WORKSHOP REPORT The Search and Social Media Workshop at SIGIR 2009 Eugene Agichtein Emory University eugene@mathcs.emory.edu Marti A. Hearst UC Berkeley hearst@ischool.berkeley.edu Ian Soboro  NIST ian.soboro Â@nist.gov Introduction Social applications are the fastest growing segment of the web. They establish new forums for content creation, allow people to connect to each other and share information, and permit novel applications at the intersection of people and information. However, to date, social media has been primarily popular for connecting people, not for Ânding information. While there has been progress on searching particular kinds of social media, such as blogs, search in others (e.g., Facebook, Myspace, of Âickr) are not as well understood. To address these questions, the second workshop on Search and Social Media (SSM 2009) was held at SIGIR 2009 in Boston, MA in July 2009. The main workshop website is available at http://ir.mathcs.emory.edu/SSM2009/. SSM 2009 followed on the highly successful SSM 2008 workshop held at CIKM 2008 in Napa, CA. As in the previous year, the workshop had nearly 50 attendees from academia and industry. The purpose of this workshop was to bring together information retrieval and social media researchers to consider the following questions: How should
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The search and social media workshop at SIGIR 2009
Agichtein, Eugene; Hearst, Marti A.; Soboro, Ian
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