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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION – WSDM 2015</b></span>
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<div><span>January
31 - February 6, 2015, Shanghai, China</span></div>
<div><span><a href="http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2015/" target="_blank">http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2015/</a>
WSDM is one of the premier conferences covering research </span><span>on
search and data mining on the Web. </span></div>
<div><span>The
Eighth International WSDM Conference will take place in
Shanghai, China during January 31 – February 6, 2015. WSDM
publishes original, high-quality papers related to search
and data mining on the Web and the Social Web, with an
emphasis on practical yet principled novel models of search
and data mining, algorithm design and analysis, </span></div>
<div><span>economic
implications, and in-depth experimental analysis of accuracy
and performance. Please visit the WSDM 2015 schedule at <a href="http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2015/schedule/" target="_blank">http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2015/schedule/</a>. </span></div>
<div><span>We
are looking forward to your participation! </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:14px">Early
registration deadline is December 19, 2014.</span><span>
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This year program features a wide range of exciting talks
and events. In addition to the main conference, we are
delighted to have keynote talks, practice and experience
talks, workshops, tutorials, and winter school lectures.
These are carefully organized by the WSDM 2015 committees
and will give you great exploration in the related research
fields. These include the following.</span></div>
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<div><span><b><u>Keynote
Talks </u></b></span></div>
<div><span>Three
distinguished researchers will give the keynote talks this
year:</span><span><br>
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<ul>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000" face="Courier New, Courier, monospace"><span style="font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap">Making
Sense of Big Data with the Berkeley Data Analytics
Stack, Michael Franklin (UC Berkeley)</span></font></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000" face="Courier New, Courier, monospace"><span style="font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap">The
Information Life of Social Networks, Lada Adamic
(Facebook)</span></font></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000" face="Courier New, Courier, monospace"><span style="font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap">Learning
from User Interactions, Thorsten Joachims (Cornell
University)</span></font></li>
</ul>
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<div><font color="#000000" face="Courier New, Courier,
monospace"><span style="font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><b><u>Workshops</u></b>
Four workshops will be held on February 6 to cover novel
topics and emerging areas in web search and data mining: </span></font>
<ul>
<li>DL-WSDM’15:
Deep Learning for Web Search and Data Mining at WSDM 2015
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</li>
<li>HIA’15:
Heterogeneous Information Access Workshop at WSDM 2015 <br>
</li>
<li>The 2nd
workshop on Vertical Search Relevance at WSDM 2015 <br>
</li>
<li>Scalable
Data Analytics: Theory and Applications at WSDM 2015 </li>
</ul>
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monospace"><span style="font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br>
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<div><b><u>Tutorials</u></b><font color="#000000" face="Courier New, Courier, monospace"><span style="font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><u> </u> Six
tutorials will be given on February 2: </span></font>
<ul>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Scalability and Efficiency
Challenges in Large-Scale Web Search Engines by B. Barla
Cambazoglu and Ricardo Baeza-Yates</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Dynamic Information Retrieval
Modeling by Grace Hui Yang, Marc Sloan, and Jun Wang </li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Offline Evaluation and
Optimization for Interactive Systems: A Practical Guide by
Lihong Li </li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Scalable Data Analytics: Theory
and Applications at WSDM 2015 </li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Real-Time Bidding: A New
Frontier of Computational Advertising Research by Shuai
Yuan and Jun Wang </li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Learning about health and
medicine from Internet data by Elad Yom-Tov, Ingemar Cox
and Vasileios Lampos </li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Distributed Graph Algorithmics:
Theory and Practice by Silvio Lattanzi and Vahab Mirrokni
</li>
</ul>
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<div><b><u>Practice
and Experience Talks </u></b><font color="#000000" face="Courier New, Courier, monospace"><span style="font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"> We have
five exciting practice and experience talks: </span></font>
<ul>
<li>New
Directions in Recommender Systems, by Jure Leskovec
(Stanford)<br>
</li>
<li>Regressing
Towards Simpler Prediction Systems, by Tushar Chandra
(Google)<br>
</li>
<li>Semantic
Matching in APP Search, by Juchao Zhuo (Tencent)<br>
</li>
<li>Boosting
Search with Deep Understanding of Contexts and Users -
Baidu's Practice, by Hau Wu (Baidu)<br>
</li>
<li>Global
Optimization for Display Ad, by Rong Jin (Alibaba)</li>
</ul>
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<div><b><u>Winter
School Lectures</u></b><font color="#000000" face="Courier New, Courier, monospace"><span style="font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"> Winter
school aims at promoting research on web search and
data mining, as well as introducing the fundamentals
and advances of related fields: </span></font>
<ul>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Four distinguished
researchers, Jianfeng Gao (Microsoft Research), Noah
Smith (Carnegie Mellon University), Jure Leskovec
(Stanford University), and Eric Xing (Carnegie Mellon
University) will give lectures. <br>
</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Research topics related to
web search and data mining, including deep learning,
natural language processing, social network, and
machine learning platform, will be discussed. <br>
</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">The winter school will be
held at Shanghai Jiaotong University (Shang Yuan 500,
located at 800 Dongchuan Road) on Jan 31 – Feb 1, 2015<br>
</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Students, researchers, and
industry practitioners are welcome to attend the
winter school. Note that registrations must be made in
advance. Due to space limitation, we will only accept
the first 200 applications.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<div><b><u>Accepted
Papers</u></b></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Courier New, Courier,
monospace"><span style="font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap">WSDM is
a highly selective, single track conference covering
diverse topics. This year we have 39 exciting papers
to be included in the proceedings: </span></font>
<ul>
<li>Yuan Zhong,
Nicholas Jing Yuan, Wen Zhong, Fuzheng Zhang and
Xing Xie. You Are Where You Go: Inferring
Demographic Attributes from Location Check-ins<br>
</li>
<li>Maria
Daltayanni, Luca de Alfaro and Panagiotis
Papadimitriou. WorkerRank: Using Employer Implicit
Judgements To Infer Worker Reputation<br>
</li>
<li>Bhavana
Dalvi, Einat Minkov, Partha Talukdar and William
Cohen. Automatic Gloss Finding for a Knowledge Base
using Ontological Constraints<br>
</li>
<li>Saehoon Kim,
Yuxiong He, Seung-Won Hwang, Sameh Elnikety and
Seungjin Choi. DDS Prediction: Reducing Extreme Tail
Latency in Web Search<br>
</li>
<li>Masrour
Zoghi, Shimon Whiteson and Maarten de Rijke.
MergeRUCB: A Method for Large-Scale Online Ranker
Evaluation<br>
</li>
<li>Yao Wu and
Martin Ester. FLAME: A Probabilistic Model Combining
Aspect Based Opinion Mining and Collaborative
Filtering<br>
</li>
<li>Yiming Yang,
Hanxiao Liu, Jaime Carbonell and Wanli Ma. Concept
Graph Learning from Educational Data<br>
</li>
<li>Silvio
Lattanzi and Yaron Singer. The Power of Random
Neighbors in Social Networks<br>
</li>
<li>Pengyuan
Wang, Wei Sun, Dawei Yin, Jian Yang and Yi Chang.
Robust Tree-based Causal Inference for Complex Ad
Effectiveness Analysis<br>
</li>
<li>Jiliang
Tang, Shiyu Chang, Charu Aggarwal and Huan Liu.
Negative Link Prediction in Social Media<br>
</li>
<li>David
Flatow, Mor Naaman, Eddie Xie, Yana Volkovich and
Yaron Kanza. On the Bounds and Accuracy of
Hyper-local Geocoding of Social Media Content<br>
</li>
<li>Giuseppe
Ottaviano, Nicola Tonellotto and Rossano Venturini.
Optimal Space-time Tradeoffs for Inverted Indexes<br>
</li>
<li>Oana Denisa
Balalau, Francesco Bonchi, T-H. Hubert Chan,
Francesco Gullo and Mauro Sozio. Finding Subgraphs
with Maximum Total Density and Limited Overlap<br>
</li>
<li>Marios
Kokkodis, Panagiotis Papadimitriou and Panos
Ipeirotis. On Hiring Decisions in Online Labor
Markets<br>
</li>
<li>Ravi Kumar,
Mohammad Mahdian, Bo Pang, Andrew Tomkins and Sergei
Vassilvitskii. Modeling Geographic Choice<br>
</li>
<li>Honglei
Zhuang and Joel Young. Leveraging In-Batch
Annotation Bias for Crowdsourced Active Learning<br>
</li>
<li>Ricardo
Baeza-Yates, Di Jiang, Fabrizio Silvestri and
Beverly Harrison. Predicting The Next App That You
Are Going To Use<br>
</li>
<li>Shuai Gao,
Jun Ma and Zhumin Chen. Modeling and Predicting
Retweeting Dynamics on Microblogging Platforms<br>
</li>
<li>Bin Bi, Hao
Ma, Paul Hsu, Wei Chu, Kuansan Wang and Junghoo Cho.
Learning to Recommend Related Entities to Search
Users<br>
</li>
<li>Ning Chen,
Steven C.H. Hoi, Shaohua Li and Xiaokui Xiao.
SimApp: A Framework for Detecting Similar Mobile
Applications by Online Kernel Learning<br>
</li>
<li>Komal
Kapoor, Karthik Subbian, Jaideep Srivastava and Paul
Schrater. Timing Matters! – Modeling Dynamics of
Boredom in Activity Streams<br>
</li>
<li>Alex Deng
and Victor Hu. Diluted Treatment Effect Estimation
for Trigger Analysis in Online Controlled
Experiments<br>
</li>
<li>Shuzi Niu.
Listwise Approach for Rank Aggregation in
Crowdsourcing<br>
</li>
<li>Ramanathan
Guha, Vineet Gupta, Vivek Raghunathan and
Ramakrishnan Srikant. User Modeling for a Personal
Assistant<br>
</li>
<li>Ravi Kumar,
Andrew Tomkins, Sergei Vassilvitskii and Erik Vee.
Inverting a Steady-State<br>
</li>
<li>Jin Kim,
Lihong Li and Imed Zitouni. Pre-flight Success
Prediction of Relevance Flights<br>
</li>
<li>Bruno
Ribeiro and Christos Faloutsos. Modeling Website
Popularity Competition in the Attention-Activity
Marketplace<br>
</li>
<li>Mu Li, Amr
Ahmed and Alex Smola. Inferring Movement
Trajectories from GPS Snippets<br>
</li>
<li>Yuxiao Dong,
Reid Johnson and Nitesh Chawla. Will This Paper
Increase Your h-index? Scientific Impact Prediction<br>
</li>
<li>Nam Khanh
Tran, Andrea Ceroni, Nattiya Kanhabua and Claudia
Niederée. Back to the Past: Supporting
Interpretations of Forgotten Stories by Time-aware
Re-Contextualization<br>
</li>
<li>Ashwin
Rajadesingan, Reza Zafarani and Huan Liu. Sarcasm
Detection on Twitter: A Behavioral Modeling Approach<br>
</li>
<li>Roi Blanco,
Giuseppe Ottaviano and Edgar Meij. Fast and
Space-efficient Entity Linking in Queries<br>
</li>
<li>Alexey
Drutsa, Pavel Serdyukov and Gleb Gusev. Engagement
Periodicity in Search Engine Usage: Analysis and Its
Application to Search Quality Evaluation<br>
</li>
<li>Jiepu Jiang,
Ahmed Hassan, Xiaolin Shi and Ryen White.
Understanding and Predicting Graded Search
Satisfaction<br>
</li>
<li>Isac
Ribeiro, Rodrygo Santos, Alberto Laender and Marcos
Gonçalves. On Tag Recommendation for Expertise
Profiling: A Case Study in the Scientific Domain<br>
</li>
<li>Thanh-Son
Nguyen, Hady Lauw and Panayiotis Tsaparas. Review
Synthesis for Micro-Review Summarization<br>
</li>
<li>Bin Liu,
Deguang Kong, Lei Cen, Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Hongxia
Jin and Hui Xiong. Personalized Mobile App
Recommendation: Reconcling App Functionality and
User Privacy Preference<br>
</li>
<li>Jialu Liu,
Charu Aggarwal and Jiawei Han. On Integrating
Network and Community Discovery<br>
</li>
<li>Michael
Röder, Andreas Both and Alexander Hinneburg.
Exploring the Space of Coherence Measures</li>
</ul>
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<div><span>We
are looking forward to your participation in WSDM
2015! Our carefully designed program will give you
great opportunities </span><span>obtaining
cutting edge information and meeting experts from
various fields. More details of how to join this
great research meeting: </span></div>
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<div><span><b><u>Details
and Logistics</u></b>
<ul>
<li style="margin-left:15px">The conference will
be held in Crowne Plaza Hotel Fudan Shanghai
(199 Handan Road, Shanghai)<br>
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<li style="margin-left:15px">Registration is
open <a href="http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2015/registration/" target="_blank">http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2015/registration/</a><br>
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<li style="margin-left:15px">Visa information <a href="http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2015/visa-information/" target="_blank">http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2015/visa-information/</a><br>
</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Travel information
<a href="http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2015/travel-information/" target="_blank">http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2015/travel-information/</a>
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</ul>
<b><u>Committees</u></b>
<ul>
<li style="margin-left:15px">General Co-chairs:
Xueqi Cheng (ICT, Chinese Academy of Science)
and Hang Li (Huawei Technologies)<br>
</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Program Co-chairs:
Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google) and Jie Tang
(Tsinghua University)<br>
</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Organizing
committees <a href="http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2015/organizers/" target="_blank">http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2015/organizers/</a><br>
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<li style="margin-left:15px">Program committees
<a href="http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2015/program-committee/" target="_blank">http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2015/program-committee/</a><br>
</li>
</ul>
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<div><span><u><b>Questions?
</b></u>
<ul>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Please visit our
website for more details <a href="http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2015/" target="_blank">http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2015/</a><br>
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<li style="margin-left:15px">Please contact us
at <a href="http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2015/contact-us/" target="_blank">http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2015/contact-us/</a>
should there be anything unclear</li>
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<br></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Saiph Savage<br><br><br></div>
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