WSDM '09 Preliminary Program

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Monday, Feb 9

Tuesday, Feb 10

8:30 Registration starts
9:00 Welcome and Introduction
9:30 Invited Talk

Jeff Dean, Google, USA (abstract and short bio)
Challenges in Building Large-Scale Information Retrieval Systems

10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Web Search

• Diversifying Search Results
  Rakesh Agrawal, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Alan Halverson and Samuel Ieong
• Discovering and Using Groups to Improve Personalized Search
  Jaime Teevan, Meredith Ringel Morris and Steve Bush
• Adaptive Subjective Triggers for Opinionated Document Retrieval
  Kazuhiro Seki and Kuniaki Uehara

• Query by Document
  Yin Yang, Nilesh Bansal, Wisam Dakka, Panagiotis Ipeirotis, Nick Koudas and Dimitris Papadias
• Wikipedia Pages as Entry Points for Book Search
  Marijn Koolen, Gabriella Kazai and Nick Craswell

• Clustering the Tagged Web
  Daniel Ramage, Paul Heymann, Christopher Manning and Hector Garcia-Molina

• Classifying Tags using Open Content Resources
  Simon Overell, Borkur Sigurbjornsson and Roelof van Zwol
• Cross-Language Query Classification using Web Search for Exogenous Knowledge
  Xuerui Wang, Andrei Broder, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Vanja Josifovski and Bo Pang
• Improving Music Genre Classification Using Collaborative Tagging Data
  Ling Chen, Phillip Wright and Wolfgang Nejdl
• Information Arbitrage Across Multi-lingual Wikipedia
  Eytan Adar, Michael Skinner and Daniel Weld

Wednesday, Feb 11

9:00 Invited Talk

Gerhard Weikum, MPG, Germany (abstract and short bio) (SLIDES)
Harvesting, Searching, and Ranking Knowledge from the Web

10:00 Web Mining I

• Measuring the Similarity between Implicit Semantic Relations using Web Search Engines.
  Danushka Bollegala, Yutaka Matsuo and Mitsuru Ishizuka
• A Model for Fast Web Mining Prototyping
  Alvaro Pereira, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Nivio Ziviani and Jesus Bisbal

• Efficient Multiple-Click Models in Web Search
  Fan Guo, Chao Liu and Yi-Min Wang
• Characterizing the Influence of Domain Expertise on Web Search Behavior
  Ryen White, Susan Dumais and Jaime Teevan
• Quality-Aware Collaborative Question Answering: Methods and Evaluation
  Maggy Anastasia Suryanto, Ee-Peng Lim, Aixin Sun and Roger Chiang
• A New Visual Search Interface for Web Browsing
  Songhua Xu, Tao Jin and Francis Lau

• Mining User Web Search Activity with Layered Bayesian Networks or How to Capture a Click in its Context
  Benjamin Piwowarski, Georges Dupret and Rosie Jones
• Generating Labels from Clicks.
  Rakesh Agrawal, Alan Halverson, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Nina Mishra and Panayiotis Tsaparas

• Aggregation of News Content Into Web Results
  Fernando Diaz

• Mining Common Topics from Multiple Asynchronous Text Streams
  Xiang Wang, Kai Zhang, Xiaoming Jin and Dou Shen
• Predicting Readability of Short Web Summaries
  Tapas Kanungo and David Orr

Thursday, Feb 12

• Effective Latent Space Graph-based Re-ranking Model with Global Consistency
  Hongbo Deng, Michael Lyu and Irwin King
• Top-k Aggregation Using Intersection of Ranked Inputs
  Ravi Kumar, Kunal Punera, Torsten Suel and Sergei Vassilvitskii
• Is Wikipedia Link Structure Different?
  Jaap Kamps and Marijn Koolen
• Less is More: Sampling the Neighborhood Graph Makes SALSA Better and Faster
  Marc Najork, Sreenivas Gollapudi and Rina Panigrahy

• Camera Brand Congruence in the Flickr Social Graph
  Adish Singla and Ingmar Weber.
• Finding Text Reuse on the Web
  Michael Bendersky and Bruce Croft
• Speeding up Algorithms on Compressed Web Graphs
  Chinmay Karande, Kumar Chellapilla and Reid Andersen
• The Web Changes Everything: Understanding the Dynamics of Web Content
  Eytan Adar, Jaime Teevan, Susan Dumais and Jonathan Elsas