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WSDM 2012 will be held from Feb. 8-12, 2012. The program will feature 3 tutorials (2/8), 2 workshops (2/12), a doctoral consortium (2/8), 75 papers (2/9-2/11), and keynotes. The registration desk will be open:
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Tutorials and Doctoral Consortium (Wednesday, Feb. 8) |
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9:00 am - 10:20 am |
Morning Session I
Tutorial: Mining, Search and Exploiting Collaboratively Generated Content on the Web |
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10:20 am - 10:40 am |
Morning Break |
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10:40 am - 12:20 pm |
Morning Session II
Tutorial: Mining, Search and Exploiting Collaboratively Generated Content on the Web (cont.) |
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12:20 - 1:40 pm |
Lunch |
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1:40 pm - 3:20 pm |
Afternoon Session I
Tutorial: Machine Learning for Query-Document Matching in Search
Tutorial: Collaborative Information Seeking: Understanding Users, Systems and Content |
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3:20 pm - 3:40 pm |
Afternoon Break |
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3:40 pm - 5:00 pm |
Afternoon Session II
Tutorial: Machine Learning for Query-Document Matching in Search (cont.)
Tutorial: Collaborative Information Seeking: Understanding Users, Systems and Content (cont.) |
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7:00 - 10:00 pm |
Welcome Reception at the Tap House |
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WSDM Main Program: Day 1 (Thursday, Feb. 9) |
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9:00 am - 9:20 am |
Welcome |
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9:20 am -10:20 am |
Keynote: Hal Varian, Nowcasting the Macroeconomy with Search Engine Data |
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10:20 am - 10:40 am |
Morning Break |
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10:40 am -12:20 pm |
Multimedia and Geo Mining (chair: James Shanahan)
Spatially-aware Indexing for Image Object Retrieval Roelof Van Zwol and Lluís Garcia Pueyo
Auralist: Introducing Serendipity into Music Recommendation Yuan Cao Zhang, Diarmuid Séaghdha, Daniele Quercia and Tamas Jambor
Efficient Misbehaving User Detection in Online Video Chat Services Hanqiang Cheng, Yu-Li Liang, Xinyu Xing, Xue Liu, Richard Han, Qin Lv and Shivakant Mishra
Beyond Co-occurrence: Discovering and Visualizing Tag Relationships from Geo-spatial and Temporal Similarities Haipeng Zhang, Mohammed Korayem, Erkang You and David Crandall
Nilesh Dalvi, Ravi Kumar and Bo Pang |
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12:20 pm - 1:40 pm |
Lunch (on your own or Women's Lunch sponsored by Microsoft Research) |
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1:40 pm - 3:20 pm |
Spotlight on Mining (chair: Eugene Agichtein)
Beyond 100 Million Entities: Large-scale Blocking-based Resolution for Heterogeneous Data George Papadakis, Ekaterini Ioannou, Claudia Niederée, Themis Palpanas and Wolfgang Nejdl
Mining Contrastive Opinions on Political Texts using the Cross-perspective Topic Model Yi Fang, Luo Si, Naveen Somasundaram and Zhengtao Yu
Coupled Temporal Scoping of Relational Facts Partha Talukdar, Derry Wijaya and Tom Mitchell
Overcoming Browser Cookie Churn with Clustering Anirban Dasgupta, Maxim Gurevich, Liang Zhang, Belle Tseng and Achint O. Thomas
mTrust: Discerning Multi-Faceted Trust in a Connected World Jiliang Tang, Huiji Gao and Huan Liu
Of Hammers and Nails: An Empirical Comparison of Three Paradigms for Processing Large Graphs Marc Najork, Dennis Fetterly, Alan Halverson, Krishnaram Kenthapadi and Sreenivas Gollapudi
Pairwise Cross-Domain Factor Model for Heterogeneous Transfer Ranking Bo Long, Yi Chang, Anlei Dong and Jianzhang He
Amr Ahmed, Mohamed Aly, Joseph Gonzalez, Shravan Narayanamurthy and Alex Smola
Learning Recommender Systems with Adaptive Regularization Steffen Rendle
Collaborative Ranking Suhrid Balakrishnan and Sumit Chopra
From Chatter to Headlines: Harnessing the Real-Time Web for Personalized News Recommendation Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aristides Gionis and Claudio Lucchese
ETF: Extended Tensor Factorization Model for Personalizing Prediction of Review Helpfulness Samaneh Moghaddam, Mohsen Jamali and Martin Ester
Multi-Relational Bayesian Probabilistic Ranking leveraging Social Network Data Artus Krohn-Grimberghe, Lucas Drumond, Christoph Freudenthaler and Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Comment Spam Detection by Sequence Mining Ravi Kant, Srinivasan Sengamedu and Krishnan Kumar
Mining Slang and Urban Opinion Words and Phrases from cQA Services: An Optimization Approach Hadi Amiri and Tat-Seng Chua
What's in a Hashtag? Content based Prediction of the Spread of Ideas in Microblogging Communities Oren Tsur and Ari Rappoport |
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3:20 pm - 3:40 pm |
Afternoon Break |
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3:40 pm - 5:00 pm |
Web Search I (chair: Ziv Bar-Yossef)
No Search Result Left Behind: Branching Behavior with Browser Tabs Jeff Huang, Thomas Lin and Ryen White
Characterizing Web Content, User Interests, and Search Behavior by Reading Level and Topic Jin Young Kim, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul Bennett and Susan Dumais
Topical Clustering of Search Results Ugo Scaiella, Paolo Ferragina, Andrea Marino and Massimiliano Ciaramita
To Each His Own: Personalized Content Selection based on Text Comprehensibility Chenhao Tan, Evgeniy Gabrilovich and Bo Pang |
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5:30 pm - 8:30 pm |
Poster Reception (5:30-6:30) and Banquet (6:30-8:30) |
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WSDM Main Program: Day 2 (Friday, Feb. 10) |
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9:00 am - 10:20 am |
Web Information Extraction and Data Mining (chair: ChengXiang Zhai)
WebSets: Extracting Sets of Entities from the Web Using Unsupervised Information Extraction Bhavana Dalvi, William Cohen and Jamie Callan
Selecting Actions for Resource-bounded Information Extraction Using Reinforcement Learning Pallika Kanani and Andrew Mccallum
Online Selection of Diverse Results Debmalya Panigrahi, Atish Das Sarma, Gagan Aggarwal and Andrew Tomkins
Overlapping Clusters for Distributed Computation Reid Andersen, David Gleich and Vahab Mirrokni |
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10:20 pm - 10:40 pm |
Morning Break |
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10:40 am - 12:20 pm |
Spotlight on Search and Ads (chair: Yoelle Maarek)
Sponsored Search Auctions with Conflict Constraints Panagiotis Papadimitriou and Hector Garcia-Molina
Post-Click Conversion Modeling and Analysis for Non-Guaranteed Delivery Display Advertising Rómer Rosales, Haibin Cheng and Eren Manavoglu
Incorporating Revisiting Behaviors into Click Models Danqing Xu, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma and Liyun Ru
A Noise-aware Click Model for Web Search Weizhu Chen, Dong Wang, Yuchen Zhang, Zheng Chen, Adish Singla and Qiang Yang
Personalized Click Model through Collaborative Filtering Si Shen, Botao Hu, Weizhu Chen and Qiang Yang
Fair and Balanced: Learning to present news stories Amr Ahmed, Alex Smola, Choon Hui Teo and S. V. N. Vishwanathan
Extracting Search-Focused Key N-Grams for Relevance Ranking in Web Search Chen Wang, Keping Bi, Yunhua Hu, Hang Li and Guihong Cao
Query Suggestion by Constructing Term-Transition Graphs Yang Song, Dengyong Zhou and Li-Wei He
Language Models for Keyword Search over Data Graphs Yosi Mass and Yehoshua Sagiv
Large-Scale Analysis of Individual and Task Differences in Search Result Page Examination Strategies Georg Buscher, Ryen White, Susan Dumais and Jeff Huang
Sequence Clustering and Labeling for Unsupervised Query Intent Discovery Jackie Chi Kit Cheung and Xiao Li
IR System Evaluation using Nugget-based Test Collections Virgil Pavlu, Shahzad Rajput, Peter B. Golbus and Javed A. Aslam
Tapping into Knowledge Base for Concept Feedback: Leveraging ConceptNet to Improve Search Results for Difficult Queries Alexander Kotov and Chengxiang Zhai
Domain Bias in Web Search Samuel Ieong, Nina Mishra, Eldar Sadikov and Li Zhang
Optimized Top-K Processing with Global Page Scores on Block-Max Indexes Dongdong Shan, Shuai Ding, Jing He, Hongfei Yan and Xiaoming Li |
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12:20 pm - 2:00 pm |
Business Lunch Buffet lunches provided |
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2:00 pm - 3:20 pm |
Web Search II (chair: Hang Li)
Probabilistic Models for Personalizing Web Search David Sontag, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. White, Susan Dumais and Bodo Billerbeck
Michael Bendersky, Donald Metzler and Bruce Croft
Learning to Rank with Multi-Aspect Relevance for Vertical Search Changsung Kang, Xuanhui Wang, Yi Chang and Belle Tseng
Beyond Ten Blue Links: Enabling User Click Modeling in Federated Web Search Danqi Chen, Weizhu Chen, Haixun Wang, Zheng Chen and Qiang Yang |
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3:20 pm - 3:40 pm |
Afternoon Break |
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3:40 pm - 5:00 pm |
Web Advertising and Finance (chair: Vanja Josifovski)
Finding the Right Consumer: Optimizing for Conversion in Display Advertising Campaigns Yandong Liu, Sandeep Pandey, Deepak Agarwal and Vanja Josifovski
Fast Top-k Retrieval for Model Based Recommendation Deepak Agarwal and Maxim Gurevich
Relational Click Prediction for Sponsored Search Chenyan Xiong, Taifeng Wang, Wenkui Ding, Yidong Shen and Tieyan Liu
"I Loan Because...": Understanding Motivations for Pro-Social Lending Yang Liu, Roy Chen, Yan Chen, Qiaozhu Mei and Suzy Salib |
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8 pm - 10 pm |
Space Needle Reception (Drinks & Dessert) |
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WSDM Main Program: Day 3 ("Social Day", Saturday, Feb. 11) |
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9:00 am - 10:20 am |
Social I (chair: Andrew Tomkins)
Correlating Financial Time Series with Micro-Blogging Data Eduardo Ruiz, Vagelis Hristidis, Carlos Castillo, Aristides Gionis and Alejandro Jaimes
Harmony and Dissonance: Organizing the People's Voices on Political Controversies Rawia Awadallah, Maya Ramanath and Gerhard Weikum
Identifying Content for Planned Events Across Social Media Sites Hila Becker, Dan Iter, Mor Naaman and Luis Gravano
Daily Deals: Prediction, Social Diffusion, and Reputational Ramifications John Byers, Michael Mitzenmacher and Georgios Zervas |
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10:20 pm - 10:40 pm |
Morning Break |
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10:40 am - 12:20 pm |
Spotlight on Social (chair: Alice Oh)
On Clustering Heterogeneous Social Media Objects with Outlier Links Guo-Jun Qi, Charu Aggarwal and Thomas Huang
Adding Semantics to Microblog Posts Edgar Meij, Wouter Weerkamp and Maarten De Rijke
Exploring Social Influence via Posterior Effect of Word-of-Mouth Recommendations Junming Huang, Xue-Qi Cheng, Hua-Wei Shen, Tao Zhou and Xiaolong Jin
Find Me Opinion Sources in Blogosphere: Opinionated Blog Feed Retrieval Xueke Xu, Songbo Tan, Yue Liu, Xueqi Cheng, Zheng Lin and Jiafeng Guo
Understanding Cyclic Trends in Social Choices Anish Das Sarma, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Rina Panigrahy and Li Zhang
Maximizing Product Adoption in Social Networks Smriti Bhagat, Amit Goyal and Laks V. S. Lakshmanan
Answers, not Links Ingmar Weber, Antti Ukkonen and Aris Gionis
A Straw Shows Which Way the Wind Blows: Potential Popularity Ranking from Early Votes Peifeng Yin, Ping Luo, Min Wang and Wang-Chien Lee
A Large-Scale Sentiment Analysis for Yahoo! Answers Onur Kucuktunc, B. Barla Cambazoglu, Ingmar Weber and Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu
Tips, Dones and ToDos: Uncovering User Profiles in Foursquare Marisa Vasconcelos, Saulo Ricci, Jussara Almeida, Fabricio Benevenuto and Virgilio Almeida
When Will It Happen? Relationship Prediction in Heterogeneous Information Networks Yizhou Sun, Jiawei Han, Charu Aggarwal and Nitesh Chawla
The Life and Death of Online Groups: Predicting Group Growth and Longevity Sanjay Kairam, Dan Wang and Jure Leskovec
Evaluating Search in Personal Social Media Collections Chia-Jung Lee, Bruce Croft, and Jin Young Kim
Learning Evolving and Emerging Topics in Social Media: A Dynamic NMF approach with Temporal Regularization Ankan Saha and Vikas Sindhwani |
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12:20 pm - 1:40 pm |
Lunch (on your own) |
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1:40 pm - 3:20 pm |
Social II (chair: Meredith Ringel Morris)
Effects of User Similarity in Social Media Ashton Anderson, Dan Huttenlocher, Jon Kleinberg and Jure Leskovec
How User Behavior is Related to Social Affinity Rina Panigrahy, Marc Najork and Yinglian Xie
Adam Sadilek, Henry Kautz and Jeffrey Bigham
Yaron Singer
Inferring Social Ties across Heterogenous Networks Jie Tang, Tiancheng Lou and Jon Kleinberg |
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3:20 pm - 3:40 pm |
Afternoon Break |
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3:40 pm - 4:40 pm |
Keynote: Hillary Mason, The Secret Life of Social Links |
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4:40 pm - 5:00 pm |
Closing |
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5 pm - 8 pm |
Microsoft Social Search Social |
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Workshops (Sunday, Feb. 12) |
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9:00 am - 10:20 am |
Morning Session I
Diversity in Document Retrieval (DDR-2012)
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10:20 am - 10:40 am |
Morning Break |
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10:40 am - 12:20 pm |
Morning Session II
Diversity in Document Retrieval (cont.)
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12:20 - 1:40 pm |
Lunch (on your own) |
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1:40 pm - 3:20 pm |
Afternoon Session I
Diversity in Document Retrieval (cont.)
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3:20 pm - 3:40 pm |
Afternoon Break |
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3:40 pm - 5:00 pm |
Afternoon Session II
Diversity in Document Retrieval (cont.)
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- Best Paper Candidate, Winners announced during the Banquet
