CFP: Second International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

CFP: Second International Conference on Weblogs and
Social Media 
March 31-April 2, 2008
Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.

http://www.icwsm.org/2008/ 

Call For Papers 

The rapid creation and consumption of social media
content continues to drive the evolution of the
Internet and the Web. Social media content now
accounts for the majority of content published daily
on the web. 

As the space evolves, researcher and industrial
practitioners find themselves at a key point for
collaborating on research, implementation and
deployment of a wide range of analyses and
applications. The International Conference on Weblogs
and Social Media invites researchers in the broad
field of social media analysis to submit papers for
its second meeting. Following in the tradition of
earlier workshops and the first meeting in Boulder,
USA in 2007, we anticipate an exciting, high quality
event which will bring together academic and
industrial practitioners to present and to discuss new
research, applications, thoughts and ideas that are
shaping the future of social media analysis. 

Areas of interest 

The conference aims to bring together researchers from
different subject areas including computer science,
linguistics, psychology, statistics, sociology,
multimedia and semantic web technologies and foster
discussions about ongoing research in the following
areas: 

[01] Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic
studies of social media 
[02] Analyzing relationship between social media and
mainstream media 
[03] Centrality/influence of bloggers/blogs;
ranking/relevance of blogs; web pages ranking based on
blogs 
[04] Data acquisition: 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;
collaborative creation of structured knowledge 
[09] Sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion
identification and extraction 
[10] Social network analysis; communities
identification; expertise discovery; collaborative
filtering 
[11] Text categorization; topic recognition;
gender/age identification 
[12] Time series forecasting; measuring predictability
of phenomena based on social media 
[13] Trend identification/tracking 
[14] Visualization 
[15] New social media applications; interfaces;
interaction techniques 
[16] Trust; reputation; recommendation systems 

Important Dates 


Paper Submission: December 3, 2007 
Tutorial Proposals: December 3, 2007 
Poster/Demo Submission: January 6, 2007 
Paper Acceptance: February 1, 2008 
Poster/Demo Acceptance: February 8, 2008 
Camera Ready Copies: February 15, 2008 
Tutorials: 30 March, 2008 
Conference: 31 March, 2008 - 2 April, 2008 

Submission 

Individuals interested in participating should submit
through the conference website a technical paper (up
to 8 pages), poster or demo description (up to 2
pages) by the deadlines given above (Midnight PST).
Each submission should indicate a list of relevant
areas from the list above.