Search systems and applications

Topics

Indexing text, metadata, semantic and social annotations, encoding and compression
Query processing algorithms, caching and pruning strategies
Search architecture, cluster distribution, federation, scalability, fault tolerance
Query analysis, segmentation, intent prediction, enrichment, rewriting
Relevance ranking, relevance feedback, learning to rank, rank aggregation, diversity
Interactive search, query suggestion/completion, user modeling, click analysis
Search in semi-structured and graph data, spanning multi-modal data
Faceted, enterprise, desktop, mobile, geo, temporal, blog, tweet search
Search driven by commerce and advertising
Adversarial search: spam, link farms
Querying and searching the Semantic/Data Web, including combinations with statistics, soft computing and distributed approaches
Use of social metadata and annotations in search and mining
Indexing and retrieval of Web rich-media content
Verticals and specialized search: multimedia, blogs, news, academic, e-commerce, etc.
Faceted, enterprise, desktop, local, and mobile search
Search engine architecture and scalability, including indexing, index compression, index distribution
Efficiency issues in query processing, including index access, caching, and early termination
Web crawling: high performance crawling, refresh crawling, focused crawling, content monitoring, and other crawling strategies and applications
Semantic search: entity retrieval, geo/temporal search, sub/super-documents
Federated, distributed, and P2P search, meta search, rank aggregation
Enabling higher-level applications: implicit search, mashups, query completion, real time search
Entity and knowledge graph for web search and applications
Entity search, indexing, ranking and suggestion
Personalized search and ranking
Searching real-time and dynamic content from the Web
Systems and Applications for crowdsourcing or human tasking in web search
Evaluation methodologies and metrics for search systems
Search assistance and task completion

Track Chairs

Soumen Chakrabarti (IIT Mumbai)
Wei-Ying Ma (MSR Asia)

TPC Members

Adriano Veloso (UFMG)
Alex Smola (Yahoo)
Alexander Kotov (Emory University)
Altigran S. Da Silva (Federal University of Amazonas)
Amy Langville (College of Charleston)
Antonio Gulli (ASK)
Aris Anagnostopoulos (Sapienza University of Rome)
Arjen de Vries (CWI)
Ashutosh Garg )
Behshad Behzadi (Google Inc.)
Bin Gao (Microsoft Research Asia)
Ching-Man Au Yeung (ASTRI)
Chin-Yew Lin (Microsoft Research Asia)
D Sivakumar (Yahoo!)
David Losada (University of Santiago de Compostela)
Davood Rafiei (University of Alberta)
Debora Donato (Yahoo! Research Barcelona)
Djoerd Hiemstra (University of Twente)
Dmitri Loguinov (Texas A&M)
Edleno Silva De Moura (Universidade Federal do Amazonas)
Ee-Peng Lim (Singapore Management University)
Emine Yilmaz (Microsoft Research Cambridge)
Evangelos Kanoulas (Google, Inc.)
Fabrizio Silvestri (ISTI – CNR)
Gabriella Pasi (Universit degli STudi di Milano Bicocca)
Glen Jeh
Gloria Bordogna (National Research Council of Italy – CNR)
Hong Cheng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Hongbo Deng (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Iadh Ounis (University of Glasgow)
Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam)
Jaime Arguello (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Jeannette Janssen (Dalhousie University)
Jian Pei (Simon Fraser University)
Jian-Yun Nie (Universit de Montral)
Kevin Lang (Yahoo! Research)
Lei Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia)
Lidong Zhou (Microsoft Research, SV)
Ling Liu (Georgia Tech)
Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam)
Marcos Goncalves (Federal University of Minas Gerais)
Marina Sokolova
Mário J. Silva (IST/INESC-ID)
Massimo Melucci (University of Padua)
Maxim Gurevich (Google)
Michalis Vazirgiannis (Department of Informatics, AUEB)
Milad Shokouhi (Microsoft Research)
Min Zhang (Tsinghua University)
Ming Hua (Facebook Inc.)
Neel Sundaresan (eBay Research Labs)
Nivio Ziviani (Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais)
Omar Alonso (Microsoft)
Pablo De La Fuente (GRINBD. Universidad de Valladolid)
Panayiotis Tsaparas (University of Ioannina)
Prasad Deshpande (IBM Research – India)
Ralf Schenkel (Saarland University)
Rosie Jones (Akamai Technologies)
Rui Cai (Microsoft Research, Asia)
Shenghua Bao (IBM China Research Lab)
Shuming Shi (Microsoft Research Asia)
Simone Paolo Ponzetto (University of Rome)
Sriram Raghavan (IBM Research – India)
Stefan Rueger (Knowledge Media Institute)
Steven C.H. Hoi (Nanyang Technological University)
Stratis Viglas (University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics)
Sung-Hyon Myaeng (Kaist)
Tao Yang (Ask.com and UCSB)
Tao Cheng (Microsoft Research Redmond)
Tie-Yan Liu (Microsoft Research Asia)
Umut Ozertem (Microsoft)
Uri Schonfeld (UCLA)
Xiaoyan Zhu (Computer Science and Technology Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing,China)
Xuanjing Huang (Fudan University)
Xueqi Cheng (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, P. R. China)
Yi Chang (Yahoo! Labs)
Zheng Chen (Microsoft Research Asia)