Paper Submission: January 8, 2010.

The conference brings together researchers working in a number of disciplines with a broad array of social data:

Disciplines:

• Computational Linguistics/NLP
• Text Mining/Data Mining
• SNA, Sociology
• Visualization
• HCI
• Graph theory, concrete analysis and simulation of graphical models

Media:

• Weblogs, including comments
• Microblogs
• Wikis (wikipedia)
• Forums, usenet
• Community media sites: youtube, flickr

Topics include:

• Personality-based and ethnographic studies of social media
• Analyzing the relationship between social media and mainstream 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

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