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"As for popular music, the University of Vermont researchers found that within each genre, the emotional charge of lyrics remained stable between 1960 and 2007. But the overall trend was downward, as metal came of age in the 1970s, punk in the 1980s, and later hip-hop, each exploring darker themes more explicitly than their predecessors in the 1960s." - BENEDICT CAREY

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/health/04mind.html?nl=health&emc=healthupdatee

Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2010
4-6 February 2010 -- New York City, USA
http://wsdm2010.org/

Important Dates
Abstract submission: 6 August 2009
Full paper submission: 13 August 2009
Notification: 15 October 2009
Conference: 4-6 February 2010

Organizers

Conference Co-chairs

Torsten Suel, NYU Poly

Brian D. Davison, Lehigh University
Program Committee Co-chairs Nick Craswell, Microsoft

Bing Liu, University of Illinois, Chicago
Local Arrangements Sihem Amer-Yahia, Yahoo! Research (Chair)

Muthu Muthukrishnan, Google/Rutgers

Serguei Vassilvitskii, Yahoo! Research
Publicity Chair Amélie Marian, Rutgers University
Treasurer Oded Nov, NYU Poly

This weekend, I have been spending my time for trying Google Squared. Google Squared works the same as Google Search with a simple query text box but now we can enter the query as a class of entities, e.g. "digital camera" (http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=digital+cameras&suggest=3) or "Information retrieval book" (http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=Information+Retrieval+book). Google Squared amazingly does entity extraction, classification and clustering to return properties of "digital camera" such as "name of camera", "manufacturer", "resolution", etc. The search result will be shown in spreadsheet using AJAX therefore you can add or remove columns as you want.

You may try Google Squared at http://www.google.com/squared/

Important Dates
KDD09:

• Abstract Submission: February 2, 2009
• Electronic Paper Submission: February 6, 2009
• Notification: April 10, 2009
• Conference Dates: June 28 - July 1, 2009
  http://www.sigkdd.org/kdd2009/papers.html

COLT09:

• Electronic submission of papers: February 13, 2009 (5:59pm PST).
• Electronic submission of two-page open problems: March 13, 2009.
• Initial reviews released for rebuttal phase: April 10, 2009.
• Notification of acceptance or rejection: April 24, 2009.
• Final submission of all papers: May 15, 2009.
• Conference dates: June 18-21, 2009
  http://www.learningtheory.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12:colt-2009-call-for-papers&catid=20:general&Itemid=8

Link: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SentimentAI/
"This group is designed for all those interested in the automatic identification, extraction and understanding of SENTIMENT, OPINIONS and AFFECT in text, as well as for those interested in its generation". I did join this group. There are useful information and a lot of members such as Bing Liu, Lillian Lee, Fabrizio Sebastiani...who have been working on this area for a long time.

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