WSDM2011 Awards

Best Paper Award (US $1,000, Sponsored by Microsoft)


Unbiased Offline Evaluation of Contextual-bandit-based News Article Recommendation Algorithms
Lihong Li, Wei Chu, John Langford and Xuanhui Wang


Best Student Paper Award (US $1,000, Sponsored by Google)


Correcting for Missing Data in Information Cascades
Eldar Sadikov, Montserrat Medina, Jure Leskovec and Hector Garcia-Molina


Best Poster Awards (US $250, Sponsored by WSDM2011)


Stochastic Query Covering
Aris Anagnostopoulos, Luca Becchetti, Stefano Leonardi, Ida Mele and Piotr Sankowski


Optimizing Two-Dimensional Search Results Presentation
Flavio Chierichetti, Ravi Kumar and Prabhakar Raghavan


Best Paper Candidates

  • 46: Correcting for Missing Data in Information Cascades
    Eldar Sadikov, Montserrat Medina, Jure Leskovec and Hector Garcia-Molina

  • 216: Personalizing Web Search Using Long Term Browsing History
    Nicolaas Matthijs and Filip Radlinski

  • 220: Identifying Topical Authorities in Microblogs
    Aditya Pal and Scott Counts

  • 261: Identifying Task-based Sessions in Search Engine Query Logs
    Claudiao Lucchese, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silverstri and Gabriele Tolomei

  • 329: Unbiased Offline Evaluation of Contextual bandit based News Article Recommendation Algorithms
    Lihong Li, Wei Chu, John Langford and Xaunhui Wang

  • 352: Dynamic Ranked Retrieval
    Christina Brandt, Thorsten Joachims, Yisong Yue and Jacob Bank

Best Paper Award Committee

  • Eytan Adar, University of Michigan, USA
  • James Allan, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
  • Brian D. Davison, Lehigh University, USA
  • Mounia Lalmas, University of Glasgow, UK
  • Hang Li, Microsoft Research Asia, China
  • Edleno Silva de Moura, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil
  • Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S and University of Hannover, Germany
  • Qiang Yang, HKUST, Hong Kong

Here is a short description of how the Best Paper Award Committee selects the awards.

Each Senior PC members could put forward a nomination from the papers they were responsible for. We had were six papers nominated by the SPCs as best paper candidates. Next, a best paper award committee was formed, consisting of six SPC and PC members, who did not have conflict of interest with the nominated papers, as well as the two PC chairs.

Each member of the best paper award committee independently reviewed all six papers and then recommended two best paper candidates from the six papers. Based on these reviews, discussion and voting was conducted among the members, to select both best paper and best student paper award.

Past WSDM Awards

WSDM2010

  • Best Paper
    [2010, inproceedings | www]
    Dupret, G., & Liao, C. (2010). A model to estimate intrinsic document relevance from the clickthrough logs of a web search engine. Paper presented at the WSDM '10: Proceedings of the third ACM international conference on Web search and data mining, New York, NY, USA.
  • Best Student Paper
    [2010, inproceedings | www]
    Rendle, S., & Schmidt-Thieme, L. (2010). Pairwise interaction tensor factorization for personalized tag recommendation. Paper presented at the WSDM '10: Proceedings of the third ACM international conference on Web search and data mining, New York, NY, USA.

WSDM2009

  • Best Paper
    [2009, inproceedings | www]
    Diaz, F. (2009). Integration of news content into web results. Paper presented at the WSDM '09: Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, New York, NY, USA.
  • Best Student Paper
    [2009, inproceedings | www]
    Adar, E., Teevan, J., Dumais, S. T., & Elsas, J. L. (2009). The web changes everything: understanding the dynamics of web content. Paper presented at the WSDM '09: Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, New York, NY, USA.

WSDM2008

  • Not available
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