Schedule
Wednesday, February 3
SSM 2010 Workshop
Thursday, February 4
8:00-8:45 Registration
8:45-10:00 Welcome and First Keynote: Soumen Chakrabarti
Chair: Bing Liu
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:10 Session 1 - Web Search
Chair: Andrew Tomkins
- Leveraging Temporal Dynamics of Document Content in Relevance Ranking
Jonathan L. Elsas and Susan T. Dumais. - Towards Recency Ranking in Web Search
Anlei Dong, Yi Chang, Zhaohui Zheng, Gilad Mishne, Jing Bai, Ruiqiang Zhang, Karolina Buchner, Ciya Liao and Fernando Diaz. - Ranking Mechanisms in Twitter-Like Forums
Anish Das Sarma, Atish Das Sarma, Sreenivas Gollapudi and Rina Panigrahy. - Learning Concept Importance Using a Weighted Dependence Model
Michael Bendersky, Donald Metzler and W. Bruce Croft. - Query Reformulation Using Anchor Text
Van Dang and W. Bruce Croft.
12:10-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:10 Session 2 - Tagging and Recommendation
Chair: Evgeniy Gabrilovich
- Tagging Human Knowledge
Paul Heymann, Andreas Paepcke and Hector Garcia-Molina. - Precomputing Search Features for Fast and Accurate Query Classification
Venkatesh Ganti, Arnd Konig and Xiao Li. - I Tag, You Tag: Translating Tags for Advanced User Models
Robert Wetzker, Carsten Zimmermann, Christian Bauckhage and Sahin Albayrak. - Pairwise Interaction Tensor Factorization for Personalized Tag Recommendation
Steffen Rendle and Lars Schmidt-Thieme. - fLDA: Matrix Factorization through Latent Dirichlet Allocation
Deepak Agarwal and Bee-Chung Chen.
15:10-15:40 Coffee Break
15:40-17:00 Session 3 - Information Extraction
Chair: Vanja Josifovski
- Coupled Semi-Supervised Learning for Information Extraction
Andrew Carlson, Justin Betteridge, Richard C. Wang, Estevam R. Hruschka Jr. and Tom M. Mitchell. - Adapting Information Bottleneck Method for Automatic Construction of Domain-oriented Sentiment Lexicon
Weifu Du, Songbo Tan, Xueqi Cheng and Xiaochun Yun. - Data-oriented Content Query System: Searching for Data into Text on the Web
Mianwei Zhou, Tao Cheng and Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang. - Corroborating Information from Disagreeing Views
Alban Galland, Serge Abiteboul, Amélie Marian and Pierre Senellart.
19:00-22:00 Conference Banquet
Friday, February 5
8:00-8:45 Registration
8:45-10:00 Announcements and Second Keynote: Susan Athey
Chair: Nick Craswell
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:10 Session 1 - Learning and Optimization
Chair: Hang Li
- Ranking with Query-Dependent Loss for Web Search
Jiang Bian, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin and Hongyuan Zha. - IntervalRank - Isotonic Regression with Listwise and Pairwise Constraints
Taesup Moon, Alex Smola, Yi Chang and Zhaohui Zheng. - An Optimization Framework for Query Recommendation
Aris Anagnostopoulos, Luca Becchetti, Carlos Castillo and Aristides Gionis. - Improving Quality of Training Data for Learning to Rank Using Click-Through Data
Jingfang Xu, Chuanliang Chen, Gu Xu, Hang Li and Elbio Renato Torres Abib. - A Model to Estimate Intrinsic Document Relevance from the Clickthrough Logs of a Web Search Engine
Georges Dupret and Ciya Liao.
12:10-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:10 Session 2 - Users and Measurement
Chair: Fernando Diaz
- Large Scale Query Log Analysis of Re-Finding
Sarah K. Tyler and Jaime Teevan. - Anatomy of the Long Tail: Ordinary People with Extraordinary Tastes
Sharad Goel, Andrei Broder, Evgeniy Gabrilovich and Bo Pang. - Inferring Search Behaviors Using Partially Observable Markov (POM) Model
Kuansan Wang, Nikolas Gloy and Xiaolong Li. - Beyond DCG: User Behaviour as a Predictor of a Successful Search
Ahmed Hassan, Rosie Jones and Kristina Lisa Klinkner. - Measuring the Reusability of Test Collections
Ben Carterette, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Vanja Josifovski and Donald Metzler.
15:10-15:40 Coffee Break
15:40-17:20 Session 3 - Social
Chair: Carlos Castillo
- Learning Influence Probabilities in Social Networks
Amit Goyal, Francesco Bonchi and Laks V. S. Lakshmanan. - You Are Who You Know: Inferring User Profiles in Online Social Networks
Alan Mislove, Bimal Viswanath, Krishna P. Gummadi and Peter Druschel. - TwitterRank: Finding Topic-sensitive Influential Twitterers
Jianshu Weng, Ee-peng Lim, Jing Jiang and Qi He. - Folks in Folksonomies: Social Link Prediction from Shared Metadata
Rossano Schifanella, Alain Barrat, Ciro Cattuto, Benjamin Markines and Filippo Menczer. - GeoFolk: Latent Spatial Semantics in Web 2.0 Social Media
Sergej Sizov.
Saturday, February 6
8:00-9:00 Registration
9:00-10:00 Session 1 - Temporal Interaction
Chair: Donald Metzler
- Learning Similarity Metrics for Event Identification in Social Media
Hila Becker, Mor Naaman and Luis Gravano. - Early Online Identification of Attention Gathering Items in Social Media
Michael Mathioudakis, Nick Koudas and Peter Marbach. - Evolution of Two-Sided Markets
Ravi Kumar, Yury Lifshits and Andrew Tomkins.
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:10 Session 2 - Ads
Chair: Andrei Broder
- A Novel Click Model and Its Applications to Online Advertising
Zeyuan Allen Zhu, Weizhu Chen, Tom Minka, Chenguang Zhu and Zheng Chen. - Adaptive Weighing Designs for Keyword Value Computation
John W. Byers, Michael Mitzenmacher and Georgios Zervas. - Automatic Generation of Bid Phrases for Online Advertising
Sujith Ravi, Andrei Broder, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Vanja Josifovski, Sandeep Pandey and Bo Pang. - Personalized Click Prediction in Sponsored Search
Haibin Cheng and Erick Cantu-Paz. - Improving Ad Relevance in Sponsored Search
Dustin Hillard, Stefan Schroedl, Eren Manavoglu, Hema Raghavan and Chris Leggetter.
12:10-13:45 Lunch and WSDM Business Meeting
13:45-15:25 Session 3 - Systems and Efficiency
Chair: Mark Manasse
- Revisiting Globally Sorted Indexes for Efficient Document Retrieval
Fan Zhang, Shuming Shi, Hao Yan and Ji-Rong Wen. - Learning URL Patterns for Webpage De-duplication
Hema Swetha Koppula, Krishna P. Leela, Krishna Prasad Chitrapura, Sachin Garg and Amit Sasturkar. - On Compressing the Textual Web
Paolo Ferragina and Giovanni Manzini. - A Sketch-Based Distance Oracle for Web-Scale Graphs
Atish Das Sarma, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Marc Najork and Rina Panigrahy. - Early Exit Optimizations for Additive Machine Learned Ranking Systems
B. Barla Cambazoglu, Hugo Zaragoza, Olivier Chapelle, Jiang Chen, Ciya Liao, Zhaohui Zheng and Jon Degenhardt.
15:25-15:55 Coffee Break
15:55-16:55 Session 4 - Web Mining
Chair: Georges Dupret
- SBotMiner: Large Scale Search Bot Detection
Fang Yu, Yinglian Xie and Qifa Ke. - Gathering and Ranking Photos of Named Entities with High Precision, High Recall, and Diversity
Bilyana Taneva, Mouna Kacimi and Gerhard Weikum. - Boilerplate Detection using Shallow Text Features
Christian Kohlschütter, Peter Fankhauser and Wolfgang Nejdl.
