CIKM 2008 Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2008): Call for participation

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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. 

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


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		  Search in Social Media (SSM 2008)<br>
            A workshop held in conjunction with CIKM 2008<br>
       <br>
                      CALL FOR PARTICIPATION<br>
<br>
			   October 30, 2008<br>
		       Napa Valley, California<br>
<br>
		 <a href="http://ir.mathcs.emory.edu/SSM2008/">http://ir.mathcs.<wbr>emory.edu/<wbr>SSM2008/</a><br>
<br>
Early registration deadline: August 22nd.<br>
<a href="http://www.cikm2008.org/registration.php">http://www.cikm2008<wbr>.org/registratio<wbr>n.php</a><br>
<br>
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together academic and industry<br>
researchers in information retrieval and social media to consider the<br>
following questions: How should we search in social media? What are the<br>
needs of users, and models of those needs, specific to social media search?<br>
What models make the most sense? How does search interact with existing uses<br>
of social media? What works and what doesn't? <br>
<br>
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION:<br>
                 Challenges in Searching Social Media <br>
        Andrew Tomkins, Chief Scientist of Search, Yahoo!<br>
<br>
ACCEPTED PAPERS (<a href="http://ir.mathcs.emory.edu/SSM2008/accepted.html">http://ir.mathcs.<wbr>emory.edu/<wbr>SSM2008/accepted<wbr>.html</a>):<br>
<br>
* What Should Blog Search Look Like? Marti Hearst, Matthew Hurst and Susan<br>
Dumais. (position paper)<br>
<br>
* Towards a Model of Understanding Social Search. Brynn M. Evans and Ed H.<br>
Chi. (position paper)<br>
<br>
* Mirroring Your Web Presence. Markus Bylund, Jussi Karlgren, Fredrik<br>
Olsson, Pedro Sanches and Carl-Henrik Arvidsson. (position paper)<br>
<br>
* Leveraging Social Context for Searching Social Media. Mark Smith, Vlad<br>
Barash, Lise Getoor and Hady Lauw. (position paper)<br>
<br>
* Similarity Cross-Analysis of Tag / Co-Tag Spaces in Social Classification<br>
Systems. Steffen Oldenburg, Martin Garbe and Clemens Cap.<br>
 <br>
* Tag Data and Personalized Information Retrieval. Mark Carman, Mark Baillie<br>
and Fabio Crestani.<br>
<br>
* Efficient Sampling of Information in Social Networks. Gautam Das, Nick<br>
Koudas, Manos Papagelis and Sushruth Puttaswamy.<br>
<br>
* Creating Tag Hierarchies for Effective Navigation in Social Media. K.<br>
Selcuk Candan, Luigi Di Caro and Maria Luisa Sapino.<br>
<br>
* SocialTagger - Collaborative Tagging for Blogs in the Long Tail. Shankara<br>
Subramanya and Huan Liu.<br>
<br>
* Purpose Tagging: Capturing User Intent to Assist Goal-Oriented Social<br>
Search. Markus Strohmaier.<br>
<br>
Topological Analysis of an Online Social Network for Older Adults. Marcella<br>
Wilson and Charles Nicholas.<br>
<br>
* Tree, funny, to_read, google: What are tags supposed to achieve? A<br>
Comparative Analysis of User Keywords for Different Digital Resource Types.<br>
Markus Heckner, Tanja Neubauer and Christian Wolff.<br>
<br>
* Explorations in Tag Suggestion and Query Expansion. Jian Wang and Brian<br>
Davison.<br>
<br>
* Tag-Geotag Correlation in Social Networks. Sang Su Lee, Dongwoo Won and<br>
Dennis McLeod. <br>
<br>
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Workshop details: <a href="http://ir.mathcs.emory.edu/SSM2008/">http://ir.mathcs.<wbr>emory.edu/<wbr>SSM2008/</a><br>
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