The 9th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
San Francisco, California, USA. February 22-25, 2016.
Accepted Papers
Multi-view Machines Bokai Cao (UIC); Hucheng Zhou (Microsoft Research); Guoqiang Li (Microsoft); Philip Yu (UIC)
Long-tail Vocabulary Dictionary Extraction from the Web Zhe Chen (University of Michigan); Michael Cafarella (University of Michigan); H. V. Jagdish (University of Michigan)
Cross-modality Consistent Regression for Joint Visual-Textual Sentiment Analysis of Social Multimedia Quanzeng You (University of Rochester); Jiebo Luo (University of Rochester); Hailin Jin (Adobe Research); Jianchao Yang (Snapchat Inc)
Hierarchical Label Propagation and Discovery for Machine Generated Email James B. Wendt (University of California, Los Angeles); Michael Bendersky (Google, Inc.); Lluis Garcia-Pueyo (Google, Inc.); Vanja Josifovski (Pinterest); Balint Miklos (Google, Inc.); Ivo Krka (Google, Inc.); Amitabh Saikia (Google, Inc.); Jie Yang (Google, Inc.); Marc-Allen Cartright (Google, Inc.); Sujith Ravi (Google, Inc.)
DiFacto --- Distributed Factorization Machines Mu Li (Carnegie Mellon University); Ziqi Liu (Carnegie Mellon University); Alexander Smola (Carnegie Mellon University); Yu-Xiang Wang (Carnegie Mellon University)
Relational Learning with Social Status Analysis Liang Wu (Arizona State University); Xia Hu (Arizona State University); Huan Liu (Arizona State University)
Your Cart tells You: Inferring Demographic Attributes from Purchase Data Pengfei Wang (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS); Jiafeng Guo (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS); Yanyan Lan (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS); Jun Xu (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS); Xueqi Cheng (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS)
Towards Modelling Language Innovation Acceptance in Online Social Networks Daniel Kershaw (Lancaster University); Matthew Rowe (Lancaster University); Patrick Stacey (Lancaster University)
Nonlinear Laplacian for Digraphs and its Applications to Network Analysis Yuichi Yoshida (National Institute of Informatics)
Learning Distributed Representations of Data in Community Question Answering for Question Retrieval Kai Zhang (Beihang University); Wei Wu (Microsoft Research); Zhoujun Li (Beihang University)
Modeling Intransitivity in Matchup and Comparison Data Shuo Chen (Cornell University); Thorsten Joachims (Cornell University)
Querying and Tracking Influencers in Social Streams Karthik Subbian (University of Minnesota); Charu Aggarwal (IBM); Jaideep Srivastava (University of Minnesota)
Inferring Latent Triggers of Purchases with Consideration of Social Effects and Media Advertisements Yusuke Tanaka (NTT corporation); Takeshi Kurashima (NTT corporation); Yasuhiro Fujiwara (NTT corporation); Tomoharu Iwata (NTT corporation); Hiroshi Sawada (NTT corporation)
How Relevant is the Irrelevant Data: Leveraging the Tagging Data for a Learning-to-Rank Model Noor Ifada (Queensland University of Technology); Richi Nayak (Queensland University of Technology)
Project Success Prediction in Crowdfunding Environments Yan Li (Wayne State University); Vineeth Rakesh (Wayne State University); Chandan K. Reddy (Wayne State University)
Quantifying Controversy in Social Media Kiran Garimella (Aalto University); Gianmarco De Francisci Morales (Aalto University); Aristides Gionis (Aalto University); Michael Mathioudakis (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology)
Probabilistic Group Recommendation Model for Crowdfunding Domains Vineeth Rakesh (Wayne State University); Wang-Chien Lee (The Pennsylvania State University); Chandan K. Reddy (Wayne State University)
Extracting Search Query Patterns via the Pairwise Coupled Topic Model Takuya Konishi (National Institute of Informatics); Takuya Ohwa (National Institute of Informatics); Sumio Fujita (Yahoo! JAPAN Research); Kazushi Ikeda (Nara Institute of Science and Technology); Kohei Hayashi (National Institute of Informatics)
Relationship Queries on Extended Knowledge Graphs Mohamed Yahya (Max Planck Insitute for Informatics); Denilson Barbosa (University of Alberta); Klaus Berberich (Max Planck Institute for Informatics); Qiuyue Wang (Renmin University); Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
Publication date prediction through reverse engineering of the Web Liudmila Ostroumova Prokhorenkova (Yandex); Petr Prokhorenkov (Yandex); Egor Samosvat (Yandex); Pavel Serdyukov (Yandex)
Crowdsourcing High Quality Labels with a Tight Budget Qi Li (SUNY Buffalo); Fenglong Ma (SUNY Buffalo); Jing Gao (SUNY Buffalo); Lu Su (SUNY Buffalo); Christopher Quinn (Purdue University)
Evolution of Privacy Loss in Wikipedia Marian-Andrei Rizoiu (NICTA Research Laboratory); Lexing Xie (Australian National University); Tiberio Caetano (NICTA Research Laboratory); Manuel Cebrian (NICTA Research Laboratory)
Transductive Classification on Heterogeneous Information Networks with Edge Betweenness-based Normalization Phiradet Bangcharoensap (Tokyo Institute of Technology); Tsuyoshi Murata (Tokyo Institute of Technology); Hayato Kobayashi (Yahoo Japan Corporation); Nobuyuki Shimizu (Yahoo Japan Corporation)
Who Will Reply to/Retweet This Tweet? The Dynamics of Friendships and Online Social Interactions Nicholas Jing Yuan (Microsoft Research); Yuan Zhong (Northeastern University); Fuzheng Zhang (Microsoft Research); Xing Xie (Microsoft Research); Chin-Yew Lin (Microsoft Research); Yong Rui (Microsoft Research)
Semantic Documents Relatedness using Concept Graph Representation Yuan Ni (IBM China Research Laboratory); Qiongkai Xu (IBM Research, China); Feng Cao (IBM China Research Laboratory); Yosi Mass (IBM Haifa Research Lab); Dafna Sheinwald (IBM Research, haifa); Huijia Zhu (IBM Research, China); Shaosheng Cao (School of Computer Science, Xidian University)
Discriminative Learning of Infection Models Nir Rosenfeld (Hebrew University); Mor Nitzan (Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem); Amir Globerson (Hebrew University)
Enforcing k-anonymity in Web mail auditing Dotan Di Castro (yahoo Labs); Liane Lewin-Eytan (Yahoo Labs); Yoelle Maarek (Yahoo Labs); Ran Wolff (Yahoo Labs); Eyal Zohar (Yahoo Labs)
Multileave Gradient Descent for Fast Online Learning to Rank Anne Schuth (University of Amsterdam); Harrie Oosterhuis (University of Amsterdam); Shimon Whiteson (University of Oxford); Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam)
To Suggest, or Not to Suggest for Queries with Diverse Intents: Optimizing Search Result Presentation Makoto P. Kato (Kyoto University); Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University)
Geographic Segmentation via Latent Poisson Factor Model Rose Yu (University of Southern California); Andrew Gelfand (Yahoo Labs!); Suju Rajan (Yahoo Labs!); Cyrus Shahabi (University of Southern California); Yan Liu (University of Southern California)
Understanding and Identifying Advocates of Political Campaigns on Social Media Suhas Ranganath (ASU); Xia Hu (Texas A&M University); Jiliang Tang (Yahoo! Labs); Huan Liu (Professor, Arizona State University)
EgoSet: Exploiting Word Ego-networks and User-generated Ontology for Multifaceted Set Expansion Xin Rong (University of Michigan); Zhe Chen (University of Michigan); Qiaozhu Mei (University of Michigan); Eytan Adar (University of Michigan)
A Semantic Graph based Topic Model for Question Retrieval in Community Question Answering Long Chen (University of Glasgow); Joemon Jose (University of Glasgow); Haitao Yu (University of Tsukuba); Fajie Yuan (University of Glasgow); Dell Zhang (Birkbeck, University of London); Tingting He (Computer Science Department)
Hierarchical Semi-supervised Classification with Incomplete Class Hierarchies Bhavana Dalvi (Carnegie Mellon University); Aditya Mishra (University of Massachusetts, Amherst); William Cohen (Carnegie Mellon University)
You've got mail, and here is what you could do with it! Analyzing and predicting actions on email messages Yoelle Maarek (Yahoo Labs); Dotan Di Castro (Yahoo Labs); Liane Lewin Eytan (Yahoo Labs); Zohar Karnin (Yahoo Labs)
Mobile App Tagging Ning Chen (Nanyang Technological University); Steven C.H. Hoi (Singapore Management University); Shaohua Li (Nanyang Technological University); Xiaokui Xiao (Nanyang Technological University)
Term-by-Term Query Auto-Completion for Mobile Search Sa£l Vargas (University of Glasgow); Roi Blanco (Yahoo Labs London); Peter Mika (Yahoo Labs London)
Equality and Social Mobility in Twitter Discussion Groups Katherine Ellis (University of California, San Diego); Moises Goldszmidt (Zynga); Gert Lanckriet (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego); Nina Mishra (Computer Science Department, Stanford University); Omer Reingold (Samsung Research America)
Scaling up Link Prediction with Ensembles Liang Duan (Beihang University); Charu Aggarwal (IBM Watson); Shuai Ma (Beihang University); Renjun Hu (Beihang University); Jinpeng Huai (Beihang University,Beijing,China)
The Troll-Trust Model for Ranking in Signed Networks Zhaoming Wu (Georgia Institute of Technology); Charu Aggarwal (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center); Jimeng Sun (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Representation Learning for Information Diffusion through Social Networks : an Embedded Cascade Model Simon Bourigault (UPMC); Sylvain Lamprier (LIP6 - UPMC); Patrick Gallinari (LIP6 - University of Paris 6)
Centrality-Aware Link Recommendations Nikos Parotsidis (University of Ioannina); Evaggelia Pitoura (Univ. of Ioannina); Panayiotis Tsaparas (University of Ioannina)
Learning Dynamic Collective Entity Representations for Entity Ranking David Graus (University of Amsterdam); Manos Tsagkias (904Labs); Wouter Weerkamp (904Labs); Edgar Meij (Yahoo Labs); Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam)
Improving IP Geolocation using Query Logs Ovidiu Dan (Lehigh University); Vaibhav Parikh (Microsoft Bing); Brian D. Davison (Lehigh University)
Exploiting New Sentiment-Based Meta-level Features for Effective Sentiment Analysis S‚rgio Canuto (Federal University of Minas Gerais); Marcos Andr‚ Gon‡alves (Federal University of Minas Gerais); Fabr¡cio Benevenuto (Federal University of Minas Gerais)
Multi-Score Position Auctions Denis Charles (Microsoft); Nikhil R. Devanur (Microsoft Research); Balasubramanian Sivan (Microsoft Research)
Personalized PageRank Estimation and Search: A Bidirectional Approach Peter Lofgren (Stanford); Siddhartha Banerjee (Stanford); Ashish Goel (Stanford)
Beyond Ranking: Optimizing Whole-Page Presentation Yue Wang (University of Michigan); Dawei Yin (Yahoo Labs); Roger Jie Luo (Yahoo! Labs); Pengyuan Wang (Yahoo! Labs); Makoto Yamada (Yahoo! Labs); Yi Chang (Yahoo Labs, USA); Qiaozhu Mei (University of Michigan)
Barbara Made the News: Mining the Behavior of Crowds for Time-Aware Learning to Rank Flavio Martins (Universidade Nova de Lisboa); Joao Magalhaes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa); Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University)
On the Efficiency of the Information Networks in Social Media Mahmoudreza Babaei (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)); Przemyslaw Grabowicz (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)); Isabel Valera (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)); Krishna Gummadi (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)); Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS))
Information Evolution in Social Networks Lada A. Adamic (Facebook Inc.); Thomas M. Lento (Facebook Inc.); Eytan Adar (University of Michigan); Pauline C. Ng (Genome Institute of Singapore)
An Information-Theoretic Approach to Individual Sequential Data Sanitization Luca Bonomi (Emory University); Liyue Fan (University of Southern California); Hongxia Jin (Samsung Research America)
Distributed Balanced Partitioning via Linear Embedding Kevin Aydin (Google Inc); Mohammadhossein Bateni (Google Inc.); Vahab Mirrokni (Google Research)
Wiggins: Detecting Valuable Information in Dynamic Networks with Limited Resources Ahmad Mahmoody (Brown University, Dept of Computer Science); Eli Upfal (Brown); Matteo Riondato (Brown University)
Portrait of an Online Shopper: Understanding and Predicting Consumer Behavior Farshad Kooti (USC Information Sciences Institute); Kristina Lerman (University of Southern California); Luca Maria Aiello (Yahoo Labs); Mihajlo Grbovic (Yahoo! Labs); Nemanja Djuric (Yahoo Labs); Vladan Radosavljevic (Yahoo Labs)
Improving Website Hyperlink Structure Using Server Logs Ashwin Paranjape (Stanford University); Robert West (Stanford University); Leila Zia (Wikimedia Foundation); Jure Leskovec (Stanford University)
Understanding and Measuring User Engagement and Attention in Online News Reading Dmitry Lagun (Google); Mounia Lalmas (Yahoo Labs)
Ensemble Models for Data-Driven Prediction of Malware Infections Chanhyun Kang (Dept. of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park); Noseong Park (Dept. of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park); B.Aditya Prakash (Dept. of Computer Science, Virginia Tech); Edoardo Serra (UMIACS, University of Maryland, College Park); V.S. Subrahmanian (Dept. of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park)
Quality Management in Crowdsourcing using Gold Judges Behavio Gabriella Kazai (Microsoft); Imed Zitouni (Microsoft)
CCCF: Improving Collaborative Filtering via Scalable User-Item Co-Clustering Yao Wu (Simon Fraser University); Xudong Liu (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Min Xie (WalmartLabs); Martin Ester (Simon Fraser University); Qing Yang (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Collaborative Denoising Auto-Encoders for Top-N Recommender Systems Yao Wu (Simon Fraser University); Christopher Dubois (Dato); Alice Zheng (Dato); Martin Ester (Simon Fraser University)
Reducing Click and Skip Errors in Search Result Ranking Jiepu Jiang (School of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst); James Allan (School of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Modeling Check-in Preferences with Multidimensional Knowledge: A Minimax Entropy Approach Jingjing Wang (UIUC); Min Li (UIUC); Jiawei Han (UIUC); Xiaolong Wang (UIUC)
On obtaining effort based judgments for Information retrieval Manisha Verma (University college london); Emine Yilmaz (Microsoft Research Cambridge); Nick Craswel (Microsoft research)
Kangaroo: Workload-Aware Processing of Range Data and Range Queries in Hadoop Ahmed Aly (Purdue University); Hazem Elmeleegy (Turn Inc); Yan Qi (Turn Inc); Walid Aref (Purdue University)
Modeling and Predicting Learning Behavior in MOOCs Jiezhong Qiu (Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University); Jie Tang (Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University); Tracy Liu (Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University); Jie Gong (NUS Business School, National University of Singapore); Chenhui Zhang (Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University); Qian Zhang (Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University); Yufei Xue (Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University)
Feedback Control of Real-Time Display Advertising Weinan Zhang (University College London); Yifei Rong (University College London); Jun Wang (University College London); Tianchi Zhu (BigTree Inc.); Xiaofan Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)