UMUAI is proud to announce that the following paper has been elected as the recipient of the 2013 James Chen Annual Award for Best Journal Article:

A knowledge-tracing model of learning from a social tagging system

Peter Pirolli and Sanjay Kairam

UMUAI 23(2–3):139–168

The paper was selected based on nominations from journal reviewers, editorial board members and guest editors, and a subsequent comparative review of the shortlisted papers by an award committee.

The James Chen Annual Award for Best Journal Article has been donated by the Chen family in commemoration of James R. Chen, a creative researcher in the area of user modeling and information retrieval, and twice a UMUAI author. The award carries a cash price of US$ 1,000.