After a week of visionary and stimulating plenary sessions, 27 workshops, 21 tutorials, 30 demos, 62 posters, four collocated conferences/events, 4 challenges, and many other exciting research and alternate tracks, The Web Conference 2018, 27^th edition of the largest conference on the World Wide Web, has come to a close.

Rendez-vous for the next edition The Web Conference 2019 in San Francisco, USA, to continue building the future of the web!

More information: https://www2019.thewebconf.org/

Proceedings

The Web Conference 2018 proceedings are now available for consultation: /www2018/proceedings/

The full papers in ACM Digital Library are only available thru the links provided on this page and direct links on each paper can be obtained by clicking on the 🔗 signs displayed at the end of the titles.

Links to PDF versions will be soon available from the HTML5 pages.

Key numbers!

Here is a quick look at the key numbers coming out of the conference:

Scientific stats and participation:

• 2 300+ participants
• 1 461 abstracts; 4 852 authors from 62 countries
• 1 172 submissions; 3 649 authors from 60 countries
• 4 602 reviews by 1 232 PC members
• 170 papers selected, acceptance rate of 15%

Communication stats:

• 1 584 Twitter followers
• 7 500+ tweets on “TheWebConf”
• 8 600 000+ twitter users reached
• 16 900+ retweets of tweets with TheWebConf
• 91.6% of neutral or positive tweets
• 400+ press mentions
• 10 000+ video views

Seoul Test of Time Award!

This award has been given to:

YAGO: A Core of Semantic Knowledge Unifying WordNet and Wikipedia
Suchanek, Kasneci, and Weikum, Max-Planck-Institut
This paper was presented at WWW2007.

Awards!

Congratulations to the following award winners at the conference and to our outstanding reviewers:

• Best Paper:
  HighLife: Higher-arity Fact Harvesting
  Patrick Ernst, Amy Siu and Gerhard Weikum
• Best Poster:
  An Improved Sampler for Bayesian Personalized Ranking by Leveraging View Data
  Jingtao Ding, Fuli Feng, Xiangnan He, Guanghui Yu, Yong Li and Depeng Jin
• Best Demo:
  I Read but Don’t Agree: Privacy Policy Benchmarking using Machine Learning and the EU GDPR
  JWelderufael B. Tesfay, Peter Hofmann, Toru Nakamura, Shinsaku Kiyomoto and Jetzabel Serna

For more information on the honorable mentions and also the outstanding reviewers for the 2018 edition, check out: /www2018/awards/

Videos!

All the official videos of the conference are now available: /www2018/related-media/conference-videos/

Photos!

Re-experience the conference through a series of photographs! /www2018/related-media/pictures/