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[flickrset id="72157617551332795" thumbnail="square" overlay="true" size="medium"] A few weeks ago I attended a meeting at the University of Maryland in College Park of a working group proposing a new "National Initiative for Social Participation". The meeting brought together people from the…
The recent 2009 ICWSM conference featured research into the nature of a wide range of social media. [flickrset id="72157618579371124" thumbnail="square" overlay="true" size="medium"] Some highlights: An Examination of Language Use in Online Dating Profiles Meenakshi Nagarajan, Marti Hearst Event Detection and…
[Vladimir Barash is liveblogging the ICWSM conference]
10.30am A categorical model for discovering latent structure in social annotations (Said Kashoob)
Given a collection of web objects, users and tags, can we model the underlying tag generation process?
-Discover implict communities of interest?
-Categories of related tags?
-For given category, id most relevant objs for category
-compare categories
Initial thoughts: content-based topic modeling (Latent Dirichlet Allocation, LSA). Recent work applying LDA models to tags (Wu 2006, Zhou 2008)
On Tuesday night Marc Smith and I will be presenting the poster for our paper, "Distinguishing Knowledge vs Social Capital in Social Media with Roles and Context" at the International Conference for Weblogs and Social Media. You can find the…
I will lead a workshop with Martha Russell on social network analysis of social media as part of the Stanford Media X Summer Institute on New Metrics for New Media: Analytics for Social Media and Virtual Worlds this Summer. I am…
There has been significant progress in the NodeXL project! We have just released version .84 that includes support for "schemes" that can set a collection of display attributes in a single click. Along with updates to the menu ribbon, NodeXl…