WSDM2011

about

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:39:18 +0800

WSDM (pronounced “wisdom”) is a young ACM conference intended to be the publication venue for research in the areas of search and data mining. Indeed, the pace of innovation in these areas prevents proper coverage by conferences of broader scope. The high attendance at the first three WSDMs, held at Stanford University, Barcelona and Polytechnic Institute of New York University in February 2008, 2009 and 2010, has confirmed community interest in a more focused venue.

accepted-papers-id

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:05:36 +0800

We received 372 submissions, a new record for the conference. The Program Committee was able to accept 83 full-length regular papers in total (an acceptance rate of 22.3%). Among them, 32 of the papers (8.6%) were accepted for oral-and-poster presentations, and 51 (13.7%) for poster-only presentations.

accepted-papers

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:58:06 +0800

accommodations

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 02:17:02 +0800

The official WSDM2011 conference hotel is the Sheraton Hotel and Tower. Situated in the heart of Kowloon, the Sheraton Hong Kong Hotel and Towers is convenient-ly located for business, shop-ping, and sightseeing. Easily accessible by MTR (subway train) and only a few minutes walk to the Star Ferry. The hotel has 782 guest rooms and suites, all luxuriously comfortable with many commanding a spectacular harbour view. The Sheraton Hong Kong offers amenities and services to meet the needs of every …

activities

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:43:11 +0800

Tourism Museums Dance/Music performances

agm

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:21:57 +0800

* Date: Saturday, February 12, 2011 * Time: 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm * Venue: Grand Ballroom, Sheraton Hong Kong Hotel and Towers * Chair: Ricardo Baeza-Yates Agenda (tentative) * Call to Meeting (Ricardo Baeza-Yates) * General Introduction, 5 minutes (Ricardo Baeza-Yates) * Introduction of Steering Committee Members

attendees

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:26:40 +0800

* Registration * Venue * Accomdations * Travel Information * Dining * Visas

authors

Thu, 06 May 2010 10:08:58 +0800

* Call for Papers * Call for Workshop Proposals * Call for Tutorial Proposals * Submissions

awards

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:24:08 +0800

Best Paper Award (US $1,000, Sponsored by Microsoft) Unbiased Offline Evaluation of Contextual-bandit-based News Article Recommendation AlgorithmsArray Lihong Li, Wei Chu, John Langford and Xuanhui Wang Best Student Paper Award (US $1,000, Sponsored by Google)

banquet

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:03:54 +0800

* Date: Friday, February 11, 2011 * Time: 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm * Venue: Jumbo Floating Restaurant, Aberdeen * MC: XXX Agenda (tentative) * Introduction * Chinese New Year Games * Dinner Served * 2 VIP Tables * 2 Vegetarian Tables

become-a-sponsor

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:25:30 +0800

WSDM is the fourth ACM conference on Web Search and Data Mining. Researchers, students, and engineers with interests in search and data mining are expected to attend the conference on February 9-12, 2011 at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Hong Kong.

become-an-exhibitor

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:24:29 +0800

The annual ACM International Conferences on Web Search and Data Mining have become the premier event for the web search and data mining community, bringing academia and industry professional alike to share the latest significant developments in the field. WSDM2011 will feature keynote addresses, invited talks, research paper and poster tracks, exhibits, workshops, tutorials, and social events.

bestpapers

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:05:09 +0800

WSDM 2011 * Best Paper * Best Student Paper WSDM 2010 * Best Paper * Best Student Paper WSDM 2009 * Best Paper * Best Student Paper

cfp

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:16:29 +0800

[ [pdf] | [txt] ] WSDM (pronounced “wisdom”) is the premier international ACM conference covering research in the areas of search and data mining on the Web. The 4th ACM WSDM Conference will take place in Hong Kong, during February 9-12, 2011. WSDM publishes original, high quality papers and presentations related to search and data mining on the Web and the Social Web, with an emphasis on practical but principled novel models of search, retrieval and data mining, algorithm design and analysis, …

cfpp

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 23:09:48 +0800

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION We cordially invite you to join us at: Fourth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM2011) February 9-12, 2011, Hong Kong Co-Sponsored by ACM SIGIR, SIGKDD, SIGMOD and SIGWEB

cny

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:52:33 +0800

Chinese New Year Celebration Activities 2011 is the Year of Rabbit, from January 28, 2011 to February 17, 2011, there are a variety of activities and celebrations in Hong Kong. You are welcomed to enjoy the exciting atmosphere of the Chinese New Year.

coi

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:50:18 +0800

As a PC member, you are responsible to protect the confidentiality of the ideas and work represented in the paper(s) that you have been assigned. * Do not show the paper to anyone else, including colleagues or students, unless you have asked them to write a review, or to help with your review. You could include them as external reviewers as they should be recognized. However, you are ultimately responsible for the papers being assigned to you.

committee

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:15:48 +0800

* Organizing Committee * Program Committee

contact

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 01:44:57 +0800

There is a large team behind the planning, organization and technical content development of the WSDM2011 conference. Below is a list of the principal team leaders and their conference contact information. For general inquiries, please contact .

dining

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:00:47 +0800

WSDM2011 Awards Banquet Venue The WSDM2011 Awards Banquet will be held at The Jumbo Floating Restaurant in Aberdeen after an excursion to the Peak on Friday, February 11, 2011. Array The Jumbo Kingdom is an important member of Melco's Leisure & Entertainment unit. Centred on the Jumbo and Tai Pak Floating Restaurants in Aberdeen Harbour, it is an internationally renowned tourist attraction. As a Hong Kong icon and a premier tourism and fine-dining establishment, Jumbo has regularly been upgra…

grants

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:31:55 +0800

Grant Awardees * Google's Travel Award for Women * Yu Lu, UIUC, USA * Kira Radinsky, Technion, Israel * WSDM2011 Student Travel Grants * Michael Bendersky, University of Massachusetts, USA * Shuai Ding, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, USA * Samuel Huston, University of Massachusetts, USA * Nicolaas Matthijs, University of Cambridge, UK * Aditya Pal, University of Minnesota, USA * Gabriele Tolomei, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy

history

Mon, 31 May 2010 00:56:04 +0800

* WSDM 2010, New York City, USA * WSDM 2009, Barcelona, Spain * WSDM 2008, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA

home

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 08:34:33 +0800

WSDM (pronounced “wisdom”) is the premier international ACM conference covering research in the areas of search and data mining on the Web. The 4th ACM WSDM Conference will take place in Hong Kong, during February 9-12, 2011. WSDM publishes original, high quality papers and presentations related to search and data mining on the Web and the Social Web, with an emphasis on practical but principled novel models of search, retrieval and data mining, algorithm design and analysis, economics implic…

importantdates

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:21:55 +0800

Workshop Proposal Deadline June 2010 Tutorial Proposal Deadline September 2010 Paper Submission Deadline August 2010 Authors Notification October 2010 Final Manuscript Due October 2010

info4sponsors

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:50:35 +0800

Due to the Chinese New Year on Thursday, February 3, 2011 many shops and services will be closed one or two days before and/or many days after for holidays. Hence, it is critical that you make sure all shipping items be at the destination by January 31, 2011 or you may run the risk of the item being excluded.

instructions

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 03:11:34 +0800

There are three items required from the authors of accepted WSDM2011 papers. They are: * Submit the final camera-ready paper by November 15, 2010 * Register WSDM2011 by November 22, 2010 * Submit the poster file in January 2011 More detailed instructions are listed below. For inquiries, please contact .

introduction

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:51:39 +0800

keynotes

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:30:29 +0800

Thursday, 8:40-9:40 AM Mining Billion-node Graphs: Patterns, Generators and Tools Christos Faloutsos, Professor at Dept. of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. What do graphs look like? How do they evolve over time? How to handle a graph with a billion nodes? We present a comprehensive list of static and temporal laws, and some recent observations on real graphs (like, e.g., “eigenSpokes”). For generators, we describe some recent ones, which naturally match all of the known pr…

list-of-sponsors

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:36:41 +0800

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location

Mon, 31 May 2010 15:48:05 +0800

Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. At the south-eastern tip of China, Hong Kong covers Hong Kong Island, Lantau Island, the Kowloon Peninsula and the New Territories, including 262 outlying islands. Between Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula lies Victoria Harbour, one of the world's most renowned deep-water harbors. With land mass of 1,104 km2 (426 sq mi) and a population of seven million people, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated …

navigation

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:16:13 +0800

* Home * About * Welcome Message * Hong Kong * Conference History * Top Cited WSDM Papers * WSDM Best Papers * Contact Us * Committee * Organizing Committee * Program Committee * Ethics and COI Policy * Authors * Instructions for Posters * Instructions for Authors * Call for Papers * Call for Workshops * Call for Tutorials * Submissions

oc

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:00:25 +0800

General Chair Program Co-Chairs Workshop Co-Chairs Tutorial Co-Chairs Local Arrangement Co-Chairs Finance Chair Publicity Chair Registration Chair Publication Chair Poster Session Chair Best Paper Award Committee Steering Committee

opening

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:48:10 +0800

* Date: Thursday, February 10, 2011 * Time: 8:30 am to 8:40 am * Venue: Grand Ballroom, Sheraton Hong Kong Hotel and Towers * Chair: Irwin King Agenda (tentative) * Call to Meeting (Irwin King) * Opening Address (Benjamin Wah) * Program Co-chair (Hang Li) * Introducing Keynote (Hang Li)

overview

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:02:19 +0800

[here] Wednesday, February 9, 2011 Workshop Information * WS1. Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Search and Data Mining (CSDM 2011) * WS2. Workshop on User Modelling for Web Applications Tutorial Information * T-AM1. Crowdsourcing 101: Putting the "Wisdom of the Crowd" to Work for You * T-AM2. Introduction to Display Advertising * T-PM1. Exploiting Statistical and Relational Information on the Web and in Social Media * T-PM2. Web Retrieval: The Role of Users

pc

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:09:43 +0800

Program Co-Chairs Senior Program Committee Program Committee

poster_instructions

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:14:27 +0800

WSDM2011 will standardize on the posters design and produce final posters for all accepted papers. An Easy-pull Banner will be produced for each accepted paper and that poster authors may bring back their own poster after finishing their own poster presentation at the conference.

posterschedule

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:56:28 +0800

Legend: Co-authors' social network graph Thursday, February 10, 2011 (15:40 ®C 17:15) * Topical Semantics of Twitter Links Array Michael Welch, Uri Schonfeld, Dan He and Junghoo Cho * Evaluating the Visual Quality of Web Pages Using a Computational Aesthetic Approach Array Ou Wu * Clustering Product Features for Opinion Mining Array Zhongwu Zhai, Bing Liu, Hua Xu and Peifa Jia * Materializing Multi-Relational Databases from the Web using Taxonomic Queries Array Matthew Michelson, …

proceedings

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:15:14 +0800

program

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:33:48 +0800

* Keynotes * Workshops * Schedule * Accepted Papers * Proceedings

register

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 11:52:07 +0800

here Important Dates Date Description November 22, 2010 Authors of accepted papers registration deadline December 15, 2010 Early-bird registration deadline Registration Fees On or Before December 15, 2010 ACM Member Non ACM Member Student Member WSDM Conference + Full-Day Workshop $640 $740 $340 WSDM Conference + Full-Day Tutorial $640 $740 $340 WSDM Conference + Half-Day Tutorial $620 $700 $330 WSDM Conference $540 $600 $300 Ha…

schedule

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:58:32 +0800

Legend: Co-authors' social network graph Wednesday, February 9, 2011 * 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

sidebar

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:46:41 +0800

QUICK LINKS * Photos * [Program] * Registration * Program Overview * Accommodations * Tutorial Information * Workshop Information * Conference Venue IMPORTANT DATES 2/9 Workshops and tutorials 2/9 Reception 2/10 Opening ceremony 2/10 Keynote I, oral and poster presentations 2/11 Keynote II, oral and poster presentations 2/11 Excursion and banquet 2/12 Oral presentations 2/12 Closing ceremony SPONSORS

start

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:51:23 +0800

* Introduction

submissions

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:35:03 +0800

Important Dates * July 1, 2010: Workshop Proposal Deadline * August 1, 2010: Paper Submission Deadline * September 1, 2010: Tutorial Proposal Deadline * October 15, 2010: Decision Notification * October 31, 2010: Final Manuscript Due Paper Format Papers must report original research not accepted or under submission to any journal or conference with public proceedings (previous submissions in informal workshops or as posters are allowed, but must be indicated). Papers must be formatt…

tmp_overview

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:14:03 +0800

Wednesday, February 9, 2011 Workshop Information Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Search and Data Mining (CSDM 2011) Workshop on User Modelling for Web Applications Tutorial Information Crowdsourcing 101: Putting the "Wisdom of the Crowd" to Work for You Introduction to Display Advertising Exploiting Statistical and Relational Information on the Web and in Social Media Web Retrieval: The Role of Users

tmp_poster_schedule

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:03:24 +0800

Thursday, February 10, 2011 (15:40 – 17:15) * Topical Semantics of Twitter Links Michael Welch, Uri Schonfeld, Dan He and Junghoo Cho. * Evaluating the Visual Quality of Web Pages Using a Computational Aesthetic Approach Ou Wu. * Clustering Product Features for Opinion Mining Zhongwu Zhai, Bing Liu, Hua Xu and Peifa Jia. * Materializing Multi-Relational Databases from the Web using Taxonomic Queries Matthew Michelson, Sofus Macskassy, Steven Minton and Lise Getoor. * What Blogs Te…

tmp_schedule

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:05:28 +0800

Wednesday, February 9, 2011 * 08:30 -- 12:00 Tutorial 1 and 2 * Tutorial 1: Crowdsourcing 101: Putting the “Wisdom of the Crowd” to Work for You Presenters: Omar Alonso and Matthew Lease. Venue: Room 3 * Tutorial 2: Introduction to Display Advertising Presenters: Andrei Broder, Vanja Josifovski and Jayavel Shanmugasundaram. Venue: Room 4

tmp_travel

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:08:10 +0800

Getting to Hong Kong Hong Kong International Airport is some way from the downtown areas, 34km west of Central, on the north coast of Lantau Island, but it's connected to the urban areas by excellent rail and road links. Click here to see the map of Hong Kong International Airport.

tmpminer

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:59:33 +0800

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travel

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:37:50 +0800

tutorials

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:54:41 +0800

Tutorial Co-chairs * Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2011 * Time: * Morning Session from 8:30 am to 12:00 pm with a coffee break from 10:00 am to 10:30 am * Afternoon Session from 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm with a coffee break from 3:00 pm to 3:30 pm * Lunch from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

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---------- Web retrieval methods have evolved through three major steps in the last decade or so. They started from standard document-centric IR in the early days of the Web, then made a major step forward by leveraging the structure of the Web, using link analysis techniques in both crawling and ranking challenges. A more recent, no less important but maybe more discrete step forward, has been to enter the user in this equation in two ways:

venue

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:34:58 +0800

Array The official WSDM2011 conference site is the Sheraton Hong Kong Hotel and Towers, located along Victoria Harbour at the top of Kowloon's Gold Mile. It is in the business and shopping district, near the ferry terminal and Mass Transit Railway (MTR). Hong Kong International Airport is 35 minutes away.

visas

Thu, 27 May 2010 16:51:21 +0800

Please check the specific visa requirements for your country at the Hong Kong Immigration Department web site. Generally, visas are not required for visitors from most countries. The length of allowed visa-free stay in Hong Kong varies from 14 days to 3 months. All visitors to Hong Kong must have a valid travel document, endorsed where necessary for Hong Kong. These should be valid for at least one month beyond your planned departure from Hong Kong, and in the case of certain nationalities, at…

weather

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 11:35:09 +0800

welcome

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:17:53 +0800

Array On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I would like to extend a warm welcome to the Fourth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM2011), Hong Kong. Following the great successes of WSDM2008 in Stanford University, USA, WSDM2009 in Barce- lona, Spain, and WSDM2010 in New York, USA, WSDM2011, Hong Kong has been chosen as the premier annual international ACM conference for presenting the very best research innovations and other significant work covering areas in sear…

workshops

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 12:15:10 +0800

Workshop Co-chairs 1. Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Search and Data Mining (CSDM 2011) Web site * Abstract The advent of crowdsourcing is revolutionizing data annotation, evaluation, and other traditionally manual-labor intensive processes by dramatically reducing the time, cost, and effort involved. This in turn is driving a disruptive shift in search and data mining methodology in areas such as evaluation, supervised learing, and applicati…