Detailed Schedule

WSDM 2016 has an exciting program with 3 keynotes, 4 invited talks for Practice & Experience Track, paper presentations, 5 workshops, 3 tutorials, a doctoral consortium, and a VC/Industry Day.

Workshops, Tutorials, VC/Industry Day, Doctoral Consortium
Monday, February 22

Main Conference
Tuesday, February 23

Room: Robertson Auditorium

9am	Keynote Jeff Dean Google Research Title: Large-Scale Deep Learning For Building Intelligent Computer Systems
10am	Coffee Break Fisher Banquet Room
10:30am	Paper Presentations Communities and Social Interaction Long Who Will Reply to/Retweet This Tweet?: The Dynamics of Intimacy from Online Social Interactions ACM DL Nicholas Jing Yuan, Yuan Zhong, Fuzheng Zhang, Xing Xie, Chin-Yew Lin and Yong Rui Long Cross-modality Consistent Regression for Joint Visual-Textual Sentiment Analysis of Social Multimedia ACM DL Quanzeng You, Jiebo Luo, Hailin Jin and Jianchao Yang Long How Relevant is the Irrelevant Data: Leveraging the Tagging Data for a Learning-to-Rank Model ACM DL Noor Ifada and Richi Nayak Short Quantifying Controversy in Social Media ACM DL Kiran Garimella, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aristides Gionis and Michael Mathioudakis Short Understanding and Identifying Advocates for Political Campaigns on Social Media ACM DL Suhas Ranganath, Xia Hu, Jiliang Tang and Huan Liu Short Exploiting New Sentiment-Based Meta-level Features for Effective Sentiment Analysis ACM DL Sérgio Canuto, Marcos André Gonçalves and Fabrício Benevenuto Short Mobile App Tagging ACM DL Ning Chen, Steven C.H. Hoi, Shaohua Li and Xiaokui Xiao Short CCCF: Improving Collaborative Filtering via Scalable User-Item Co-Clustering ACM DL Yao Wu, Xudong Liu, Min Xie, Martin Ester and Qing Yang Short On the Efficiency of the Information Networks in Social Media ACM DL Mahmoudreza Babaei, Przemyslaw Grabowicz, Isabel Valera, Krishna Gummadi and Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez Short Modeling and Predicting Learning Behavior in MOOCs ACM DL Jiezhong Qiu, Jie Tang, Tracy Liu, Jie Gong, Chenhui Zhang, Qian Zhang and Yufei Xue
12pm	Poster Session 1 & Lunch All papers presented as talks on Tuesday (Feb 23) and talks in the morning session on Thursday (Feb 25) will be presented as posters. Room: Fisher Banquet Room
2pm	Paper Presentations Search and Semantics Long Beyond Ranking: Optimizing Whole-Page Presentation ACM DL Yue Wang, Dawei Yin, Roger Jie Luo, Pengyuan Wang, Makoto Yamada, Yi Chang and Qiaozhu Mei Long Understanding User Attention and Engagement in Online News Reading ACM DL Dmitry Lagun and Mounia Lalmas Long Publication date prediction through reverse engineering of the Web ACM DL Liudmila Ostroumova Prokhorenkova, Petr Prokhorenkov, Egor Samosvat and Pavel Serdyukov Short To Suggest, or Not to Suggest for Queries with Diverse Intents: Optimizing Search Result Presentation ACM DL Makoto P. Kato and Katsumi Tanaka Short Term-by-Term Query Auto-Completion for Mobile Search ACM DL Saúl Vargas, Roi Blanco and Peter Mika Short Collaborative Denoising Auto-Encoders for Top-N Recommender Systems ACM DL Yao Wu, Christopher Dubois, Alice Zheng and Martin Ester Short Personalized PageRank Estimation and Search: A Bidirectional Approach ACM DL Peter Lofgren, Siddhartha Banerjee and Ashish Goel Short Your Cart tells You: Inferring Demographic Attributes from Purchase Data ACM DL Pengfei Wang, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu and Xueqi Cheng Short Reducing Click and Skip Errors in Search Result Ranking ACM DL Jiepu Jiang and James Allan Short Hierarchical Semi-supervised Classification with Incomplete Class Hierarchies ACM DL Bhavana Dalvi, Aditya Mishra and William Cohen
3:30pm	Coffee Break Fisher Banquet Room
4pm	Invited Talk: Practice & Experience Yoelle Maarek Yahoo Title: Is Mail The Next Frontier In Search And Data Mining?
4:45pm	Paper Presentations Observing Users Long Portrait of an Online Shopper: Understanding and Predicting Consumer Behavior ACM DL Farshad Kooti, Kristina Lerman, Luca Maria Aiello, Mihajlo Grbovic, Nemanja Djuric and Vladan Radosavljevic Long Evolution of Privacy Loss in Wikipedia ACM DL Marian-Andrei Rizoiu, Lexing Xie, Tiberio Caetano and Manuel Cebrian
5:30pm

Main Conference
Wednesday, February 24

Room: Robertson Auditorium

9am	Keynote Yiling Chen Harvard University Title: Why Incentive Alignment is Relevant for Data Science
10am	Coffee Break Fisher Banquet Room
10:30am	Paper Presentations Leveraging Users Long Modeling Intransitivity in Matchup and Comparison Data ACM DL Shuo Chen and Thorsten Joachims Long Crowdsourcing High Quality Labels with a Tight Budget ACM DL Qi Li, Fenglong Ma, Jing Gao, Lu Su and Christopher Quinn Short Project Success Prediction in Crowdfunding Environments ACM DL Yan Li, Vineeth Rakesh and Chandan K. Reddy Short Probabilistic Group Recommendation Model for Crowdfunding Domains ACM DL Vineeth Rakesh, Wang-Chien Lee and Chandan K. Reddy Short Quality Management in Crowdsourcing using Gold Judges Behavior ACM DL Gabriella Kazai and Imed Zitouni Short On Obtaining Effort Based Judgements for Information Retrieval ACM DL Manisha Verma, Emine Yilmaz and Nick Craswel Short A Semantic Graph based Topic Model for Question Retrieval in Community Question Answering ACM DL Long Chen, Joemon Jose, Haitao Yu, Fajie Yuan and Dell Zhang Short Modeling Check-in Preferences with Multidimensional Knowledge: A Minimax Entropy Approach ACM DL Jingjing Wang, Min Li, Jiawei Han and Xiaolong Wang Short You've got Mail, and Here is What you Could do With It!: Analyzing and Predicting Actions on Email Messages ACM DL Yoelle Maarek, Dotan Di Castro, Liane Lewin Eytan and Zohar Karnin Short Hierarchical Label Propagation and Discovery for Machine Generated Email ACM DL James B. Wendt, Michael Bendersky, Lluis Garcia-Pueyo, Vanja Josifovski, Balint Miklos, Ivo Krka, Amitabh Saikia, Jie Yang, Marc-Allen Cartright and Sujith Ravi Short Enforcing k-anonymity in Web mail auditing ACM DL Dotan Di Castro, Liane Lewin-Eytan, Yoelle Maarek, Ran Wolff and Eyal Zohar Short An Information-Theoretic Approach to Individual Sequential Data Sanitization ACM DL Luca Bonomi, Liyue Fan and Hongxia Jin Short Improving IP Geolocation using Query Logs ACM DL Ovidiu Dan, Vaibhav Parikh and Brian D. Davison Short Geographic Segmentation via Latent Poisson Factor Model ACM DL Rose Yu, Andrew Gelfand, Suju Rajan, Cyrus Shahabi and Yan Liu
12pm	Poster Session 2 & Lunch All papers presented as talks on Wednesday (Feb 24) and talks in the afternoon sessions on Thursday (Feb 25) will be presented as posters. Room: Fisher Banquet Room
2pm	Paper Presentations Big Data Algorithms Long Scaling up Link Prediction with Ensembles ACM DL Liang Duan, Charu Aggarwal, Shuai Ma, Renjun Hu and Jinpeng Huai Long DiFacto: Distributed Factorization Machines ACM DL Mu Li, Ziqi Liu, Alexander Smola and Yu-Xiang Wang Long Distributed Balanced Partitioning via Linear Embedding ACM DL Kevin Aydin, Mohammadhossein Bateni and Vahab Mirrokni Short Kangaroo: Workload-Aware Processing of Range Data and Range Queries in Hadoop ACM DL Ahmed Aly, Hazem Elmeleegy, Yan Qi and Walid Aref Short Feedback Control of Real-Time Display Advertising ACM DL Weinan Zhang, Yifei Rong, Jun Wang, Tianchi Zhu and Xiaofan Wang Short Multi-Score Position Auctions ACM DL Denis Charles, Nikhil R. Devanur and Balasubramanian Sivan Short Multi-view Machines ACM DL Bokai Cao, Hucheng Zhou, Guoqiang Li and Philip Yu Short Transductive Classification on Heterogeneous Information Networks with Edge Betweenness-based Normalization ACM DL Phiradet Bangcharoensap, Tsuyoshi Murata, Hayato Kobayashi and Nobuyuki Shimizu Short The Troll-Trust Model for Ranking in Signed Networks ACM DL Zhaoming Wu, Charu Aggarwal and Jimeng Sun Short Multileave Gradient Descent for Fast Online Learning to Rank ACM DL Anne Schuth, Harrie Oosterhuis, Shimon Whiteson and Maarten de Rijke
3:30pm	Coffee Break Fisher Banquet Room
4pm	Invited Talk: Practice & Experience Jie Tang Tsinghua University Title: AMiner: Toward Understanding Big Scholar Data
4:45pm	Invited Talk Practice & Experience Lars Backstrom Facebook Title: Serving a Billion Personalized News Feeds
5:30pm
6:30pm	Conference Banquet Hyatt Regency Embarcadero (Grand Ballroom A) 6:30 – 7:30  Cocktail hour 7:30 – 9:30  Dinner
9:30pm

Main Conference
Thursday, February 25

Room: Robertson Auditorium

9am	Keynote Foster Provost New York University Title: The Predictive Power of Massive Data about our Fine-Grained Behavior
10am	Coffee Break Fisher Banquet Room
10:30am	Paper Presentations Social Networks Long Information Evolution in Social Networks ACM DL Lada A. Adamic, Thomas M. Lento, Eytan Adar and Pauline C. Ng Long Nonlinear Laplacian for Digraphs and its Applications to Network Analysis ACM DL Yuichi Yoshida Short Querying and Tracking Influencers in Social Streams ACM DL Karthik Subbian, Charu Aggarwal and Jaideep Srivastava Short Centrality-Aware Link Recommendations ACM DL Nikos Parotsidis, Evaggelia Pitoura and Panayiotis Tsaparas Short Relational Learning with Social Status Analysis ACM DL Liang Wu, Xia Hu and Huan Liu Short Equality and Social Mobility in Twitter Discussion Groups ACM DL Katherine Ellis, Moises Goldszmidt, Gert Lanckriet, Nina Mishra and Omer Reingold Short Learning Distributed Representations of Data in Community Question Answering for Question Retrieval ACM DL Kai Zhang, Wei Wu and Zhoujun Li Short Inferring Latent Triggers of Purchases with Consideration of Social Effects and Media Advertisements ACM DL Yusuke Tanaka, Takeshi Kurashima, Yasuhiro Fujiwara, Tomoharu Iwata and Hiroshi Sawada Short Towards Modelling Language Innovation Acceptance in Online Social Networks ACM DL Daniel Kershaw, Matthew Rowe and Patrick Stacey Short Discriminative Learning of Infection Models ACM DL Nir Rosenfeld, Mor Nitzan and Amir Globerson Short Representation Learning for Information Diffusion through Social Networks: an Embedded Cascade Model ACM DL Simon Bourigault, Sylvain Lamprier and Patrick Gallinari Short Ensemble Models for Data-Driven Prediction of Malware Infections ACM DL Chanhyun Kang, Noseong Park, B.Aditya Prakash, Edoardo Serra and V.S. Subrahmanian
12pm	Business Lunch
1:30pm	WSDM Cup Winner
1:50pm	Paper Presentations Entities and Structure Long Dynamic Collective Entity Representations for Entity Ranking ACM DL David Graus, Manos Tsagkias, Wouter Weerkamp, Edgar Meij and Maarten de Rijke Long Relationship Queries on Extended Knowledge Graphs ACM DL Mohamed Yahya, Denilson Barbosa, Klaus Berberich, Qiuyue Wang and Gerhard Weikum Long Improving Website Hyperlink Structure Using Server Logs ACM DL Ashwin Paranjape, Robert West, Leila Zia and Jure Leskovec Short Long-tail Vocabulary Dictionary Extraction from the Web ACM DL Zhe Chen, Michael Cafarella and H. V. Jagdish Short Semantic Documents Relatedness using Concept Graph Representation ACM DL Yuan Ni, Qiongkai Xu, Feng Cao, Yosi Mass, Dafna Sheinwald, Huijia Zhu and Shaosheng Cao Short EgoSet: Exploiting Word Ego-networks and User-generated Ontology for Multifaceted Set Expansion ACM DL Xin Rong, Zhe Chen, Qiaozhu Mei and Eytan Adar Short Extracting Search Query Patterns via the Pairwise Coupled Topic Model ACM DL Takuya Konishi, Takuya Ohwa, Sumio Fujita, Kazushi Ikeda and Kohei Hayashi
3:10pm	Coffee Break Fisher Banquet Room
3:40pm	Invited Talk: Practice & Experience Mor Naaman Cornell Tech / Seen.co Title: The Past and Future of Systems for Current Events
4:25pm	Paper Presentations Social Events Long Barbara Made the News: Mining the Behavior of Crowds for Time-Aware Learning to Rank ACM DL Flavio Martins, Joao Magalhaes and Jamie Callan Long Wiggins: Detecting Valuable Information in Dynamic Networks Using Limited Resources ACM DL Ahmad Mahmoody, Eli Upfal and Matteo Riondato
5:05pm	Conference Close
5:30pm