Session Schedule (Tentative)

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• 08:30 – 12:00 Tutorial AM1 and AM2
  • Tutorial AM1: Crowdsourcing 101: Putting the “Wisdom of the Crowd” to Work for You
    Presenters: Omar Alonso and Matthew Lease
    Venue: Room 3
  • Tutorial AM2: Introduction to Display Advertising
    Presenters: Andrei Broder, Vanja Josifovski and Jayavel Shanmugasundaram
    Venue: Room 4

• 08:30 – 17:00 Workshop 1 and 2
  • Workshop 1: Crowdsourcing for Search and Data Mining (CSDM 2011)
    Chairs: Evgeniy Gabrilovich and Wai Lam
    Venue: Room 1
  • Workshop 2: User Modelling for Web Applications
    Chairs: David Carmel, Vanja Josifovski and Yoelle Maarek
    Venue: Room 2

• 10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break

• 12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

• 13:30 – 17:00 Tutorial PM1 and PM2
  • Tutorial PM1: Exploiting Statistical and Relational Information on the Web and in Social Media
    Presenters: Lise Getoor and Lilyana Mihalkova
    Venue: Room 3
  • Tutorial PM2: Web Retrieval: The Role of Users
    Presenters: Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Yoelle Maarek
    Venue: Room 4

• 15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break

• 18:30 Welcome Reception

• 08:30 – 08:40 Opening Ceremony
  Chair: Irwin King

• 08:40 – 09:40 Keynote I
  Chair: Hang Li

• 09:40 – 10:30 Oral Session 1: Web Search I
  Chair: Yoelle Maarek
  
  
  • Who Uses Web Search for What? And How?
    Ingmar Weber and Alejandro Jaimes
    Keywords: query logs, demographics, session analysis, topic classification.
  • Personalizing Web Search using Long Term Browsing History
    Nicolaas Matthijs and Filip Radlinski
    Keywords: Personalized Web Search, Browsing History, Large-scale online evaluation, AlterEgo, Interleaving, Ranking, User Profile.

• 10:30 – 10:50 Coffee Break

• 10:50 – 12:30 Oral Session 2: Social Search and Mining I
  Chair: Eytan Adar
  
  
  • TwitterSearch: A Comparison of Microblog Search and Web Search
    Jaime Teevan, Daniel Ramage and Meredith Ringel Morris
    Keywords: social search, query log analysis, microblog search.
  • Identifying Topical Authorities in Microblogs
    Aditya Pal and Scott Counts
    Keywords: Online Social Media, Authority Identification, Recommendation systems, Microblogging and Twitter, Clustering and Ranking.
  • Correcting for Missing Data in Information Cascades
    Eldar Sadikov, Montserrat Medina, Jure Leskovec and Hector Garcia-Molina
    Keywords: missing data, information cascades, sampling, social networks, Twitter.
  • Identifying 'Influencers' on Twitter
    Eytan Bakshy, Jake M. Hofman, Winter Mason and Duncan J. Watts
    Keywords: Communication networks, Twitter, influence, diffusion, word-of-mouth.

• 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

• 14:00 – 15:40 Oral Session 3: Web Search II
  Chair: David Carmel
  
  
  • A Comparative Analysis of Cascade Measures for Novelty and Diversity
    Charles Clarke, Nick Craswell, Ian Soboroff and Azin Ashkan
    Keywords: search effectiveness measures, novelty, diversity, ERR, nDCG, editorial assessment.
  • Understanding and Predicting Personal Navigation
    Jaime Teevan, Daniel J. Liebling and Gayathri Ravichandran Geetha
    Keywords: navigation, query intent, personalization, query log analysis.
  • Quality-Biased Ranking of Web Documents
    Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft and Yanlei Diao
    Keywords: quality-biased ranking, document quality, web search.
  • Ranking From Pairs and Triplets: Information Quality, Evaluation Methods and Query Complexity
    Kira Radinsky and Nir Ailon
    Keywords: Search Quality, Search Evaluation, Ranking Evaluations, Preference Analysis.

• 15:40 – 16:00 Coffee Break

• 15:40 – 17:15 Poster Session I

• 08:30 – 09:30 Keynote II
  Chair: Wolfgang Nejdl

• 09:30 – 10:20 Oral Session 4: Social Search and Mining II
  Chair: Ravi Kumar
  
  
  • We Feel Fine and Searching the Emotional Web
    Sepandar Kamvar and Jonathan Harris
    Keywords: Social Media Mining, Sentiment Analysis, Exploratory Sentiment Visualization.
  • On the Selection of Tags for Tag Clouds
    Petros Venetis, Georgia Koutrika and Hector Garcia-Molina
    Keywords: search, tag, tag cloud.

• 10:20 – 10:50 Coffee Break

• 10:50 – 12:30 Oral Session 5: Web Search III
  Chair: Nick Craswell
  
  
  • Efficient Indexing of Repeated n-Grams
    Samuel Huston, Alistair Moffat and W. Bruce Croft
    Keywords: Repeated phrase, n-gram, hash filter, text reuse, scalable algorithm, distributed algorithm.
  • Batch Query Processing for Web Search Engines
    Shuai Ding, Josh Attenberg, Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Torsten Suel
    Keywords: Web Search Performance, Query Processing, Caching, Algorithms, Measurement, Experimentation.
  • Detecting Duplicate Web Documents using Clickthrough Data
    Filip Radlinski, Paul N. Bennett and Emine Yilmaz
    Keywords: Duplication, Redundancy, Novelty, Utility, Web Search.
  • KMV-Peer: A Robust and Adaptive Peer-Selection Algorithm
    Yosi Mass, Yehoshua Sagiv and Michal Shmueli-Scheuer
    Keywords: P2P Search, Performance, Adaptive algorithm.

• 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

• 14:00 – 15:40 Oral Session 6: Social Search and Mining III
  Chair: Kevin Chang
  
  
  • Understanding Temporal Query Dynamics
    Anagha Kulkarni, Jaime Teevan, Krysta Svore and Susan Dumais
    Keywords: temporal dynamics, query intent, query popularity, results content.
  • Patterns of Temporal Variation in Online Media
    Jaewon Yang and Jure Leskovec
    Keywords: information cascade, time-series clustering, online media.
  • Using Graded-Relevance Metrics for Evaluating Community QA Answer Selection
    Tetsuya Sakai, Daisuke Ishikawa, Noriko Kando, Yohei Seki, Kazuko Kuriyama and Chin-Yew Lin
    Keywords: best answers, community question answering, evaluation, graded relevance, NTCIR, test collections.
  • Mining Social Images with Distance Metric Learning for Automated Image Tagging
    Pengcheng Wu, Steven C. H. Hoi, Peilin Zhao and Ying He
    Keywords: social images, distance metric learning, inductive learning, transductive learning, automated image tagging.

• 15:40 – 16:00 Coffee Break

• 15:40 – 17:15 Poster Session II

• 17:30 – 19:30 Excursion

• 19:30 Banquet

• 09:00 – 10:40 Oral Session 7: Web Mining
  Chair: Qiang Yang
  
  
  • Dynamic Relationship and Event Discovery
    Anish Das Sarma, Alpa Jain and Cong Yu
    Keywords: entity relationship discovery, event discovery, algorithm.
  • Joint Training for Open-domain Extraction on the Web: Exploiting Overlap when Supervision is Limited
    Rahul Gupta and Sunita Sarawagi
    Keywords: Conditional Random Fields, Collective Training, Graphical Models, Open-domain Ad-hoc Extraction, Learning-based Record Extractors.
  • Scalable Knowledge Harvesting with High Precision and High Recall
    Ndapandula Nakashole, Martin Theobald and Gerhard Weikum
    Keywords: Knowledge Harvesting, Information Extraction, Scalability.
  • Mining Named Entities with Temporally Correlated Bursts from Multilingual Web News Streams
    Alexander Kotov, ChengXiang Zhai and Richard Sporat
    Keywords: text streams, natural language processing, transliteration, probabilistic modeling, dynamic programming.

• 10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break

• 11:00 – 12:40 Oral Session 8: Web Search IV
  Chair: Ricardo Baeza-Yates
  
  
  • Dynamic Ranked Retrieval
    Christina Brandt, Thorsten Joachims, Yisong Yue and Jacob Bank
    Keywords: Ranking and Machine Learning for Ranking, Diversified Retrieval, Relevance Feedback, Decision Theory, Personalized Search and Ranking.
  • Optimizing Two-Dimensional Search Results Presentation
    Flavio Chierichetti, Ravi Kumar and Prabhakar Raghavan
    Keywords: Two-dimensional search results, Markov chains, Placement problem.
  • Result Enrichment in Commerce Search using Browse Trails
    Sreenivas Gollapudi and Debmalya Panigrahi
    Keywords: commerce search, browse trails, result enrichment, web domain annotation.
  • Identifying Task-based Sessions in Search Engine Query Logs
    Claudio Lucchese, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri and Gabriele Tolomei
    Keywords: Query Log Mining, Query Log Session Boundary Detection, Task-based Sessions, Query Clustering.

• 12:40 – 14:00 Lunch

• 14:00 – 15:00 WSDM General Meeting

• 15:00 – 15:20 Coffee Break

• 15:20 – 17:00 Oral Session 9: Social Search and Mining IV
  Chair: Jaime Teevan
  
  
  • Recommender Systems with Social Regularization
    Hao Ma, Dengyong Zhou, Chao Liu, Michael R. Lyu and Irwin King
    Keywords: Recommender Systems, Collaborative Filtering, Social Network, Matrix Factorization, Social Regularization.
  • Unbiased Offline Evaluation of Contextual-bandit-based News Article Recommendation Algorithms
    Lihong Li, Wei Chu, John Langford and Xuanhui Wang
    Keywords: recommendation, offline evaluation, benchmark dataset, contextual multi-armed bandit.
  • Efficient Online Ad Serving in a Display Advertising Meta-Exchange
    Kevin Lang, Joaquin Delgado, Swaroop Jagadish, Amita Gajewar, Dongming Jiang, Michael Bindeberger-Ortega, Bhaskar Ghosh, Shirshanka Das, Arathi Seshan, Chavdar Botev, Sunil Nagaraj and Raymie Stata
    Keywords: Display Advertising, Online Ad Serving, Graph Algorithm, Constrained Path Optimization, Ad Exchange.
  • Trend Analysis Model: Trend Consists of Temporal Words, Topics, and Timestamps
    Noriaki Kawamae
    Keywords: Topic Modeling, Latent Variable Modeling, Graphical Models, Trend Analysis, Timestamped data.

• 17:00 Closing Ceremony