Some very interesting papers, posters, and demos being presented at this conference. Here's a list of some of them. You'll find more along with info about invited speakers and other events.
2) Spam in Blogs and Other Social Media
Pranam Kolari, Akshay Java, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi University of Maryland, Baltimore County Papers from the UM-BC ebiquity team.
A Selection of Papers from the Technical Program
For all of the papers and abstracts, visit this page.
Posters Inlcude:
+ SocioBiblog: Enabling Communication on Bibliography with Semantic Blogging
+ New Metrics for Newsblog Credibility
+ BLOGRANK: Ranking on the blogosphere,+ Social Networks and Social Information Filtering on Digg
+ Identification and Visualization of Emerging Trends from Blogosphere
+ Observations on Failure in Blogs
+ Extraction of Folksonomies from Noisy Texts
+ Event mining from the Blogosphere using topic words
+ A Case Study of Blog Comments in a National Crisis
+ Automatic Moderation of Comments in a Large On-line Journalistic Environment
Selected Demos
+ Large-Scale Sentiment Analysis for News and Blogs
++ http://www.textmap.com
+ Summarization System by Identifying Influential Blogs,
+ Visual Analysis of Weblog Content
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