Vol. 20 No. 1: Proceedings of the Twentieth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

Edited by Jeremy Blackburn, Cody Buntain, Fabricio Benevenuto
May 27-29, 2026, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Published by AAAI Press, Washington, DC, USA
Copyright © 2026, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
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ISSN 2334-0770 (Online)
ISSN 2162-3449 (Print)
ISBN-10 1-57735-908-9
ISBN-13 978-1-57735-908-1

The Twentieth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2026) was held from May 27-29, 2026 in Los Angeles, California, United States. The conference general chair co-chairs were Luca Luceri, Fred Morstatter and Kristina Lerman. The conference program co-chairs were Jeremy Blackburn, Cody Buntain, and Fabricio Benevenuto.

ICWSM is a forum for researchers from multiple disciplines to come together to share knowledge, discuss ideas, exchange information, and learn about cutting-edge research in diverse fields with the common theme of online social media. This overall theme includes research in new perspectives in social theories, as well as computational algorithms for analyzing social media. ICWSM is a singularly fitting venue for research that blends social science and computational approaches to answer important and challenging questions about human social behavior through social media while advancing computational tools for vast and unstructured data.

ICWSM, now in its twentieth year, has become one of the premier venues for computational social science, and previous years of ICWSM have featured papers, posters, and demos that draw upon network science, machine learning, computational linguistics, sociology, communication, and political science. The uniqueness of the venue and the quality of submissions have contributed to a rapidly growing conference, and a competitive acceptance rate of approximately 20% for full-length research papers published in the proceedings by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).