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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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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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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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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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[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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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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