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for those of you thinking the beer selection yesterday was missing Guinness, I'll be probably spending some time at the Brit Arm from around 8 (I'm totally jet lagged so it will not be a long night for me). Feel free to join. The pub is walking distance from the hotel (~10min). http://www.sanjose.com/britannia-arms-downtown/

Fitzgerald Steele: I like beer. :)

Oren Tsur: [for those who seek me and not the drink] I'm still at the the posters session so I'll probably get to the place closer to 21:00 or 21:30.

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Hi, this is my first time in CA and I'm planning an half-day to San Francisco city. I propose you to share this experience on tuesday 19 (afternoon: san jose -> Fremont by taxi, Fremont -> San Francisco by metro (Bart)...evening/night: San Francisco -> San Jose by taxi because is the only option).

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This is a fundamental question that bugs me a lot*. I was wondering about the validity of social science insights that were learned by analyzing social media data. We are obviously thrilled to use the huge amounts of data available online to draw sociological conclusions and learn patterns of human interactions/preferences/... - but can we really generalize those observations to social patterns in general or should we restrict our insights to *o... [read more]

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ICWSM-12 THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL AAAI CONFERENCE ON WEBLOGS AND SOCIAL MEDIA 4-8 JUNE 2012: TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, IRELAND Final Call for Papers, Workshops and Tutorials ================================== Upcoming dates ---------------------- PAPER ABSTRACTS: January 13, 2012 FULL PAPERS: January 18, 2012 + TUTORIAL PROPOSALS: January 9, 2012 Papers ---------- Abstracts Due: January 13, 2012 Full Papers Due: January 18, 2012 (by midnight Pacific T... [read more]

Hi Folks! As I promised I make my pictures available: http://picasaweb.google.com/darja.krushevskaja . The pictures are grouped by the day(of my visit to Seattle) and there are also a lot of my Seattle /landscape pictures, hope you don't mind. I also would love to apologize to speakers for my flash or pictures. ;) If anyone interested in picture archives just let me know and I will email them to you. I will also consider the option of uploading p... [read more]

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How come they are not available on the accepted papers list at http://www.icwsm.org/2009/papers.shtml? Any suggestions on what is the best way to get them?

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N. Sadat Shami: Oops... I realized you were talking about last year's papers. They are available here: http://www.aaai.org/Library/ICWSM/icwsm09contents.php

Srikant Jakilinki: Cheers Sadat. Classic case of asking for something and getting more than expected - this year and last year papers.

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Hi everyone - Looking forward to meeting you all at ICWSM. Although I've co-authored papers in the past, I've never made it to ICWSM before. Alex Passant and I will be presenting the tutorial on the Social Semantic Web. http://socialsemanticweb.net/icwsm2010 We hope to give you a good overview of how the Semantic Web can augment and enhance social websites, including blogs, microblogs, CMSs, etc. One of our projects is called SIOC, which provides... [read more]

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John Breslin: Slides from today's tutorial are at http://www.slideshare.net/Cloud/the-social-semantic-web

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== Call for Workshop Proposals == = Workshops at the Fifth AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media = == July 17-21, 2011 in Barcelona, Spain == === Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence === == Important Dates for Workshop Organizers == * January 7, 2011: Workshop Proposal Submission * January 18, 2011: Workshop Acceptance * March 22, 2011: Workshop Paper Submission * April 8, 2011: Workshop ... [read more]

== Call for Tutorial Proposals == = Tutorials at the Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media = == July 17-21, 2011 in Barcelona, Spain == === Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence === == Important Dates for Tutorial Organizers == * February 18, 2011: Tutorial Proposal Submission * March 4, 2011: Tutorial Acceptance * July 17, 2011: ICWSM 2011 Tutorials Day The ICWSM 2011 Committee invi... [read more]

Heard at the poster session: "I came to this conference in order to get social scientist input into my approach and ideas for future research." If there are 2 tracks next year, suggest that the conference provide some way for dataset characteristics, research questions, approaches/operationalizations, and key takeaways to be discussed meaningfully and in detail across the tracks.

I'm trying to write blog posts of the keynotes and invited talks (should have done panels too like the Government / Social Media one but didn't think of that) as it's a bit more difficult to get a good feel of what has been said when there's no paper associated with the talk - I know there'll be videolectures.net later but sometimes it's handy to skim some text :) So far, have: http://socialmedia.net/2010/05/24/bob-kraut-talks-community-design-it... [read more]

Crowdvine is probably a good place to hear everyone's thoughts and opinions on ICWSM, what it is, where it is going. Please post!

Hey! If you wonder who was presenting which paper or you are interested in posters, go ahead and find it out! http://picasaweb.google.com/darja.krushevskaja/ICWSM09# d.

What do you love about this years conference? What drives you nuts? What will bring you back next year?

We're giving away Amazon gift certificates (random drawing) to participants in our first Twitter survey: http://tr.im/UWSurvey Survey closes at midnight Pacific on Friday 22 May.

I'm co-chairing a worksop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2009) at SIGIR this coming July in Boston. Short papers are due June 16th. Call for papers is at http://ir.mathcs.emory.edu/SSM2009/

Here's a relevant event! 1st CIKM workshop on topic-sentiment analysis will be held in Hong Kong this November. Welcome to visit the workshop website. http://sites.google.com/site/tsa2009workshop

Anyone know the San Jose area? I agree with Sharon that the $185 + tax is kinda spendy. Anyone know of any other hotels that might be a bit more cost effective?

Oren Tsur: I don't know much about SJ area but personally I'm staying at te Motel-6 some 2.5 miles from the conference venue. I'm intending to rent a bike so I commute faster and I could also see more of the city this way. Ah, motel 6 is 60$ a night. I don't kn... [read more]

Dan Knights: I'm staying at the Hotel Montgomery (http://www.hotelmontgomerysj.com/), about 1 block from the Marriott (http://tinyurl.com/ob649q). Currently $116.75/night on hotels.com. I called the hotel directly and they matched the hotels.com price.

I hope everyone will stick around for the data challenge workshop on the last day of the conference. Kevin Burton from Spinn3r will be speaking, and we'll have a wish-list discussion about data. On the subject of social media data, the TREC blog track (http://ir.dcs.gla.ac.uk/wiki/TREC-BLOG) has a brand-new dataset out this year. TREC develops data for measuring search tasks like blog finding. What's your dream dataset? Or maybe you have some dat... [read more]

Yelena Mejova: Indeed, I welcome everyone to stay for the workshops. (I will be presenting on topic tracking in the Spinn3r dataset). The BLOGS08 dataset is certainly very attractive (and sizable). It has quite a few features of my dream dataset. So, the features I... [read more]

The CFP is available now for the 2009 conference! http://icwsm.org/2009/cfp.shtml

Anyone at ICDE this week? If you plan to be there please do send me a note and we should catch up.

Looking back at ICWSM this year I noticed a few recurring themes: "Using Word Net and Wikipedia to do/improve X," "Sentiment Analysis," and "Political Analysis." What themes did you notice this year?

Fitzgerald Steele: I posted some thoughts...would love to hear what others have to say. http://jerryandsarasteele.typepad.com/deez_steeles/2008/04/icwsm-recap.html