Pre-Conference Tutorials
Sunday, March 25th, 2007
1:30 PM - 3:30, Tutorial 1: Search and Discovery in the Blogspace
3:30 - 4:00, Break
4:00 - 6:00, Tutorial 2: Spam in Blogs and Other Social Media
Technical Program
Long talks are 25 minutes, short will be 20 (both including questions). The underlined authors were the ones who presented the paper.Monday, March 26th, 2007
8:30 AM - 8:45, Opening
8:45 - 9:45, danah boyd, "MySpace is *my* space"
9:45 - 10:45, Sentiment Analysis I
Session chair: Tim Finin- QA with Attitude: Exploiting Opinion Type Analysis for Improving Question Answering in On-line Discussions and the News, Swapna Somasundaran, Theresa Wilson, Janyce Wiebe and Veselin Stoyanov
- Sentiment Analysis: Adjectives and Adverbs are Better than Adjectives Alone, Farah Benamara, Carmine Cesarano, Antonio Picariello, Diego Reforgiato and VS Subrahmanian (SP)
- All Blogs Are Not Made Equal: Exploring Genre Differences in Sentiment Tagging of Blogs, Alina Andreevskaia, Sabine Bergler and Monica Urseanu (SP)
10:45 - 11:00, Break
11:00 - 12:30 PM, Groupware
Session chair: Maarten de Rijke- Building Trust with Corporate Blogs, Paul Dwyer
- Groups and Group-Instantiations in Mobile Communities - Detection, Modeling and Applications, Georg Groh
- A Usability Study of an Access Control System for Group Blogs, Indratmo and Julita Vassileva (SP)
- Personal Network Aggregation System for Real-time Communication Support, Toshiyuki Hirata, Ikki Ohmukai, Hideaki Takeda and Susumu Kunifuji (SP)
12:30 - 1:30, Lunch
1:30 - 2:30, Andrew Tomkins, "Social Media, Storage, and Data Analysis"
2:30 - 3:35, Community I
Session Chair: Lada Adamic- On the Evolution of Wikipedia, Rodrigo Almeida, Barzan Mozafari and Junghoo Cho
- Social Browsing on Flickr, Kristina Lerman and Laurie Jones (SP)
- The Boardscape: Creating a Super Social Network of Message Boards, John Breslin, Ron Kass and Uldis Bojars (SP)
3:35 - 4:05, Break/Poster and Demo Session I
4:05 - 5:40, Link Analysis I
Session chair: Natalie Glance- Traffic Characteristics and Communication Patterns in Blogosphere, Fernando Duarte, Bernardo Mattos, Azer Bestavros, Virgilio Almeida and Jussara Almeida (Best paper nominee)
- Looking at the Blogosphere Topology through Different Lenses, Xiaolin Shi, Belle Tseng and Lada Adamic
- Structural Link Analysis from User Profiles and Friends Networks: A Feature Construction Approach, William Hsu, Joseph Lancaster, Martin Paradesi and Tim Weninger
- Discovering Weblog Communities: A content- and topology-based approach, Jeroen Bulters and Maarten de Rijke (SP)
6:30 - 9:30, Banquet/Reception
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
8:30 AM - 9:30, Evan Williams, "Twitter"
9:30 - 10:35, Sentiment Analysis II
Session chair: Matt Hurst- Fusion Approach to Finding opinions in Blogosphere, Kiduk Yang, Ning Yu, Alejandro Valerio, Hui Zhang and Weimao Ke (Best paper nominee)
- Large-Scale Sentiment Analysis for News and Blogs, Namrata Godbole, Manja Srinivasaiah and Steven Skiena (SP)
- Modeling Trust and Influence in the Blogosphere Using Link Polarity, Anubhav Kale, Amit Karandikar, Pranam Kolari, Akshay Java, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi (SP)
10:35 - 11:00, Break
11:00 - 12:25 PM, Content Analysis I
Session chair: Marti Hearst- Watching the Blogosphere: Knowledge Sharing in the Web 2.0, Ralf Klamma, Yiwei Cao and Marc Spaniol
- Visual Analysis of Weblog Content, Michelle L. Gregory, Deborah Payne, David McColgin, Nicolas Cramer and Douglas Love (SP)
- Using Blog Properties to Improve Retrieval, Gilad Mishne (SP)
- Identifying Facets in Query-Biased Sets of Blog Posts, Wouter de Winter and Maarten de Rijke (SP)
12:25 - 1:30 PM, Lunch
1:30 - 3:25, Authorial Analysis
Session chair: Bettina Berendt- Of Men, Women, and Computers: Data-Driven Gender Modeling for Improved User Interfaces, Hugo Liu and Rada Mihalcea
- Identifying more bloggers: Towards large scale personality classification of personal weblogs, Scott Nowson and Jon Oberlander.
- On Estimating The Geographic Distribution of Social Media, Matthew Hurst, Matthew Siegler and Natalie Glance
- Personality Impressions Based on Facebook Profiles, Samuel D. Gosling, Sam Gaddis and Simine Vazire (SP)
- How to Overcome Tiredness: Estimating Topic-Mood Associations, Krisztian Balog and Maarten de Rijke (SP)
3:35 - 4:05, Break/Poster and Demo Session II
4:05 - 5:20, Link Analysis II
Session chair: Belle Tseng- On the Structure, Properties and Utility of Internal Corporate Blogs, Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Kelly Lyons, Yelena Yesha, Yaacov Yesha, Stephen Perelgut and Jen Hawkins (Best paper nominee)
- Finding patterns in blog shapes and blog evolution, Mary McGlohon, Jure Leskovec, Christos Faloutsos, Matthew Hurst and Natalie Glance
- Expressing Social Relationships on the Blog through Links and Comments, Noor Ali-Hasan and Lada Adamic (Best paper nominee)
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
8:30 AM - 10:35, Tagging
Session chair: Scott Carter- An Activity-based Perspective of Collaborative Tagging, Shreeharsh Kelkar, Ajita John and Doree Seligmann
- TagAssist: Automatic Tag Suggestion for Blog Posts, Sanjay Sood, Sara Owsley, Kristian Hammond and Larry Birnbaum (Best paper winner)
- Tags are not metadata, but "just more content" - to some people, Bettina Berendt and Christoph Hanser
- Using Ontologies to Strengthen Folksonomies and Enrich Information Retrieval in Weblogs: Theoretical background and corporate use-case, Alexandre Passant
- Using Tags and Clustering to Identify Topic-Relevant Blogs, Conor Hayes and Paolo Avesani
10:35 - 11:00, Break
11:00 - 12:30 PM, Content Analysis II
Session chair: Gilad Mishne- Monitoring RSS Feeds Based on User Browsing Pattern, Ka Cheung Sia, Junghoo Cho, Koji Hino, Yun Chi, Shenghuo Zhu and Belle Tseng
- Feeds That Matter: A Study of Bloglines Subscriptions, Akshay Java, Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi and Tim Oates
- Intertemporal Topic Correlations in Online Media: A Comparative Study on Weblogs and News Websites, Jean-Philippe Cointet, Emmanuel Faure and Camille Roth (SP)
- Event Detection and Visualization for Social Text Streams, Qiankun Zhao and Prasenjit Mitra (SP)
12:30 - 1:30, Lunch
1:30 - 2:20, Link Analysis III
Session chair: Eytan Adar- No Blog is an Island - Analyzing Connections Across Information Networks, Smriti Bhagat, Graham Cormode, S. Muthukrishnan, Irina Rozenbaum and Hongyi Xue
- Social Networks and Reading Bahavior in Blogosphere, Tadanobu Furukawa, Yutaka Matsuo, Ikki Ohmukai, Koki Uchiyama and Mitsuru Ishizuka
2:20 - 2:30, Closing
We ask that poster presenters be available during their assigned session to answer questions. The posters themselves will stay up for the duration of the conference. Demo presenters should make an effort to be available on both days during this time.
March 26th, 3:35PM - 4:05, Break/Poster and Demo Session I
Posters- Narrowing the Social Gap among People Involved in Global Dialog: Automatic Emotion Detection in Blog Posts, Alena Neviarouskaya, Helmut Prendinger and Mitsuru Ishizuka
- Social Networks and Social Information Filtering on Digg, Kristina Lerman
- Sociological Typology of Personal Blogs, Dominique Cardon, H�l�ne Delaunay-Teterel, C�dric Fluckiger and Christophe Prieur
- SocioBiblog: Enabling Communication on Bibliography with Semantic Blogging, Aman Shakya, Hideaki Takeda, Vilas Wuwongse and Ikki Ohmukai
- BLOGRANK: Ranking on the blogosphere, Apostolos Kritikopoulos, Martha Sideri and Iraklis Varlamis
- Add-A-Tag: Learning Adaptive User Profiles from Bookmark Collections, Elke Michlmayr, Steve Cayzer and Paul Shabajee
- Identification and Visualization of Emerging Trends from Blogosphere, Makoto Uchida, Naoki Shibata and Susumu Shirayama
- Understanding Sentiment of People from News Articles: Temporal Sentiment Analysis of Social Events, Tomohiro Fukuhara, Hiroshi Nakagawa and Toyoaki Nishida
- Following Conversational Traces: Creating a corpus with the ICWSM dataset, Stephanie Hendrick
- Observations on Failure in Blogs, Vahed Qazvinian, Abtin Rassoulian and Jafar Adibi
- Taggin' Tallinn. Piloting Meaning-Building with Locative Content, Mauri Kaipainen and Kai Pata
- Extraction of Folksonomies from Noisy Texts, Wim De Smet and Marie-Francine Moens
- Event mining from the Blogosphere using topic words, Yoshihiko Suhara, Hiroyuki Toda and Akito Sakurai
March 27th, 3:35PM - 4:05, Break/Poster and Demo Session II
Posters- Personalized Tag Recommendations via Tagging and Content-based Similarity Metrics, Andrew Byde, Hui Wan and Steve Cayzer
- New Metrics for Newsblog Credibility, Brian Ulicny and Ken Baclawski
- An Empirical Investigation of Social Networks in the Blogosphere, Uldis Bojars, Andreas Harth, Sheila Kinsella and Sriniva Raghavendra
- A Case Study of Blog Comments in a National Crisis, Noor Ali-Hasan and Lada Adamic
- Analyzing Temporal Collocations in Weblogs, Chun-Yuan Teng and Hsin-Hsi Chen
- Automatic Moderation of Comments in a Large On-line Journalistic Environment, Adriano Veloso, Wagner Meira, Tiago Macambira, Dorgival Guedes and Helio Almeida
- Automatic Estimation of Bloggers' Gender, Daisuke Kobayashi, Naohiro Matsumura and Mitsuru Ishizuka
- Tour de Blog, Atsushi Hoshino, Mizuki Oka and Kazuhiko Kato
- Aikuchi: Marking-based Social Navigation System, Yuki Matsuoka, Ryuuki Sakamoto, Sadanori Ito, Hideaki Takeda and Kiyoshi Kogure
- Diffusion of Recommendation through a Trust Network, Yutaka Matsuo and Hikaru Yamamoto
- Analyzing Trends in the Blogosphere Using Human-Centered Analysis and Visualization Tools, Xavier Llor�, Noriko Imafuji Yasui and David E. Goldberg
- Investigations in Collaborative Multi-Party Discourse, Andrew Cowell and Michelle L. Gregory
- Large-Scale Sentiment Analysis for News and Blogs (system demonstration) Namrata Godbole, Manjunath Srinivasaiah and Steven Skiena
- The OASYS 2.0 Opinion Analysis System, Carmine Cesarana, Antonio Picariello, Diego Reforgiato and VS Subrahmanian
- Towards Spam Detection at Ping Servers, Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Akshay Java and Anupam Joshi
- Visual Analysis of Weblog Content, David McColgin, Nick Cramer, Michelle L. Gregory, Deborah Payne and Douglas Love
- Summarization System by Identifying Influential Blogs, Xiaodan Song, Yun Chi, Koji Hino and Belle Tseng
- MoodViews: Tracking and Searching Mood-Annotated Blog Posts, Gilad Mishne, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke and Breyten Ernsting
- Sentiment Mining and Indexing in Opinmind, I-Heng Mei, Hongcheng Mi and Julius Quiaot