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
- Vertical and specialized search: enterprise, multimedia, social media, news, dynamic content, academic, e-commerce, etc.
- Web IR: blog and microblog search, forum search, community-based QA, etc.
- Web search models and ranking: probabilistic retrieval models, language models, learning to rank, combining searches, diversity and aggregated search, 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: websearch@www2016.ca
Area Chairs
- Jimmy Huang, York University, Canada
- Dan Pelleg, Yahoo Labs, Haifa
Program Committee
- Benjamin Adams, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
- Omar Alonso, Microsoft
- Roi Blanco, Yahoo Research
- Edward Bortnikov, Yahoo Labs
- B. Barla Cambazoglu, Yahoo Labs
- Kevin Chang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Yi Chang, Yahoo Labs, USA
- Xueqi Cheng, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, P. R. China
- Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam
- Sergej Dechand, University of Bonn
- Arjen Devries
- Marcus Fontoura, Microsoft Corporation
- Nadav Golbandi, Yahoo Labs
- Luis Gravano, Columbia University
- Maxim Gurevich, RelateIQ
- Gleb Gusev
- Ido Guy, Yahoo Labs
- Yunlong He, Yahoo Labs
- Xu Hongbo, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Qinmin Hu, East China Normal University
- Xuanjing Huang, Fudan University
- Amruta Joshi, UCLA
- Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam
- Nick Koudas, University of Toronto
- Oren Kurland, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
- Rui Li, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Lei Liu, HP Labs
- Tie-Yan Liu, Microsoft Research
- Yang Liu, Shandong University
- Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Microsoft
- Ilya Markov, University of Amsterdam
- Grant McKenzie, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Jun Miao, York University
- Peter Mika, Yahoo Research
- Marc Najork
- Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S and University of Hannover
- Nir Ofek, Ben Gurion University
- Michael Paul, Johns Hopkins University
- Gennady Pekhimenko, Carnegie Mellon University
- Fiana Raiber, Technion
- Hadas Raviv, Technion institute of Technology, Haifa
- Uri Schonfeld, Yahoo
- Pravin Shankar, Facebook
- Michal Shmueli-Scheuer, IBM
- Ves Stoyanov
- Aixin Sun, Nanyang Technological University
- Neel Sundaresan, eBay
- Idan Szpektor, Yahoo Research
- Yuri Ustinovskiy
- Max Vladymyrov, Yahoo Labs
- Aleksandr Vorobev
- Wouter Weerkamp, 904Labs
- Ran Wolff, Yahoo Labs
- Makoto Yamada, Yahoo Labs
- Hengshuai Yao, University of Alberta
- Elad Yom-Tov, Microsoft Research
- Min Zhang, Tsinghua University
- Jiashu Zhao, York University
- Mianwei Zhou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
