CIKM 2008 Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2008)
Held in conjunction with
ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
Napa Valley Marriott Hotel & Spa: Napa Valley, California.
October 26-30, 2008
Call for Papers Instructions for Authors Accepted Papers Workshop Program Program Committee
Workshop Overview    Top
Social applications are the fastest growing segment of the web. Social media are a fascinating phenomenon because 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, whereas in the general web search is a critical application that drives usability, 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 (facebook/myspace/flickr) are not as well understood. The purpose of this workshop is to focus the attention of the research community on this emerging topic, and 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? What works and what doesn't?
Areas of Interest    Top
  • Blog search
  • Search in folksonomies / searching tagged data
  • Do tags or folksonomies improve search?
  • Searching Wikipedia discussions and revision history
  • Searching within social networks
  • Expert finding within social information networks
  • Searching social media for information that is timely, reliable, hot
  • Studies of users searching in social media
  • Characterizing and understanding the users tasks
  • New social search applications
  • User tasks for social network analysis
  • Searching online discussions, mailing lists, forums
  • Searching in community help and question-answering environments
  • Interactions between searching and browsing
  • Spam in social media
  • Adversarial interactions such as vote and digg spam
Format    Top
We anticipate a full-day workshop with a keynote address and two refereed research paper sessions. We will also solicit invited contributions/position papers, which will be presented as a panel followed by a discussion moderated by the organizers. Finally, we will write short workshop report for the SIGIR Forum.
Important Dates  Top
  • Submission: July 20
  • Review period: July 20-August 5
  • Notification of Acceptance: August 10, 2008
  • Workshop: October 30, 2008
Workshop Chairs    Top

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