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CFP: International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
March 26-28, 2007

Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.

Availability of Data
Continuing the tradition from the WWE'06 workshop, we are once again
offering a large blog dataset to conference participants. The data release
comprises a complete set of weblog posts collected by Nielsen BuzzMetrics
for May 2006 (consisting of about 14M posts from 3M weblogs). The data set
includes the full content of the posts plus mark-up and represents an
unprecedented collection for blog researchers. Our hope is that a communal
dataset, approached from many different directions, will yield many
interesting results. More information on the dataset, which is available for
immediate download, can be found at: http://www.icwsm.org/data.html.

Call For Papers

Recent years have seen a flourishing of social media - the promise of the
WWW coming to fruition. Across the world, individuals can share opinions,
experiences and expertise at the push of a button. There has been a
fundamental shift thanks to significant advances in the ease of publishing
content. Creating web content was for years the domain of tech-savvy people;
now the barrier has been torn down.

Perhaps the most visible among the successes of social media in recent years
is the blogosphere. Tens of thousands of new blogs are created every day;
blog content is becoming ubiquitous, surfacing in news portals, search
results and corporate public relations. Even those who are unaware of the
blogosphere are still influenced by its content. Although blogs are highly
visible currently, other forms of conversational spaces continue to
flourish, especially message boards, mailing lists, review sites and Usenet.

Social media covers all forms of sharing: from photos, to videos, to
recommendations. In the past few years, many examples of social media have
become hugely successful. Flickr is a premier photo sharing site;
del.icio.us has become a touchstone for sharing recommendations of websites;
Web 2.0 applications in general abound with newcomers in the social media
space.

One of the fascinating aspects of social media has been the drive from
within to study the ecology as it evolves. People act at once as creators,
observers and influencers of the space in which they participate. At the
same time, businesses are quickly grasping the potential benefit to
attending to the new space of social media. Monitoring the aggregate trends
and opinions revealed by social media provides valuable insight to a number
of business applications: marketing intelligence, competitive intelligence.

The fast growing blogosphere and social media space is a fruitful area for
investigations across many disciplines. For example:

  • Natural language processing and machine learning researchers study the extraction of factual information from text; can blogs be processed in a robust manner and can knowledge bases be populated with facts from blogs?
  • Social network researchers and graph theory researchers are concerned with inferring community structure; analyzing the linkage patterns among blog entries can provide explicit community structure; can we infer implicit communities through the content of the blogs?
  • Political scientists are looking at ways of identifying influencers in a community; who are the influential bloggers whose voice is echoed by others?
  • Multimedia researchers are attempting to categorize audio and video content, aggregate information from diverse sources (textual, audio, video); can visual & audio social media be stored in a way that allows search across different modalities?
  • Market analysis researchers are concerned with what people think of the products and services of a company; can we process blogs automatically and find consumer complaints and breaking reports about vulnerabilities of products; also when does a burst of blogging activity become a trend?
  • Social psychologists study the response to current events, including emotional and attitudinal dimensions as well as content and patterns of influence.

Despite the growing relevance of blogs and social media, existing research
has only begun to address the spectrum of issues that arise in their
analysis. Blogs, for example, are a different kind of document than the
relatively clean text that NLP research is based on. Such differences in
term of structure, content and grammaticality will be a challenge
considering that blogs will likely represent the most common way of publicly
accessible personal expression.
Areas of interest

The conference aims to bring together researchers from different subject
areas (e.g., computer science, linguistics, psychology, statistics,
sociology, multimedia and semantic web technologies) and foster discussions
about ongoing research in the following areas:
[01] AI methods for ethnographic analysis through social media.
[02] Blogosphere vs. mediasphere; measuring the influence of blogs on the
media.
[03] Centrality/influence of bloggers/blogs; ranking/relevance of blogs;
web pages ranking based on blogs.
[04] Crawling/spidering and indexing.
[05] Human Computer Interaction; social media tools; navigation.
[06] Multimedia; audio/visual processing; aggregating information from
different modalities.
[07] Semantic analysis; cross-system and cross-media name tracking; named
relations and fact extraction; discourse analysis; summarization.
[08] Semantic Web; unstructured knowledge management.
[09] Sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion identification and extraction.
[10] Social Network Analysis; communities identification; expertise
discovery; collaborative filtering.
[11] Text categorization; gender/age identification; spam filtering.
[12] Time Series Forecasting; measuring predictability of phenomena based
on social media.
[13] Trend identification/tracking.
[14] Visualization, aggregation and filtering.
[15] New social media applications, interfaces, interaction techniques.

Important dates

Submissions: December 8, 2006
Acceptance Notifications: February 2, 2007
Camera Ready Copies: February 16, 2007
Tutorials: March 25, 2007
Conference: March 26-28, 2007

Submission

People interested in participating should submit through the conference
website a technical paper (up to 8 pages), a short paper (up to 4 pages), a
poster or demo description (up to 2 pages) by midnight (PST) of Dec 8, 2006.
Each submission should, to the extent possible, indicate a list of relevant
areas from the list above (e.g., 03, 04, 10).

Chairs

Co-Chairs

Local Chair

Program committee

Venue

The conference will take place at Marriott Boulder
(http://marriott.com/property/propertypage/DENBO) located near downtown
Boulder, Colorado.

Sponsors

  • Google, Inc.
  • Microsoft Live Labs
  • NEC Labs America
  • Sphere

and

ICWSM is a IW3C2 endorsed conference (http://www.iw3c2.org/).
History

The International Conference on Weblogs and social media grew out of two
events: the annual series of Workshops on the Weblogging Ecosystem (WWE
2006, WWE 2005, WWE 2004) held in conjunction with the International World
Wide Web Conference and the Spring Symposium organized by the American
Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) on Computational Approaches
to Analyzing Weblogs (CAAW 2006).
Contact

a [JPG] of our e-mail