Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-11) July 17-21 2011 • Barcelona, Spain Collocated with IJCAI-11 Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ICWSM 2011, will be held on July 17-21, 2011 in Barcelona (Spain) and will be collocated with IJCAI 2011. The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media is a unique forum that brings together researchers from the disciplines in computer science, linguistics, communication, and the social sciences. The broad goal of ICWSM is to increase understanding of social media in all its incarnations. Submissions describing research that blends social science and technology are especially encouraged. Though this conference is relatively new, it has become one of the premier venues for social scientists and technologists to gather and discuss cutting-edge research in Social Media. This is largely due to a typical acceptance rate of 20% for full-length research papers and support from Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). For ICWSM 2011, in addition to the usual program of contributed technical talks, tutorials and invited presentations, the main conference will include a selection of keynote talks and invited talks from prominent social scientists and technologists. This year, for the first time, we will be expanding our workshop program and are planning an additional workshop day in addition to the usual tutorial and main conference. We also have an exciting roster of four workshops. Please check the website for details. Also, since we will be collocating with IJCAI (for more details on IJCAI 2011 see http://ijcai-11.iiia.csic.es/) there will be opportunities to connect with people in that community both formally and informally (joint social event is in the planning!). DISCIPLINES • Computational Linguistics/NLP • Text Mining/Data Mining • Psychology • Sociology (including Social Network Analysis) • Anthropology, Communications, Media Studies • Visualization • Political Science • Computational Social Science • HCI • Economics • Graph theory, concrete analysis and simulation of graphical models MEDIA • Weblogs, including comments • Social Networking Sites • Microblogs • Wikis (wikipedia) • Forums, usenet • Community media sites: youtube, flickr TOPICS INCLUDE • Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of social media • Analyzing the relationship between social media and mainstream media • Qualitative and quantitative studies of social media • Centrality/influence of social media publications and authors • Ranking/relevance of blogs; web page ranking based on blogs • Social network analysis; communities identification; expertise and authority discovery; collaborative filtering • Trust; reputation; recommendation systems • Human computer interaction; social media tools; navigation and visualization • Subjectivity in textual data; sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion identification and extraction • Text categorization; topic recognition; demographic/gender/age identification • Trend identification and tracking; time series forecasting; measuring predictability of phenomena based on social media • New social media applications; interfaces; interaction techniques KEYNOTES Sinan Aral, Stern Business School, NYU Manuel Castells University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg School for Communication [Tentative] IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: January 31, 2011 Full Paper Submission: February 7, 2011 Notification of Acceptance March 18, 2011 Camera Ready Due: April 4, 2011 Conference, Barcelona, July 17-20, 2011 Data Workshop Paper Submission: March 22, 2011 Workshop Paper Acceptance Notification: April 8, 2011 Tutorial Proposal Submission: February 18, 2011 Tutorial Acceptance: March 4, 2011 Workshop Paper Submission: March 22, 2011 Workshop Paper Acceptance Notification: April 8, 2011 SUBMISSION People interested in participating should submit through the ICWSM-11 website a technical paper (up to 8 pages, not including references), poster or demo description (up to 4 pages) by the deadlines given below (Midnight PST). Papers must be must be formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style (see the AAAI author instructions page athttp://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php). Details for the submission procedure will appear at the conference website: http://icwsm.org in December 2010. SUBMISSIONS TO OTHER CONFERENCES OR JOURNALS ICWSM-11 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-11 will once again hold a data challenge featuring a freely-available dataset and a half-day workshop at the conference. Details will be posted on the conference website. CONFERENCE WEBSITE http://www.icwsm.org/2011/index.shtml For general information regarding ICWSM-11, please write to icwsm11@aaai.org. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs Nicolas Nicolov (Microsoft) James G. Shanahan (Independent Consultant) Program Committee Area Chairs Lada Adamic (University of Michigan) Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo Research) Scott Counts (Microsoft Research) Local Chairs Alex Jaimes (Yahoo! Labs) Ricard Ruiz de Querol, (Barcelona Media Innovation Centre) Data Challenge Chair Ian Soboroff Demo Chair Ido Guy (IBM Reseach) Publicity Chairs danah boyd (Microsoft Research) Tutorial Chair John Breslin (NUI Galway) Webmaster Ritesh Agrawal (AT&T Interactive) Webdesigner Disco Gerdes (Mutual Mobile) VENUE Barcelona, Spain STUDENT AWARDS We will be providing a limited number of student awards to help cover the cost of travel, subsistence, and registration to the ICWSM 2011 conference. Details will be posted on the conference website. Kind regards, Jimi and Nicolas ICWSM 2011 Co-chairs Nicolas Nicolov (Microsoft) James G. Shanahan (Independent Consultant)