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Wed Jan 14 2009 Calls: Text/Corpus Ling/United Kingdom; Text/Corpus Ling/USA Editor for this issue: Kate Wu <katelinguistlist.org>
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Directory 1. Michaela Mahlberg, Corpus Linguistics 2009 2. Nicolas Nicolov, 3rd Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media Message 1: Corpus Linguistics 2009
Date: 14-Jan-2009 From: Michaela Mahlberg <m.mahlbergliverpool.ac.uk> Subject: Corpus Linguistics 2009 E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Corpus Linguistics 2009 Short Title: CL2009 Date: 20-Jul-2009 - 23-Jul-2009 Location: Liverpool, United Kingdom Contact Person: Michaela Mahlberg Meeting Email: CL2009liverpool.ac.uk Web Site: http://corpus.liv.ac.uk/conference2009/ Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics Call Deadline: 23-Jan-2009 Meeting Description: Corpus Linguistics Conference Following the Corpus Linguistics Conferences at Lancaster and Birmingham, the Fifth Corpus Linguistics Conference 2009 will be held at the University of Liverpool. Final Call for Papers Deadline for submission of abstracts: 23 Jan 2009 Following the success of CL2001, 2003, 2005 and 2007, the Fifth Corpus Linguistics Conference will take place from 20 July - 23 July 2009. It will be organised by the Universities of Liverpool, Birmingham and Lancaster and will be hosted by the English Department, University of Liverpool. We are looking forward to an interesting programme and invite abstracts for papers, posters, work-in-progress reports, as well as workshops and colloquia covering any aspect of corpus linguistics. The conference begins with a workshop and colloquium day on Monday 20 July, the main conference runs from Tuesday 21 to Thursday 23 July, with the conference dinner on Wednesday 22 July. Plenary Speakers: Svenja Adolphs (University of Nottingham) Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University) Michael Hoey (University of Liverpool) Joybrato Mukherjee (University of Giessen) Mike Scott (University of Liverpool) The language of the conference is English. All abstracts should be in English, though we encourage proposals for colloquia to be given in languages other than English. To submit an abstract go to the following URL and follow the instructions: https://www.softconf.com/s08/CL2009/submit.html Closing date for abstracts: 23 January 2009. For more information please see http://liv.ac.uk/english/CL2009/index.htm or contact the Organising Committee: CL2009liverpool.ac.uk Message 2: 3rd Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
Date: 13-Jan-2009 From: Nicolas Nicolov <nicolas_nicolovjdpa.com> Subject: 3rd Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: 3rd Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media Short Title: ICWSM-2009 Date: 17-May-2009 - 20-May-2009 Location: San Jose, USA Contact Person: Nicolas Nicolov Meeting Email: icwsm09aaai.org Web Site: http://www.icwsm.org Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics Call Deadline: 21-Jan-2009 Meeting Description: Interdisciplinary conference on linguistic, computational, psychological aspects of analyzing social media (user generated) data. Call For Papers 3rd Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media May 17-20, 2009, San Jose, California http://www.icwsm.org/2009/ Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) The social and community driven aspects of our digital lives continue to rapidly increase, resulting in transformative behaviours and, significantly, publishing and distributing huge amounts of fascinating data. The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media will meet once more in 2009 to discuss the latest research analyzing and leveraging this resource. As with previous meetings, we will bring together a wide range of researchers and industry practitioners from many disciplines providing a unique opportunity for sharing ideas and collaboration in this space. Areas of Interest Disciplines which are relevant to our meeting include computer science, linguistics, psychology, statistics, sociology, multimedia and semantic web technologies. The following are key areas of interest: [01] Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of social media; [02] Analyzing relationship between social media and mainstream media; [03] Centrality/influence of social media publications and authors both within genres and between genres of data; [04] Ranking/relevance of blogs; web page ranking based on blogs; [05] Data acquisition: crawling/spidering and indexing; [06] Human computer interaction; social media tools; navigation and visualization; [07] Multimedia: tools and techniques for distribution, sharing, and analysis of social activity with/around multimedia; [08] Semantic analysis; cross-system and cross-media name tracking; named relations and fact extraction; discourse analysis; summarization; [09] Semantic Web; unstructured knowledge management; collaborative creation of structured knowledge; [10] Subjectivity in textual data; sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion identification and extraction; [11] Social network analysis; communities identification; expertise and authority discovery; collaborative filtering; [12] Text categorization; topic recognition; demographic/gender/age identification; [13] Trend identification and tracking; time series forecasting; measuring predictability of phenomena based on social media; [14] New social media applications; interfaces; interaction techniques; [15] Trust; reputation; recommendation systems. Important Dates Paper/Poster/Demo Submission: January 21, 2009 Paper/Poster/Demo Acceptance: February 27, 2009 Workshop Submission: March 1, 2009 Camera Ready Copies: March 10, 2009 Tutorials: May 17, 2009 Conference: May 18-20, 2009 Submission People interested in participating should submit through the ICWSM-09 website a technical paper (up to 8 pages), poster or demo description (up to 2 pages) by the deadlines given above (Midnight PST). Papers must be must be formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style (see the AAAI author instructions page at http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php). Authors must register at the ICWSM-09 technical paper submission web site http://icwsm-09.confmaster.net . The software will assign a password, which will enable the author to log on to submit an abstract and paper. In order to avoid a rush at the last minute, authors are encouraged to register as soon as possible. Submissions to Other Conferences or Journals ICWSM-09 will not accept any paper that, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or conference. This restriction does not apply to submissions for workshops and other venues with a limited audience. Registration All accepted papers and extended abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author must register for the conference by the deadline for camera-ready copy submission. In addition, the registered author must attend the conference to present the paper in person. Publication All accepted papers and abstracts will be allocated eight (8) pages in the conference proceedings. Authors will be required to transfer copyright of their paper to AAAI. Data Challenge Continuing the tradition of previous years, ICWSM 2009 is making a new dataset available to researchers. The ICWSM-2009 dataset contains 44 million blog posts made between August 1st and October 1st, 2008. The organizers of ICWSM-2009 especially encourage submissions that make use of this data. A special "data challenge workshop" will be held on May 20th (the last day of ICWSM-2009) for shorter, more focused, and/or late-breaking papers that use this ICWSM-2009 dataset; the deadline for data challenge workshop papers is March 1st. Awards Awards will be presented at the conference for: - Best conference paper. - Best student paper. - Best paper using the dataset. Please see http://www.icwsm.org/2009/data/ for more details. Tutorial Speakers We expect to have two or three tutorials. Tutorial speakers be announced later on. Invited Speakers Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University, USA Lillian Lee, Cornell University, USA Duncan Watts, Columbia University, USA and Yahoo! Research General Chairs William W. Cohen, Carnegie Mellon/Google Nicolas Nicolov, J.D.Power and Associates, McGraw-Hill Program Chairs Natalie Glance, Google Matthew Hurst, Live Labs, Microsoft Data Chairs Ian Soboroff, NIST Akshay Java, UMBC Local Chair Cameron Marlow, Facebook Tutorials Chair Chris Diehl, Johns Hopkins University Program Committee Lada Adamic, University of Michigan, USA Eugene Agichtein, Emory University, USA Navot Akiva, Pudding Media, Israel Noor Ali-Hasan, Microsoft, USA Bettina Berendt, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Germany Chris Brooks, University of San Francisco, USA Claire Cardie, Cornell University, USA Steve Cayzer, HP Labs, UK Lili Cheng, Microsoft, USA Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Thierry Declerck, DFKI GmbH, Germany Brian Dennis, Lockheed Martin Corporation, USA Chris Diehl, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA Joan Morris DiMicco, IBM Research, USA Nathan Eagle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Miriam Eckert, J.D. Power and Associates, McGraw-Hill, USA Raymond Elferink, RayCom B.V., The Netherlands Donghui Feng, AT&T Interactive, USA Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA Andrew Fiore, University of California, Berkeley, USA Michael Gamon, Microsoft, USA Kathy E Gill, University of Washington, USA Scott Golder, Cornell University, USA Sam Gosling, University of Texas, USA Marko Grobelnik, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia Michelle Gumbrecht, Palo Alto Research Center, USA John Henderson, MITRE, USA Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Steliana Ivanova, Umbria Inc., USA Heng Ji, The City University of New York, USA Anupam Joshi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Jussi Karlgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden Jason Kessler, Indiana University, USA Laura Knudsen, OSC, USA Pranam Kolari, Yahoo!, USA Christian Konig, Microsoft, USA Moshe Koppel, Bar-Ilan University, Israel Gueorgi Kossinets, Google, USA Andrea La Pietra, University of California, Berkeley, USA Thomas Lento, Facebook, USA Kristina Lerman, University of Southern California, USA Jure Leskovec, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Suresh Manandhar, Univ. of York, UK Naohiro Matsumura, Osaka University, Japan Charles Mi, Opinmind, USA Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, USA Gilad Mishne, Yahoo!, USA Paola Monachesi, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands Mor Naaman, Rutgers University, USA Kate Niederhoffer, Nielsen, USA Scott Nowson, Appen, Australia Manabu Okumura, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Livia Polanyi, Powerset/Microsoft, USA John Prager, IBM Research, USA Stephan Raaijmakers, TNO ICT, The Netherlands Drago Radev, University of Michigan, USA Laura Ripamonti, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Franco Salvetti, Powerset/Microsoft, USA Tamas Sarlos, Yahoo!, USA Jonathan Schler, Peer39, Israel David A. Shamma, Yahoo! Research, USA James G. Shanahan, USA Xiaolin Shi, University of Michigan, USA Sanjay Sood, allvoices, USA Ellen Spertus, Google and Mills College, USA Siddharth Suri, Yahoo!, USA Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Zeynep Tufekci, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA Jiang Yang, University of Michigan, USA Cheng Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Jun Zhang, University of Michigan, USA Ding Zhou, Facebook, USA For general information regarding ICWSM-09, please write to: icwsm09 (at) aaai (dot) org Read more issues\|LINGUIST home page\|Top of issue

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