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{{Event
|Acronym=ICWSM 2009
|Title=3rd Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
|Series=ICWSM
|Type=Conference
|Field=World wide web
|Start date=2009/05/17
|End date=2009/05/20
|Homepage=www.icwsm.org/2009
|City=San Jose
|State=California
|Country=USA
|Submission deadline=2009/01/21
|Poster deadline=2009/01/21
|Demo deadline=2009/01/21
|Notification=2009/02/27
|Camera ready=2009/03/10
}}
The social and community driven aspects of our digital lives continue to
rapidly increase, resulting in transformative behaviours and,
significantly, publishing and distributing huge amounts of fascinating
data. The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media will meet
once more in 2009 to discuss the latest research analyzing and
leveraging this resource. As with previous meetings, we will bring
together a wide range of researchers and industry practitioners from
many disciplines providing a unique opportunity for sharing ideas and
collaboration in this space.

Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence


==Topics==

Disciplines which are relevant to our meeting include computer science,
linguistics, psychology, statistics, sociology, multimedia and semantic
web technologies. The following are key areas of interest:
* [01] Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of social media
* [02] Analyzing relationship between social media and mainstream media
* [03] Centrality/influence of social media publications and authors both within genres and between genres of data
* [04] Ranking/relevance of blogs; web page ranking based on blogs
* [05] Data acquisition: crawling/spidering and indexing
* [06] Human computer interaction; social media tools; navigation and visualization 
* [07] Multimedia: tools and techniques for distribution, sharing, and analysis of social activity with/around multimedia. 
* [08] Semantic analysis; cross-system and cross-media name tracking; named relations and fact extraction; discourse analysis; summarization 
* [09] Semantic Web; unstructured knowledge management; collaborative creation of structured knowledge 
* [10] Subjectivity in textual data; sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion identification and extraction 
* [11] Social network analysis; communities identification; expertise and authority discovery; collaborative filtering
* [12] Text categorization; topic recognition; demographic/gender/age identification
* [13] Trend identification and tracking; time series forecasting; measuring predictability of phenomena based on social media
* [14] New social media applications; interfaces; interaction techniques
* [15] Trust; reputation; recommendation systems

==Important dates==
* Tutorial Proposals: December 1, 2008
* Paper Submission: January 21, 2009
* Poster/Demo Submission: January 21, 2009
* Paper Acceptance: February 27, 2009
* Poster/Demo Acceptance: February 27, 2009
* Camera Ready Copies: March 10, 2009
* Tutorials: May 17, 2009
* Conference: May 18-20, 2009

==Submission==
People interested in participating should submit through the ICWSM-09
website a technical paper (up to 8 pages), poster or demo description
(up to 2 pages) by the deadlines given above (Midnight PST). Papers must
be must be formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style (see the
AAAI author instructions page at
http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php). Authors must
register at the ICWSM-09 technical paper submission web site (available
by November 15, 2008). The software will assign a password, which will
enable the author to log on to submit an abstract and paper. In order to
avoid a rush at the last minute, authors are encouraged to register as
soon as possible.

Submissions to Other Conferences or Journals
ICWSM-09 will not accept any paper that, at the time of submission, is
under review for or has already been published or accepted for
publication in a journal or conference. This restriction does not apply
to submissions for workshops and other venues with a limited audience.

* REGISTRATION
All accepted papers and extended abstracts will be published in the
conference proceedings. At least one author must register for the
conference by the deadline for camera-ready copy submission. In
addition, the registered author must attend the conference to present
the paper in person.

* PUBLICATION
All accepted papers and abstracts will be allocated eight (8) pages in
the conference proceedings. Authors will be required to transfer
copyright of their paper to AAAI.

* DATA CHALLENGE
ICWSM-09 is planning to release a large blog dataset in conjunction with
the conference. This data will include the full content and markup of
the blog post as well as extracted text. The conference invites
researchers to explore the dataset and submit their findings as
technical papers. More information will appear soon on the conference
website.

* KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AND TUTORIAL SPEAKERS
Traditionally the conference invites world renowned experts to present
tutorials and give keynote talks. These will be announced soon.

==Commitee==
* General Co-Chairs
** [[has general chair::William W. Cohen]], Carnegie Mellon/Google
** [[has general chair::Nicolas Nicolov]], J.D.Power and Assoc., McGraw-Hill 

* Program Chairs
** [[has program chair::Natalie Glance]], Google
** [[has program chair::Matthew Hurst]], Live Labs, Microsoft 

* Data Chairs
** [[has OC member::Ian Soboroff]], NIST
** [[has OC member::Akshay Java]], UMBC 

* Local Chair
** [[has local chair::Cameron Marlow]], Facebook 

* Program Committee Members
** [[has PC member::Lada Adamic]], University of Michigan, USA
** [[has PC member::Navot Akiva]], Pudding Media, Israel
** [[has PC member::Noor Ali-Hasan]], Microsoft, USA
** [[has PC member::Bettina Berendt]], Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Germany
** [[has PC member::Chris Brooks]], University of San Francisco, USA
** [[has PC member::Claire Cardie]], Cornell University, USA
** [[has PC member::Steve Cayzer]], HP Labs, UK
** [[has PC member::Lili Cheng]], Microsoft, USA
** [[has PC member::Maarten de Rijke]], University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
** [[has PC member::Thierry Declerck]], DFKI GmbH, Germany
** [[has PC member::Brian Dennis]], Lockheed Martin Corporation, USA
** [[has PC member::Chris Diehl]], The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA
** [[has PC member::Joan Morris DiMicco]], IBM Research, USA
** [[has PC member::Nathan Eagle]], Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
** [[has PC member::Miriam Eckert]], J.D. Power and Assoc., McGraw-Hill, USA
** [[has PC member::Raymond Elferink]], RayCom B.V., The Netherlands
** [[has PC member::Andrew Fiore]], University of California, Berkeley, USA
** [[has PC member::Michael Gamon]], Microsoft, USA
** [[has PC member::Kathy E Gill]], University of Washington, USA
** [[has PC member::Scott Golder]], Cornell University, USA
** [[has PC member::Marko Grobelnik]], J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia
** [[has PC member::Michelle Gumbrecht]], Palo Alto Research Center, USA
** [[has PC member::John Henderson]], MITRE, USA
** [[has PC member::Nancy Ide]], Vassar College, USA
** [[has PC member::Steliana Ivanova]], Umbria Inc., USA
** [[has PC member::Heng Ji]], The City University of New York, USA
** [[has PC member::Anupam Joshi]], University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
** [[has PC member::Jussi Karlgren]], Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
** [[has PC member::Jason Kessler]], Indiana University, USA
** [[has PC member::Pranam Kolari]], Yahoo!, USA
** [[has PC member::Christian Konig]], Microsoft, USA
** [[has PC member::Moshe Koppel]], Bar-Ilan University, Israel
** [[has PC member::Gueorgi Kossinets]], Google, USA
** [[has PC member::Andrea La Pietra]], University of California, Berkeley, USA
** [[has PC member::Thomas Lento]], Facebook, USA
** [[has PC member::Kristina Lerman]], University of Southern California, USA
** [[has PC member::Jure Leskovec]], Carnegie Mellon University, USA
** [[has PC member::Naohiro Matsumura]], Osaka University, Japan
** [[has PC member::Charles Mi]], Opinmind, USA
** [[has PC member::Rada Mihalcea]], University of North Texas, USA
** [[has PC member::Gilad Mishne]], Yahoo!, USA
** [[has PC member::Paola Monachesi]], Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
** [[has PC member::Mor Naaman]], Rutgers University, USA
** [[has PC member::Kate Niederhoffer]], Nielsen, USA
** [[has PC member::Scott Nowson]], Appen, Australia
** [[has PC member::Manabu Okumura]], Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
** [[has PC member::Livia Polanyi]], Powerset/Microsoft, USA
** [[has PC member::John Prager]], IBM Research, USA
** [[has PC member::Stephan Raaijmakers]], TNO ICT, The Netherlands
** [[has PC member::Drago Radev]], University of Michigan, USA
** [[has PC member::Laura Ripamonti]], UniversitÃ  degli Studi di Milano, Italy
** [[has PC member::Tamas Sarlos]], Yahoo!, USA
** [[has PC member::Jonathan Schler]], Peer39, Israel
** [[has PC member::David A. Shamma]], Yahoo! Research, USA
** [[has PC member::James G. Shanahan]], USA
** [[has PC member::Xiaolin Shi]], University of Michigan, USA
** [[has PC member::Sanjay Sood]], allvoices, USA
** [[has PC member::Ellen Spertus]], Google, USA
** [[has PC member::Siddharth Suri]], Yahoo!, USA
** [[has PC member::Hideaki Takeda]], National Institute of Informatics, Japan
** [[has PC member::Jiang Yang]], University of Michigan, USA
** [[has PC member::Cheng Zhai]], University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
** [[has PC member::Jun Zhang]], University of Michigan, USA
** [[has PC member::Ding Zhou]], Facebook, USA
Acronym	ICWSM 2009 +
Camera ready due	March 10, 2009 +
Demo deadline	January 21, 2009 +
End date	May 20, 2009 +
Event in series	ICWSM +
Event type	Conference +
Has OC member	Ian Soboroff + and Akshay Java +
Has PC member	Lada Adamic +, Navot Akiva +, Noor Ali-Hasan +, Bettina Berendt +, Chris Brooks +, Claire Cardie +, Steve Cayzer +, Lili Cheng +, Maarten de Rijke +, Thierry Declerck +, Brian Dennis +, Chris Diehl +, Joan Morris DiMicco +, Nathan Eagle +, Miriam Eckert +, Raymond Elferink +, Andrew Fiore +, Michael Gamon +, Kathy E Gill +, Scott Golder +, Marko Grobelnik +, Michelle Gumbrecht +, John Henderson +, Nancy Ide +, Steliana Ivanova +, Heng Ji +, Anupam Joshi +, Jussi Karlgren +, Jason Kessler +, Pranam Kolari +, Christian Konig +, Moshe Koppel +, Gueorgi Kossinets +, Andrea La Pietra +, Thomas Lento +, Kristina Lerman +, Jure Leskovec +, Naohiro Matsumura +, Charles Mi +, Rada Mihalcea +, Gilad Mishne +, Paola Monachesi +, Mor Naaman +, Kate Niederhoffer +, Scott Nowson +, Manabu Okumura +, Livia Polanyi +, John Prager +, Stephan Raaijmakers +, Drago Radev +, Laura Ripamonti +, Tamas Sarlos +, Jonathan Schler +, David A. Shamma +, James G. Shanahan +, Xiaolin Shi +, Sanjay Sood +, Ellen Spertus +, Siddharth Suri +, Hideaki Takeda +, Jiang Yang +, Cheng Zhai +, Jun Zhang + and Ding Zhou +
Has coordinates	37° 20' 10", -121° 53' 26"Latitude: 37.336191666667 Longitude: -121.89058333333 +
Has general chair	William W. Cohen + and Nicolas Nicolov +
Has local chair	Cameron Marlow +
Has location city	San Jose +
Has location country	Category:USA +
Has location state	California +
Has program chair	Natalie Glance + and Matthew Hurst +
Homepage	http://www.icwsm.org/2009 +
IsA	Event +
Notification	February 27, 2009 +
Poster deadline	January 21, 2009 +
Start date	May 17, 2009 +
Submission deadline	January 21, 2009 +
Title	3rd Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media +