ICWSM 2008 - Join Us In Seattle

Note: Early-bird registration ends Feb. 18, 2008 and student travel grants applications are now available

ICWSM 2008: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

(Draft programme below)

2nd Annual International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

http://www.icwsm.org

March 30 - April 2, 2008
Seattle, WA, USA

The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media provides a forum for researchers and industrial practitioners to present and to discuss new research, applications, thoughts and ideas that are shaping the future of social media analysis.  Social media content now accounts for the majority of content published daily on the web. As the space evolves, researcher and industrial practitioners find themselves at a key point for collaborating on research, implementation and deployment of a wide range of analyses and applications.

The conference consists of a half day of tutorials (Sunday, March 30, 2008) and two and half days of an exciting technical program (Monday, March 31 - April 2nd).  We will also be hosting two evening receptions (Monday and Tuesday evenings).

We are also happy to announce that for the first time, ICWSM will be organized by AAAI.

Conference registration is now open at http://www.icwsm.org/2008/registration.shtml

Thanks to our sponsors, we are able to support some travel support to students and encourage students to submit an application.

Tutorials

• Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis Jan Wiebe, University of Pittsburgh
• Graph Mining Techniques for Social Media Analysis Mary McGlohon and Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University  School of Computer Science

Invited Speakers

• Bernardo Huberman, Senior Fellow, HP Labs
• Brad Fitzpatrick, LiveJournal Founder
• David Sifry, Technorati Founder

Technical Papers

The following 20 full papers (25% acceptance) will be presented:

• Wikipedian Self-Governance in Action: Motivating the Policy Lens
• Link-PLSA-LDA: A new unsupervised model for topics and influence of  blogs
• Polling the Blogosphere: a Rule-Based Approach to Belief  Classification
• Document Representation and Query Expansion Models for Blog  Recommendation
• Space Planning for Online Community
• A Large-Scale Study of MySpace: Observations and Implications for  Online Social Networks
• Competing to Share Expertise: the Taskcn Knowledge Sharing Community
• What Elements of an Online Social Networking Profile Predict  Target-Rater Agreement in Personality?
• Exploring Social Media Scenarios for the Television
• Spontaneous Inference of Personality Traits from Online Profiles
• The Politics of Sourcing: A Study of Journalistic Practices in the Blogosphere
• A Social Network Based Approach to Personalized Recommendation of  Participatory Media Content
• The Psychology of Word Use in Depression Forums in English and in  Spanish
• Thin Slices of Online Profile Attributes
• Recovering Implicit Thread Structure in Newsgroup Style  Conversations
• On TREC Blog Track
• Wikipedia as an Ontology for Describing Documents
• BLEWS: Using Blogs to Provide Context for News Articles
• International Sentiment Analysis for News and Blogs
• Finding the Influencers and the Consumer Insights

An additional 35+ posters and demos will be presented at a poster reception, more information at http://www.icwsm.org/2008/program.shtml

Sponsors

We are grateful for the generous support of our sponsors

• Microsoft
• Google
• TNO
• Visible Technologies
• Nielsen Online
• Attentio
• SentiMetrix
• BuzzLogic
• Klostu
• VideoLectures.net

Committee

Chairs

• Eytan Adar, University of Washington
• Matthew Hurst, Microsoft Live Labs

Co-chairs

• Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
• Natalie Glance, Google
• Nicolas Nicolov, Umbria
• Belle Tseng, Yahoo

A complete list of program committee members is available at: http://www.icwsm.org/2008/committees.shtml