> Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-11) > July 17-21 2011 • Barcelona, Spain > > Collocated with IJCAI-11 > > Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ICWSM 2011, will be held on July 17-21, 2011 in Barcelona (Spain) and will be > collocated with IJCAI 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. > > Though this conference is relatively new, it has become one of the premier > venues for social scientists and technologists to gather and discuss > cutting-edge research in Social Media. This is largely due to a typical > acceptance rate of 20% for full-length research papers and support from > Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). > > For ICWSM 2011, in addition to the usual program of contributed technical > talks, tutorials and invited presentations, the main conference will include > a selection of keynote talks and invited talks from prominent social > scientists and technologists. This year, for the first time, we will be > expanding our workshop program and are planning an additional workshop day in > addition to the usual tutorial and main conference. We also have an exciting > roster of four workshops. Please check the website for details. Also, since > we will be collocating with IJCAI (for more details on IJCAI 2011 see > http://ijcai-11.iiia.csic.es/) there will be opportunities to connect with > people in that community both formally and informally (joint social event is > in the planning!). > > 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 > > > KEYNOTES > Sinan Aral, Stern Business School, NYU > Manuel Castells University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg School for > Communication [Tentative] > > > IMPORTANT DATES > Abstract Submission: January 31, 2011 > Full Paper Submission: February 7, 2011 > Notification of Acceptance March 18, 2011 > Camera Ready Due: April 4, 2011 > Conference, Barcelona, July 17-20, 2011 > > Data Workshop Paper Submission: March 22, 2011 > Workshop Paper Acceptance Notification: April 8, 2011 > > Tutorial Proposal Submission: February 18, 2011 > Tutorial Acceptance: March 4, 2011 > > Workshop Paper Submission: March 22, 2011 > Workshop Paper Acceptance Notification: April 8, 2011 > > > 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 below (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 > in December 2010. > > SUBMISSIONS 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/2011/index.shtml > > For general information regarding ICWSM-11, please write to [email protected]. > > ORGANIZING COMMITTEE > > General Chairs > Nicolas Nicolov (Microsoft) > James G. Shanahan (Independent Consultant) > > Program Committee Area Chairs > Lada Adamic (University of Michigan) > Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo Research) > Scott Counts (Microsoft Research) > > Local Chairs > Alex Jaimes (Yahoo! Labs) > Ricard Ruiz de Querol, (Barcelona Media Innovation Centre) > > Data Challenge Chair > Ian Soboroff > > Demo Chair > Ido Guy (IBM Reseach) > > Publicity Chairs > danah boyd (Microsoft Research) > > Tutorial Chair > John Breslin (NUI Galway) > > Webmaster > Ritesh Agrawal (AT&T Interactive) > > Webdesigner > Disco Gerdes (Mutual Mobile) > > VENUE > Barcelona, Spain > > STUDENT AWARDS > We will be providing a limited number of student awards to help cover the > cost of travel, subsistence, and registration to the ICWSM 2011 conference. > Details will be posted on the conference website. > > > Kind regards, > Jimi and Nicolas > ICWSM 2011 Co-chairs > Nicolas Nicolov (Microsoft) > James G. Shanahan (Independent Consultant) > > >
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