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***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Delayed for 00:06:44 by milter-greylist-3.0rc3 (smtp.ufl.edu [128.227.74.56]); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:38:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Spam-Status: hits=0, required=5, tests= X-UFL-Spam-Status: hits=0, required=5, tests= X-Scanned-By: CNS Open Systems Group (http://open-systems.ufl.edu/services/smtp-relay/) X-UFL-Scanned-By: CNS Open Systems Group (http://open-systems.ufl.edu/services/smtp-relay/) 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. _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.