WICOW 2008: Napa Valley, California, USA

Katsumi Tanaka, Takashi Matsuyama, Ee-Peng Lim, Adam Jatowt (Eds.): Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web, WICOW 2008, Napa Valley, California, USA, October 30, 2008. ACM 2008, ISBN 978-1-60558-259-7

Keynote addresses

Christos Faloutsos:
Graph mining and influence propagation. 1-2
Yutaka Kidawara:
Information credibility analysis of web content. 3-4

Analyzing social networks and discussion forums

Jessica Staddon, Richard Chow:
Detecting reviewer bias through web-based association mining. 5-10
Reyn Y. Nakamoto, Shinsuke Nakajima, Jun Miyazaki, Shunsuke Uemura, Hirokazu Kato, Yoichi Inagaki:
Reasonable tag-based collaborative filtering for social tagging systems. 11-18
Nayer M. Wanas, Motaz El-Saban, Heba Ashour, Waleed Ammar:
Automatic scoring of online discussion posts. 19-26

Web content analysis

Rui Lopes, Luís Carriço:
On the credibility of wikipedia: an accessibility perspective. 27-34
Yoshikiyo Kato, Daisuke Kawahara, Kentaro Inui, Sadao Kurohashi, Tomohide Shibata:
Extracting the author of web pages. 35-42
Irit Askira Gelman, Anthony L. Barletta:
A "quick and dirty" website data quality indicator. 43-46

Content aggregation on the web

Jeff King, Jennifer Stoll, Michael T. Hunter, Mustaque Ahamad:
ALPACA: a lightweight platform for analyzing claim acceptability. 47-52
Yukiko Kawai, Yusuke Fujita, Tadahiko Kumamoto, Jianwei Jianwei, Katsumi Tanaka:
Using a sentiment map for visualizing credibility of news sites on the web. 53-58
Satoshi Nakamura, Makoto Shimizu, Katsumi Tanaka:
Can social annotation support users in evaluating the trustworthiness of video clips? 59-62
Ryong Lee, Daisuke Kitayama, Kazutoshi Sumiya:
Web-based evidence excavation to explore the authenticity of local events. 63-66

Information quality frameworks and theories

Manos Tsagkias, Martha Larson, Wouter Weerkamp, Maarten de Rijke:
PodCred: a framework for analyzing podcast preference. 67-74
Marie Iding, Brent Auernheimer, Martha E. Crosby:
Towards a metacognitive approach to credibility. 75-80
Marek Kowalkiewicz, Konrad Jünemann:
Improving information quality in email exchanges by identifying entities and related objects. 81-84
Jack G. Conrad, Jochen L. Leidner, Frank Schilder:
Professional credibility: authority on the web. 85-88
Llewellyn C. M. Tang, Yuyang Zhao, Simon Austin, Mansur J. Darlington, Steve J. Culley:
A characteristic based information evaluation model. 89-92