Vol. 4 No. 1 (2010): Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

ISSN 2334-0770 (Online)
ISSN 2162-3449 (Print)
ISBN 978-1-57735-445-1
420 pp., references, index, illus.

The Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media was held May 23 –26 at George Washington University in Washington, DC. The conference general chair was Marti Hearst. The conference program cochairs were William Cohen and Samuel Gosling. The conference was sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. 

The social and community driven aspects of our digital lives continue to rapid-ly increase, resulting in transformative behaviors and, significantly, publishing and distributing huge amounts of fascinating data. The International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media met in Washington DC to discuss the latest research analyzing and leveraging this resource. Included are technical papers from areas such as computer science, linguistics, psychology, statistics, sociology, multimedia, and semantic web technologies. As with previous meetings, we brought together a wide range of researchers and industry practitioners from many disciplines providing a unique opportunity for sharing ideas and collaboration in this space.