After 4602 reviews, the research tracks selections results are in: 171 papers have been selected to present their papers at the conference in April, leading to an acceptance rate of 15%.
Also, in addition to the 4 challenges, 19 tutorials and 28 workshops previously selected, we have received 179 poster submissions and 72 demo submissions! Detailed lists and information on the accepted submissions are available on the program page.

The Web Conference 2018 is very pleased to announce Ruhi Sarikaya as the third keynote speaker.

Ruhi Sarikaya joined Amazon Alexa team as the Director of Applied Science in September 2016. With his team that he has largely built from the ground up, he has been building core capabilities around ranking, relevance, natural language understanding, contextual understanding and personalization.
Prior to that, he was a principal science manager and the founder of the language understanding and dialog systems group at Microsoft, Redmond, WA between 2011 and 2016.
He has published over 100 technical papers in refereed journal and conference proceedings and, is inventor of over 70 issued/pending patents.

The BIG Web, an alternate track of The Web Conference 2018, has announced two Keynotes, presented by Jon Kleinberg from Cornell University and Alessandro Vespagnini from NorthEastern University.

Google as a SILVER sponsor

Oath as a BRONZE sponsor

Deadlines for the Panel proposal submission have changed. You can find the new dates in the Panel track CFP.

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