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Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2009), co-located with
ACM SIGIR 2009 Conference on Information Retrieval
Held at Northeastern University
July 23, 2009
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 Workshop Program (panel times are tentative)  Top
8:30-8:40
Opening remarks, introduction, logistics
Eugene, Ian, Marti
8:40-9:30am
Keynote 1:  Joseph A. Konstan (University of Minnesota)                                               

Help is out there: Online Community, Community Artifacts, and new ways of finding and harvesting knowledge.
This talk discusses studies that explore how online communities create, organize, and find information. From these, we can draw lessons on how social psychology, economics, and other sciences of human behavior can be harnessed to understand and then design effective online communities. 
9:30-10:30am
Panel 1: Recommender Systems. Moderator: Eugene
  • Joe Konstan
  • Manish Agrawal, Maryam Karimzadehgan and ChengXiang Zhai. An Online News Recommender System for Social Networks
  • Scott Golder, Sarita Yardi, Alice Marwick and danah boyd. A Structural Approach to Contact Recommendations in Online Social Networks
  • David Carmel: Recommendations in the Enterprise
10:30-11am
Coffee break

11am-12:30noon
Panel 2: Collaborative Search. Moderator: Marti
  • Jaime Teevan, Microsoft Research
  • Fabian Abel, Eelco Herder, Ivana Marenzi, Wolfgang Nejdl and Sergej Zerr. Evaluating the Benefits of Social Annotation for Collaborative Search
  • Jeremy Pickens, FXPAL
12:30noon-1:30pm
Lunch (provided by SIGIR)

1:30-2:15pm
Keynote 2: Abdur Chowdhury (Twitter)
Twitter Search
2:15-3:00pm
Panel 3: Tagging a6nd Search. Moderator: Ian
  • Responder: Abdur Chowdhury, Twitter
  • Morgan Harvey, Mark Baillie, Ian Ruthven and David Elsweiler. Folksonomic Tag Clouds as an Aid to Content Indexing
  • Amruta Joshi and Junghoo Cho. Improving Image Search based on User Created Communities
  • Paul Heymann, Stanford
  • Albert Au Yeung, University of Southhampton
3:00-3:30pm
Coffee break

3:30pm-4:30pm
Panel 4: Mining and Exploiting Social Media
  • Jangwon Seo and W. Bruce Croft. Thread-based Expert Finding
  • Yasser Ganjisaffar, Sara Javanmardi and Cristina Lopes. Using User Reviews to Improve Search in Wikipedia
  • Shohei Sato, Mikito Yoshikawa, Kazuhiro Seki and Kuniaki Uehara. Splog Detection Exploiting Link Structure and Contents Based on Few Labeled Examples
  • Doug Oard: search in chats and e-mail
4:30pm-5pm
Open issues, discussion, next workshop plans