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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

Fourth ACM International Conference on
Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM2011)

February 9-12, 2011, Hong Kong

http://www.wsdm2011.org/

Co-Sponsored by ACM SIGIR, SIGKDD, SIGMOD and SIGWEB

Paper Submission Deadline: August 1, 2010
Workshop Proposal Deadline: July 25, 2010
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WSDM (pronounced "wisdom") is the premier international ACM conference covering research in the areas of search and data mining on the Web. The 4th ACM WSDM Conference will take place in Hong Kong, during February 9-12, 2011.

WSDM publishes original, high quality papers and presentations related to search and data mining on the Web and the Social Web, with an emphasis on practical but principled novel models of search, retrieval and data mining, algorithm design and analysis, economics implications, and in-depth experimental analysis of accuracy and performance.

WSDM2011 will have keynotes, invited talks, full paper presentations, posters, tutorials, workshops, social events, etc. Topics covered include but are not limited to:

Web Search
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* Web Dynamics and Search
* Multifaceted and task-driven search
* Multimedia Web search
* Security and privacy in Web search and mining
* User interfaces for search interaction
* Distributed, meta, and peer-to-peer search
* Vertical portals and search
* Search quality benchmarking and evaluation
* Ranking and machine learning for ranking

Web Mining
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* Web measurements, Web evolution, Web models
* Clustering, classification, and summarization of Web data
* Opinion mining and sentiment analysis
* Multimodal data mining
* Data, entity, event and relationship extraction
* Sense and entity disambiguation
* Data integration and data cleaning
* Discovery-driven Web and social network mining
* Traffic and log analysis
* Algorithms and systems for Web-scale search and mining

Social Search and Mining
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* Social network analysis, theories, models, and applications
* Social media analysis: blogs and friendship networks
* Social reputation, influence, and trust
* User profiling and recommendation systems
* User activity modeling and exploitation
* Personalized search and ranking
* Tags, Users, and Search


Important Dates
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Paper Submission Deadline August 1, 2010
Notification of Decisions October 15, 2010
Conference Dates February 9-12, 2011


Paper Format
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Papers must report original research not accepted or under submission to any journal or conference with public proceedings (previous submissions in informal workshops or as posters are allowed, but must be indicated).
Papers must be formatted according to ACM guidelines and style files to fit within 10 pages, including references, diagrams, and appendices if any. A submitted paper must be self-contained and in English.

Submissions
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Papers must be submitted in PDF format to the paper submission Web site:

https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=wsdm2011, by August 1, 2010. PDF files must have all non-standard fonts embedded. After upload, please check the copy stored on the site. Submissions that do not view or print properly may be rejected without a chance to rectify the problem. Please contact wsdm2011@easychair.org for any questions.

Note that there is no separate process for poster submissions.

Review Process
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Each paper will be reviewed by at least three regular PC members and one or two senior PC members and is single-blind (that is, the identity of authors is known to the reviewers). Decisions will take into account novelty, technical depth, elegance, practical application, impact, and presentation.

Presentations
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All the accepted papers with full length of 10 pages will be asked to make poster presentations at the conference. A subset of selected papers will be invited for oral presentations.

Publication
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All accepted papers are published in the ACM Digital Library. Selected accepted papers will be invited to submit their expanded versions for publication in the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST, http://tist.acm.org) through an expedient review and publication process.

Organizing Committee
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General Chair
* Irwin King, CUHK, Hong Kong

Program Co-Chairs
* Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S and University of Hannover, Germany
* Hang Li, Microsoft Research Asia, China

Workshop Co-Chairs
* Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Yahoo! Research, USA
* Wai Lam, CUHK, Hong Kong

Tutorial Co-Chairs
* Marc Najork, Microsoft Research, USA
* Qing Li, City University of HK, Hong Kong

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs
* Dan Hong, HKUST, Hong Kong
* Tak-Lam Wong, CUHK, Hong Kong

Finance Chair
* Michael Lyu, CUHK, Hong Kong

Publicity Chair
* Qiang Yang, HKUST, Hong Kong

Registration Chair
* Michael Chau, HKU, Hong Kong

Publication Chair
* Hong Cheng, CUHK, Hong Kong

Senior Program Committee
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* Lada Adamic, University of Michigan, USA
* Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, Spain
* Ziv Bar-Yossef, Google, Israel
* Roberto Bayardo, Google, USA
* Kevin Chang, UIUC, USA
* Nick Craswell, Microsoft, USA
* Bruce Croft, UMASS Amherst, USA
* Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research, USA
* Vanja Josifovski, Yahoo! Research, USA
* Peer Kroeger, University of Munich, Germany
* Ravi Kumar, Yahoo! Research, USA
* Mounia Lalmas, University of Glasgow, UK
* Yoelle Maarek, Yahoo! Research, Israel
* Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada
* Fabrizio Sebastiani, ISTI, Italy
* Edleno Silva de Moura, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil
* Ji-Rong Wen, Microsoft Research Asia, China
* Qiang Yang, HKUST, Hong Kong
* ChengXiang Zhai, UIUC, USA

The complete Program Committee list is available at http://www.wsdm2011.org/wsdm2011/pc

Steering Committee
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* Rakesh Agrawal, Microsoft, USA
* Ricardo Baeza-Yates,Yahoo!, University of Chile, Spain
* Ziv Bar-Yossef,Technion, Google, Israel
* Soumen Chakrabarti, IIT Bombay, India
* Monika Henzinger, EPFL, Google, Switzerland
* Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University, USA
* Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo! Labs, USA

Contact Information
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Irwin King
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, NT, Hong Kong
+(852) 2609 8398 voice
+(852) 2603 5024 fax
king@cse.cuhk.edu.hk
http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~king