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*** IMPORTANT UPDATES -- PLEASE READ ***

* The paper submission deadline has been EXTENDED to May 15th, 2011 (2 week
extension).

* We will also accept submissions of SHORT PAPERS (position papers,
late-breaking results, etc.) of up to 4 pages of content (see the Content
Guidelines below for further details).

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Call for Papers - SIGIR 2011 Workshop on Social Web Search and Mining (SWSM
2011): Analysis of User Generated Content Under Crisis

SWSM 2011 will take place in Beijing, China on July 28, 2011 during the 34t=
h
Annual International ACM SIGIR conference. The aim of the workshop is to
provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss ideas related
to searching and mining the social Web, with a special focus on the analysi=
s
of user generated content during human crises (e.g., earthquakes, terrorist
attacks, etc.).

Please be sure to visit http://arnetminer.org/SWSM_2011 for the latest
information.

* Overview

The ubiquitous nature of Web-enabled devices, including desktops, laptops,
tablets, and mobile phones, enables people to participate and interact with
each other in various Web communities. Examples of such communities include
forums, newsgroups, blogs, microblogs, bookmarking services, photo sharing
platforms, and location-based services. Hence, the rapidly evolving social
Web provides a platform for communication, information sharing, and
collaboration. A vast amount of heterogeneous data (composed of e.g., text,
photos, video, links) has been generated by the users of various social
communities, which offers an unprecedented opportunity for studying novel
theories and technologies for social Web search and mining.

The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for discussing and exploring
social media topics related to Web search and information retrieval, Web
mining, social network analysis, semantic Web, natural language processing,
and computational advertising. In addition to paper presentations, we will
solicit invited talks and a panel that will stress the interdisciplinary
challenges of social search and mining.

* Special Theme: Social Web Search and Mining under Crisis

Natural and man-made disasters are particularly important classes of events
that are of interest to affected populations, governments, disaster respons=
e
teams, and aid organizations. Information about such events can be gathered
from various sources. While traditional news sources provide authoritative
disaster information, self-publishing media such as blogs, Facebook, and
Twitter can contribute immediate, personalized eye-witness information.
However, there are many challenges involved when dealing with such data
sources, especially when time is of the essence, as is often the case with
human crises. Information is often incomplete, contradictory, fictitious,
and changing. As a result, information is the least organized when users
need it most.

To highlight the importance of this emerging area, "Social Web Search and
Mining Under Crisis" will serve as the workshop's special theme. Along thes=
e
lines, the workshop seeks submissions that leverage news, social media, and
user generated content to predict, analyze, understand, and help cope with
events related to human crises, such as earthquakes, campus shootings,
hurricanes, influenza pandemics, terrorist attacks, and oil spills. Novel
applications, methods, and use of real-world data sets are particularly
encouraged.

A special session during the workshop will be devoted to papers that
directly address the theme.

* Topics of Interest

We welcome papers in all areas of social Web search and data mining,
especially those that address the special theme or are inter-disciplinary i=
n
nature. Examples of relevant topics include:

- Search and mining algorithms for large-scale social networks
- Real-time social search and mining infrastructures
- Microblog (e.g., Twitter, QQ, Jaiku) search and mining
- Search across heterogeneous user generated content
- Content aggregation, summarization, and reasoning across multiple data
streams
- Personalized search for social interactions
- Credibility and provenance of social Web content
- Computational advertising for user generated content
- Cross-media search and mining of user generated content
- Collaborative filtering and recommender systems
- Community detection and network evolution analysis
- Sentiment analysis/opinion mining
- Social network analysis and social influence analysis
- Spam detection of social media
- Geospatial and temporal analysis of social media
- Applications of social search and mining
- Detecting and preventing false alarms in social media

* Important dates

Submission deadline: May 15th, 2011
Notification date: June 1st, 2011
Camera ready: June 14th, 2011
Workshop: July 28, 2011

* Content Guidelines

Papers should be no more than 10 pages total in length, where up to 8 pages
(including appendices, if any) are used for the content of the paper and th=
e
final two pages are used only for references.

In addition to full length papers, we will also consider submissions of
short papers (position papers, late-breaking results, etc.) of up to 6 page=
s
in length, where up to 4 pages (including appendices, if any) are used for
the content of the paper and the final two pages are used only for
references.

All submissions must be prepared using the ACM camera=E2=80=90ready templat=
e
(available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html). Authors
are required to submit their papers electronically in PDF format.  Papers
should be submitted electronically at
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/SWSM2011/. All submissions should clearl=
y
present the author information including the names of the authors, the
affiliations and the emails.

* Organizing Committee

Fernando Diaz, Yahoo! Labs, USA
Eduard Hovy, University of California, USA
Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, China
Donald Metzler, University of Southern California, USA
Marie-Francine Moens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China
Lei Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia, China

* Program Committee

Omar Alonso, Microsoft, USA
Roi Blanco, Yahoo!, Barcelona
Keke Cai, IBM China Research Lab, CN
Carlos Castillo, Yahoo! Labs, Spain
Hong Cheng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK
Isaac Councill, Pennsylvania State University, US
Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead, France
Karl Gyllstrom, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
Kathy Mckeown, Columbia University, USA
Gabriella Pasi, University di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Ana-Maria Popescu, Yahoo! Labs, USA
Kunal Punera, Yahoo! Research, USA
Hema Raghavan, IBM Research, USA
Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pavel Serdyukov, Yandex, Russia

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<div>*** IMPORTANT UPDATES -- PLEASE READ ***</div><div><br></div><div>* Th=
e paper submission deadline has been EXTENDED to May 15th, 2011 (2 week ext=
ension).</div><div><br></div><div>* We will also accept submissions of SHOR=
T PAPERS (position papers, late-breaking results, etc.) of up to 4 pages of=
 content (see the Content Guidelines below for further details).</div>
<div><br></div><div>---</div><div><br></div><div>Call for Papers - SIGIR 20=
11 Workshop on Social Web Search and Mining (SWSM 2011): Analysis of User G=
enerated Content Under Crisis</div><div><br></div><div>SWSM 2011 will take =
place in Beijing, China on July 28, 2011 during the 34th Annual Internation=
al ACM SIGIR conference. The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum for =
researchers and practitioners to discuss ideas related to searching and min=
ing the social Web, with a special focus on the analysis of user generated =
content during human crises (e.g., earthquakes, terrorist attacks, etc.).=
=C2=A0</div>
<div><br></div><div>Please be sure to visit <a href=3D"http://arnetminer.or=
g/SWSM_2011">http://arnetminer.org/SWSM_2011</a> for the latest information=
.</div><div><br></div><div>* Overview</div><div><br></div><div>The ubiquito=
us nature of Web-enabled devices, including desktops, laptops, tablets, and=
 mobile phones, enables people to participate and interact with each other =
in various Web communities. Examples of such communities include forums, ne=
wsgroups, blogs, microblogs, bookmarking services, photo sharing platforms,=
 and location-based services. Hence, the rapidly evolving social Web provid=
es a platform for communication, information sharing, and collaboration. A =
vast amount of heterogeneous data (composed of e.g., text, photos, video, l=
inks) has been generated by the users of various social communities, which =
offers an unprecedented opportunity for studying novel theories and technol=
ogies for social Web search and mining.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for disc=
ussing and exploring social media topics related to Web search and informat=
ion retrieval, Web mining, social network analysis, semantic Web, natural l=
anguage processing, and computational advertising. In addition to paper pre=
sentations, we will solicit invited talks and a panel that will stress the =
interdisciplinary challenges of social search and mining.=C2=A0</div>
<div><br></div><div>* Special Theme: Social Web Search and Mining under Cri=
sis</div><div><br></div><div>Natural and man-made disasters are particularl=
y important classes of events that are of interest to affected populations,=
 governments, disaster response teams, and aid organizations. Information a=
bout such events can be gathered from various sources. While traditional ne=
ws sources provide authoritative disaster information, self-publishing medi=
a such as blogs, Facebook, and Twitter can contribute immediate, personaliz=
ed eye-witness information. However, there are many challenges involved whe=
n dealing with such data sources, especially when time is of the essence, a=
s is often the case with human crises. Information is often incomplete, con=
tradictory, fictitious, and changing. As a result, information is the least=
 organized when users need it most.</div>
<div><br></div><div>To highlight the importance of this emerging area, &quo=
t;Social Web Search and Mining Under Crisis&quot; will serve as the worksho=
p&#39;s special theme. Along these lines, the workshop seeks submissions th=
at leverage news, social media, and user generated content to predict, anal=
yze, understand, and help cope with events related to human crises, such as=
 earthquakes, campus shootings, hurricanes, influenza pandemics, terrorist =
attacks, and oil spills. Novel applications, methods, and use of real-world=
 data sets are particularly encouraged.</div>
<div><br></div><div>A special session during the workshop will be devoted t=
o papers that directly address the theme.</div><div><br></div><div>* Topics=
 of Interest</div><div><br></div><div>We welcome papers in all areas of soc=
ial Web search and data mining, especially those that address the special t=
heme or are inter-disciplinary in nature. Examples of relevant topics inclu=
de:</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Search and mining algorithms for large-scale social n=
etworks</div><div>- Real-time social search and mining infrastructures</div=
><div>- Microblog (e.g., Twitter, QQ, Jaiku) search and mining</div><div>
- Search across heterogeneous user generated content</div><div>- Content ag=
gregation, summarization, and reasoning across multiple data streams</div><=
div>- Personalized search for social interactions</div><div>- Credibility a=
nd provenance of social Web content</div>
<div>- Computational advertising for user generated content</div><div>- Cro=
ss-media search and mining of user generated content</div><div>- Collaborat=
ive filtering and recommender systems</div><div>- Community detection and n=
etwork evolution analysis</div>
<div>- Sentiment analysis/opinion mining</div><div>- Social network analysi=
s and social influence analysis</div><div>- Spam detection of social media<=
/div><div>- Geospatial and temporal analysis of social media</div><div>
- Applications of social search and mining</div><div>- Detecting and preven=
ting false alarms in social media</div><div><br></div><div>* Important date=
s</div><div><br></div><div>Submission deadline: May 15th, 2011</div><div>
Notification date: June 1st, 2011</div><div>Camera ready: June 14th, 2011</=
div><div>Workshop: July 28, 2011</div><div><br></div><div>* Content Guideli=
nes</div><div><br></div><div>Papers should be no more than 10 pages total i=
n length, where up to 8 pages (including appendices, if any) are used for t=
he content of the paper and the final two pages are used only for reference=
s. =C2=A0</div>
<div><br></div><div>In addition to full length papers, we will also conside=
r submissions of short papers (position papers, late-breaking results, etc.=
) of up to 6 pages in length, where up to 4 pages (including appendices, if=
 any) are used for the content of the paper and the final two pages are use=
d only for references.</div>
<div><br></div><div>All submissions must be prepared using the ACM camera=
=E2=80=90ready template (available at <a href=3D"http://www.acm.org/sigs/pu=
bs/proceed/template.html">http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.htm=
l</a>). Authors are required to submit their papers electronically in PDF f=
ormat. =C2=A0Papers should be submitted electronically at <a href=3D"https:=
//cmt.research.microsoft.com/SWSM2011/">https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/=
SWSM2011/</a>. All submissions should clearly present the author informatio=
n including the names of the authors, the affiliations and the emails.</div=
>
<div><br></div><div>* Organizing Committee</div><div><br></div><div>Fernand=
o Diaz, Yahoo! Labs, USA</div><div>Eduard Hovy, University of California, U=
SA</div><div>Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong</di=
v>
<div>Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, China</div><div>Donald Metzler, Univer=
sity of Southern California, USA</div><div>Marie-Francine Moens, Katholieke=
 Universiteit Leuven, Belgium</div><div>Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, Chin=
a</div>
<div>Lei Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia, China</div><div><br></div><div>* P=
rogram Committee</div><div><br></div><div>Omar Alonso, Microsoft, USA</div>=
<div>Roi Blanco, Yahoo!, Barcelona</div><div>Keke Cai, IBM China Research L=
ab, CN =C2=A0 =C2=A0</div>
<div>Carlos Castillo, Yahoo! Labs, Spain</div><div>Hong Cheng, The Chinese =
University of Hong Kong, HK =C2=A0</div><div>Isaac Councill, Pennsylvania S=
tate University, US</div><div>Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead, France</div><d=
iv>
Karl Gyllstrom, K.U. Leuven, Belgium</div><div>Kathy Mckeown, Columbia Univ=
ersity, USA</div><div>Gabriella Pasi, University di Milano Bicocca, Italy =
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0</div><div>Ana-Maria Popescu, Yahoo! Labs, USA</=
div><div>Kunal Punera, Yahoo! Research, USA =C2=A0</div>
<div>Hema Raghavan, IBM Research, USA</div><div>Maarten de Rijke, Universit=
y of Amsterdam, The Netherlands</div><div>Pavel Serdyukov, Yandex, Russia</=
div><div><br></div>

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