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[ecrea] 5th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, Barcelona (Spain), 17-20 July 2011

Wed Dec 15 13:06:38 GMT 2010




Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
Barcelona, Spain
17-20 July 2011

<http://www.icwsm.org/2011/cfp.php>http://www.icwsm.org/2011/cfp.php

Deadline for abstract submission = 31 January 2011

The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media is a unique forum that brings together researchers from the disciplines in computer science, linguistics, communication, and the social sciences. The broad goal of ICWSM is to increase understanding of social media in all its incarnations. Submissions describing research that blends social science and technology are especially encouraged.

The 2011 meeting will be held in Barcelona, Spain. In addition to the usual program of contributed technical talks, tutorials and invited presentations, ICWSM 2011 will include a selection of invited talks from prominent social scientists that are studying social media, and a set of talks from leaders of xxxxxxx


Disciplines



   * Computational Linguistics/NLP
   * Text Mining/Data Mining
   * Psychology
   * Sociology (including Social Network Analysis)
   * Anthropology, Communications, Media Studies
   * Visualization
   * Political Science
   * Computational Social Science
   * HCI
   * Economics
   * Graph theory, concrete analysis and simulation of graphical models


Media



   * Weblogs, including comments
   * Social Networking Sites
   * 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
   * Qualitative and quantitative studies of social 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


Submission



People interested in participating should submit through the ICWSM-11 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>http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php). Details for the submission procedure will appear at the conference website: <http://icwsm.org>http://icwsm.org.

Submission to other conferences or journals



ICWSM-11 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-11 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



<http://www.icwsm.org>www.icwsm.org
For general information regarding ICWSM-11, please write to <mailto:(icwsm11 /at/ aaai.org)>(icwsm11 /at/ aaai.org).




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