Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Eytan Adar, Matthew Hurst, Tim Finin, Natalie Glance, Nicolas Nicolov, Belle Tseng
Seattle, Washington, March 30 – April 2, 2008. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California. This proceedings is also available in book and CD format.
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Contents
Conference Committee / ix
Sponsors / xiii
Preface / xv
Tutorials / xvii
Invited Talks / xix
Papers
Exploring Social Media Scenarios for the Television / 2
Noor F. Ali-Hasan
Document Representation and Query Expansion Models for Blog Recommendation / 10
Jaime Arguello, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jamie Callan, Jaime G. Carbonell
International Sentiment Analysis for News and Blogs / 19
Mikhail Bautin, Lohit Vijayarenu, Steven Skiena
Wikipedian Self-Governance in Action: Motivating the Policy Lens / 27
Ivan Beschastnikh, Travis Kriplean, David W. McDonald
A Large-Scale Study of MySpace: Observations and Implications for Online Social Networks / 36
James Caverlee, Steve Webb
What Elements of an Online Social Networking Profile Predict Target-Rater Agreement in Personality Impressions? / 45
David C. Evans, Samuel D. Gosling, Anthony Carroll
Space Planning for Online Community / 51
Danyel Fisher, Tammara Combs Turner, Marc A. Smith
BLEWS: Using Blogs to Provide Context for News Articles / 60
Michael Gamon, Sumit Basu, Dmitriy Belenko, Danyel Fisher, Matthew Hurst, Arnd Christian König
Polling the Blogosphere: A Rule-Based Approach to Belief Classification / 68
Jason S. Kessler
Finding Influencers and Consumer Insights in the Blogosphere / 76
Naohiro Matsumura, Hikaru Yamamoto, Daisuke Tomozawa
Link-PLSA-LDA: A New Unsupervised Model for Topics and Influence of Blogs / 84
Ramesh Nallapati, William Cohen
On the TREC Blog Track / 93
Iadh Ounis, Craig Macdonald, Ian Soboroff
The Psychology of Word Use in Depression Forums in English and in Spanish: Texting Two Text Analytic Approaches / 102
Nairán Ramírez-Esparza, Cindy K. Chung, Ewa Kacewicz, James W. Pennebaker
A Social Network Based Approach to Personalized Recommendation of Participatory Media Content / 109
Aaditeshwar Seth, Jie Zhang
Spontaneous Inference of Personality Traits and Effects on Memory for Online Profiles / 118
Kristin Stecher, Scott Counts
Thin Slices of Online Profile Attributes / 127
Kristin Stecher, Scott Counts
Wikipedia as an Ontology for Describing Documents / 136
Zareen Saba Syed, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi
The Politics of Sourcing: A Study of Journalistic Practices in the Blogosphere / 145
Gina Walejko, Thomas Ksiazek
Recovering Implicit Thread Structure in Newsgroup Style Conversations / 152
Yi-Chia Wang, Mahesh Joshi, William W. Cohen, Carolyn Rosé
Competing to Share Expertise: The Taskcn Knowledge Sharing Community / 161
Jiang Yang, Lada A. Adamic, Mark S. Ackerman
Posters
Mining and Visualizing Online Web Content Using BAM: Brand Association Map / 170
Navot Akiva, Eliyahu Greitzer, Yakir Krichman, Jonathan Schler
Computational Metaphor Identification in Communities of Blogs / 172
Eric Baumer, Bill Tomlinson
Examining Privacy in Blogging from the Reader’s Perspective / 174
Eric Baumer, Mark Sueyoshi, Bill Tomlinson
ASL-STEM Forum: A Bottom-Up Approach to Enabling American Sign Language to Grow in STEM Fields / 176
Jeffrey P. Bigham, Daniel S. Otero, Jessica N. DeWitt, Anna C. Cavender, Richard E. Ladner
Understanding the Efficiency of Social Tagging Systems using Information Theory / 178
Ed H. Chi, Todd Mytkowicz
Predicting Success and Failure in Weight Loss Blogs through Natural Language Use / 180
Cindy K. Chung, Clinton Jones, Alexander Liu, James W. Pennebaker
Extracting Topics and Innovators Using Topic Diffusion Process in Weblogs / 182
Tadanobu Furukawa, Yutaka Matsuo, Ikki Ohmukai, Koki Uchiyama, Mitsuru Ishizuka
Communicative Informatics: A Social Media Perspective for Online Communities / 184
Linda Gallant, Gloria Boone
An Automatic Classification of Book Texts to User-Defined Tags / 186
Sharon Givon, Theresa Wilson
StoryUpgrade: Finding Stories in Internet Weblogs / 188
Andrew S. Gordon, Reid Swanson
iBlogVis: An Interactive Blog Visualization Tool / 190
Indratmo, Julita Vassileva
Logsonomy: A Search Engine Folksonomy / 192
Robert Jäschke, Beate Krause, Andreas Hotho, Gerd Stumme
Approximating the Community Structure of the Long Tail / 194
Akshay Java, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin
Preliminary Semantic Analysis of Political Blogs / 196
Maojin Jiang, Shlomo Argamon
Second Space: A Generative Model for the Blogosphere / 198
Amit Karandikar, Akshay Java, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, Yaacov Yesha, Yelena Yesha
Cross-Lingual Blog Analysis based on Multilingual Blog Distillation from Multilingual Wikipedia Entries / 200
Mariko Kawaba, Hiroyuki Nakasaki, Takehito Utsuro, Tomohiro Fukuhara
Discovering Relationships among Tags and Geotags / 202
Sang Su Lee, Dongwoo Won, Dennis McLeod
Some Users Pack a Wallop: Measuring the Impact of Core Users on the Participation of Others in Online Social Systems / 204
Thomas M. Lento, Eric Gleave, Marc A. Smith, Howard T. Welser
The MultiRank Bootstrap Algorithm: Self-Supervised Political Blog Classification and Ranking Using Semi-Supervised Link Classification / 206
Frank Lin, William W. Cohen
Blog Link Classification / 208
Justin Martineau, Matthew Hurst
Analysis of Online Question-Answering Forums as Heterogeneous Networks / 210
Tsuyoshi Murata, Tomoyuki Ikeya
Extraction of Topical Consumer Products from Weblogs / 212
Shinichi Nagano, Masumi Inaba, Yumiko Mizoguchi, Takahiro Kawamura
Thematic and Social Indicators for Flickr Groups / 214
Christophe Prieur, Nicolas Pissard, Jean-Samuel Beuscart, Dominique Cardon, Pascal Pons
A Shallow Approach to Subjectivity Classification / 216
Stephan Raaijmakers, Wessel Kraaij
Collecting and Analyzing Japanese Splogs based on Characteristics of Keywords / 218
Yuuki Sato, Takehito Utsuro, Tomohiro Fukuhara, Yasuhide Kawada, Yoshiaki Murakami, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Noriko Kando
StYLiD: Structure Your Own Linked Data / 220
Aman Shakya, Hideaki Takeda, Vilas Wuwongse
Clustering Tags in Enterprise and Web Folksonomies / 222
Edwin Simpson
The Psychology of Blogging Communities: Social Identities and Knowledge Transfer across Work- Groups / 224
Bryan Sippel, Susan E. Brodt
Recommendation of Multimedia Items by Link Analysis and Collaborative Filtering / 226
Davin Wong, Ella Bingham, Saara Hyvönen
Demonstrations
GroupMe! — Combining Ideas of Wikis, Social Bookmarking, and Blogging / 230
Fabian Abel, Mischa Frank, Nicola Henze, Daniel Krause, Patrick Siehndel
Visualization of Social Interactions in Facebook / 232
Takashi Okamoto, Kyle Buza
Social Access Control for Social Media Using Shared Knowledge Questions / 234
Michael Toomim, Xianhang Zhang, James Fogarty, Nathan Morris
Index / 237
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