Some Interesting Conferences:

ACL/HLT (Association for Computational Linguistics/Human Language Technologies)

ACM SIGHIT (ACM International Health Informatics Symposium)

AMIA and JAMIA (Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association)

AIR Web/Web Quality 2011

ECIR (European Conference on Information Retrieval)

AIRS (Asian Information Retrieval Conference)

ICML (International Conference on Machine Learning)

International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media.

ICDM

ISMB/ECCB  (Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology/European Conference on Computational Biology)
JCDL
KDD (ACM SIG Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining)

RIAO (next in 2013 my guess)

SIGIR

WWW
WSDM

Goal: To study current papers from journals and conference proceedings in text retrieval and text mining. Examples of problems include topic models, web retrieval and web mining, ranking strategies, ambiguity resolution, knowledge discovery, web phenomenon including social networks, information extraction and text classification. The reading group is lead by Professor Padmini Srinivasan. Interested students (from beginning to advanced students) and faculty are invited to participate in the reading group. Participation format is informal with individuals taking turns to present an overview of the selected paper and lead the discussion. This forum has resulted in collaborative projects and published papers.

1. September 3: Labour Day
2. September 10: (Sanmitra Bhattacharya)
• Chee, Berlin & Schatz.  Predicting Adverse Drug Events from Personal Health Messages. Proc AMIA, 2011
3. September 17: (Chao Yang)
• Catherine A. Bliss, Isabel M. Kloumann, Kameron Decker Harris, Christopher M. Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds.  Twitter reciprocal reply networks exhibit assortativity with respect to happiness. arXiv:1112.1010v4 [cs.SI] 11 May 2012.
4. September 24: (Hung Tran)
• Wilkinson & Thelwall.  Trending Twitter topics in English: an International Comparison.  JASIST, July 2012.
5. October 1: (Chris Harris)
• Why People Contine to Play Online Games: In search of critical design factors to increase customer loyalty to online contents. CyberPsychology & Behavior 7(1), 2004.
6. October 8: ( Michael Rechenthin)
• Hoens, Polikar and Chawla.  Learning from streaming data with concept drift and imbalance: an Overview.  Prog Artif Intell (2012), 1:89-101.
7. October 15: (Sanmitra Bhattacharya)
   • Wagner et al. Ignorance isn’t Bliss: An Empirical Analysis of Attention Patterns in Online Communities.  IEEE International conference on Social Computing (SocialComp 2012).
8. October 22: (Dang Tran)
• cancelled
9. October 29: (Michael Rechenthin)
• Petrovic, Osborne & Lavrenko.  Streaming First Story Detection with Application to Twitter.  Proc. ACL Conference, pp. 181-189, 2010.
10. November 5: (Chris Harris)
• Alonso and Mizzaro.  Using crowdsourcing for TREC relevance assessment. IP&M, 48(6), 1053:1066, 2012
11. November 12: (Sanmitra Bhattachary)
• De Choudhury, M., Counts, S., and Horvitz, E. (2013). Major Life Changes and Behavioral Markers in Social Media: Case of Childbirth. In Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (San Antonio, TX, USA, Feb 23-27, 2013), To appear. CSCW 2013.
12. November 19: Thanksgiving Break
13. November 26: (Chao Yang)
14. December 3: (Padmini Srinivasan)
15. December 10: (Hung Tran)