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<p><font size="2" face="Courier New">Call for Papers </font>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New">Workshop on Social Media Visualization (SocMedVis) <br>
at </font><a href="http://www.icwsm.org/"><font size="2" face="Courier New">the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM'12)</font></a><font size="2" face="Courier New"> <br>
4th June 2012, Dublin, Ireland <br>
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</font><a href="http://socmedvis.ucd.ie/"><font size="2" face="Courier New">http://socmedvis.ucd.ie</font></a><font size="2" face="Courier New"> <br>
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<p><font size="2" face="Courier New">Social media study and analysis brings researchers from many fields into a single setting. Even though the tasks of these researchers are varied, data visualization and analytics plays an important role. For industry and academics alike, visualization of social media data helps with hypothesis formation and supports the explanation of phenomena. </font>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New">The Workshop on Social Media Visualization (SocMedVis) will be held in conjunction with </font><a href="http://www.icwsm.org/"><font size="2" face="Courier New">the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM'12)</font></a><font size="2" face="Courier New"> in Dublin on 4th June 2012. The workshop is a venue for presentation of research and applications of visualization of social media data. </font>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New">The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and industry practitioners interested in visual and interactive techniques for social media analysis to discuss their potential application to the social sciences, humanities, and industry. We solicit contributions that discuss novel techniques and applications of visualization and visual analytics approaches to social media data sources. </font>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New">Important Dates </font>
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<li><font size="2" face="Courier New">Paper Submission Deadline: 2nd March 2012 </font>
<li><font size="2" face="Courier New">Notification: 16th March 2012 </font>
<li><font size="2" face="Courier New">Paper Camera-Ready Deadline: 2nd April 2012 </font>
<li><font size="2" face="Courier New">Early registration for ICWSM'12: 6th April 2012 </font>
<li><font size="2" face="Courier New">Workshop: 4th June 2012 </font></ul>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Topics </font>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New">We invite research, application, and position papers on the topic of visualization and social media. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: </font>
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<li><font size="2" face="Courier New">Visual Analysis of Evolving Social Media Data </font>
<li><font size="2" face="Courier New">Interactive Techniques for Sentiment Analysis and Brand Perception </font>
<li><font size="2" face="Courier New">Visualization of Memes and Trends in Social Media </font>
<li><font size="2" face="Courier New">Visualization of Social Media for Media Studies </font>
<li><font size="2" face="Courier New">Social Media in Social Sciences and Humanities </font>
<li><font size="2" face="Courier New">Data Mining and Machine Learning in Social Media </font>
<li><font size="2" face="Courier New">Visual Analytics of Social Media in Industry </font>
<li><font size="2" face="Courier New">Formal Evaluation Techniques in Social Media </font>
<li><font size="2" face="Courier New">Systems and Languages for Social Media Analytics </font>
<li><font size="2" face="Courier New">Methodologies and Processes for Social Media Analysis </font>
<li><font size="2" face="Courier New">Collaborative Analysis of Text Corpora </font>
<li><font size="2" face="Courier New">Real-Time Visualization of Social Media Data </font>
<li><font size="2" face="Courier New">Visualization and Visual Text Analytics in Social Media </font>
<li><font size="2" face="Courier New">Visualization and Visual Analytics of Social Media Networks </font>
<li><font size="2" face="Courier New">Studies of Analytic Work on Social Media </font>
<li><font size="2" face="Courier New">Representations of Uncertainty in Text Analytics </font></ul>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Submissions </font>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New">Papers are limited to 4 pages in length and should have a visualization or visual analytics component to them. Papers must be formatted according to </font><a href="http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/formatting-instructions.pdf"><font size="2" face="Courier New">AAAI guidelines</font></a><font size="2" face="Courier New">. Papers in PDF format must be submitted using </font><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socmedvis2012"><font size="2" face="Courier New">EasyChair </font></a><font size="2" face="Courier New">by 2nd March 2012. A subset of the accepted papers will be invited for oral presentation at the workshop. All other accepted papers will be presented as posters during the poster session or interactive demo session. </font>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New">The program will also include a madness session at the beginning of the workshop to allow anyone attending the workshop to briefly introduce themselves, their work, and state their positions and goals related to the scope of the workshop. If you are planning to attend the workshop you are welcome to send an email to conference organizers to ensure a slot in the madness session by 2nd April 2012. </font>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New">We also plan to host a panel of researchers in social sciences and humanities and industrial researchers of varied perspectives on the application of visualization to academic disciplines and industry where visualization is needed to understand social media data. </font>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New">For more information please visit the workshop web page at </font><a href="http://socmedvis.ucd.ie/"><font size="2" face="Courier New">http://socmedvis.ucd.ie</font></a><font size="2" face="Courier New"> or email socmedvis@ucd.ie. </font>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New">Regards, </font>
<p><a href="http://www.cliquecluster.org/content/daniel-archambault"><font size="2" face="Courier New">Daniel Archambault</font></a><font size="2" face="Courier New">, University College Dublin, daniel.archambault@ucd.ie</font>
<p><a href="http://researcher.ibm.com/view.php?person=us-eser"><font size="2" face="Courier New">Eser Kandogan</font></a><font size="2" face="Courier New">, IBM Research, eser@us.ibm.com </font>
<p><a href="http://www.martinharrigan.ie/"><font size="2" face="Courier New">Martin Harrigan</font></a><font size="2" face="Courier New">, University College Dublin, martin.harrigan@ucd.ie </font></body></html>