Hypertext Conference 2008

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Session 1: Information Linking I: New models and techniques for interacting with information.

What Can History Tell Us? Towards Different Models of Interaction with Document Histories
Adam Jatowt, Yukiko Kawai, Hiroaki Ohshima and Katsumi Tanaka

User-defined Structural Searches in MediaWiki
Johannes Albertsen and Niels Olof Bouvin

Kalpana -- Enabling Client-side Web Personalization
Anupriya Ankolekar and Denny Vrandecic
ASAP: A Planning Tool for Agile Software Development
Rasmus Petersen and Uffe Wiil

Session 2: Social Linking I: Link Inference

Correlating User Profiles From Multiple Folksonomies
Martin Szomszor, Ivan Cantador and Harith Alani
Measuring Social Networks with Digital Photograph Collections
Scott Golder
Dynamic Prediction of Communication Flow Using Social Context
Munmun De Choudhury, Hari Sundaram, Ajita John and Doree Seligmann
Can Blog Communication Dynamics be correlated with Stock Market Activity?
Munmun De Choudhury, Hari Sundaram, Ajita John and Doree Seligmann

Session 3: Social Linking II: Analysis and Modeling

The Very Small World of the Well-Connected
Xiaolin Shi, Matthew Bonner, Lada Adamic and Anna Gilbert
An Epistemic Dynamic Model for Tagging Systems
Klaas Dellschaft and Steffen Staab
Understanding the Efficiency of Social Tagging Systems using Information Theory
Ed H. Chi and Todd Mytkowicz

Session 4: Hypertext, Culture, and Communication

The Revenge of the Page
David Kolb
Information Flows and Social Capital in Weblogs: A Case Study in the Brazilian Blogosphere
Raquel Recuero
Making Revisions Hyper-Visible
David Kolb

We're All Stars Now: Reality Television, Web 2.0, and Mediated Identities
Michael A. Stefanone and Derek Lackaff

Session 5: Student Research Competition

Session 6: Social Linking III: Similarity and Retrieval

Extracting and Ranking Viral Communities through Semantic Similarity
Hyun Chul Lee, Allan Borodin and Leslie Goldsmith
Efficient Assembly of Social Semantic Networks
Ben Markines, Heather Roinestad and Filippo Menczer
Logsonomy - Social Information Retrieval with Logdata
Robert Jaeschke, Beate Krause, Andreas Hotho and Gerd Stumme

Session 7: Applications of Hypertext

Enhancing Access to Open Corpus Educational Content: Learning in the Wild
Seamus Lawless, Lucy Hederman and Vincent Wade
Social Web Applications in the City: A Lightweight Infrastructure for Urban Computing
Frank Allan Hansen and Gronbak
A State of the Art Survey of Soft Skill Simulation Authoring Tools
Conor Gaffney, Declan Dagger and Vincent Wade
Investigating Success Factors for Hypermedia Development Tools
Franca Garzotto, Davide Bolchini and Paolo Paolini

Session 8: Social Linking IV: Applications

Seeing Things in the Clouds: The Effect of Visual Features on Tag Cloud Selections
Scott Bateman, Carl Gutwin and Miguel Nacenta
Where did the Researchers Go? Supporting Social Navigation at a Large Academic Conference
Rosta Farzan and Peter Brusilovsky
Network Visualization for Exploratory Search
Justin Donaldson, Michael Conover, Ben Markines, Heather Roinestad and Filippo Menczer

Session 9: Information Linking II: Automating the "trailblazer" (a new profession envisioned by Vannevar Bush)

Generating Links by Mining Quotations
Okan Kolak and Bill N. Schilit
Document Similarity Based on Concept Tree Distance
Praveen Lakkaraju, Susan Gauch and Mirco Speretta
LLAMA-B: Automatic Hyperlink Authoring in the Blogosphere
Dong Zhou, Mark Truran, Tim Brailsford, Helen Ashman and Amir Pourabdollah