Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-10) ***Microblogging 2*** Predicting Elections with Twitter: What 140 Characters Reveal about Political Sentiment (Tumasjan et al.) Successful use of social media in las presidential campaign has established twitter as an integral part of political campaign toolbox Goal: analyze on Twitter: 1. Deliberation, 2. Sentiment, 3. [...]
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ICWSM 2010 Liveblog, Day 2
May 25th, 2010 · 2 Comments
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On the robustness of Twitter and false SAT Analogies
August 9th, 2009 · 3 Comments
This blog entry is a response to Cody Brown’s post here. I wanted to leave a comment on the post, but it was going to run a bit long, so I thought I’d put up a response of my own. Cody’s piece is interesting and well-reasoned. The basic argument he makes is that Twitter, much [...]
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June 24th: NodeXL Tutorial with Derek Hansen at Communities and Technologies 2009 (Penn State University)
June 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Derek Hansen (University of Maryland) and I will be running a workshop as part of the Communities and Technologies conference next week in University Park, PA. We have room for additional participants. If anyone is interested, please email me (marc.smith@telligent.com) or Derek (shakmatt@gmail.com). If there is sufficient interest by those in the DC or Bay [...]
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2009 April 28: National Initiative for Social Participation meeting at the University of Maryland
May 28th, 2009 · No Comments
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 major universities, research labs, and government funding agencies to think about an “Apollo Program for Social Media”. The idea is [...]
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Liveblogging ICWSM 2009 – Day 1
May 18th, 2009 · 4 Comments
[Vladimir Barash is liveblogging the ICWSM conference] 9-10AM: A Tempest: Or, on the Flood of Interest in Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining, and the Computational Treatment of Subjective Language (Lillian Lee) -Sentiment analysis using discussion structure: clasify speeches in US congressional floor debates as supporting or opposing proposed legislation -Individual doc classifier -agreement (degree) classifier for [...]
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Marc’s Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-17
May 17th, 2009 · No Comments
Monday attending “Social Graph Symposium” – http://ping.fm/uByrq – Network theory is entering enterprise computing # Paper to be presented at ICWSM: http://ping.fm/0oY8Y – see: 113 : Distinguishing Knowledge vs Social Capital in Social Media with Roles … # Heading to the Berkeley iSchool to see friends and colleagues! NISP Photos now at: http://ping.fm/qWY8Q # Share [...]
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