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T-61.6060 Special Course in Computer and Information Science VI P:

Modeling and Simulating Social Web (4 cr)

Lecturer	Docent Timo Honkela
Assistants	Mari-Sanna Paukkeri and Ilari Nieminen
Credits (ECTS)	4
Semester	Spring 2008 (during period III)
Seminar sessions	There are four seminar sessions in the room T3 in the computer science building, Konemiehentie 2, Otaniemi, Espoo: Jan 17th, 14:15-16:00: Introduction Jan 24th, 14:15-16:00: Group formation and topic specification Feb 14th, 14:15-16:00: Presentations of plans and preliminary results (about 15 min/group) Feb 26th, 14:00-16:00: Presentations of final results (about 35 min/group: about 30 min presentation + 5 min discussion) Mar 31st: Deadline for written report
Language	English
Web	http://www.cis.hut.fi/Opinnot/T-61.6060/
Registration	TKK students: WebTopi, others: send mail to t616060@cis.hut.fi
E-mail	t616060@cis.hut.fi

Course description

The seminar considers how the novel social web environments such as blogs, social networking sites, folksonomies can be analyzed and simulated. On the first session there is an introduction to the area and the preliminary topics of group work assignments. Students form small groups (2-4 persons).

Methods that may be utilized in the seminar work include text mining, network models, link analysis, diffusion and propagation analysis, clustering and graph visualisation. An earlier course on Information Networks organized by Dr. Gemma Garriga provides a number of links to potentially useful resources.

It is recommended that the data used in the course includes a collection of blog articles related to a seminar course organized at Helsinki School of Economics by Prof. Mika Pantzar. The data is in Finnish and therefore tools such as Snowball, Morfessor or some morphological analyser should be used.

Requirements for passing the course

The course will be graded as accepted / failed. Requirements for passing the course:

• Active participation in a group conducting an analysis of some data related to the course topic
• Written report and oral presentation of the group work

Attendance in the four seminar gatherings is required.

Course material

Scripts by Ilari Nieminen for preparing input data: blogparse.pl and printentries.pl

Presentation slides of the last seminar session:

• Sami Virpioja, Markus Sadeniemi and Tiina Lindh-Knuutila: Tag predictor(s) for omasana.fi blogs
• Lauri Lahti, Oskar Kohonen and Zhirong Yang: Algorithms tested in Social Web and P-NMF results (del.icio.us)
• Aki Saarinen, Laszlo Kozma and Stevan Keraudy: Tags and document relations (newsvine.com)