Schedule

In this page, you will find the schedule of all events for The Web Conference 2019. As the conference have many tracks that run in parallel, it is sometimes hard to navigate the schedule. We recommend that you start by reviewing the calendar of events below to get an overview of the events happening. Then you can drill down in the events by scrolling down in this page and reviewing the detailed schedule or downloading the conference app for iOS or Android phones. The app will allow you to browse the schedule more effectively and create your won schedule for every day of the conference.

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Schedule Calendar

 

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  • 11:00
  • 12:00
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  • 14:00
  • 15:00
  • 16:00
  • 17:00
  • 18:00
  • 19:00
  • 20:00
  • 21:00

12 Sun

  • Registrations opens
                             

13 Mon

  • Registration starts
  • Workshops & Tutorials W4A
  • Coffee break
  • Workshops & Tutorials W4A
  • Lunch
  • Workshops & Tutorials W4A
  • Coffee break
  • Workshops & Tutorials W4A
  • Welcome Reception
                             

14 Tue

                             

15 Wed

                             

16 Thu

                             

17 Fri

                             

Note: Exhibition will be open Tuesday to Thursday from 10AM to 5:30PM, and Friday from 10AM to 1PM.

Schedule Details

 

Monday

 

Tuesday

  • 7:00

    7:00 - 17:00

    Registration

    Location: Grand Ballroom Foyer

  • 8:30

    8:30 - 10:30

    Workshop: Workshop on Data Science for Social Good | Workshop on Data Science for Social Good

    Location: Garden B

    Organizers: Natalia Adler, Ciro Cattuto, Daniela Paolotti, Michele Tizzoni, Stefaan Verhulst, and Andrew Young

  • 9:00

    Workshops

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    • 9:00 - 10:30

      The Challenge of API Management: API Strategies for Decentralized API Landscapes

      Location: Board Room B

      Organizer: Erik Wilde and Mike Amundsen

    • 9:00 - 10:30

      Online User Engagement: Metrics and Optimization

      Location: Waterfront D

      Organizer: Liangjie Hong and Mounia Lalmas

    • 9:00 - 10:30

      Continuous Analytics of Web Streams

      Location: Golden Gate

      Organizers: Riccardo Tommasini, Robin Keskisärkkä, Jean-Paul Calbimonte, Eva Blomqvist, Emanuele Della Valle and Albert Bifet

    • 9:00 - 10:30

      From Research Articles to Knowledge Graphs: Methods for ontology-driven knowledge base creation from text

      Location: Pacific M

      Organizer: Vayianos Pertsas and Panos Constantopoulos

    • 9:00 - 10:30

      Representation Learning on Networks: Theories, Algorithms, and Applications

      Location: Grand Ballroom B

      Organizer: Jie Tang and Yuxiao Dong

    • 9:00 - 10:30

      Human Mobility from theory to practice: Data, Models and Applications

      Location: Regency A+B

      Organizers: Filippo Simini, Gianni Barlacchi, Luca Pappalardo, Roberto Pellungrini

    • 9:00 - 10:30

      Social audience, under the influence

      Location: Waterfront B

      Organizers: Augustin Chaintreau, Arthi Ramachandran and Elissa Redmiles

    • 9:00 - 10:30

      Fairness-Aware Machine Learning: Practical Challenges and Lessons Learned

      Location: Garden A

      Organizers: Sarah Bird, Ben Hutchinson, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Emre Kıcıman and Margaret Mitchell

    9:00 - 9:10

    BIG: Special track | Opening remarks

    Location: Bayview A+B

    Chairs: Vanja Josifovski, Liane Lewin-Eytan

    9:00 - 10:30

    W4A | Invited talk: Simon Harper

    Location: Ballroom C

    Chairs: Volker Sorge, Elaine Pearson

  • 9:10

    9:10 - 10:00

    BIG: Special track | Reimagining Conversational Search with Voice-Enabled Devices

    Location: Bayview A+B

    Presenter: Eugene Agichtein

    Chairs: Vanja Josifovski, Liane Lewin-Eytan

  • 10:00

    10:00 - 10:30

    BIG: Special track | Driving Network Growth at LinkedIn: Past, Present and Future

    Location: Bayview A+B

    Presenter: Hema Raghavan

    Chairs: Vanja Josifovski, Liane Lewin-Eytan

  • 10:30

    10:30 - 11:00

    Break

    Location: Pacific Concourse

  • 11:00

    Workshops

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    • 11:00 - 12:30

      The Challenge of API Management: API Strategies for Decentralized API Landscapes

      Location: Board Room B

      Organizer: Erik Wilde and Mike Amundsen

    • 11:00 - 12:30

      Online User Engagement: Metrics and Optimization

      Location: Waterfront D

      Organizer: Liangjie Hong and Mounia Lalmas

    • 11:00 - 12:30

      Continuous Analytics of Web Streams

      Location: Golden Gate

      Organizers: Riccardo Tommasini, Robin Keskisärkkä, Jean-Paul Calbimonte, Eva Blomqvist, Emanuele Della Valle and Albert Bifet

    • 11:00 - 12:30

      From Research Articles to Knowledge Graphs: Methods for ontology-driven knowledge base creation from text

      Location: Pacific M

      Organizer: Vayianos Pertsas and Panos Constantopoulos

    • 11:00 - 12:30

      Representation Learning on Networks: Theories, Algorithms, and Applications

      Location: Grand Ballroom B

      Organizer: Jie Tang and Yuxiao Dong

    • 11:00 - 12:30

      Human Mobility from theory to practice: Data, Models and Applications

      Location: Regency A+B

      Organizers: Filippo Simini, Gianni Barlacchi, Luca Pappalardo, Roberto Pellungrini

    • 11:00 - 12:30

      Social audience, under the influence

      Location: Waterfront B

      Organizers: Augustin Chaintreau, Arthi Ramachandran and Elissa Redmiles

    • 11:00 - 12:30

      Fairness-Aware Machine Learning: Practical Challenges and Lessons Learned

      Location: Garden A

      Organizers: Sarah Bird, Ben Hutchinson, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Emre Kıcıman and Margaret Mitchell

    11:00 - 11:30

    BIG: Special track | Machine Learning-Powered Search Ranking of Airbnb Experiences

    Location: Bayview A+B

    Presenter: Mihajlo Grbovic

    Chairs: Vanja Josifovski, Liane Lewin-Eytan

    11:00 - 12:30

    W4A

    Location: Ballroom C

    Chairs: Volker Sorge, Elaine Pearson

  • 11:30

    11:30 - 12:20

    BIG: Special track | Panel: BIG Public Data for Social Good: Opportunities and Technical Challenges

    Location: Bayview A+B

    Presenter: Alex Jaimes

    Chairs: Vanja Josifovski, Liane Lewin-Eytan

  • 12:30

    12:30 - 14:00

    Lunch

    Location: Embarcadero Plaza

  • 13:30

    13:30 - 15:30

    W4A

    Location: Ballroom C

    Chairs: Volker Sorge, Elaine Pearson

  • 14:00

    Workshops

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    • 14:00 - 15:30

      The Challenge of API Management: API Strategies for Decentralized API Landscapes

      Location: Board Room B

      Organizer: Erik Wilde and Mike Amundsen

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Representation Learning on Networks: Theories, Algorithms, and Applications

      Location: Grand Ballroom B

      Organizer: Jie Tang and Yuxiao Dong

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Human Mobility from theory to practice: Data, Models and Applications

      Location: Regency A+B

      Organizers: Filippo Simini, Gianni Barlacchi, Luca Pappalardo, Roberto Pellungrini

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Social audience, under the influence

      Location: Waterfront B

      Organizers: Augustin Chaintreau, Arthi Ramachandran and Elissa Redmiles

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Privacy-preserving Data Mining in Industry

      Location: Pacific M

      Organizers: Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Ilya Mironov and Abhradeep Thakurta

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Explainable Recommendation and Search

      Location: Garden A

      Organizers: Yongfeng Zhang, Jiaxin Mao and Qingyao Ai

    14:00 - 14:50

    BIG: Special track | Recommending and Searching: Research @ Spotify

    Location: Bayview A+B

    Presenter: Mounia Lalmas

    Chairs: Vanja Josifovski, Liane Lewin-Eytan

  • 15:00

    15:00 - 15:30

    BIG: Special track | Graph Neural Networks for Reasoning over Multimodal Content

    Location: Bayview A+B

    Presenter: Jure Leskovec

    Chairs: Vanja Josifovski, Liane Lewin-Eytan

  • 15:30

    15:30 - 16:00

    Break

    Location: Pacific Concourse

  • 16:00

    Workshops

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    • 16:00 - 17:30

      The Challenge of API Management: API Strategies for Decentralized API Landscapes

      Location: Board Room B

      Organizer: Erik Wilde and Mike Amundsen

    • 16:00 - 17:30

      Representation Learning on Networks: Theories, Algorithms, and Applications

      Location: Grand Ballroom B

      Organizer: Jie Tang and Yuxiao Dong

    • 16:00 - 17:30

      Human Mobility from theory to practice: Data, Models and Applications

      Location: Regency A+B

      Organizers: Filippo Simini, Gianni Barlacchi, Luca Pappalardo, Roberto Pellungrini

    • 16:00 - 17:30

      Social audience, under the influence

      Location: Waterfront B

      Organizers: Augustin Chaintreau, Arthi Ramachandran and Elissa Redmiles

    • 16:00 - 17:30

      Privacy-preserving Data Mining in Industry

      Location: Pacific M

      Organizers: Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Ilya Mironov and Abhradeep Thakurta

    • 16:00 - 17:30

      Explainable Recommendation and Search

      Location: Garden A

      Organizers: Yongfeng Zhang, Jiaxin Mao and Qingyao Ai

    16:00 - 16:30

    BIG: Special track | Detecting Misconduct and Malfeasance within Financial Institutions

    Location: Bayview A+B

    Presenter: Panos Iperiotis

    Chairs: Vanja Josifovski, Liane Lewin-Eytan

    16:00 - 17:30

    W4A

    Location: Ballroom C

    Chairs: Volker Sorge, Elaine Pearson

  • 16:30

    16:30 - 17:00

    BIG: Special track | Recommender Systems in a RTB Platform

    Location: Bayview A+B

    Presenter: Suju Rajan

    Chairs: Vanja Josifovski, Liane Lewin-Eytan

  • 17:00

    17:00 - 17:30

    BIG: Special track | Understanding News Using the Bloomberg Knowledge Graph

    Location: Bayview A+B

    Presenter: Edgar Meij

    Chairs: Vanja Josifovski, Liane Lewin-Eytan

  • 17:30

    17:30 - 17:40

    BIG: Special track | Closing remarks

    Location: Bayview A+B

    Chairs: Vanja Josifovski, Liane Lewin-Eytan

 

Wednesday

  • 7:30

    7:30 - 17:00

    Registration

    Location: Grand Ballroom Foyer

  • 8:30

    8:30 - 9:00

    Opening ceremony

    Location: Grand Ballroom A+B+C

    Chair: Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Leila Zia

  • 9:00

    9:00 - 10:00

    Keynote | Deep Learning for Solving Important Problems

    Location: Grand Ballroom A+B+C

    Presenter: Jeff Dean (Google)

    Chair: Ricardo Baeza-Yates

  • 10:00

    10:00 - 10:30

    Break

    Location: Pacific Concourse

  • 10:30

    10:30 - 17:30

    W3C track

    Location: Seacliff D

    10:30 - 10:35

    Special track: Web of Health | Opening remarks

    Location: Garden A+B

    Presenters: Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google), Nigam Shah (Stanford University)

    Chairs: Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google), Nigam Shah (Stanford University)

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    • 10:30 - 10:54

      Fairness, Credibility, and Search
      Auditing the Partisanship of Google Search Snippets

      Location: Seacliff A+B+C

      Chairs: Carlos Castillo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

    • 10:30 - 10:54

      Network Algorithms
      Estimating Walk-Based Similarities Using Random Walk

      Location: Grand Ballroom B

      Chairs: Paolo Boldi (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)

    • 10:30 - 10:54

      Recommendation
      Improving Outfit Recommendation with Co-supervision of Fashion Generation

      Location: Grand Ballroom C

      Chairs: Mihajlo Grbovic (Airbnb, US)

    • 10:30 - 10:54

      Security
      Evaluating Login Challenges as a Defense Against Account Takeover

      Location: Grand Ballroom A

      Chairs: Ashish Kundu (IBM Research, US)

    • 10:30 - 10:54

      Knowledge Synthesis
      Link Prediction on N-ary Relational Data

      Location: Bayview A+B

      Chairs: Lora Aroyo (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)

  • 10:35

    10:35 - 11:20

    Special track: Web of Health | Solving The Digital Transformation of Healthcare by 2025

    Location: Garden A+B

    Presenter: Kevin Schulman (Stanford)

    Chairs: Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google), Nigam Shah (Stanford University)

  • 10:54

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    • 10:54 - 11:18

      Fairness, Credibility, and Search
      It's Almost Like They're Trying to Hide It: How User-Provided Image Descriptions Have Failed to Make Twitter Accessible

      Location: Seacliff A+B+C

      Chairs: Carlos Castillo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

    • 10:54 - 11:18

      Network Algorithms
      Multilevel Network Alignment

      Location: Grand Ballroom B

      Chairs: Paolo Boldi (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)

    • 10:54 - 11:18

      Recommendation
      Multi-Task Feature Learning for Knowledge Graph Enhanced Recommendation

      Location: Grand Ballroom C

      Chairs: Mihajlo Grbovic (Airbnb, US)

    • 10:54 - 11:18

      Security
      Hack for Hire: Exploring the Emerging Market for Account Hijacking

      Location: Grand Ballroom A

      Chairs: Ashish Kundu (IBM Research, US)

    • 10:54 - 11:18

      Knowledge Synthesis
      ActiveLink: Deep Active Learning for Link Prediction in Knowledge Graphs

      Location: Bayview A+B

      Chairs: Lora Aroyo (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)

  • 11:18

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    • 11:18 - 11:42

      Fairness, Credibility, and Search
      (Mis)Information Dissemination in WhatsApp: Gathering, Analyzing and Countermeasures

      Location: Seacliff A+B+C

      Chairs: Carlos Castillo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

    • 11:18 - 11:42

      Network Algorithms
      Adversarial Training Methods for Network Embedding

      Location: Grand Ballroom B

      Chairs: Paolo Boldi (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)

    • 11:18 - 11:42

      Recommendation
      Cross-domain Recommendation Without Sharing User-Relevant Data

      Location: Grand Ballroom C

      Chairs: Mihajlo Grbovic (Airbnb, US)

    • 11:18 - 11:42

      Security
      Measurement and Early Detection of Third-Party Application Abuse on Twitter

      Location: Grand Ballroom A

      Chairs: Ashish Kundu (IBM Research, US)

    • 11:18 - 11:42

      Knowledge Synthesis
      Joint Entity Linking with Deep Reinforcement Learning

      Location: Bayview A+B

      Chairs: Lora Aroyo (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)

  • 11:30

    11:30 - 11:50

    Special track: Web of Health | Scientists as Patients and Patients as Scientists

    Location: Garden A+B

    Presenter: Noemie Elhadad (Columbia University)

    Chairs: Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google), Nigam Shah (Stanford University)

  • 11:42

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    • 11:42 - 12:06

      Fairness, Credibility, and Search
      What Happened? The Spread of Fake News Publisher Content During the 2016 Election

      Location: Seacliff A+B+C

      Chairs: Carlos Castillo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

    • 11:42 - 12:06

      Network Algorithms
      NetSMF: Large-Scale Network Embedding as Sparse Matrix Factorization

      Location: Grand Ballroom B

      Chairs: Paolo Boldi (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)

    • 11:42 - 12:06

      Recommendation
      GhostLink: Mining Latent Influence Networks for Influence-aware Item Recommendation

      Location: Grand Ballroom C

      Chairs: Mihajlo Grbovic (Airbnb, US)

    • 11:42 - 12:06

      Security
      Doppelgängers on the Dark Web: A Large-scale Assessment on Phishing Hidden Web Services

      Location: Grand Ballroom A

      Chairs: Ashish Kundu (IBM Research, US)

    • 11:42 - 12:06

      Knowledge Synthesis
      Be Concise and Precise: Synthesizing Open-domain Entity Descriptions from Facts

      Location: Bayview A+B

      Chairs: Lora Aroyo (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)

  • 11:50

    11:50 - 12:10

    Special track: Web of Health | Integrating Digital Health into Clinical Practice

    Location: Garden A+B

    Presenter: Tanzeem Choudhury (Cornell University and HealthRhythms)

    Chairs: Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google), Nigam Shah (Stanford University)

  • 12:06

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    • 12:06 - 12:30

      Fairness, Credibility, and Search
      Forecasting U.S. Domestic Migration Using Internet Search Queries

      Location: Seacliff A+B+C

      Chairs: Carlos Castillo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

    • 12:06 - 12:30

      Network Algorithms
      Sensitivity Analysis of Centralities on Unweighted Networks

      Location: Grand Ballroom B

      Chairs: Paolo Boldi (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)

    • 12:06 - 12:30

      Recommendation
      Multimodal Review Generation for Recommender Systems

      Location: Grand Ballroom C

      Chairs: Mihajlo Grbovic (Airbnb, US)

    • 12:06 - 12:30

      Security
      Auditing Offline Data Brokers via Facebook’s Advertising Platform

      Location: Grand Ballroom A

      Chairs: Ashish Kundu (IBM Research, US)

    • 12:06 - 12:30

      Knowledge Synthesis
      Iteratively Learning Embeddings and Rules for Knowledge Graph Reasoning

      Location: Bayview A+B

      Chairs: Lora Aroyo (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)

  • 12:10

    12:10 - 12:30

    Special track: Web of Health | Integrating Digital Health into Clinical Practice

    Location: Garden A+B

    Presenter: Maya Leventer-Roberts (Clalit Health Services)

    Chairs: Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google), Nigam Shah (Stanford University)

  • 12:30

    12:30 - 14:00

    Lunch

    Location: Embarcadero Plaza

  • 14:00

    14:00 - 14:45

    Special track: Web of Health | Panel: How good is diagnosis on the Web

    Location: Garden A+B

    Presenters: Robert Harrington (Stanford University), Maya Leventer-Roberts (Clalit Health Services), Noemie Elhadad (Columbia University), Mitchell Feldman (Mass General Hospital), Saurabh Johri (Babylon Health), Xavier Amatriain (Curai)

    Chairs: Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google), Nigam Shah (Stanford University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      A Graph is Worth a Thousand Words: Telling Event Stories using Timeline Summarization Graphs

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Title Generation for Web Tables

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Spatio-Temporal Capsule-based Reinforcement Learning for Mobility-on-Demand Network Coordination

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      SWeG: Lossless and Lossy Summarization of Tera-Scale Graphs

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      No Place to Hide: Catching Fraudulent Entities in Tensors

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Value-aware Recommendation based on Reinforced Profit Maximization in E-commerce Systems

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      A Tree-Structured Neural Network Model for Household Energy Breakdown

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Automatic Generation of Pattern-controlled Product Description in E-commerce

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Multi-Task Feature Learning for Knowledge Graph Enhanced Recommendation

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Click Feedback-Aware Query Recommendation Using Adversarial Examples

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Link Prediction on N-ary Relational Data

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Knowledge Graph Convolutional Networks for Recommender Systems

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Learning Travel Time Distributions with Deep Generative Model

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Estimating Walk-Based Similarities Using Random Walk

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Self- and Cross-Excitation in StackExchange Question & Answer Communities

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Dressing as a Whole: Outfit Compatibility Learning Based on Node-wise Graph Neural Networks

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Adversarial Training Methods for Network Embedding

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      NetSMF: Large-Scale Network Embedding as Sparse Matrix Factorization

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      GhostLink: Mining Latent Influence Networks for Influence-aware Item Recommendation

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      The Monopolistic Auction and Bitcoin's Fee Market

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Aggregating E-commerce Search Results from Heterogeneous Sources via Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Place Deduplication with Embeddings

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Signed Distance-based Deep Memory Recommender

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Semi-Supervised Graph Classification: A Hierarchical Graph Perspective

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Multimodal Review Generation for Recommender Systems

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Neural IR Meets Graph Embedding: A Ranking Model for Product Search

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Dealing with Interdependencies and Uncertainty in Multi-Channel Advertising Campaigns Optimization

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Learning Resolution Parameters for Graph Clustering

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Exploiting Ratings, Reviews and Relationships for Item Recommendations in Topic Based Social Networks

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Spectrum-enhanced Pairwise Learning to Rank

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Evaluating Login Challenges as a Defense Against Account Takeover

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Nonlinear diffusions for community detection and semi-supervised learning

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Multilevel Network Alignment

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Hack for Hire: Exploring the Emerging Market for Account Hijacking

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Persona-Aware Tips Generation

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Local Matching Networks for Engineering Diagram Search

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Improved Cross-Lingual Question Retrieval for Community Question Answering

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Stereotypical Bias Removal for Hate Speech Detection Task using Knowledge-based Generalizations

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Heterographic Pun Recognition via Pronunciation and Spelling Understanding Gated Attention Network

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      What We Vote for? Answer Selection from User Expertise View in Community Question Answering

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Predicting pregnancy using large-scale data from a women’s health tracking mobile application

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Measurement and Early Detection of Third-Party Application Abuse on Twitter

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Joint Entity Linking with Deep Reinforcement Learning

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Before and After GDPR: The Changes in Third Party Presence at Public and Private European Websites

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      RED: Redundancy-Driven Data Extraction from Result Pages

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Message Distortion in Information Cascades

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      User-Centric Quality-Sensitive Training! Social Advertisement Generation by Leveraging User Click Behavior

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Cross-domain Recommendation Without Sharing User-relevant Data

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Automatic Boolean Query Refinement for Systematic Review Literature Search

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      SGranite: Distributed Tensor Decomposition for Large Scale Health Analytics

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Revisiting Mobile Advertising Threats with MAdLife

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Doppelgängers on the Dark Web: A Large-scale Assessment on Phishing Hidden Web Services

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      A Hybrid BitFunnel and Partitioned Elias-Fano Inverted Index

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Leveraging Peer Communication to Enhance Crowdsourcing

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Detecting Low Self-Esteem in youths from Web Search Data

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Domain-aware Neural Model for Sequence Labeling using Joint Learning

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      RatingWorker Skills and Task Strains in Collaborative Crowd Computing: A Competitive Perspective

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Understanding Reader Backtracking Behavior in Online News Articles

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      End-to-end Entity Matching using Pre-trained Deep Models

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Mobile App Risk Ranking via Exclusive Sparse Coding

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      BaG: Behavior-aware Group Detection in Crowded Urban Spaces using WiFi Probes

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Global Vectors for Node Representation

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      It's almost like they're trying to hide it: How User-Provided Image Descriptions Have Failed to Make Twitter Accessible

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Understanding the Evolution of Mobile App Ecosystems: A Longitudinal Measurement Study of Google Play

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Iteratively Learning Embeddings and Rules for Knowledge Graph Reasoning

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Jointly Leveraging Intent and Interaction Signals to Predict User Satisfaction with Slate Recommendations

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Improving Outfit Recommendation with Co-supervision of Fashion Generation

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Citation Needed: A Taxonomy and Algorithmic Assessment of Wikipedia's Verifiability

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      ActiveLink: Deep Active Learning for Link Prediction in Knowledge Graphs

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      TableNet: An approach for determining fine-grained relations for Wikipedia tables

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      SWAT: Seamless Web Authentication Technology

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Growing Attributed Networks through Local Processes

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Open World Learning for Product Classification

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Think Outside the Dataset: Finding Fraudulent Reviews using Cross-Dataset Analysis

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Crowd-Mapping Urban Objects from Street-Level Imagery

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Auditing the Partisanship of Google Search Snippets

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Be Concise and Precise: Synthesizing Open-domain Entity Descriptions from Facts

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Event Detection and Extraction using Hierarchical Multi-Aspect Attention

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Auditing Offline Data Brokers via Facebook’s Advertising Platform

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Forecasting U.S. Domestic Migration Using Internet Search Queries

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Detection and Analysis of Self-Disclosure in Online News Commentaries

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Externalities and Fairness

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Constructing Test Collections using Multi-armed Bandits and Active Learning

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Diversity and Exploration in Social Learning

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Gaps in Information Access in Social Networks

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Measuring Political Personalization of Google News Search

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      (Mis)Information Dissemination in WhatsApp: Gathering, Analyzing and Countermeasures

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      The few-get-richer: a surprising consequence of popularity-based rankings

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Knowledge-aware Assessment of Severity of Suicide Risk for Early Intervention

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      A Scalable Hybrid Research Paper Recommender Platform for Microsoft Academic

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Speed and Scale of Cryptocurrency Discussion Growth on Reddit

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Personalized Online Spell Correction for Personal Search

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Embarrassingly Shallow Autoencoders for Sparse Data

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Topic Structure-Aware Neural Language Models

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Parametric Models for Intransitivity in Pairwise Rankings

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      What happened? The Spread of Fake News Publisher Content During the 2016 Election

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      The Illusion of Change: Correcting for Bias when Inferring Changes in Sparse, Societal-Scale Data

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Maximizing Marginal Utility per Dollar for Economic Recommendation

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      City-Wide Signal Strength Maps: Prediction with Random Forests

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      The World Wants Mangoes and Kangaroos: A Study of New Emoji Requests Based on Thirty Million Tweets

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Extracting Product Defects and Solutions from Online Reviews

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      CnGAN: Generative Adversarial Networks for Cross-network user preference generation for non-overlapped users

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      BoFGAN: Towards A New Structure of Backward-or-Forward Generative Adversarial Nets

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Adaptive MAtrix Completion for the users and the items in tail

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Enhancing Fashion Recommendation with Visual Compatibility Relationship

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Detect Rumors on Twitter by Promoting Information Campaigns with Generative Adversarial Learning

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Neural Chinese Named Entity Recognition via CNN-LSTM-CRF and Joint Training with Word Segmentation

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track Posters
      Hierarchical Temporal Convolutional Networks for Dynamic Recommender Systems

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Geert-Jan Houben (TU Delft), Kristina Lerman (Information Sciences Institute)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      PhD Symposium
      Interactive Visualisation Techniques for the Web of Data

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Geert-Jan Houben (TU Delft), Kristina Lerman (Information Sciences Institute)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      PhD Symposium
      Cores and Other Dense Structures in Complex Networks

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Geert-Jan Houben (TU Delft), Kristina Lerman (Information Sciences Institute)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      PhD Symposium
      Data-Driven Edu Chatbots

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Geert-Jan Houben (TU Delft), Kristina Lerman (Information Sciences Institute)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      PhD Symposium
      Velocity on the Web

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Geert-Jan Houben (TU Delft), Kristina Lerman (Information Sciences Institute)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      PhD Symposium
      Finding Themselves between Home and Host Cultures: The Use of Facebook by International Students

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Geert-Jan Houben (TU Delft), Kristina Lerman (Information Sciences Institute)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      PhD Symposium
      Dynamics of Misinformation Cascades

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Geert-Jan Houben (TU Delft), Kristina Lerman (Information Sciences Institute)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      PhD Symposium
      Representation Learning for Recommender Systems with Application to the Scientific Literature

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Geert-Jan Houben (TU Delft), Kristina Lerman (Information Sciences Institute)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      PhD Symposium
      Robust Detection of Cyberbullying in Social Media

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Geert-Jan Houben (TU Delft), Kristina Lerman (Information Sciences Institute)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      PhD Symposium
      Extracting actionable information from Security Forums

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Geert-Jan Houben (TU Delft), Kristina Lerman (Information Sciences Institute)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      PhD Symposium
      ClickGraph: Web Page Embedding using Clickstream Data for Multitask Learning

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Geert-Jan Houben (TU Delft), Kristina Lerman (Information Sciences Institute)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      PhD Symposium
      Towards Better Entity Linking Evaluation

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Geert-Jan Houben (TU Delft), Kristina Lerman (Information Sciences Institute)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      PhD Symposium
      Identification of the Source(s) of Misinformation Propagation Utilizing Identifying Codes

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Geert-Jan Houben (TU Delft), Kristina Lerman (Information Sciences Institute)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      PhD Symposium
      Incorporation of System-Level Objectives into Recommender Systems

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Geert-Jan Houben (TU Delft), Kristina Lerman (Information Sciences Institute)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      A Multimodal Text Matching Model for Obfuscated Language Identification in Adversarial Communication

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Modeling Relational Drug-Target-Disease Interactions via Tensor Factorization with Multiple Web Sources

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Estimating the Total Volume of Queries to Google

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Fuzzy Multi-task Learning for Hate Speech Type Identification

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Neural Multimodal Belief Tracker with Adaptive Attention for Dialogue Systems

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      FARE: Diagnostics for Fair Ranking using Pairwise Error Metrics

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Unbiased LambdaMART: An Unbiased Pairwise Learning-to-Rank Algorithm

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      BOLT-K: Bootstrapping Ontology Learning via Transfer of Knowledge

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Learn2Clean: Optimizing the Sequence of Tasks for Web Data Preparation

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Is Yelp Actually Cleaning Up the Restaurant Industry? A Re-Analysis on the Relative Usefulness of Consumer Reviews

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      XFake: Explainable Fake News Detector with Visualizations

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      R2SIGTP: A Novel Real-Time Recommendation System with Integration of Geography and Temporal Preference for Next Point-of-Interest

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      CrowdPT: Summarizing Crowd Opinions as Professional Analyst

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      QAnswer: A Question Answering prototype bridging the gap between the LOD and end-users

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      Can You Give Me a Reason?: Argument-inducing Online Forum by Argument Mining

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      TIM: A Tool for Gaining Insights into Psychotherapy

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      Dixit: Interactive Visual Storytelling via Term Manipulation

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      Querying Data Lakes using Spark and Presto

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      GraviTIE: Exploratory Analysis of Large-Scale Heterogeneous Image Collections

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      RecBoard: A Web-based Platform for Recommendation System Research and Development

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

  • 14:50

    14:50 - 15:10

    Special track: Web of Health | Digital Phenotyping

    Location: Garden A+B

    Presenter: Tom Insel (Mindstrong Health)

    Chairs: Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google), Nigam Shah (Stanford University)

  • 15:10

    15:10 - 15:30

    Special track: Web of Health | When small signals make big impact

    Location: Garden A+B

    Presenter: Brian Loew (Inspire)

    Chairs: Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google), Nigam Shah (Stanford University)

  • 15:30

    15:30 - 16:00

    Break

    Location: Pacific Concourse

  • 16:00

    16:00 - 16:20

    Special track: Web of Health | Making Healthcare Affordable & Accessible using AI and the Web

    Location: Garden A+B

    Presenter: Saurabh Johri (Babylon Health)

    Chairs: Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google), Nigam Shah (Stanford University)

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    • 16:00 - 16:24

      Knowledge Analysis and Querying
      Navigating the Maze of Wikidata Query Logs

      Location: Bayview A+B

      Chairs: Simon Razniewski (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany)

    • 16:00 - 16:24

      Communities, Complaints, and Collective Action
      Who Watches the Watchmen: Exploring Complaints on the Web

      Location: Grand Ballroom C

      Chairs: Robert West (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)

    • 16:00 - 16:24

      Network Applications
      Dual Graph Attention Networks for Deep Latent Representation of Multifaceted Social Effects in Recommender System

      Location: Grand Ballroom B

      Chairs: Nadia Fawaz (LinkedIn, US)

    • 16:00 - 16:24

      Privacy and Trust
      PrivIdEx: Privacy Preserving and Secure Exchange of Digital Identity Assets

      Location: Grand Ballroom A

      Chairs: Shirin Nilizadeh (University of Texas Arlington, US)

    • 16:00 - 16:24

      Efficiency and Scalability
      Efficient On-Device Public-Private Computation

      Location: Seacliff A+B+C

      Chairs: Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

  • 16:20

    16:20 - 16:40

    Special track: Web of Health | Towards online universal quality healthcare through AI

    Location: Garden A+B

    Presenter: Xavier Amatriain (Curai)

    Chairs: Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google), Nigam Shah (Stanford University)

  • 16:24

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    • 16:24 - 16:48

      Knowledge Analysis and Querying
      SaGe: Web Preemption for Public SPARQL Query Services

      Location: Bayview A+B

      Chairs: Simon Razniewski (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany)

    • 16:24 - 16:48

      Communities, Complaints, and Collective Action
      Trajectories of Blocked Community Members: Redemption, Recidivism and Departure

      Location: Grand Ballroom C

      Chairs: Robert West (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)

    • 16:24 - 16:48

      Network Applications
      Anomaly Detection in the Dynamics of Web and Social Networks Using Associative Memory

      Location: Grand Ballroom B

      Chairs: Nadia Fawaz (LinkedIn, US)

    • 16:24 - 16:48

      Privacy and Trust
      OUTGUARD: Detecting In-Browser Covert Cryptocurrency Mining in the Wild

      Location: Grand Ballroom A

      Chairs: Shirin Nilizadeh (University of Texas Arlington, US)

    • 16:24 - 16:48

      Efficiency and Scalability
      RealGraph: A Graph Engine Leveraging the Power-Law Distribution of Real-World Graphs

      Location: Seacliff A+B+C

      Chairs: Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

  • 16:45

    16:45 - 17:30

    Special track: Web of Health | Rebuilding healthcare delivery for California

    Location: Garden A+B

    Presenter: Paul Markovich (Blue Shield of California)

    Chairs: Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google), Nigam Shah (Stanford University)

  • 16:48

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    • 16:48 - 17:12

      Knowledge Analysis and Querying
      How Representative is a SPARQL Benchmark? An Analysis of RDF Triplestore Benchmarks

      Location: Bayview A+B

      Chairs: Simon Razniewski (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany)

    • 16:48 - 17:12

      Communities, Complaints, and Collective Action
      “Data Strikes”: Evaluating the Effectiveness of New Forms of Collective Action Against Technology Platforms

      Location: Grand Ballroom C

      Chairs: Robert West (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)

    • 16:48 - 17:12

      Network Applications
      Spiders like Onions: On the Network of Tor Hidden Services

      Location: Grand Ballroom B

      Chairs: Nadia Fawaz (LinkedIn, US)

    • 16:48 - 17:12

      Privacy and Trust
      Evaluating Anti-Fingerprinting Privacy Enhancing Technologies

      Location: Grand Ballroom A

      Chairs: Shirin Nilizadeh (University of Texas Arlington, US)

    • 16:48 - 17:12

      Efficiency and Scalability
      Predictive Crawling for Commercial Web Content

      Location: Seacliff A+B+C

      Chairs: Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

  • 17:12

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    • 17:12 - 17:36

      Knowledge Analysis and Querying
      Google Dataset Search: Building a Search Engine for Datasets in an Open Web Ecosystem

      Location: Bayview A+B

      Chairs: Simon Razniewski (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany)

    • 17:12 - 17:36

      Communities, Complaints, and Collective Action
      A Dynamic Embedding Model of the Media Landscape

      Location: Grand Ballroom C

      Chairs: Robert West (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)

    • 17:12 - 17:36

      Network Applications
      Large-Scale Talent Flow Forecast with Dynamic Latent Factor Model

      Location: Grand Ballroom B

      Chairs: Nadia Fawaz (LinkedIn, US)

    • 17:12 - 17:36

      Privacy and Trust
      Anything to Hide? Studying Minified and Obfuscated Code in the Web

      Location: Grand Ballroom A

      Chairs: Shirin Nilizadeh (University of Texas Arlington, US)

    • 17:12 - 17:36

      Efficiency and Scalability
      Towards Self-Adaptive Metric Learning On the Fly

      Location: Seacliff A+B+C

      Chairs: Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

  • 17:30

    17:30 - 18:30

    Special track: Web of Health | Reception

    Location: Location will be announced at the event

    Chairs: Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google), Nigam Shah (Stanford University)

  • 19:00

    19:00 - 22:00

    Social event: Conference dinner

    Location: Exploratorium

 

Thursday

  • 7:30

    7:30 - 17:00

    Registration

    Location: Grand Ballroom Foyer

  • 9:00

    9:00 - 10:00

    Keynote | Enlisting the public to build a healthier web information commons

    Location: Grand Ballroom A+B+C

    Presenter: Claire Wardle

  • 10:00

    10:00 - 10:30

    Break

    Location: Pacific Concourse

  • 10:30

    10:30 - 10:45

    Special track: The Future of the Open Web | Opening remarks

    Location: Garden A+B

    Presenters: Bob West (EPFL), Stephen LaPorte (Wikimedia Foundation)

    Chairs: Bob West (EPFL), Stephen LaPorte (Wikimedia Foundation)

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    • 10:30 - 10:54

      Search
      Adversarial Sampling and Training for Semi-Supervised Information Retrieval

      Location: Grand Ballroom C

      Chairs: Hang Li (Bytedance, Hong Kong)

    • 10:30 - 10:54

      Networks, Opinions, and Perceptions
      RAQ: Relationship-Aware Graph Querying in Large Networks

      Location: Bayview A+B

      Chairs: Aristides Gionis (Aalto University, Finland)

    • 10:30 - 10:54

      Personalization
      Exploring Perceived Emotional Intelligence of Personality-Driven Virtual Agents in Handling User Challenges

      Location: Grand Ballroom A

      Chairs: Mounia Lalmas (Spotify, UK)

    • 10:30 - 10:54

      Crowdsourcing and Human Computation
      Truth Inference at Scale: A Bayesian Model for Adjudicating Highly Redundant Crowd Annotations

      Location: Seacliff A+B+C

      Chairs: Omar Alonso (Microsoft, US)

    • 10:30 - 10:54

      Text Classification and Relation Extraction
      A Family of Fuzzy Orthogonal Projection Models for Monolingual and Cross-lingual Hypernymy Prediction

      Location: Grand Ballroom B

      Chairs: Eugene Agichtein (Emory University, US)

  • 10:45

    10:45 - 11:15

    Special track: The Future of the Open Web | Policing online speech

    Location: Garden A+B

    Presenters: David Kaye (Clinical Professor of Law, UC Irvine School of Law; Director of International Justice Clinic; UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights to Freedom of Opinion and Expression)

    Chairs: Bob West (EPFL), Stephen LaPorte (Wikimedia Foundation)

  • 10:54

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    • 10:54 - 11:18

      Search
      Exploring User Behavior in Email Re-Finding Tasks

      Location: Grand Ballroom C

      Chairs: Hang Li (Bytedance, Hong Kong)

    • 10:54 - 11:18

      Networks, Opinions, and Perceptions
      Revisiting User Mobility and Social Relationships in LBSNs: A Hypergraph Embedding Approach

      Location: Bayview A+B

      Chairs: Aristides Gionis (Aalto University, Finland)

    • 10:54 - 11:18

      Personalization
      Listening Between the Lines: Learning Personal Attributes from Conversations

      Location: Grand Ballroom A

      Chairs: Mounia Lalmas (Spotify, UK)

    • 10:54 - 11:18

      Crowdsourcing and Human Computation
      Privacy-Preserving Crowd-Sourcing of Web Searches with Private Data Donor

      Location: Seacliff A+B+C

      Chairs: Omar Alonso (Microsoft, US)

    • 10:54 - 11:18

      Text Classification and Relation Extraction
      Classifying Extremely Short Texts by Exploiting Semantic Centroids in Word Mover’s Distance Space

      Location: Grand Ballroom B

      Chairs: Eugene Agichtein (Emory University, US)

  • 11:15

    11:15 - 11:45

    Special track: The Future of the Open Web | Locking the Web Open—a Call for a New, Decentralized Web

    Location: Garden A+B

    Presenter: Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive)

    Chairs: Bob West (EPFL), Stephen LaPorte (Wikimedia Foundation)

  • 11:18

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    • 11:18 - 11:42

      Search
      Grid-based Evaluation Metrics for Web Image Search

      Location: Grand Ballroom C

      Chairs: Hang Li (Bytedance, Hong Kong)

    • 11:18 - 11:42

      Networks, Opinions, and Perceptions
      Revisiting Opinion Dynamics with Varying Susceptibility to Persuasion via Non-Convex Local Search

      Location: Bayview A+B

      Chairs: Aristides Gionis (Aalto University, Finland)

    • 11:18 - 11:42

      Personalization
      Dual Neural Personalized Ranking

      Location: Grand Ballroom A

      Chairs: Mounia Lalmas (Spotify, UK)

    • 11:18 - 11:42

      Crowdsourcing and Human Computation
      Predicting ConceptNet Path Quality Using Crowdsourced Assessments of Naturalness

      Location: Seacliff A+B+C

      Chairs: Omar Alonso (Microsoft, US)

    • 11:18 - 11:42

      Text Classification and Relation Extraction
      From Small-scale to Large-scale Text Classification

      Location: Grand Ballroom B

      Chairs: Eugene Agichtein (Emory University, US)

  • 11:42

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    • 11:42 - 12:06

      Search
      CoaCor: Code Annotation for Code Retrieval with Reinforcement Learning

      Location: Grand Ballroom C

      Chairs: Hang Li (Bytedance, Hong Kong)

    • 11:42 - 12:06

      Networks, Opinions, and Perceptions
      Judging a Book by Its Cover: The Effect of Facial Perception on Centrality in Social Networks

      Location: Bayview A+B

      Chairs: Aristides Gionis (Aalto University, Finland)

    • 11:42 - 12:06

      Personalization
      Dynamic Ensemble of Contextual Bandits to Satisfy Users' Changing Interests

      Location: Grand Ballroom A

      Chairs: Mounia Lalmas (Spotify, UK)

    • 11:42 - 12:06

      Crowdsourcing and Human Computation
      Generating Product Descriptions from User Reviews

      Location: Seacliff A+B+C

      Chairs: Omar Alonso (Microsoft, US)

    • 11:42 - 12:06

      Text Classification and Relation Extraction
      Emoji-Powered Representation Learning for Cross-Lingual Sentiment Classification

      Location: Grand Ballroom B

      Chairs: Eugene Agichtein (Emory University, US)

  • 11:45

    11:45 - 11:50

    Special track: The Future of the Open Web | Showcase: Infomesh Web Platform

    Location: Garden A+B

    Presenters: Laura Perrenoud (ECAL University of Art and Design Lausanne), Alfatih Al Zouabi (ECAL University of Art and Design Lausanne), Eryk Salvaggio (swissnex)

    Chairs: Bob West (EPFL), Stephen LaPorte (Wikimedia Foundation)

  • 11:50

    11:50 - 12:20

    Special track: The Future of the Open Web | Open Science and the Open Web

    Location: Garden A+B

    Presenter: Dr. Tim Smith (CERN)

    Chairs: Bob West (EPFL), Stephen LaPorte (Wikimedia Foundation)

  • 12:06

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    • 12:06 - 12:30

      Search
      Addressing Trust Bias for Unbiased Learning-to-Rank

      Location: Grand Ballroom C

      Chairs: Hang Li (Bytedance, Hong Kong)

    • 12:06 - 12:30

      Networks, Opinions, and Perceptions
      A Semi-Supervised Active-learning Truth Estimator for Social Networks

      Location: Bayview A+B

      Chairs: Aristides Gionis (Aalto University, Finland)

    • 12:06 - 12:30

      Personalization
      Quality Effects on User Preferences and Behaviors in Mobile News Streaming

      Location: Grand Ballroom A

      Chairs: Mounia Lalmas (Spotify, UK)

    • 12:06 - 12:30

      Crowdsourcing and Human Computation
      A Human-in-the-loop Attribute Design Framework for Classification

      Location: Seacliff A+B+C

      Chairs: Omar Alonso (Microsoft, US)

    • 12:06 - 12:30

      Text Classification and Relation Extraction
      Learning Dual Retrieval Module for Semi-supervised Relation Extraction

      Location: Grand Ballroom B

      Chairs: Eugene Agichtein (Emory University, US)

  • 12:20

    12:20 - 14:00

    Lunch

    Location: Embarcadero Plaza

  • 14:00
    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Autonomous Learning for Face Recognition in the Wild via Ambient Wireless Cues

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Learning Graph Pooling and Hybrid Convolutional Operations for Text Representations

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Classifying Extremely Short Texts by Exploiting Semantic Centroids in Word Mover’s Distance Space

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Exploring Perceived Emotional Intelligence of Personality-Driven Virtual Agents in Handling User Challenges

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Improving Neural Response Diversity with Frequency-Aware Cross-Entropy Loss

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Adversarial Sampling and Training for Semi-Supervised Information Retrieval

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      The Silent Majority Speaks: Inferring Silent Users’ Opinions in Online Social Networks

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      DPLink: User Identity Linkage via Deep Neural Network From Heterogeneous Mobility Data

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Tortoise or Hare? Quantifying the Effects of Performance on Mobile App Retention

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Learning Binary Hash Codes for Fast Anchor Link Retrieval across Networks

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      RealGraph: A Graph Engine Leveraging the Power-Law Distribution of Real-World Graphs

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      A Novel Unsupervised Approach for Precise Temporal Slot Filling from Incomplete and Noisy Temporal Contexts

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      MCVAE: Margin-based Conditional Variational Autoencoder for Relation Classification and Pattern Generation

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Neural Chinese Word Segmentation with Lexicon and Unlabeled Data via Posterior Regularization

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Who Watches the Watchmen: Exploring Complaints on the Web

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      A Family of Fuzzy Orthogonal Projection Models for Monolingual and Cross-lingual Hypernymy Prediction

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Dual Graph Attention Networks for Deep Latent Representation of Multifaceted Social Effects in Recommender System

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      RAQ: Relationship-Aware Graph Querying in Large Networks

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Exploring User Behavior in Email Re-Finding Tasks

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Understanding Urban Dynamics via State-sharing Hidden Markov Model

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Unnecessarily Identifiable: Quantifying the fingerprintability of browser extensions due to bloat

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Truth inference at scale: A Bayesian model for adjudicating highly redundant crowd annotations

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Navigating the Maze of Wikidata Query Logs

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Privacy-Preserving Crowd-Sourcing of Web Searches with Private Data Donor

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Improving Medical Code Prediction from Clinical Text via Incorporating Online Knowledge Sources

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Predicting ConceptNet Path Quality Using Crowdsourced Assessments of Naturalness

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Maximizing Current Flow Closeness under Cardinality Constraints

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      DLocRL: A Deep Learning Pipeline for Fine-Grained Location Recognition and Linking in Tweets

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Semi-supervised Multi-view Individual and Sharable Feature Learning for Webpage Classification

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Feature Generation by Convolutional Neural Network for Click-Through Rate Prediction

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Listening between the Lines: Learning Personal Attributes from Conversations

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Cross-Network Embedding for Multi-Network Alignment

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Towards Self-Adaptive Metric Learning On the Fly

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      No More than What I Post: Preventing Linkage Attacks on Check-in Services

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Graphy: A High Performance CPU-GPU Hybrid System for Node Embedding

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Revisiting Opinion Dynamics with Varying Susceptibility to Persuasion via Non-Convex Local Search

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Grid-based Evaluation Metrics for Web Image Search

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      TiFi: Taxonomy Induction for Fictional Domains

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Efficient (α,β)-Core Computation: an Index-based Approach

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Large-Scale Talent Flow Forecast with Dynamic Latent Factor Model

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      A Dynamic Embedding Model of the Media Landscape

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Judging a Book by Its Cover: The Effect of Facial Perception on Centrality in Social Networks

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      LAVA: Longitudinal Adversarial Attack on Electronic Health Records Data

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Generating Product Descriptions from User Reviews

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Securing the Deep Fraud Detector in Large-Scale E-Commerce Platform via Adversarial Machine Learning Approach

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Revisiting Wedge Sampling for Triangle Counting

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      A Large-scale Study on the Risks of the HTML5 WebAPI for Mobile Sensor-based Attacks

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      How Intention Informed Recommendations Modulate Choices: A Field Study of Spoken Word Content

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Anomaly detection in the dynamics of web and social networks using associative memory

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      A Human-in-the-loop Attribute Design Framework for Classification

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      MVAE: Multimodal Variational Autoencoder for Fake News Detection

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      How Representative is a SPARQL Benchmark? An Analysis of RDF Triplestore Benchmarks

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Fairness in Algorithmic Decision Making: An Excursion Through the Lens of Causality

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Learning clusters through information diffusion

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Neural Variational Correlated Topic Modeling

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      From Small-scale to Large-scale Text Classification

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Personalized Bundle List Recommendation

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Learning Dual Retrieval Module for Semi-supervised Relation Extraction

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      PrivIdEx: Privacy Preserving and Secure Exchange of Digital Identity Assets

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Efficient Neural Ranking with LSH-based Word Embeddings

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Globally-Optimized Realtime Supply-Demand Matching in On-Demand Ridesharing

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Recommender Systems with Heterogeneous Side Information

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Review Response Generation in E-Commerce Platforms with External Product Information

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Signals Matter: Understanding Popularity and Impact of Users on Stack Overflow

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Learning How to Correct a Knowledge Base from the Edit History

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Dual Neural Personalized Ranking

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Triple Trustworthiness Measurement for Knowledge Graph

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Enriching News Articles with Related Search Queries

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Deriving User- and Content-specific Rewards for Contextual Bandits

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Modeling Item-Specific Temporal Dynamics of Repeat Consumption for Recommender Systems

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      SpeedReader: Reader Mode Made Fast and Private

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Emoji-Powered Representation Learning for Cross-Lingual Sentiment Classification

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Hierarchical Neural Variational Model for Personalized Sequential Recommendation

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Jointly Learning Explainable Rules for Recommendation with Knowledge Graph

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Context-aware Variational Trajectory Encoding and Human Mobility Inference

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Adversarial Point-of-Interest Recommendation

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Predicting Human Mobility via Variational Attention

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Policy Gradients for Contextual Recommendations

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Abstractive Meeting Summarization via Hierarchical Adaptive Segmental Network Learning

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      CoaCor: Code Annotation for Code Retrieval with Reinforcement Learning

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Firsthand opiates abuse on social media: monitoring geospatial patterns of interest through a digital cohort

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Revisiting User Mobility and Social Relationships in LBSNs: A Hypergraph Embedding Approach

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Trajectories of Blocked Community Members: Redemption, Recidivism and Departure

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Moving Deep Learning into Web Browser: How Far Can We Go?

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      The Music Streaming Sessions Dataset

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Bi-LSTM-CRF Sequence Labeling for Keyphrase Extraction from Scholarly Documents

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      An Investigation of Cyber Autonomy on Government Websites

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Learning Intent to Book Metrics for Airbnb Search

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      SaGe: Web Preemption for Public SPARQL Query Services

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      On the Impact of Choice Architectures on Inequality in Online Donation Platforms

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      OUTGUARD: Detecting In-Browser Covert Cryptocurrency Mining in the Wild

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Entity Personalized Talent Search Models with Tree Interaction Features

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Event-Driven Analysis of Crowd Dynamics in the Black Lives Matter Online Social Movement

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Online Learning for Measuring Incentive Compatibility in Ad Auctions

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Modeling the Factors of User Success in Online Debate

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Efficient On-Device Public-Private Computation

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Improving Top-k Recommendation via Joint Collaborative Autoencoders

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Adversarial Adaptation of Scene Graph Models for Understanding Civic Issues

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Demographic Inference and Representative Population Estimates from Multilingual Social Media Data

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Google Dataset Search: Building a Search Engine for Datasets in an Open Web Ecosystem

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      To Return or to Explore: Modelling Human Mobility and Dynamics in Cyberspace

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Spiders like Onions: on the Network of Tor Hidden Services

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Selling a Single Item with Negative Externalities

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Predictive Crawling for Commercial Web Content

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Addressing Trust Bias for Unbiased Learning-to-Rank

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Understanding the Effects of the Neighbourhood Built Environment on Public Health with Open Data

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Evaluating Anti-Fingerprinting Privacy Enhancing Technologies

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Learning Task-Specific City Region Partitions

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      A Semi-Supervised Active-learning Truth Estimator for Social Networks

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Dynamic Ensemble of Contextual Bandits to Satisfy Users' Changing Interests

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Exploiting Diversity in Android TLS Implementations for Mobile App Traffic Classification

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Blockchain Mining Games with Pay-Forward

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      “Data Strikes”: Evaluating the Effectiveness of New Forms of Collective Action Against Technology Platforms

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      With a little help from my friends (and their friends): Influence neighborhoods for social recommendations

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Inferring Search Queries from Web Documents via a Graph-Augmented Sequence to Attention Network

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Quality Effects on User Preferences and Behaviors in Mobile News Streaming

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Anything to Hide? Studying Minified and Obfuscated Code in the Web

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Rating Augmentation with Generative Adversarial Networks towards Accurate Collaborative Filtering

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    14:00 - 14:30

    Special track: The Future of the Open Web | The hidden costs of software

    Location: Garden A+B

    Presenter: Nadia Eghbal (Protocol Labs)

    Chairs: Bob West (EPFL), Stephen LaPorte (Wikimedia Foundation)

    14:00 - 15:30

    Posters and Demos

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      InfraNodus — Generating Insight Using Text Network Analysis

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      Voyageur: An Experiential Travel Search Engine

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      SGX-PySpark: Secure Distributed Data Analytics

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      Exam Keeper: Detecting Questions with Easy-to-Find Answers

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      ExQuisiTe: Explaining Quantities in Text

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      Automated Fact-Checking in the News Room

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      Bridging Screen Readers and Voice Assistants for Enhanced Eyes-Free Web Search

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      SmartDBO: Smart Docker Benchmarking Orchestrator for Web-application

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      A hybrid Model for Target-dependent Tweet Sentiment Prediction

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

  • 14:30

    14:30 - 15:00

    Special track: The Future of the Open Web

    Location: Garden A+B

    Presenters: Adam Knight (Oxford, TongDigita)

    Chairs: Bob West (EPFL), Stephen LaPorte (Wikimedia Foundation)

  • 15:00

    15:00 - 15:05

    Special track: The Future of the Open Web | Showcase: Infomesh Web Platform

    Location: Garden A+B

    Presenters: Laura Perrenoud (ECAL University of Art and Design Lausanne), Alfatih Al Zouabi (ECAL University of Art and Design Lausanne), Eryk Salvaggio (swissnex)

    Chairs: Bob West (EPFL), Stephen LaPorte (Wikimedia Foundation)

  • 15:05

    15:05 - 15:30

    Special track: The Future of the Open Web | Europe and the Open Internet

    Location: Garden A+B

    Presenter: MEP Marietje Schaake (Member of European Parliament)

    Chairs: Bob West (EPFL), Stephen LaPorte (Wikimedia Foundation)

  • 15:30

    15:30 - 16:00

    Break

    Location: Pacific Concourse

  • 16:00

    16:00 - 16:45

    Special track: The Future of the Open Web | Panel: The Future of the Open Web: challenges and opportunities

    Location: Garden A+B

    Presenter: Jan Gerlach (Wikimedia Foundation);Alexa Koenig (UC Berkeley); Renée diResta (Mozilla Fellow); Jennie Bernstein (UNICEF); Abby Vollmer (GitHub)

    Chairs: Bob West (EPFL), Stephen LaPorte (Wikimedia Foundation)

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    • 16:00 - 16:24

      Systems and Infrastructure
      Using Variability as a Guiding Principle to Reduce Latency in Web Applications via OS Profiling

      Location: Grand Ballroom A

      Chairs: Arun Iyengar (IBM Research, US)

    • 16:00 - 16:24

      Network Analysis
      CommunityGAN: Community Detection with Generative Adversarial Nets

      Location: Bayview A+B

      Chairs: Qiaozhu Mei (University of Michigan, US)

    • 16:00 - 16:24

      Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
      CBHE: Corner-based Building Height Estimation for Complex Street Scene Images

      Location: Grand Ballroom C

      Chairs: Hari Sundaram (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US)

    • 16:00 - 16:24

      Health on the Web
      Goal-setting and Achievement in Activity Tracking Apps: A Case Study of MyFitnessPal

      Location: Seacliff A+B+C

      Chairs: Emre Kiciman (Microsoft Research, US)

    • 16:00 - 16:24

      Sarcasm, Sentiment, and Language
      Sarcasm Detection with Self-matching Networks and Low-rank Bilinear Pooling

      Location: Grand Ballroom B

      Chairs: Liane Lewin-Eytan (Amazon, Israel)

  • 16:24

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    • 16:24 - 16:48

      Systems and Infrastructure
      Snapshot-based Loading Acceleration of Web Apps with Nondeterministic JavaScript Execution

      Location: Grand Ballroom A

      Chairs: Arun Iyengar (IBM Research, US)

    • 16:24 - 16:48

      Network Analysis
      Community Detection Through Likelihood Optimization: In Search of a Sound Model

      Location: Bayview A+B

      Chairs: Qiaozhu Mei (University of Michigan, US)

    • 16:24 - 16:48

      Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
      STFNets: Learning Sensing Signals from the Time-Frequency Perspective with Short-Time Fourier Neural Networks

      Location: Grand Ballroom C

      Chairs: Hari Sundaram (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US)

    • 16:24 - 16:48

      Health on the Web
      Transfer Learning for Unsupervised Influenza-like Illness Models from Online Search Data

      Location: Seacliff A+B+C

      Chairs: Emre Kiciman (Microsoft Research, US)

    • 16:24 - 16:48

      Sarcasm, Sentiment, and Language
      Aspect-level Sentiment Analysis Using AS-Capsules

      Location: Grand Ballroom B

      Chairs: Liane Lewin-Eytan (Amazon, Israel)

  • 16:48

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    • 16:48 - 17:12

      Systems and Infrastructure
      Nameles: An intelligent system for Real-Time Filtering of Invalid Ad Traffic

      Location: Grand Ballroom A

      Chairs: Arun Iyengar (IBM Research, US)

    • 16:48 - 17:12

      Network Analysis
      Heterogeneous Graph Attention Network

      Location: Bayview A+B

      Chairs: Qiaozhu Mei (University of Michigan, US)

    • 16:48 - 17:12

      Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
      A First Look at Deep Learning Apps on Smartphones

      Location: Grand Ballroom C

      Chairs: Hari Sundaram (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US)

    • 16:48 - 17:12

      Health on the Web
      Modeling Heart Rate and Activity Data for Personalized Fitness Recommendation

      Location: Seacliff A+B+C

      Chairs: Emre Kiciman (Microsoft Research, US)

    • 16:48 - 17:12

      Sarcasm, Sentiment, and Language
      Language in Our Time: An Empirical Analysis of Hashtags

      Location: Grand Ballroom B

      Chairs: Liane Lewin-Eytan (Amazon, Israel)

  • 17:12

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    • 17:12 - 17:36

      Systems and Infrastructure
      ShadowBlock: A Lightweight and Stealthy Adblocking Browser

      Location: Grand Ballroom A

      Chairs: Arun Iyengar (IBM Research, US)

    • 17:12 - 17:36

      Network Analysis
      Modeling Dynamic Networks of Timestamped Relational Events using Point Process Block Models

      Location: Bayview A+B

      Chairs: Qiaozhu Mei (University of Michigan, US)

    • 17:12 - 17:36

      Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
      Learning from Multiple Cities: A Meta-Learning Approach for Spatial-Temporal Prediction

      Location: Grand Ballroom C

      Chairs: Hari Sundaram (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US)

    • 17:12 - 17:36

      Health on the Web
      HAR: A Hierarchical Attention Retrieval Model for Healthcare Question Answering

      Location: Seacliff A+B+C

      Chairs: Emre Kiciman (Microsoft Research, US)

    • 17:12 - 17:36

      Sarcasm, Sentiment, and Language
      SciLens: Evaluating the Quality of Scientific News Articles Using Social Media and Scientific Literature Indicators

      Location: Grand Ballroom B

      Chairs: Liane Lewin-Eytan (Amazon, Israel)

  • 17:36

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    • 17:36 - 18:00

      Systems and Infrastructure
      Web Experience in Operational Mobile Networks: Lessons from Two Million Page Visits

      Location: Grand Ballroom A

      Chairs: Arun Iyengar (IBM Research, US)

    • 17:36 - 18:00

      Network Analysis
      Link Prediction in Networks with Core-Fringe Data

      Location: Bayview A+B

      Chairs: Qiaozhu Mei (University of Michigan, US)

    • 17:36 - 18:00

      Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
      Cookie Synchronization: Everything You Always Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask

      Location: Grand Ballroom C

      Chairs: Hari Sundaram (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US)

  • 18:00

    18:00 - 19:00

    Town hall meeting

    Location: Garden A+B

 

Friday

  • 7:30

    7:30 - 17:00

    Registration

    Location: Grand Ballroom Foyer

  • 10:00

    10:00 - 10:30

    Break

    Location: Pacific Concourse

  • 10:30

    10:30 - 10:35

    Special track: Designing an Ethical Web | Opening remarks

    Location: Garden A+B

    Chairs: Sharad Goel (Stanford University), Deirdre Mulligan (UC Berkeley School of Information)

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    • 10:30 - 10:54

      Graph Models
      Generative Graph Models based on Laplacian Spectra

      Location: Bayview A+B

      Chairs: Bruno Abrahao (New York University, US)

    • 10:30 - 10:54

      Economics, Monetization, and Online Markets
      Beyond Shortest Paths: Route Recommendations for Ride-sharing

      Location: Seacliff A+B+C

      Chairs: Mohammad Mahdian (Google, US)

    • 10:30 - 10:54

      Social Recommendation and Experimentation
      Improving Treatment Effect Estimators Through Experiment Splitting

      Location: Grand Ballroom A

      Chairs: Vladan Radosavljevic (Spotify, US)

    • 10:30 - 10:54

      Topic Modeling and Representation
      ContraVis: Contrastive and Visual Topic Modeling for Comparing Document Collections

      Location: Grand Ballroom B

      Chairs: Svitlana Volkova (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, US)

    • 10:30 - 10:54

      Event Forecasting and Ridesharing
      Joint Modeling of Dense and Incomplete Trajectories for Citywide Traffic Volume Inference

      Location: Grand Ballroom C

      Chairs: Athina Markopoulou (University of California Irvine, US)

  • 10:35

    10:35 - 11:05

    Special track: Designing an Ethical Web

    Location: Garden A+B

    Presenter: Timnit Gebru (Google)

    Chairs: Sharad Goel (Stanford University), Deirdre Mulligan (UC Berkeley School of Information)

  • 10:54

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    • 10:54 - 11:18

      Graph Models
      Learning Edge Properties in Graphs from Path Aggregations

      Location: Bayview A+B

      Chairs: Bruno Abrahao (New York University, US)

    • 10:54 - 11:18

      Economics, Monetization, and Online Markets
      Reputation Deflation Through Dynamic Expertise Assessment in Online Labor Markets

      Location: Seacliff A+B+C

      Chairs: Mohammad Mahdian (Google, US)

    • 10:54 - 11:18

      Social Recommendation and Experimentation
      How Serendipity Improves User Satisfaction with Recommendations? A Large-Scale User Evaluation

      Location: Grand Ballroom A

      Chairs: Vladan Radosavljevic (Spotify, US)

    • 10:54 - 11:18

      Topic Modeling and Representation
      RiSER: Learning Better Representations for Richly Structured Emails

      Location: Grand Ballroom B

      Chairs: Svitlana Volkova (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, US)

    • 10:54 - 11:18

      Event Forecasting and Ridesharing
      MiST: A Multiview and Multimodal Spatial-Temporal Learning Framework for Citywide Abnormal Event Forecasting

      Location: Grand Ballroom C

      Chairs: Athina Markopoulou (University of California Irvine, US)

  • 11:05

    11:05 - 11:35

    Special track: Designing an Ethical Web

    Location: Garden A+B

    Presenter: Jenna Burrell (UC Berkeley)

    Chairs: Sharad Goel (Stanford University), Deirdre Mulligan (UC Berkeley School of Information)

  • 11:18

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    • 11:18 - 11:42

      Graph Models
      Pruning based Distance Sketches with Provable Guarantees on Random Graphs

      Location: Bayview A+B

      Chairs: Bruno Abrahao (New York University, US)

    • 11:18 - 11:42

      Economics, Monetization, and Online Markets
      The Matthew Effect in Computation Contests: High Difficulty May Lead to 51% Dominance

      Location: Seacliff A+B+C

      Chairs: Mohammad Mahdian (Google, US)

    • 11:18 - 11:42

      Social Recommendation and Experimentation
      Graph Neural Networks for Social Recommendation

      Location: Grand Ballroom A

      Chairs: Vladan Radosavljevic (Spotify, US)

    • 11:18 - 11:42

      Topic Modeling and Representation
      On Attribution of Recurrent Neural Network Predictions via Additive Decomposition

      Location: Grand Ballroom B

      Chairs: Svitlana Volkova (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, US)

    • 11:18 - 11:42

      Event Forecasting and Ridesharing
      Urban Vibes and Rural Charms: Analysis of Geographic Diversity in Mobile Service Usage at National Scale

      Location: Grand Ballroom C

      Chairs: Athina Markopoulou (University of California Irvine, US)

  • 11:35

    11:35 - 12:30

    Special track: Designing an Ethical Web

    Location: Garden A+B

    Presenter: Deirdre Mulligan (UC Berkeley School of Information)

    Chairs: Sharad Goel (Stanford University), Deirdre Mulligan (UC Berkeley School of Information)

  • 11:42

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    • 11:42 - 12:06

      Graph Models
      Constrained Local Graph Clustering by Colored Random Walk

      Location: Bayview A+B

      Chairs: Bruno Abrahao (New York University, US)

    • 11:42 - 12:06

      Economics, Monetization, and Online Markets
      Bayesian Exploration with Heterogeneous Agents

      Location: Seacliff A+B+C

      Chairs: Mohammad Mahdian (Google, US)

    • 11:42 - 12:06

      Social Recommendation and Experimentation
      SamWalker: Social Recommendation with Informative Sampling Strategy

      Location: Grand Ballroom A

      Chairs: Vladan Radosavljevic (Spotify, US)

    • 11:42 - 12:06

      Topic Modeling and Representation
      Reconciliation k-median: Clustering with Non-Polarized Representatives

      Location: Grand Ballroom B

      Chairs: Svitlana Volkova (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, US)

    • 11:42 - 12:06

      Event Forecasting and Ridesharing
      Efficient Ridesharing Order Dispatching with Mean Field Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

      Location: Grand Ballroom C

      Chairs: Athina Markopoulou (University of California Irvine, US)

  • 12:06

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    • 12:06 - 12:30

      Graph Models
      Decoupled Smoothing on Graphs

      Location: Bayview A+B

      Chairs: Bruno Abrahao (New York University, US)

    • 12:06 - 12:30

      Economics, Monetization, and Online Markets
      Shapley Meets Uniform: An Axiomatic Framework for Attribution in Online Advertising

      Location: Seacliff A+B+C

      Chairs: Mohammad Mahdian (Google, US)

    • 12:06 - 12:30

      Social Recommendation and Experimentation
      Generalists and Specialists: Using Community Embeddings to Quantify Activity Diversity in Online Platforms

      Location: Grand Ballroom A

      Chairs: Vladan Radosavljevic (Spotify, US)

    • 12:06 - 12:30

      Topic Modeling and Representation
      From Stances’ Imbalance to their Hierarchical Representation and Detection

      Location: Grand Ballroom B

      Chairs: Svitlana Volkova (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, US)

    • 12:06 - 12:30

      Event Forecasting and Ridesharing
      Towards Efficient Sharing: A Usage Balancing Mechanism for Bike Sharing Systems

      Location: Grand Ballroom C

      Chairs: Athina Markopoulou (University of California Irvine, US)

  • 12:30

    12:30 - 14:00

    Lunch

    Location: Embarcadero Plaza

  • 14:00
    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Sensitivity Analysis of Centralities on Unweighted Networks

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Alleviating Users' Pain of Waiting: Effective Task Grouping for Online-to-Offline Food Delivery Services

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Large Scale Semantic Indexing with Deep Level-wise Extreme Multi-label Learning

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Outage Prediction and Diagnosis for Cloud Service Systems

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Sampled in Pairs and Driven by Text: A New Graph Embedding Framework

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      What Is in Your Password? Analyzing Memorable and Secure Passwords using a Tensor Decomposition

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      CBHE: Corner-based Building Height Estimation for Complex Street Scene Images

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Using Variability as a Guiding Principle to Reduce Latency in Web Applications via OS Profiling

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network for Sequential Recommendation

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Rock, Rap, or Reggaeton?: Assessing Mexican Immigrants’ Cultural Assimilation Using Facebook Data

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      ViTOR: Learning to Rank Webpages Based on Visual Features

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      BotCamp: Bot-driven Interactions in Social Campaigns

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Knowledge-Enhanced Ensemble Learning for Word Embeddings

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      STFNets: Learning Sensing Signals from the Time-Frequency Perspective with Short-Time Fourier Neural Networks

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      A Multi-modal Neural Embeddings Approach for Detecting Mobile Counterfeit Apps

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Community detection through likelihood optimization: in search of a sound model

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Context-Sensitive Malicious Spelling Error Correction

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Goal-setting And Achievement In Activity Tracking Apps: A Case Study Of MyFitnessPal

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Efficient Ridesharing Order Dispatching with Mean Field Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Towards Efficient Sharing: A Usage Balancing Mechanism for Bike Sharing Systems

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Studying Preferences and Concerns about Information Disclosure in Email Notifications

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Improving Treatment Effect Estimators Through Experiment Splitting

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Learning Novelty-Aware Ranking of Answers to Complex Questions

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Cyberbullying Ends Here: Towards Robust Detection of Cyberbullying in Social Media

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Beyond Shortest Paths: Route Recommendations for Ride-sharing

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Learning Fast Matching Models from Weak Annotations

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      A large-scale study of Wikipedia users' quality of experience

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      How Serendipity Improves User Satisfaction with Recommendations? A Large-Scale User Evaluation

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Reconciliation k-median: Clustering with non-polarized representatives

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Transfer learning for unsupervised influenza-like illness models from online search data

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Reputation Deflation Through Dynamic Expertise Assessment in Online Labor Markets

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Language in Our Time: An Empirical Analysis of Hashtags

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Rethinking the detection of child sexual abuse imagery on the Internet

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      HopRank: How Semantic Structure Influences Teleportation in PageRank

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Graph Neural Networks for Social Recommendation

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Collaborative Similarity Embedding for Recommender Systems

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Pcard: Personalized Restaurants Recommendation from Card Payment Transaction Records

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      TiSSA: A Time Slice Self-Attention Approach for Modeling Sequential User Behaviors

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Debiasing Vandalism Detection Models at Wikidata

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      User-Video Co-Attention Network for Personalized Micro-video Recommendation

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Semantic Hilbert Space for Text Representation Learning

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Focusing Attention Network for Answer Ranking

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      The Chain of Implicit Trust: An Analysis of the Web Third-party Resources Loading

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Product-Aware Helpfulness Prediction of Online Reviews

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      What Makes a Good Team? A Large-scale Study on the Effect of Team Composition in Online Gaming

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Your Style Your Identity: Leveraging Writing and Photography Styles for Drug Trafficker Identification in Darknet Markets over Attributed Heterogeneous Information Network

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Cookie Synchronization: Everything You Always Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Transfer Meets Hybrid: A Synthetic Approach for Cross-Domain Collaborative Filtering with Text

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      On Attribution of Recurrent Neural Network Predictions via Additive Decomposition

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      A Neural Bag-of-Words Modelling Framework for Link Prediction in Knowledge Bases with Sparse Connectivity

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Distributed Algorithms for Fully Personalized PageRank on Large Graphs

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      ShadowBlock: A Lightweight and Stealthy Adblocking Browser

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Heterogeneous Graph Attention Network

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      CommunityGAN: Community Detection with Generative Adversarial Nets

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Augmenting Knowledge Tracing by Considering Forgetting Behavior

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Context-Aware Sequential Recommendations with Stacked Recurrent Neural Networks

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Domain-Constrained Advertising Keyword Generation

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Multistream Classification for Cyber Threat Data with Heterogeneous Feature Space

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Snapshot-based Loading Acceleration of Web Apps with Nondeterministic JavaScript Execution

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Learning from Multiple Cities: A Meta-Learning Approach for Spatial-Temporal Prediction

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      SamWalker: Social Recommendation with Informative Sampling Strategy

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Multi-Domain Gated CNN for Review Helpfulness Prediction

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      A First Look at Deep Learning Apps on Smartphones

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      The Matthew Effect in Computation Contests: High Difficulty May Lead to 51% Dominance

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Fine-grained Type Inference in Knowledge Graphs via Probabilistic and Tensor Factorization Methods

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Scalpel-CD: Leveraging Crowdsourcing and Deep Probabilistic Modeling for Debugging Noisy Training Data

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Nameles: An intelligent system for Real-Time Filtering of Invalid Ad Traffic

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Genre Differences of Song Lyrics and Artist Wikis: An Analysis of Popularity, Length, Repetitiveness, and Readability

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Web Experience in Operational Mobile Networks: Lessons from Two Million Page Visits

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Variational Session-based Recommendation Using Normalizing Flows

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      ContraVis: Contrastive and Visual Topic Modeling for Comparing Document Collections

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Joint Modeling of Dense and Incomplete Trajectories for Citywide Traffic Volume Inference

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Tag2Vec: Learning Tag Representations in Tag Networks

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      A Novel Generative Topic Embedding Model by Introducing Network Communities

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Evaluating User Actions as a Proxy for Email Significance

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Unsupervised Semantic Generative Adversarial Networks for Expert Retrieval

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Link Prediction in Networks with Core-Fringe Data

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Search Mindsets: Understanding Focused and Non-Focused Information Seeking in Music Search

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Urban Vibes and Rural Charms: Analysis of Geographic Diversity in Mobile Service Usage at National Scale

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Evaluating Neural Text Simplification in the Medical Domain

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Generative Graph Models based on Laplacian Spectra

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Modeling Dynamic Networks of Timestamped Relational Events using Point Process Block Models

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Modeling Heart Rate and Activity Data for Personalized Fitness Recommendation

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Semi-Supervised Entity Alignment via Knowledge Graph Embedding with Awareness of Degree Difference

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Bayesian Exploration with Heterogeneous Agents

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Towards Neural Mixture Recommender for Long Range Dependent User Sequences

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      ϵ-Diagnosis: Unsupervised and Real-time Diagnosis of Small-window Long-tail Latency in Large-scale Microservice Platforms

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      VACCINE: Using Contextual Integrity For Data Leakage Detection

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      SciLens: Evaluating the Quality of Scientific News Articles Using Social Media and Scientific Literature Indicators

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Efficient Path Prediction for Semi-Supervised and Weakly Supervised Hierarchical Text Classification

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Splitter: Learning Node Representations that Capture Multiple Social Contexts

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Learning from On-Line User Feedback in Neural Question Answering on the Web

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Choosing to grow a graph: modeling network formation as discrete choice

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Pythia: a Framework for Automatic Analysis of Web Hosting Environments

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      DDGK: Learning Graph Representations via Deep Divergence Graph Kernels

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Towards Predicting a Realisation of an Information Need based on Brain Signals

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Are All Successful Communities Alike? Characterizing and Predicting the Success of Online Communities

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Dynamic Deep Multi-modal Fusion for Image Sharing

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Learning Edge Properties in Graphs from Path Aggregations

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Keyphrase Extraction from Disaster-related Tweets

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      HAR: A Hierarchical Attention Retrieval Model for Healthcare Question Answering

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Unifying Knowledge Graph Learning and Recommendation: Towards a Better Understanding of User Preference

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Semantic Text Matching for Long-Form Documents

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Pruning based Distance Sketches with Provable Guarantees on Random Graphs

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Bootstrapping Domain-Specific Content Discovery on the Web

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Learning Semantic Models of Data Sources using Probabilistic Graphical Models

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Iterative Discriminant Tensor Factorization for Behavior Comparison in Massive Open Online Courses

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      How Do Your Neighbors Disclose Your Information: Social-Aware Time Series Imputation

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Multi-relational Network Embeddings with Relational Proximity and Node Attributes

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      TurkScanner: Predicting the Hourly Wage of Microtasks

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Reply-aided Detection of Misinformation via Bayesian Deep Learning

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Constrained Local Graph Clustering by Colored Random Walk

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      RiSER: Learning Better Representations for Richly Structured Emails

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      On Convexity and Bounds of Fairness-aware Classification

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      From Stances’ Imbalance to their Hierarchical Representation and Detection

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Generalists and Specialists: Using Community Embeddings to Quantify Activity Diversity in Online Platforms

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      MiST: A Multiview and Multimodal Spatial-Temporal Learning Framework for Citywide Abnormal Event Forecasting

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Shapley meets Uniform: An Axiomatic Framework for Attribution in Online Advertising

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Sarcasm Detection with Self-matching Networks and Low-rank Bilinear Pooling

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Learning to Generate Questions by Learning What not to Generate

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Multiple Treatment Effect Estimation using Deep Generative Model with Task Embedding

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Decoupled smoothing on graphs

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Improving Multiclass Classification in Crowsourcing by Using Hierarchical Schemes

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Aspect-level Sentiment Analysis using AS-Capsules

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Cookie Synchronization: Everything You Always Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Transfer Meets Hybrid: A Synthetic Approach for Cross-Domain Collaborative Filtering with Text

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      On Attribution of Recurrent Neural Network Predictions via Additive Decomposition

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      A Neural Bag-of-Words Modelling Framework for Link Prediction in Knowledge Bases with Sparse Connectivity

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Distributed Algorithms for Fully Personalized PageRank on Large Graphs

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      ShadowBlock: A Lightweight and Stealthy Adblocking Browser

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Heterogeneous Graph Attention Network

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      CommunityGAN: Community Detection with Generative Adversarial Nets

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Augmenting Knowledge Tracing by Considering Forgetting Behavior

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Context-Aware Sequential Recommendations with Stacked Recurrent Neural Networks

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Domain-Constrained Advertising Keyword Generation

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Multistream Classification for Cyber Threat Data with Heterogeneous Feature Space

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Snapshot-based Loading Acceleration of Web Apps with Nondeterministic JavaScript Execution

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Learning from Multiple Cities: A Meta-Learning Approach for Spatial-Temporal Prediction

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      SamWalker: Social Recommendation with Informative Sampling Strategy

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Multi-Domain Gated CNN for Review Helpfulness Prediction

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      A First Look at Deep Learning Apps on Smartphones

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      The Matthew Effect in Computation Contests: High Difficulty May Lead to 51% Dominance

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Fine-grained Type Inference in Knowledge Graphs via Probabilistic and Tensor Factorization Methods

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Scalpel-CD: Leveraging Crowdsourcing and Deep Probabilistic Modeling for Debugging Noisy Training Data

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Nameles: An intelligent system for Real-Time Filtering of Invalid Ad Traffic

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Learn2Clean: Optimizing the Sequence of Tasks for Web Data Preparation

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Genre Differences of Song Lyrics and Artist Wikis: An Analysis of Popularity, Length, Repetitiveness, and Readability

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Web Experience in Operational Mobile Networks: Lessons from Two Million Page Visits

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Variational Session-based Recommendation Using Normalizing Flows

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      ContraVis: Contrastive and Visual Topic Modeling for Comparing Document Collections

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Joint Modeling of Dense and Incomplete Trajectories for Citywide Traffic Volume Inference

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Tag2Vec: Learning Tag Representations in Tag Networks

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      A Novel Generative Topic Embedding Model by Introducing Network Communities

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Evaluating User Actions as a Proxy for Email Significance

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Unsupervised Semantic Generative Adversarial Networks for Expert Retrieval

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Link Prediction in Networks with Core-Fringe Data

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Search Mindsets: Understanding Focused and Non-Focused Information Seeking in Music Search

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Urban Vibes and Rural Charms: Analysis of Geographic Diversity in Mobile Service Usage at National Scale

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Evaluating Neural Text Simplification in the Medical Domain

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Generative Graph Models based on Laplacian Spectra

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Modeling Dynamic Networks of Timestamped Relational Events using Point Process Block Models

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Modeling Heart Rate and Activity Data for Personalized Fitness Recommendation

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Semi-Supervised Entity Alignment via Knowledge Graph Embedding with Awareness of Degree Difference

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Bayesian Exploration with Heterogeneous Agents

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Towards Neural Mixture Recommender for Long Range Dependent User Sequences

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      ϵ-Diagnosis: Unsupervised and Real-time Diagnosis of Small-window Long-tail Latency in Large-scale Microservice Platforms

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      VACCINE: Using Contextual Integrity For Data Leakage Detection

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      SciLens: Evaluating the Quality of Scientific News Articles Using Social Media and Scientific Literature Indicators

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Efficient Path Prediction for Semi-Supervised and Weakly Supervised Hierarchical Text Classification

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Splitter: Learning Node Representations that Capture Multiple Social Contexts

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Learning from On-Line User Feedback in Neural Question Answering on the Web

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Choosing to grow a graph: modeling network formation as discrete choice

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Pythia: a Framework for Automatic Analysis of Web Hosting Environments

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      DDGK: Learning Graph Representations via Deep Divergence Graph Kernels

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Towards Predicting a Realisation of an Information Need based on Brain Signals

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Is Yelp Actually Cleaning Up the Restaurant Industry? A Re-Analysis on the Relative Usefulness of Consumer Reviews

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Are All Successful Communities Alike? Characterizing and Predicting the Success of Online Communities

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Dynamic Deep Multi-modal Fusion for Image Sharing

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Learning Edge Properties in Graphs from Path Aggregations

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Keyphrase Extraction from Disaster-related Tweets

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      HAR: A Hierarchical Attention Retrieval Model for Healthcare Question Answering

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Unifying Knowledge Graph Learning and Recommendation: Towards a Better Understanding of User Preference

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Semantic Text Matching for Long-Form Documents

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Pruning based Distance Sketches with Provable Guarantees on Random Graphs

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Bootstrapping Domain-Specific Content Discovery on the Web

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Learning Semantic Models of Data Sources using Probabilistic Graphical Models

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Iterative Discriminant Tensor Factorization for Behavior Comparison in Massive Open Online Courses

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      How Do Your Neighbors Disclose Your Information: Social-Aware Time Series Imputation

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Multi-relational Network Embeddings with Relational Proximity and Node Attributes

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      TurkScanner: Predicting the Hourly Wage of Microtasks

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Reply-aided Detection of Misinformation via Bayesian Deep Learning

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Constrained Local Graph Clustering by Colored Random Walk

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      RiSER: Learning Better Representations for Richly Structured Emails

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      On Convexity and Bounds of Fairness-aware Classification

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      From Stances’ Imbalance to their Hierarchical Representation and Detection

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Generalists and Specialists: Using Community Embeddings to Quantify Activity Diversity in Online Platforms

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      MiST: A Multiview and Multimodal Spatial-Temporal Learning Framework for Citywide Abnormal Event Forecasting

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Shapley meets Uniform: An Axiomatic Framework for Attribution in Online Advertising

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Sarcasm Detection with Self-matching Networks and Low-rank Bilinear Pooling

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Learning to Generate Questions by Learning What not to Generate

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Multiple Treatment Effect Estimation using Deep Generative Model with Task Embedding

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Decoupled smoothing on graphs

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Improving Multiclass Classification in Crowsourcing by Using Hierarchical Schemes

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Research Track posters
      Aspect-level Sentiment Analysis using AS-Capsules

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Ashton Anderson (U of Toronto), Joe DeBlasio (Google), Reza Zafarani (Syracuse University)

    14:00 - 15:20

    Special track: Designing an Ethical Web | Panel: The Role of technical standards for Human Rights

    Location: Garden A+B

    Presenters: Alan Davidson (Mozilla), Arvind Narayanan (Princeton University), Katie Shilton (University of Maryland)

    Chairs: Sharad Goel (Stanford University), Deirdre Mulligan (UC Berkeley School of Information)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      Tablepedia: Automating PDF Table Reading in an Experimental Evidence Exploration and Analytic System

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      Gradual Machine Learning for Entity Resolution

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      Tracy: Tracing Facts over Knowledge Graphs and Text

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      Graph-based Interactive Data Federation System for Heterogeneous Data Retrieval and Analytics

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      CityFlow: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Environment for Large Scale City Traffic Scenario

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      LearnerExp: Exploring and Explaining the Time Management of Online Learning Activity

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      UNVEIL: Capture and Visualise the data leakage through WiFi in Mobile Devices

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      TaxVis: A Visual System for Detecting Tax Evasion Group

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      Tablepedia: Automating PDF Table Reading in an Experimental Evidence Exploration and Analytic System

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      Gradual Machine Learning for Entity Resolution

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      Tracy: Tracing Facts over Knowledge Graphs and Text

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      RecBoard: A Web-based Platform for Recommendation System Research and Development

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      Graph-based Interactive Data Federation System for Heterogeneous Data Retrieval and Analytics

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      CityFlow: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Environment for Large Scale City Traffic Scenario

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      LearnerExp: Exploring and Explaining the Time Management of Online Learning Activity

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      UNVEIL: Capture and Visualise the data leakage through WiFi in Mobile Devices

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

    • 14:00 - 15:30

      Demonstrations
      TaxVis: A Visual System for Detecting Tax Evasion Group

      Location: Pacific Concourse

      Chairs: Amin Mantrach (Criteo), Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, UK)

  • 15:20

    15:20 - 15:30

    Special track: Designing an Ethical Web | Closing remarks

    Location: Garden A+B

    Chairs: Sharad Goel (Stanford University), Deirdre Mulligan (UC Berkeley School of Information)

  • 15:30

    15:30 - 16:00

    Break

    Location: Pacific Concourse

  • 16:00

    16:00 - 17:00

    Panel

    Location: Grand Ballroom A+B+C

    Presenters: Robert Cailliau (Formerly CERN), Jaime Teevan (Microsoft), Eddan Katz (World Economic Forum)

    Chair: Tom Simonite (WIRED)

  • 17:00

    17:00 - 17:30

    Closing ceremony

    Location: Grand Ballroom A+B+C

    Chair: Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Leila Zia

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