Scientific symposium on blogs

Yesterday I received a call for papers that was distributed on the Corpus Linguistics email list.

The American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) will hold a symposium on blogs at Stanford University next spring (March 27-29). The title is "Computational Approaches to Analysing Weblogs" and will cover everything from symantic processing to political science:

[01] AI methods for ethnographic analysis through blogs.
[02] Blogosphere vs. mediasphere; measuring the influence of blogs on the media.
[03] Centrality/influence of bloggers/blogs; ranking/relevance of blogs; web pages ranking based on blogs.
[04] Crawling/spidering and indexing.
[05] Human Computer Interaction; blogging tools; navigation.
[06] Multimedia; audio/visual blogs processing; aggregating information from different modalities.
[07] Semantic analysis; cross-blog name tracking; named relations and fact extraction; discourse analysis; summarization.
[08] Semantic Web; semantic blogging; unstructured knowledge management.
[09] Sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion identification and extraction.
[10] Social Network Analysis; communities identification; expertise discovery; collaborative filtering.
[11] Text categorization; gender/age identification; spam filtering.
[12] Time Series Forecasting; measuring predictability of phenomena based on blogs.
[13] Trend identification/tracking.

If NZ Bear would like to submit a paper on relationships between blogs and all that, I'm sure he would do very well

I might see about submitting a paper on one of the above topics, though I've not decided if I find time.