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          Search in Social Media (SSM 2008)
            A workshop held in conjunction with CIKM 2008

                      CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

               October 30, 2008
               Napa Valley, California

         http://ir.mathcs.emory.edu/SSM2008/

Early registration deadline: August 22nd. http://www.cikm2008.org/registration.php

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together academic and industry researchers in information retrieval and social media to consider the following questions: How should we search in social media? What are the needs of users, and models of those needs, specific to social media search? What models make the most sense? How does search interact with existing uses of social media? What works and what doesn't?

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION:
                 Challenges in Searching Social Media
        Andrew Tomkins, Chief Scientist of Search, Yahoo!

ACCEPTED PAPERS (http://ir.mathcs.emory.edu/SSM2008/accepted.html):

• What Should Blog Search Look Like? Marti Hearst, Matthew Hurst and Susan Dumais. (position paper)

• Towards a Model of Understanding Social Search. Brynn M. Evans and Ed H. Chi. (position paper)

• Mirroring Your Web Presence. Markus Bylund, Jussi Karlgren, Fredrik Olsson, Pedro Sanches and Carl-Henrik Arvidsson. (position paper)

• Leveraging Social Context for Searching Social Media. Mark Smith, Vlad Barash, Lise Getoor and Hady Lauw. (position paper)

• Similarity Cross-Analysis of Tag / Co-Tag Spaces in Social Classification Systems. Steffen Oldenburg, Martin Garbe and Clemens Cap.

• Tag Data and Personalized Information Retrieval. Mark Carman, Mark Baillie and Fabio Crestani.

• Efficient Sampling of Information in Social Networks. Gautam Das, Nick Koudas, Manos Papagelis and Sushruth Puttaswamy.

• Creating Tag Hierarchies for Effective Navigation in Social Media. K. Selcuk Candan, Luigi Di Caro and Maria Luisa Sapino.

• SocialTagger - Collaborative Tagging for Blogs in the Long Tail. Shankara Subramanya and Huan Liu.

• Purpose Tagging: Capturing User Intent to Assist Goal-Oriented Social Search. Markus Strohmaier.

 Topological Analysis of an Online Social Network for Older Adults. Marcella Wilson and Charles Nicholas.

• Tree, funny, to_read, google: What are tags supposed to achieve? A Comparative Analysis of User Keywords for Different Digital Resource Types. Markus Heckner, Tanja Neubauer and Christian Wolff.

• Explorations in Tag Suggestion and Query Expansion. Jian Wang and Brian Davison.

• Tag-Geotag Correlation in Social Networks. Sang Su Lee, Dongwoo Won and Dennis McLeod.