CFP
forWeb Search

and Mining

We invite research contributions for the Web Search and Mining track at the 27th edition of The Web Conference (WWW 2018), to be held April 23-27, 2018 in Lyon, France (/www2018/).

The Web Search and Mining Track welcomes submissions of original, high-quality papers related to the analysis of web data in all its forms with a particular emphasis on theoretical aspects of web mining for search applications. We encourage submissions studying the relationships between the content itself with the associated entities and related metadata. Theoretical and applied aspects on applications such as recommendations, predictive analytics, topic discovery and other novel tasks are also strongly encouraged. In particular for web search related research we invite original submissions addressing all the aspects of search ranging from scalable system to novel deep learning applications to search.

Topics of interest include:

• Web Search
• Web search models and ranking: probabilistic retrieval models, language models, learning to rank, meta-search and resource selection, diversity and aggregated search, etc.
• Mobile and local search
• Indexing Web content: text, metadata, semantic and social annotations, etc.
• Query analysis: segmentation, intent prediction, enrichment, rewriting, etc.
• Relevance ranking: relevance feedback, rank aggregation, diversity, ranking fresh results, integration of search verticals, etc.
• Search engine architecture and scalability: index compression and organization, distribution, federated and selective search, fault tolerance, pruning and approximation heuristics, etc. Including efficient query processing: caching early termination, and pruning strategies.
• Evaluation methodologies and metrics, including click analysis, online and offline approaches, implicit signals, user models, collection construction, etc.
• Interactive search: query suggestion/completion, search assistance applications
• New search paradigms and applications: implicit search, zero query search, task-based search, collaborative search, real-time search, crowdsourcing in Web search, etc.
• Personalized or context-aware search and ranking including privacy-aware search
• Search result presentation: snippet generation, direct answers, interactive results, SERP generation, etc.
• Semantic search: entity retrieval, geo/temporal search, entity and knowledge graph for Web search and applications
• Vertical and specialized search: enterprise, multimedia, social media, news, dynamic content, email, academic, e-commerce, etc.
• Web crawling: high performance crawling, refresh crawling, focused crawling, content monitoring, and other crawling strategies and applications
• Deep Learning for Web Search
• Language Technologies and the Web
• Text analysis, clustering and classification
• Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
• Multilingual and cross-lingual analysis
• Information extraction of entities, relationships and events
• Question answering from the Web
• Summarization of Web data
• Activities and Dynamics
• Traffic and log analysis
• Web measurements
• Information Diffusion
• Models for Web evolution
• Applications
• Predictive analytics over Web datasets
• Event detection and monitoring
• Topic discovery
• Other novel applications

Track chairs:

• Fernando Diaz (Spotify, United States)
• Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, United Kingdom)
• Emine Yilmaz (University College London, United Kingdom)

Contact: www2018-web-search (at) googlegroups.com

Senior Program Committee:

• Omar Alonso (Microsoft, United States)
• Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo Labs, Spain)
• Paul Bennett (Microsoft, United States)
• Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University, United States)
• B. Barla Cambazoglu (NTENT Inc., Spain)
• Ben Carterette (University of Delaware, United States)
• Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
• Brian Davison (Lehigh University, United States)
• Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Debora Donato (Mix Tech, United States)
• Hui Fang (University of Delaware, United States)
• Antonino Gulli (Elsevier, United Kingdom)
• Joemon Jose (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
• Oren Kurland (Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
• Stefano Leonardi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
• Vanessa Murdock (Microsoft, United States)
• Salvatore Orlando (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italy)
• Iadh Ounis (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
• Raffaele Perego (ISTI-CNR, Italy)
• Benjamin Piwowarski (CNRS / University Pierre et Marie Curie, France)
• Barbara Poblete (University, Chile)
• Filip Radlinski (Google, United Kingdom)
• Tetsuya Sakai (Waseda University, Japan)
• James G. Shanahan (Independent Consultant (San Francisco), United States)
• Milad Shokouhi (Microsoft, United Kingdom)
• Ruihua Song (Microsoft, China)
• Haixun Wang (Facebook, United States)
• Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany)
• Justin Zobel (The University of Melbourne, Australia)

Program Committee:

• Ismail Sengor Altingovde (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
• Enrique Amigó (UNED, Spain)
• Avi Arampatzis (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece)
• Ioannis Arapakis (Telefonica Research, Spain)
• Jaime Arguello (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States)
• Ashraf Bah Rabiou (University of Delaware, United States)
• Xiao Bai (Yahoo!, United States)
• Leandro Balby Marinho (Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), Brazil)
• Krisztian Balog (University of Stavanger, Norway)
• Zhifeng Bao (RMIT University, Australia)
• Justin Basilico (Netflix, United States)
• Andras A. Benczur (Institute for Computer Science and Control Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
• Michael Bendersky (Google, United States)
• Klaus Berberich (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany)
• Lidong Bing (AI Platform Department Tencent Inc., China)
• Sebastian Blohm (Microsoft, United Kingdom)
• Suratna Budalakoti (Oracle Labs, United States)
• Deng Cai (Zhejiang University, China)
• Mark Carman (Monash University, Australia)
• Stefano Ceri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
• Kaushik Chakrabarti (Microsoft, United States)
• Laurent Charlin (Columbia University, United States)
• Edgar Chavez (CICESE, Mexico)
• Hsin-Hsi Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
• Ruey-Cheng Chen (RMIT University, Australia)
• Zhumin Chen (shandong university, China)
• Adrian-Gabriel Chifu (LSIS – UMR 7296 CNRS; Aix-Marseille Université, France)
• Aleksandr Chuklin (Google, Switzerland)
• Francisco Claude (Sudo Technologies Inc., United States)
• Stephane Clinchant (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France)
• Paul Clough (The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
• Daniel Cohen (UMASS Amherst, United States)
• Michael Cole (LexisNexis, United States)
• Aron Culotta (Illinois Institute of Technology, United States)
• Tonya Custis (Thomson Reuters, United States)
• Andrew Dai (Google, United States)
• Ovidiu Dan (Lehigh University, United States)
• Gianmarco De Francisci Morales (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
• Edleno Silva De Moura (Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil)
• Alex Delis (New York University, United Arab Emirates)
• B. Taner Dincer (University of Mugla, Turkey)
• Shuai Ding (Google, United States)
• Pavel Dmitriev (Microsoft, United States)
• Peter Dolog (Aalborg University, Denmark)
• Zhicheng Dou (Renmin University, China)
• Alexey Drutsa (MSU, Russia)
• Tamer Elsayed (Qatar University, Qatar)
• Alex Fabrikant (Google, United States)
• Yi Fang (Santa Clara University, United States)
• Yuan Fang (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
• Nicola Ferro (University of Padova, Italy)
• Marcus Fontoura (Microsoft, United States)
• Norbert Fuhr (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
• Patrick Gallinari (LIP6 – University of Paris 6, France)
• Debasis Ganguly (Dublin City University, Ireland)
• Bin Gao (Microsoft, China)
• Venkata Rama Kiran Garimella (Aalto University, Finland)
• Nazli Goharian (Georgetown University, United States)
• Nadav Golbandi (Google, United States)
• Siddharth Gopal (Google, United States)
• David Graus (FD Mediagroep, Netherlands)
• Jiafeng Guo (Institute of Computing Technology, China)
• Manish Gupta (Microsoft, India)
• Martin Halvey (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)
• Negar Hariri (Depaul University, United States)
• Ahmed Hassan Awadallah (Microsoft, United States)
• Claudia Hauff (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
• Ben He (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
• Jiyin He (CWI, Netherlands)
• Qi He (LinkedIn, United States)
• Xiangnan He (National University, Singapore)
• Liangjie Hong (Etsy Inc., United States)
• Frank Hopfgartner (The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
• Xia Ben Hu (Texas A&M University, United States)
• Xuanjing Huang (Fudan University, China)
• Grace Hui Yang (Georgetown University, United States)
• Samuel Huston (Google, United States)
• Seung-Won Hwang (Yonsei University, South Korea)
• Stratis Ioannidis (Northeastern University, United States)
• Radu Tudor Ionescu (University of Bucharest Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Romania)
• Shoaib Jameel (Kent University, United Kingdom)
• Shen Jialie (Northumbria University, United Kingdom)
• Jiepu Jiang (College of Information and Computer Sciences University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States)
• Xin Jiang (Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab, Hong Kong)
• Xiaoming Jin (Tsinghua University, China)
• Hideo Joho (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
• Gareth Jones (Dublin City University, Ireland)
• Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Bhargav Kanagal (Google, United States)
• Nattiya Kanhabua (NTENT, Spain)
• Evangelos Kanoulas (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Jussi Karlgren (Gavagai & KTH, Sweden)
• Makoto P. Kato (Kyoto University, Japan)
• Enver Kayaaslan (NTENT, Spain)
• Evgeny Kharitonov (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia)
• Emre Kiciman (Microsoft, United States)
• Weize Kong (Google, United States)
• Arnd Christian König (Microsoft, United States)
• Alexander Kotov (Wayne State University, United States)
• Ioannis Koutis (University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, United States)
• Susana Ladra (University of A Coruña, Spain)
• Wai Lam (The Chinese University, Hong Kong)
• Renaud Lambiotte (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
• Léa Laporte (INSA Lyon – LIRIS, France)
• Theodoros Lappas (Stevens Institute of Technology, United States)
• Birger Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
• Hady Lauw (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
• Chia-Jung Lee (Microsoft, United States)
• Joonseok Lee (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)
• Damien Lefortier (Facebook, United Kingdom)
• Sune Lehmann (Technical University, Denmark)
• Jochen L. Leidner (Thomson Reuters, United Kingdom)
• Daniel Lemire (LICEF Research Center Université du Québec, Canada)
• Cheng Li (Google, United States)
• Cheng-Te Li (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
• Chenliang Li (Wuhan University, China)
• Hang Li (Huawei Technologies, Hong Kong)
• Liangda Li (Yahoo Lab!, United States)
• Shangsong Liang (University College London, United Kingdom)
• Ee-Peng Lim (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
• Christina Lioma (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Chang Liu (Peking University, China)
• Huan Liu (Arizona State University, United States)
• Jingjing Liu (University of South Carolina, United States)
• Xiaozhong Liu (Indiana University Bloomington, United States)
• Yiqun Liu (Tsinghua University, China)
• Claudio Lucchese (ISTI-CNR, Italy)
• Ping Luo (Institute of Computing Technology CAS; University of Chinese Acadamy of Sciences, China)
• Mihai Lupu (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
• Michael Lyu (The Chinese University, Hong Kong)
• Hao Ma (Microsoft, United States)
• Andrew Macfarlane (City University London, United Kingdom)
• Joao Magalhaes (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal)
• Debapriyo Majumdar (Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, India)
• Amin Mantrach (Yahoo!, Spain)
• Andrea Marino (Universita’ di Pisa, Italy)
• Ilya Markov (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Winter Mason (Facebook, United States)
• Julian Mcauley (University of California San Diego, United States)
• Richard Mccreadie (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
• Rishabh Mehrotra (University College London, United Kingdom)
• Edgar Meij (Bloomberg L.P., United Kingdom)
• Massimo Melucci (University of Padua, Italy)
• Einat Minkov (Univ. of Haifa, Israel)
• Bhaskar Mitra (Microsoft, United Kingdom)
• Dunja Mladenic (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
• Boughanem Mohand (IRIT University Paul Sabatier Toulouse, France)
• Alessandro Moschitti (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Italy)
• Yashar Moshfeghi (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)
• Josiane Mothe (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, France)
• Cristina Ioana Muntean (ISTI CNR, Italy)
• Franco Maria Nardini (ISTI-CNR, Italy)
• Wolfgang Nejdl (L3S and University of Hannover, Germany)
• Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal, Canada)
• Liqiang Nie (National Uiversity, Singapore)
• Alexandros Ntoulas (LinkedIn, United States)
• Neil O’Hare (Yahoo!, Spain)
• Liudmila Ostroumova Prokhorenkova (Yandex, Russia)
• Jiaul Paik (IIT Kharagpur, India)
• Aditya Pal (Pinterest, United States)
• Sinno Jialin Pan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
• Paolo Papotti (Eurecom, United States)
• Dae Hoon Park (Yahoo Research, United States)
• Gabriella Pasi (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy)
• Vassilis Plachouras (Thomson Reuters, United Kingdom)
• Kira Radinsky (eBay, Israel)
• Hema Raghavan (IBM, United States)
• Suju Rajan (Criteo, United States)
• Ganesh Ramesh (Yahoo Inc., United States)
• Edie Rasmussen (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
• Xiang Ren (University of Southern California, United States)
• Yongli Ren (RMIT University, Australia)
• Zhaochun Ren (JD.com, United Kingdom)
• Haggai Roitman (IBM Research Haifa, Israel)
• Barna Saha (University of Massachussets Amherst, United States)
• Mark Sanderson (RMIT University, Australia)
• Rodrygo Santos (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
• Ralf Schenkel (Trier University, Germany)
• Erik Selberg (Amazon.com, United States)
• Chirag Shah (Rutgers University, United States)
• Yue Shi (Facebook, United States)
• Gianmaria Silvello (University of Padova, Italy)
• Steven Skiena (Dept. of Computer Science Stony Brook University, United States)
• Laure Soulier (Sorbonne Universités UPMC-LIP6, France)
• Damiano Spina (RMIT University, Australia)
• Isabelle Stanton (Google, United States)
• Karthik Subbian (Facebook, United States)
• Torsten Suel (New York University, United States)
• Kazunari Sugiyama (National University, Singapore)
• Aixin Sun (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
• Le Sun (ISCAS, China)
• Neel Sundaresan (eBay, United States)
• Marcin Sydow (PJIIT and ICS PAS Warsaw, Poland)
• S.M.M. Tahaghoghi (Microsoft, United States)
• Jiliang Tang (Michigan State University, United States)
• Sandeep Tata (Google, United States)
• Gabriele Tolomei (University of Padua, Italy)
• Anastasios Tombros (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom)
• Nicola Tonellotto (ISTI-CNR, Italy)
• Dolf Trieschnigg (Mydatafactory, Netherlands)
• Andrew Trotman (University of Otago, New Zealand)
• Manos Tsagkias (904Labs, Netherlands)
• Charalampos Tsourakakis (Harvard University, United States)
• Oren Tsur (Harvard | Northeastern University, United States)
• Kazutoshi Umemoto (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
• David Vallet (Google, Australia)
• Emre O. Velipasaoglu (Lightbend Inc., United States)
• Adriano Veloso (UFMG, Brazil)
• Rossano Venturini (Dipartimento di Informatica Università di Pisa, Italy)
• Sebastiano Vigna (Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
• Vishwa Vinay (Adobe Research Bangalore, India)
• Bin Wang (Institute of Information Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
• Hongning Wang (University of Virginia, United States)
• Meng Wang (Hefei University of Technology, China)
• Quan Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
• Shuaiqiang Wang (The University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
• Ting Wang (Lehigh University, United States)
• Xuanhui Wang (Google, United States)
• Yue Wang (University of Michigan, United States)
• Hua Wu (Baidu, China)
• Chenyan Xiong (Carnegie Mellon University, United States)
• Jun Xu (Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
• Tao Yang (Ask.com and UCSB, United States)
• Ting Yao (Microsoft, China)
• Mi-Yen Yeh (Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
• Dawei Yin (JD.com, United States)
• Xiaojun Yuan (University at Albany State University of New York, United States)
• Hamed Zamani (University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States)
• Mustafa Zengin (University of Delaware, United States)
• Min Zhang (Tsinghua University, China)
• Weinan Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
• Yongfeng Zhang (Rutgers University, United States)
• Bo Zhao (Pinterest, United States)
• Le Zhao (Carnegie Mellon University, United States)
• Vincent W. Zheng (Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore)
• Ke Zhou (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom)
• Guido Zuccon (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)

Important dates:

• Research tracks abstracts submission deadline : 26 October 2017
• Research tracks full papers submission deadline : 31 October 2017
• Research tracks acceptance notification : 22 December 2017
• Research tracks papers final version due : 18 February 2018

All submission deadlines are at 9:00pm HAST.