Search in Social Media 2010 (NYC): last call for poster, position papers

Call for Position Papers and Posters The Third Annual Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2010) Co-located with the ACM WSDM 2010 Conference 3 February 2010 -- New York City, USA Website: http://ir.mathcs.emory.edu/SSM2010/ Important Dates: Dec 29, 2009: submissions due Jan 8: notifications Feb 3, 2010: Workshop (full day) Workshop Overview: Social applications are the fastest growing segment of the web. They establish new forums for content creation, allow people to connect to each other and share information, and permit novel applications at the intersection of people and information. However, to date, social media has been primarily popular for connecting people, not for finding information. While there has been progress on searching particular kinds of social media, such as blogs, search in others (e.g., Facebook, Myspace, of flickr) are not as well understood. The purpose of the 3rd Annual Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2010), is to bring together information retrieval and social media researchers to consider the following questions: How should we search in social media? What are the needs of users, and models of those needs, specific to social media search? What models make the most sense? How does search interact with existing uses of social media? How can social media search complement traditional web search? What new search paradigms for information finding can be facilitated by social media? Submission Format and Topics: We solicit submissions for short (under 2 pages) position papers, posters or demo proposals to be presented as part of panel or poster sessions, describing late-breaking and novel research results or demonstrations of prototypes or working systems. All topics at the intersection of information finding and social media are of interest, including, but not limited to: * Searching blogs, tweets, and other textual social media. * Searching within social networks, including expert finding. * Searching Wikipedia discussions and revision histories. * Searching online discussions, mailing lists, forums, and community question answering sites. * The role of human-powered and community question answering. * Novel models of information finding and new search applications for social media. * The role of timeliness, authority, and accuracy in social media search. * Interaction between traditional web search and social media search. * User needs assessments and task analysis for social media search. * Usability studies of people using social media search tools. * Interactions between searching and browsing in social media. * Searching and exploiting folksonomies, tags, and tagged data. * Spam and adversarial interactions in social media Ideal submissions would include late-breaking and novel research results, position and vision papers discussing the role of search in social media, and demonstrations of prototypes or working systems. Note that the workshop proceedings will not be archived or considered as formal publication, to encourage the informal atmosphere and to allow the authors to publish expanded versions of the work elsewhere. The poster/demo proposals should be no longer than 2 (two) pages, in standard ACM SIG format, by December 29, 2010. Please submit through the EasyChair site at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssm20100 Workshop Organizers: * Eugene Agichtein, Emory University * Marti Hearst, University of California * Ian Soboroff, NIST * Daniel Tunkelang, Google Questions about the workshop format, submissions, and informal inquires can be sent to ssm2010chairs@gmail.com