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).
