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*       JCIS 2008 - CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS            *
*          11th Joint Conference on Information Science           *
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*        SPECIAL SESSION on Knowledge Extraction from       *
*                                  User Generated Content                    *
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Knowledge extraction from User Generated Content
    It is a growing trend that customers post comments and discussions about products and services on public forums, blogs, and internet portals rather than being limited to interacting with a vendor's website. Accordingly, there is a growing body of supplemental knowledge for corporations in the realm of user generated content (UGC) on the web. It is desirable to extract useful information such as: typical, provocative, novel positive and negative comments, topic clusters &
taxonomy of available UGC, key issues requiring prompt attention, long-standing unsolved issues, and even some clever solutions/work-arounds to problems unknown to internal support staff. Moreover, since these posts are linked to individuals, external hackers and experts on various topics can also be identified.

    This special session calls for papers related to:

- techniques for targeted information harvesting from web sources
- characterizations of UGC, and systems that facilitate effective production of UGC
- metrics for understanding performance of tools for analysing UGC
- studies on social intelligence and analysis methods
- novel approaches to text information extraction
- fuzzy clustering and classification, with focus on text corpus
- advances in text/natural language analysis
- sentiment analysis of text passages
- expert/expertise identification from web sources
- approaches to exploiting user generated data
- challenges in classification and characterization of problems and
issues from UGC
- system, interface and interaction dynamics that facilitate high
performance analysis of UGC
- comparative quantitative evaluation of algorithms and systems in UGC
- data and stream management strategies for high volume and large
datasets of UGC
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Important Dates:

Paper Submission
July 20th, 2008

Notification of acceptance
September 20th, 2008

Final camera ready papers due
October 10th, 2008

Deadline for conference registration
November 15th, 2008

    For more information please visit the web site: http://www.jcis.org.cn & http://www.jcis.org.cn/tracks_13.html

Special Session Chairs:

Dr. Marcus Thint marcus.2.thint@bt.com
Principal Research Scientist
Intelligent Systems Research Center
British Telecom Group Chief Technology Office

Dr. Simon Thompson simon.2.thompson@bt.com
Research Group Leader
Intelligent Systems Research Center
British Telecom Group Chief Technology Office