We invite original research submissions addressing all the aspects of Web search, from complex efficient systems to novel applications. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to the ones listed below.
- Adversarial search: spam and abuse issues, link farms, etc.
- Evaluation methodologies and metrics including click analysis, online and offline approaches, implicit signals, etc.
- Indexing web content: text, metadata, semantic and social annotations, etc.
- Interactive search: query suggestion/completion, search assistance applications
- Mobile and local search
- New search paradigms and applications: implicit search, zero query, task-based, real-time search, crowdsourcing in web search, etc.
- Personalized or context-aware search and ranking including privacy-aware search
- Query analysis: segmentation, intent prediction, enrichment, rewriting, etc.
- Query processing: caching and pruning strategies, efficiency issues
- Relevance ranking: relevance feedback, learning to rank, rank aggregation, diversity, ranking fresh results, etc.
- Search engine architecture and scalability: index compression, distribution, federation, fault tolerance, etc.
- 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
- Social search
- Vertical and specialized search: enterprise, multimedia, social media, news, dynamic content, academic, e-commerce, etc.
- Web crawling: high performance crawling, refresh crawling, focused crawling, content monitoring, and other crawling strategies and applications
For questions related to this call, please email: research-search@www2015.it
Area Chairs
- Yi Chang, Yahoo Labs Sunnyvale
- Yoelle Maarek, Yahoo Labs Haifa
- Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam
Program Committee
- James Allan, UMass Amherst, USA
- Omar Alonso, Microsoft, USA
- Ziv Bar-Yossef, Google, Israel
- Behshad Behzadi, Google, Swizerland
- Edward Bortnikov, Yahoo Labs, Israel
- B. Barla Cambazoglu, Yahoo Labs, Spain
- Kevin Chang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
- Xueqi Cheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Arjen de Vries, CWI, Netherlands
- Fernando Diaz, Microsoft Research, USA
- Marcus Fontoura, Google, USA
- C. Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University, USA
- Nadav Golbandi, Yahoo Labs, USA
- Luis Gravano, Columbia University, USA
- Maxim Gurevich, RelateIQ, USA
- Xu Hongbo, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Xuanjing Huang, Fudan University, China
- Amruta Joshi, UCLA, USA
- Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Oren Kurland, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
- Rui Li, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
- Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore Management University, Singapore
- Hongfei Lin, Dalian University of Technology, China
- Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research, China
- Ilya Markov, University of Lugano, Switzerland
- Wolfgang Nejdl, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
- Hua Ouyang, Yahoo Labs, USA
- Uri Schonfeld, Yahoo Labs, USA
- Torsten Suel New York University, USA
- Neel Sundaresan, eBay Research Labs, USA
- Stratis Viglas, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Wouter Weerkamp, 904Labs, Netherlands
- Michael Welch, UCLA, USA
- Ran Wolff, Yahoo Labs, Israel
- Makoto Yamada, Yahoo Labs, USA
- Hengshuai Yao, University of Alberta, Canada
- Emine Yilmaz, Microsoft Research, UK
- Min Zhang, Tsinghua University, China