HT

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2017 ACM International Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT 2017) in Prague, Czech Republic on 4th -- 7th July.

HT is a top-tier ACM conference in the areas of Hypertext and Social Media. Since 1987, it has successfully brought together leading researchers and developers from the community. It is concerned with all aspects of modern hypertext research, including social media, adaptation, personalization, recommendations, user modeling, linked data and semantic web, dynamic and computed hypertext, and its application in digital humanities, as well as with interplay between those aspects such as linking stories with data or linking people with resources.

HT 2017 continues to create an outstanding technical program consisting of research and demo paper presentations. This year we organized the call for papers in four technical tracks: Social Networks and Digital Humanities (Linking people), Semantic Web and Linked Data (Linking data), Adaptive Hypertext and Recommendations (Linking resources), News and Storytelling (Linking stories). In total, we have received 69 regular paper (10 pages) submissions reviewed by a group of 86 program committee (PC) members. In the research track the PC accepted 19 regular papers (acceptance rate 27%), and 12 short-presentation papers (with the same number of pages in the proceeding as the regular ones). In addition, the conference will feature 4 demonstrations, which will appear as demo papers in the main conference proceedings. The conference keynote speakers will be Kristina Lerman and Peter Mika.