Industry Track

Thursday, 21 May

POLVERIERA

 

11.00-12.40

Session I

Evelyne Viegas (Microsoft Research)

 

11.00-11.20

Accessible On-Line Floor Plans       

Cagatay Goncu (Monash University), Anuradha Madugalla (Monash University), Kim Marriott (Monash University), Simone Marinai (University of Florence)

 

11.20-11.40

Topological Properties and Temporal Dynamics of Place Networks in Urban Environments

Anastasios Noulas (University of Cambridge), Blake Shaw (Foursquare), Renaud Lambiotte (University of Namur), Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge)

 

11.40-12.00

The World Conversation: Web Page Metadata Generation From Social Sources

Omar Alonso (Microsoft), Sushma Bannur (Facebook), Kartikay Khandelwal (Microsoft), Shankar Kalyanaraman (Facebook)

 

12.00-12.20

Got Many Labels? Deriving Topic Labels from Multiple Sources for Social Media Posts using Crowdsourcing and Ensemble Learning   

Shuo Chang (University of Minnesota), Peng Dai (Google Research), Jilin Chen (Google Research), Ed Chi (Google Research)

 

12.20-12.40

The Crowd is Not Enough: Improving User Engagement and Satisfaction Through Automatic Quality Evaluation
Dan Pelleg (Yahoo Labs), Oleg Rokhlenko (Yahoo Labs), Mark Shovman (Yahoo Labs), Idan Szpektor (Yahoo Labs), Eugene Agichtein (Yahoo Labs)

 

14.20-16.00

Session II

Chris Welty (Google Research)

 

14.20-14.40

Constrained Optimization for Homepage Relevance      

Deepak Agarwal (Linkedin), Shaunak Chatterjee (Linkedin), Yang Yang (Linkedin), Liang Zhang (Linkedin)

 

14.40-15.00

Temporal Multi-View Inconsistency Detection for Network Traffic Analysis  

Houping Xiao (SUNY Buffalo), Jing Gao (SUNY Buffalo), Deepak S. Turaga (IBM), Long Hai Vu (IBM), Alain Biem (IBM)

 

15.00-15.20

Leveraging Careful Microblog Users for Spammer Detection

Hao Fu (University of Science and Technology of China), Xing Xie (Microsoft Research), Yong Rui (Microsoft Research)

 

15.20-15.40

Question Classification by Approximating Semantics

Guangyu Feng (University of Waterloo), Kun Xiong (University of Waterloo), Yang Tang (University of Waterloo), Anqi Cui (University of Waterloo), Jing Bai (Microsoft), Hang Li (Noah’s Ark Lab, Huawei Technologies), Qiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Ming Li (University of Waterloo)

 

15.40-16.00

Synonym Discovery for Structured Entities on Heterogeneous Graphs          

Xiang Ren (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Tao Cheng (Microsoft Research)

 

16.30-18.10

Final Session

Chris Welty (Google Research), Evelyne Viegas (Microsoft Research)

 

16.30-18.00

Industry Knowldge Graphs PechaKucha 20×20 and Panel         

Praveen Paritosh (Google), Yuqing Gao (Microsoft), Paul Groth (Elsevier), Lora Aroyo (Tagasauris)