Program: Monday, February 11, 2008
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Time |
Event |
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08:15 |
Registration |
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09:00
09:15 |
Welcome
& Introductions |
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09:15
10:15 |
Invited Talk
1 Hector Garcia-Molina: Web Information Management:
Past, Present and Future. |
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10:15
10:45 |
Coffee
Break |
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10:45
12:25 |
Indexing & Search On Placing Skips Optimally In Expectation. Flavio Chierichetti, Silvio
Lattanzi, Federico Mari and Alessandro Panconesi. Disorder Inequality: A Combinatorial Approach to
Nearest Neighbor Search. Navin Goyal, Yury Lifshits and Hinrich
Schόtze. Beyond Basic Faceted Search. Ronny Lempel, Ori
Ben-Yitzhak, Nadav Golbandi, Nadav Har'El, Sivan Yogev, Dafna Sheinwald,
Benjamin Sznajder, Shila Ofek-Koifman, Eugene Shekita and Andreas Neumann. Entropy of Search Logs: How Hard is Search? With
Personalization? With Backoff? Qiaozhu
Mei and Kenneth Church. |
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12:25
13:45 |
Lunch |
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13:45
15:25 |
Ranking Fast learning of Document Ranking Functions with the
Committee Perceptron. Jonathan Elsas, Vitor Carvalho and Jaime Carbonell. Ranking Web Sites with Real User Traffic. Mark Meiss, Filippo Menczer,
Santo Fortunato, Alessandro Flammini and Alessandro Vespignani. SoftRank:
Optimising Non-Smooth Rank Metrics. Michael Taylor, John Guiver,
Stephen Robertson and Tom Minka. An Experimental Comparison of Click Position-Bias
Models. Nick Craswell, Onno Zoeter, Michael Taylor and
Bill Ramsey. |
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15:25
16:00 |
Coffee
Break |
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16:00
17:40 |
Graph
Mining A Scalable Pattern Mining Approach to Web Graph
Compression with Communities. Greg Buehrer and Kumar Chellapilla. Collaboration Over Time: Characterizing and Modeling
Network Evolution. Jian Huang, Ziming Zhuang, Jia Li and Lee Giles. Preferential Behavior in Online Groups. Lars Backstrom, Connectivity Structure of Bipartite Graphs via the
KNC-Plot. |
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19:00 |
Banquet (Garden Court Hotel, |
Program: Tuesday, February 12, 2008
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Time |
Event |
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08:15 |
Registration |
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09:00
10:00 |
Invited Talk
2 Oren Etzioni: Machine
Reading at Web Scale. |
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10:00
10:30 |
Coffee
Break |
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10:30
12:10 |
Crawling.
Classification Crawl Ordering by Search Impact. Sandeep Pandey and Christopher Olston. Deep Classifier: Automatically Categorizing Search
Results into Large-scale Hierarchies. Dikan
Xing, Gui-Rong Xue, Qiang Yang and Yong Yu. Personal Name Classification in Web Queries.
Dou Shen,
Toby Walker,
Zijian Zheng,
Qiang Yang and
Ying Li.
Characterizing and Understanding the Impact of
Temporal Evolution on Document Classification. Fernando Mourao, Leonardo
Rocha, Renata Araϊjo, Thierson Couto, Marcos Goncalves
and Wagner Meira Jr. |
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12:10
13:30 |
Lunch |
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13:30
15:10 |
Social
Search On Ranking Controversies in Wikipedia:
Models and Evaluation. Ba-Quy Vuong, Ee-Peng Lim, Aixin Sun, Minh-Tam Le, Hady W.
Lauw and Kuiyu Chang. Finding High-Quality Content in Social Media. Eugene Agichtein, Carlos
Castillo, Debora Donato, Aristides Gionis and Gilad Mishne. Can Social Bookmarks Improve Web Search? Paul Heymann, Georgia Koutrika and Hector Garcia-Molina. Identifying the Influential Bloggers. Nitin Agarwal, Huan Liu,
Lei Tang and Philip Yu. |
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15:10
15:40 |
Coffee
Break |
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15:40
17:20 |
Social
Search. Advertising Opinion Spam and Analysis. Nitin Jindal and Bing Liu.
A Holistic Lexicon-Based Approach to Opinion Mining.
Xiaowen
Ding, Bing Liu and Philip Yu. An Empirical Analysis of Sponsored Search Performance
in Search Engine Advertising. Anindya
Ghose and Sha Yang. Advertising Keyword Suggestion Based On Concept
Hierarchy. Yifan
Chen, Gui-Rong Xue and
Yong Yu. |
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17:20 -
18:00 |
Close up (PC report, Local organization report, WSDM 2009) |