Proceedings of the Third 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

San Jose, California, May 17 – 20, 2009. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California.

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Full Papers

A Social Identity Approach to Identify Familiar Strangers in a Social Network — [PDF]
Nitin Agarwal, Huan Liu, Sudheendra Murthy, Arunabha Sen, Xufei Wang

Does Showing Off Help to Make Friends? Experimenting a Sociological Game on Self-Exhibition and Social Networks — [PDF]
Christophe Aguiton, Dominique Cardon, Aymeric Castelain, Pierre Fremaux, Hélène Girard, Fabien Granjon, Charles Nepote, Zbigniew Smoreda, Dilara Trupia, Cezary Ziemlicki

What Are They Blogging About? Personality, Topic and Motivation in Blogs — [PDF]
Alastair J. Gill, Scott Nowson, Jon Oberlander

Modeling Blog Dynamics — [PDF]
Michaela Goetz, Jure Leskovec, Mary McGlohon, Christos Faloutsos

Content Based Recommendation and Summarization in the Blogosphere — [PDF]
Ahmed Hassan, Dragomir Radev, Junghoo Cho, Amruta Joshi

Personal Information Management vs. Resource Sharing: Towards a Model of Information Behavior in Social Tagging Systems — [PDF]
Markus Heckner, Michael Heilemann, Christian Wolff

Stochastic Models of User-Contributory Web Sites — [PDF]
Tad Hogg, Kristina Lerman

Diversity of User Activity and Content Quality in Online Communities — [PDF]
Tad Hogg, Gabor Szabo

Predicting Outcome for Collaborative Featured Article Nomination in Wikipedia — [PDF]
Meiqun Hu, Ee-Peng Lim, Ramayya Krishnan

Using Transactional Information to Predict Link Strength in Online Social Networks — [PDF]
Indika Kahanda, Jennifer Neville

A Categorical Model for Discovering Latent Structure in Social Annotations — [PDF]
Said Kashoob, James Caverlee, Ying Ding

Targeting Sentiment Expressions through Supervised Ranking of Linguistic Configurations — [PDF]
Jason S. Kessler, Nicolas Nicolov

CourseRank: A Closed-Community Social System through the Magnifying Glass — [PDF]
Georgia Koutrika, Benjamin Bercovitz, Filip Kaliszan, Henry Liou, Hector Garcia-Molina

You Are Where You Edit: Locating Wikipedia Contributors through Edit Histories — [PDF]
Michael D. Lieberman, Jimmy Lin

Spectrum: Retrieving Different Points of View from the Blogosphere — [PDF]
Jiahui Liu, Larry Birnbaum, Bryan Pardo

Community Structure and Information Flow in Usenet: Improving Analysis with a Thread Ownership Model — [PDF]
Mary McGlohon, Matthew Hurst

Sidelines: An Algorithm for Increasing Diversity in News and Opinion Aggregators — [PDF]
Sean A. Munson, Daniel Xiaodan Zhou, Paul Resnick

Motivational, Structural and Tenure Factors that Impact Online Community Photo Sharing — [PDF]
Oded Nov, Mor Naaman, Chen Ye

Gesundheit! Modeling Contagion through Facebook News Feed — [PDF]
Eric Sun, Itamar Rosenn, Cameron A. Marlow, Thomas M. Lento

RevRank: A Fully Unsupervised Algorithm for Selecting the Most Helpful Book Reviews — [PDF]
Oren Tsur, Ari Rappoport

Seeking and Offering Expertise Across Categories: A Sustainable Mechanism Works for Baidu Knows — [PDF]
Jiang Yang, Xiao Wei

Poster Papers

A Utility for Estimating the Relative Contributions of Wiki Authors — [PDF]
Ofer Arazy, Eleni Stroulia

Information Extraction as Link Prediction: Using Curated Citation Networks to Improve Gene Detection — [PDF]
Andrew Arnold, William W. Cohen

From Episodes to Sagas: Understanding the News by Identifying Temporally Related Story Sequences — [PDF]
Ramnath Balasubramanyan, Frank Lin, William W. Cohen, Matthew Hurst, Noah A. Smith,

Distinguishing Knowledge vs Social Capital in Social Media with Roles and Context — [PDF]
Vladimir D. Barash, Marc Smith, Lise Getoor, Howard T. Welser

The Distribution of Online Reputation: Audience and Influence of Musicians on MySpace — [PDF]
Jean-Samuel Beuscart, Thomas Couronné

Self-Presentation of Personality During Online Profile Creation — [PDF]
Scott Counts, Kristin Stecher

Characterizing the Portuguese Blogosphere — [PDF]
Telmo Couto, Cristina Ribeiro, Sérgio Nunes

High-level Features for Learning Subjective Language across Domains — [PDF]
Gaël Dias, Dinko Dimchev Lambov, Veska Noncheva

Navigation Patterns from and to Social Media — [PDF]
Michael Gamon, Arnd Christian König

Leaders and Negotiators: An Influence-based Metric for Rank — [PDF]
Rumi Ghosh, Kristina Lerman

Large Scale Book Annotation with Social Tags — [PDF]
Sharon Givon, Victor Lavrenko

Stylometric Analysis of Bloggers’ Age and Gender — [PDF]
Sumit Goswami, Sudeshna Sarkar, Mayur Rustagi

Characterization of FriendFeed — A Web-based Social Aggregation Service — [PDF]
Trinabh Gupta, Sanchit Garg, Anirban Mahanti, Niklas Carlsson, Martin Arlitt

Network Analysis of an Emergent Massively Collaborative Creation Community: How Can People Create Videos Collaboratively without Collaboration? — [PDF]
Masahiro Hamasaki, Hideaki Takeda, Tom Hope, Takuichi Nishimura

Blogging Together: An Examination of Group Blogs — [PDF]
Marti A. Hearst, Susan T. Dumais

MakeMyPage: Social Media Meets Automatic Content Generation — [PDF]
Francisco Iacobelli, Kristian Hammond, Larry Birnbaum

I Think You Know Who I Am: Bloggers' Perceived Identifiability — [PDF]
Chyng-Yang Jang, Michael A. Stefanone

Analyzing and Predicting Community Preference of Socially Generated Metadata: A Case Study on Comments in the Digg Community — [PDF]
Elham Khabiri, Chiao-Fang Hsu, James Caverlee

Detecting Topic Drift with Compound Topic Models — [PDF]
Dan Knights, Michael C. Mozer, Nicolas Nicolov

Connecting Users with Similar Interests across Multiple Web Services — [PDF]
Haewoon Kwak, Hwa-Yong Shin, Jong-Il Yoon, Sue Moon

JAM: Joint Action Matrix Factorization for Summarizing a Temporal Heterogeneous Social Network — [PDF]
Yu-Ru Lin, Hari Sundaram, Aisling Kelliher

Finding Opinionated Blogs Using Statistical Classifiers and Lexical Features — [PDF]
Feifan Liu, Bin Li, Yang Liu

Delta TFIDF: An Improved Feature Space for Sentiment Analysis — [PDF]
Justin Christopher Martineau, Tim Finin

Considering the Sources: Comparing Linking Patterns in Usenet and Blogs — [PDF]
Mary McGlohon, Matthew Hurst

An Examination of Language Use in Online Dating Profiles — [PDF]
Meenakshi Nagarajan, Marti A. Hearst

Visualizing Cross-Lingual/Cross-Cultural Differences in Concerns in Multilingual Blogs — [PDF]
Hiroyuki Nakasaki, Mariko Kawaba, Sayuri Yamazaki, Takehito Utsuro, Tomohiro Fukuhara

Adaptive Weblog Post Filtering Based on User Browsing History — [PDF]
Ali Farahmand Nejad, Sadegh Kharazmi, Shahabedin Bayati, Hassan Abolhassani, Koosha Golmohammadi

Compositionality Principle in Recognition of Fine-Grained Emotions from Text — [PDF]
Alena Neviarouskaya, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka

User Evaluation of a System for Classifying and Displaying Political Viewpoints of Weblogs — [PDF]
Alice H. Oh, Hyunjong Lee, Youngmin Kim

Emotionality in Text as Predictor of Behavior — [PDF]
Elliot Onn, Carey K. Morewedge

The Use of Weblogs in Spanish Mainstream Media — [PDF]
Maria Bella Palomo Torres, Koldo Meso Ayerdi

Information Cascades in the Blogosphere: A Look Behind the Curtain — [PDF]
Manos Papagelis, Nilesh Bansal, Nick Koudas

The Evolution of Scientific Paper Title Networks — [PDF]
Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir R. Radev

Trust Incident Account Model: Preliminary Indicators for Trust Rhetoric and Trust or Distrust in Blogs — [PDF]
Victoria L. Rubin

Blogs as Predictors of Movie Success — [PDF]
Eldar Sadikov, Aditya Parameswaran, Petros Venetis

Analysis of Social Influence in Online Book Reviews — [PDF]
Patty Sakunkoo, Nathan Sakunkoo

Event Detection and Tracking in Social Streams — [PDF]
Hassan Sayyadi, Matthew Hurst, Alexey Maykov

Search in Social Tagging Systems Using Ontological User Profiles — [PDF]
Andriy Shepitsen, Noriko Tomuro

Information Diffusion in Computer Science Citation Networks — [PDF]
Xiaolin Shi, Belle Tseng, Lada Adamic

Salsa: Leveraging Email to Create a Social Network for the Enterprise — [PDF]
Kristin Brooke Stecher, Scott Counts, Lili Cheng, Shane Williams, Andrzej Turski

Is Your Profile Picture Worth 1000 Words? Photo Characteristics Associated with Personality Impression Agreement — [PDF]
Fitzgerald Steele, Jr., David C Evans, Rachel K. Green

Contextuality and Beyond: Investigating an Online Diary Corpus — [PDF]
Laura Teddiman

Regression-Based Summarization of Email Conversations — [PDF]
Jan Ulrich, Giuseppe Carenini, Gabriel Murray, Raymond Ng

Collecting and Sharing Observations with Semantic Support — [PDF]
Sari Vainikainen, Antti Nummiaho, Asta Bäck, Timo Laakko

A Comparative Analysis of Trust-Enhanced Recommenders for Controversial Items — [PDF]
Patricia Victor, Chris Cornelis, Martine De Cock, Ankur M. Teredesai

Predicting the Polarity Strength of Adjectives Using WordNet — [PDF]
Gbolahan K. Williams, Sarabjot Singh Anand

Optimal Heterophily for Word-of-Mouth Diffusion — [PDF]
Hikaru Yamamoto, Naohiro Matsumura

Connecting Corresponding Identities across Communities — [PDF]
Reza Zafarani, Huan Liu

Demonstration Papers

BlogTrackers: A Tool for Sociologists to Track and Analyze Blogosphere — [PDF]
Nitin Agarwal, Shamanth Kumar, Huan Liu, Mark Woodward

Gephi: An Open Source Software for Exploring and Manipulating Networks — [PDF]
Mathieu Bastian, Sebastien Heymann, Mathieu Jacomy

Attentio Brand Maps — [PDF]
Frizo Janssens

From Generating to Mining: Automatically Scripting Conversations Using Existing Online Sources — [PDF]
Nathan Nichols, Lisa Gandy, Kristian Hammond

Open Domain Collaborative Storytelling with Say Anything — [PDF]
Reid Swanson, Andrew S. Gordon

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