Call for Papers
Politics, Elections and Data (PLEAD)
Workshop at the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2013)
October 28, 2013 (tentative)
San Francisco, USA
Paper submissions due June 28, 2013
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What is the role of the internet in politics and during political campaigns and what is the role of large amounts of user data in all of this?
In the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign the Democrats were again more successful than the Republicans in utilizing online media for mobilization, co-ordination, fundraising and micro-targeting. Social media and the Internet play a fundamental role in political campaigns. However, technical research in this area has been surprisingly limited and fragmented.
The goal of this workshop, held at CIKM 2013 in Burlingame/San Francisco, is to bring together researchers working at the intersection of social network analysis, computational social science and political science, to share and discuss their ideas in a common forum; and to inspire further developments in this growing, fascinating field of computational political science.
The workshop topics include but are not limited to:
* Classifying users according to political leaning
* Classifying web queries and web pages according to political leaning
* Discovering political topics from search logs and social media data
* Describing and quantifying political campaigns and their effect on online media
* Influence of political fact checking (e.g. Politifact) on rumor spreading
* Visualizing political issues and other socio-economic controversies
* Applying sentiment analysis to find positive/negative aspects of issues
* Quantifying the effects of a 'Daily Me' or filter bubble in political search and content
* Prediction markets for election prediction
The workshop will include Rayid Ghani, former Chief Scientist at Obama for America 2012 campaign, as a keynote speaker, a panel discussion with scientists and media experts, as well as presentations of accepted contributions. The schedule will provide time for both organized and open discussion.
Submission Instructions
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Papers should be no longer than 8 pages (2-column), including all references, figures and appendices. Shorter papers describing work in progress are explicitly encouraged, though there is no separate short paper track. Please submit your papers through
Submissions should follow the ACM SIG proceedings format http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates (Option 2). The review process will be single-blind and the authors do *not* need to anonymize their submission.
All papers must be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Please ensure that any special fonts used are included in the submitted documents. All papers must be original and must not be under review or have been published elsewhere.
At least one author of each accepted paper will be required to present their work at the workshop. Accepted workshop papers will be published in the CIKM workshop proceedings, which will be printed on CD only and indexed in the ACM digital library, together with the main CIKM 2013 proceedings.
Important Dates
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Papers submission Deadline: June 28, 2013
Notification of acceptance July 26, 2013
Camera-ready submission: August 9, 2013
Workshop date: October 28, 2013 (tentative)
All due dates are defined in terms of times before 11:59pm, Hawaii time (i.e., GMT - 10 hours) of the due date.
Organizing Committee
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o Ingmar Weber, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
o Ana-Maria Popescu, Research Consulting, USA
o Marco Pennacchiotti, eBay Inc., USA
Program Committee
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o Eytan Adar, University of Michigan, USA
o Erik Borra, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
o Johan Bos, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
o Trey Causey, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
o Meeyoung Cha, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea
o Elizabeth Churchill, eBay Research Labs, San Jose, USA
o Alessandro Flammini, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
o Daniel Gayo-Avello, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
o Bruno Gonçalves, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France
o Yelena Mejova, Yahoo! Labs, Barcelona, Spain
o Qiaozhu Mei, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
o Eni Mustafaraj, Wellesley College, Wellesley, USA
o Brendan O'Connor, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
o Rawia Radi, Islamic University of Gaza, Gaza City, Palestine
o Philip Resnik, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
o Alan Ritter, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Ingmar Weber
Senior Scientist
Social Computing
Qatar Computing Research Institute
10th Floor, Tornado Tower
Doha, Qatar
Tel: +974 4454 1442
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