USA
Tim Finin, UMBC, USA
Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Yahoo! Research, USA
Lise Getoor, University of Maryland, USA
Kristina Lerman, ISI-USC, USA
Jure Leskovec, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Winter Mason, Yahoo! Research, USA
Gilad Mishne, Yahoo! Labs, USA
Kate Neiderhoffer, Dachis Corporation
Bo Pang, Yahoo! Research, USA
Marc Smith, Telligent Systems, USA