Estimation methods for ranking recent information
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
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It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2nd ACM Workshop on Social Web Search & Mining -- SWSM'09. This year's workshop continues its tradition of being the premier forum for presentation of research results and experience reports on leading edge issues of searching and mining of the social web and social networks. The scope of the workshop includes, but not limited to web mining, social network analysis, semantic web, information retrieval, and natural language processing. Moreover, SWSM'09 plans to provide with delegates theoretical analyses as well as practical system perspectives on issues related to web search and mining. The call for papers attracted 17 submissions from Asia, Europe, and the United States. The program committee accepted 8 full papers and 1 short paper that cover a variety of topics, including social network modeling and analysis, social influence analysis, influence analysis, and semantic social network. In addition, the program a keynote speech by Dr. Ravi Kumar from Yahoo! Research. We hope that these proceedings will serve as a valuable reference to further the research in social network search and mining.