Sunday, 25th March 2007

Plenty of Interesting Reading: Papers from the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media begins on Monday at the Boulder, CO Marriott.

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.

Tutorials
1) Search and Discovery in the Blogspace
Gilad Mishne and Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam

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.

+ QA with Attitude: Exploiting Opinion Type Analysis for Improving Question Answering in On-line Discussions and the News
8 pages; PDF.

+ All Blogs Are Not Made Equal: Exploring Genre Differences in Sentiment Tagging of Blogs
4 pages; PDF.

+ Building Trust with Corporate Blogs
4 pages; PDF.

+ On the Evolution of Wikipedia
8 pages; PDF.

+ Social Browsing on Flickr
4 pages; PDF.

+ The Boardscape: Creating a Super Social Network of Message Boards
4 pages; PDF.

+ Looking at the Blogosphere Topology through Different Lenses
8 pages; PDF.

+ Structural Link Analysis from User Profiles and Friends Networks: A Feature Construction Approach
6 page; PDF.

+ Discovering Weblog Communities: A content- and topology-based approach
4 pages; PDF.

+ Fusion Approach to Finding Opinions in Blogosphere
8 page; PDF.

+ Modeling Trust and Influence in the Blogosphere Using Link Polarity

+ Watching the Blogosphere: Knowledge Sharing in the Web 2.0
8 pages; PDF.

+ Visual Analysis of Weblog Content
4 pages; PDF.

+ On Estimating The Geographic Distribution of Social Media

Tagging
+ An Activity-based Perspective of Collaborative Tagging
8 pages; PDF.

+ TagAssist: Automatic Tag Suggestion for Blog Posts
7 pages; PDF.

+ Tags are not metadata, but "just more content" - to some people
8 pages; PDF.

+ Using Ontologies to Strengthen Folksonomies and Enrich Information Retrieval in Weblogs: Theoretical background and corporate use-case
8 pages; PDF

+ Using Tags and Clustering to Identify Topic-Relevant Blogs, Conor Hayes and Paolo Avesani
8 pages; PDF.

+ Monitoring RSS Feeds Based on User Browsing Pattern
8 page; PDF.

+ Feeds That Matter: A Study of Bloglines Subscriptions
8 pages; PDF

+ No Blog is an Island - Analyzing Connections Across Information Networks
8 pages; PDF.

Selected Posters
+ Social Networks and Social Information Filtering on Digg
2 pages; PDF.

+ BLOGRANK: Ranking on the blogosphere
2 pages; PDF.

+ SocioBiblog: Enabling Communication on Bibliography with Semantic Blogging
2 pages; PDF.

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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• Search News (ResourceShelf)

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