International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (December 8, 2006 / March 26-28, 2007)

The first International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media call for papers is out. It will be held in Boulder, Colorado. The subjects of interest are quite wide ranging:

1. AI methods for ethnographic analysis through social media.
2. Blogosphere vs. mediasphere; measuring the influence of blogs on the media.
3. Centrality/influence of bloggers/blogs; ranking/relevance of blogs; web pages ranking based on blogs.
4. Crawling/spidering and indexing.
5. Human Computer Interaction; social media tools; navigation.
6. Multimedia; audio/visual processing; aggregating information from different modalities.
7. Semantic analysis; cross-system and cross-media name tracking; named relations and fact extraction; discourse analysis; summarization.
8. Semantic Web; unstructured knowledge management.
9. Sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion identification and extraction.
10. Social Network Analysis; communities identification; expertise discovery; collaborative filtering.
11. Text categorization; gender/age identification; spam filtering.
12. Time Series Forecasting; measuring predictability of phenomena based on social media.
13. Trend identification/tracking.
14. Visualization, aggregation and filtering.