ICWSM-12
THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL AAAI CONFERENCE ON WEBLOGS AND
SOCIAL MEDIA
4-8 JUNE 2012: TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, IRELAND
Call for Papers
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Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of
Artificial
Intelligence
Technical Paper Submission Site: Available November 1,
2011
Abstracts Due: January 13, 2012
Full Papers Due: January 18, 2012 (by midnight Pacific
Time)
The International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social
Media
(ICWSM) is a unique forum that brings together researchers
from
the disciplines of 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
computational approaches are especially encouraged.
Though this conference is just in its sixth year, 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 published in our conference
proceedings and support from the Association for the
Advancement
of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
For ICWSM-12, in addition to the usual program of
contributed
technical talks, posters and invited presentations, the
main
conference will include a selection of keynote talks from
prominent social scientists and technologists. Building
on the
success of the first workshops program in 2011 and our regular
tutorials day, ICWSM-12 will also hold a workshops and
tutorials
day just before the main conference.
Disciplines
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* Computational linguistics/NLP
* Text mining/data mining
* Psychology
* Sociology (including social network analysis)
* Communication
* Anthropology
* Media studies
* Visualization
* Political science
* Computational social science
* HCI
* Economics
* Graph theory, concrete analysis and simulation of
graphical
models
Media
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* Weblogs, including comments
* Social networking sites
* Microblogs
* Wikis (Wikipedia)
* Forums, mailing lists, newsgroups
* Community media sites (YouTube, Flickr)
Topics Include
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* 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 and microblogs; web page
ranking
based on blogs and
microblogs
* 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
* Social innovation and effecting change through social
media
Keynotes
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* Andrew Tomkins (Google+)
* More to be announced
Author Submission Account
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Authors must set up an account (or add ICWSM-12 to your
list of
conferences) at the ICWSM-12 web-based technical paper
submission
site, which will be available November 1, 2011. Please
make a
note of your password, as this will allow you to log on
to submit
an abstract and paper. In order to avoid a rush at the
last
minute, authors are encouraged to set up their account as
soon as
possible, and well in advance of the January 13, 2012
abstract
deadline.
Abstract and Paper Submission
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Electronic abstract submission through the ICWSM-12 paper
submission site is required on or preferably before
January 13,
2012 at 11:59 PM PST. Full papers are due via the
submission site
no later than Monday, January 18, 2012 at midnight PST.
We cannot
accept submissions by e-mail or fax. Authors will receive
confirmation of receipt of their abstracts and papers,
including
a paper number, shortly after submission. AAAI will
contact
authors again only if problems are encountered with
papers.
Content Guidelines
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Submissions to other conferences or journals: ICWSM-12
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. If in doubt please contact the PC Chairs.
If duplicate submissions are identified during the review
process
then:
* All submissions from that author will be disqualified
from the
current ICWSM
conference;
* And authors will not be permitted to submit papers to
the ICWSM
conference in the
following year.
_Format:_ Papers must be in trouble-free, high resolution
PDF
format, formatted for US Letter (8.5" x 11")
paper, using Type 1
or TrueType fonts. Full papers must be no longer than 8
pages,
including references, poster papers must be no longer
than 4
pages, and demo descriptions must be no longer than 2
pages, and
all must be submitted by the deadlines given above, and
formatted
in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style (see the author
instructions page ). Please note that the formatting and
submission instructions at the author site are for final,
accepted papers; no additional pages can be purchased at
the
review stage. In addition, the copyright slug may be
omitted in
the initial submission phase and no copyright form is
required
until a paper is accepted for publication.
_Anonymity:_ ICWSM-12 review is double-blind. Therefore,
please
anonymize your submission: do not put the author(s) names
or
affiliation(s) at the start of the paper, and do not
include
funding or other acknowledgments in papers submitted for
review.
Citations to authors’ own prior relevant work should be
included,
either by not specifying that this is the authors’ own
work, or
where this is not possible, by anonymizing the citation
itself.
It is up to the authors' discretion how much to further
modify
the body of the paper to preserve anonymity. The
requirement for
anonymity does not extend outside of the review process,
e.g. the
authors can decide how widely to distribute their papers
over the
Internet before the program committee meeting. Even in
cases
where the author’s identity is known to a reviewer, the
double
blind process will serve as a symbolic reminder of the
importance
of evaluating the submitted work on its own merits
without regard
to authors’ reputation.
_Language:_ All submissions must be in English.
Conference Registration
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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
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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.
Datasets
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This year, for the first time, we will be providing a
service for
hosting datasets pertaining to research presented at the
conference. Authors of accepted papers will be encouraged
to
share the datasets on which their papers are based, while
adhering to the terms and conditions of the data
provider. Of
these datasets, one will be selected for an award which
will be
based on the quality, scope, and timeliness of each
dataset. More
information will be available on our website.
Conference Website
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For general information regarding ICWSM-12, please write
to
Committee
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General Chair:
John Breslin, NUI
Galway
Programme Chairs:
Nicole Ellison,
Michigan State University
James G. Shanahan,
Church and Duncan Group Inc.
Zeynep Tufekci,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Local Chairs:
Derek Greene,
University College Dublin
Conor Hayes,
Digital Enterprise Research Institute
Sponsorship Chair:
Meenakshi
Nagarajan, IBM
Data Chairs:
Derek Ruths,
McGill University
Ian Soboroff, NIST
Demos Chair:
Alejandro Jaimes,
Yahoo!
Social Media / Publicity Chair:
Max L. Wilson,
Swansea University
Tutorials Chair:
Bernie Hogan,
Oxford Internet Institute
Workshops Chair:
Sofus Macskassy,
USC and Fetch Labs
Regional Chairs:
Americas: Raquel
Recuero, Universidade Católica de Pelotas
Asia Pacific:
Hideaki Takeda, National Institute for Informatics
Europe: Jan-Hinrik
Schmidt, Hans-Bredow-Institut
Middle East and
Africa: Sihem Amer-Yahia, Qatar Computing
Research
Institute
Webmaster:
Ritesh Agrawal,
AT&T Labs Research
Venue
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Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Student Awards
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We will be providing an increased number of student
awards this
year to help cover the cost of travel, subsistence, and
registration to the ICWSM-12 conference. Details will be
posted
on the conference website.
Important Dates
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Papers / Posters / Demos:
Abstract
Submission: January 13, 2012
Full Paper, Poster
and Demo Submission: January 18, 2012 (by
midnight Pacific
Time)
Notification of
Acceptance: February 27, 2012
Camera Ready Due:
March 12, 2012
ICWSM-12, Dublin:
June 4-8, 2012
Tutorials:
Tutorial Proposal
Submission: January 9, 2012
Tutorial
Acceptance: January 23, 2012
Workshops:
Workshop Proposal
Submission: December 14, 2011
Workshop
Acceptance: January 6, 2012
Workshop Paper
Submission: March 2, 2012
Workshop Paper
Acceptance Notification: March 16, 2012
Workshop Paper
Final Camera-Ready Copy Due: April 2, 2012
