11th ACM International Workshop

on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM) 

November 2nd, 2009

 

WORKSHOP PROGRAM
8:45 - 9:00 Opening Remarks
9:00 - 10:30 Session 1: Querying, Question Answering & Searching
Session Chair: Prasenjit Mitra (Pennsylvania State University)
Keynote talk: User Profiling and Personalized Information Delivery on the Static and Mobile Web
Professor Dik Lun Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Retrieving Good, Better, and Best Answers to Questions in Advertisements
Maria Pera, Rani Qumsiyeh, Meher Shaikh and Yiu-Kai Ng
Impact of Search Results on User Queries
Sofia Stamou and Lefteris Kozanidis
Distinct Nearest Neighbors Queries for Similarity Search in Very Large Multimedia Databases
Tomas Skopal, Vlastislav Dohnal, Michal Batko and Pavel Zezula
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Session 2: Web Algorithms
Session Chair: Byron Choi (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Satisfiability of Simple XPath Fragments in the Presence of DTDs
Nobutaka Suzuki and Yuji Fukushima
A Session Generalization Technique for Improved Web Usage Mining
Tahira Hasan, Sudhir Mudur and Nematollaah Shiri
Automatic Seed Set Expansion for Trust Propagation Based Anti-spamming Algorithms
Xianchao Zhang, Bo Han and Wenxin Liang
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break (Free buffet lunch for all attendants of this workshop)

Location: restaurant (IKON) located on the same floor as the workshop (tutorial) rooms.

For those who attend only the afternoon session, you can go to the buffet also at your convenience.
14:00 - 15:30 Session 3: Web Information Mining and Extraction Techniques
Session Chair: George Fletcher (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Novel Web Page Classification Techniques in Contextual Advertising
Jung-Jin Lee, Jung-Hyun Lee, JongWoo Ha and SangKeun Lee
Efficient Approach for Incremental Vietnamese Document Clustering
Tu Anh Nguyen Hoang and Kiem Hoang
Bursty Topics Extraction for Web Forums
You Chen, XueQi Cheng and Seng Yang
Extracting Position Relations from the Web
Yanhong Liu, Peiquan Jin and Lihua Yue
Post Processing Wrapper Generated Tables for Labeling Anonymous Datasets
Emdad Ahmed and Hasan M. Jamil
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30 Session 4: Searching, Matching & Browsing
Session Chair: Raymond Chi-Wing Wong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
I Seek You: Searching and Matching Individuals In Social Networks
Marti Motoyama and George Varghese
Web Personal Name Disambiguation Based on Reference Entity Tables Mined from the Web
Xianpei Han and Jun Zhao
Finding Intermediate Entity between Two Examples on the Web
Naoto Asahi, Takehiro Yamamoto, Satoshi Nakamura and Katsumi Tanaka
Semantic Relatedness Hits Bibliographic Data
George Tsatsaronis, Iraklis Varlamis, Sofia Stamou, Kjetil Nørvåg and Michalis Vazirgiannis
Investigation of Children's Characteristics for Web Browsing
Mayu Iwata, Yuki Arase, Takahiro Hara and Shojiro Nishio
17:30 - 17:45 Closing Remarks

Full Papers:

Satisfiability of Simple XPath Fragments in the Presence of DTDs Nobutaka Suzuki and Yuji Fukushima A Session Generalization Technique for Improved Web Usage Mining Tahira Hasan, Sudhir Mudur and Nematollaah Shiri Automatic Seed Set Expansion for Trust Propagation Based Anti-spamming Algorithms Xianchao Zhang, Bo Han and Wenxin Liang Novel Web Page Classification Techniques in Contextual Advertising Jung-Jin Lee, Jung-Hyun Lee, JongWoo Ha and SangKeun Lee I Seek You: Searching and Matching Individuals In Social Networks Marti Motoyama and George Varghese Web Personal Name Disambiguation Based on Reference Entity Tables Mined from the Web Xianpei Han and Jun Zhao Efficient Approach for Incremental Vietnamese Document Clustering Tu Anh Nguyen Hoang and Kiem Hoang

Short Papers:

Retrieving Good, Better, and Best Answers to Questions in Advertisements Maria Pera, Rani Qumsiyeh, Meher Shaikh and Yiu-Kai Ng Impact of Search Results on User Queries Sofia Stamou and Lefteris Kozanidis Distinct Nearest Neighbors Queries for Similarity Search in Very Large Multimedia Databases Tomas Skopal, Vlastislav Dohnal, Michal Batko and Pavel Zezula Bursty Topics Extraction for Web Forums You Chen, XueQi Cheng and Seng Yang Extracting Position Relations from the Web Yanhong Liu, Peiquan Jin and Lihua Yue Post Processing Wrapper Generated Tables for Labeling Anonymous Datasets Emdad Ahmed and Hasan M. Jamil Finding Intermediate Entity between Two Examples on the Web Naoto Asahi, Takehiro Yamamoto, Satoshi Nakamura and Katsumi Tanaka Semantic Relatedness Hits Bibliographic Data George Tsatsaronis, Iraklis Varlamis, Sofia Stamou, Kjetil Nørvåg and Michalis Vazirgiannis Investigation of Children's Characteristics for Web Browsing Mayu Iwata, Yuki Arase, Takahiro Hara and Shojiro Nishio
SCOPE

ACM WIDM 2009 is the eleventh in a series of workshops on Web Information and Data Management to be held in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2009).

The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers, industrial practitioners, and developers to study how the Web information can be extracted, stored, analyzed, and processed to provide useful knowledge to the end users for various advanced database and Web applications.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

PAPER SUBMISSION

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically as PDF files and be formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates available aT http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Papers cannot exceed 8 pages in length. All accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings published by the ACM Press.

The review process is double-blind. Therefore, please remove all the author, organization, funding or acknowledgment information from the submitted papers for review. The submission website is widm2009.


IMPORTANT DATES
  • Papers due:July 10th, 2009
  • Notification of acceptance:August 10th, 2009
  • Camera-ready copy due:August 19th, 2009
  • Workshop: November 2nd, 2009

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Angela Bonifati     ICAR-CNAR                                Italy
Yi Chen             Arizona State University                 USA
Zhiyuan Chen        University of Maryland Baltimore County  USA
Byron Choi          Hong Kong Baptist University             Hong Kong
Bin Cui             Peking University                        China
Hang Cui            Yahoo! Research                          USA
Zhicheng Dou        Microsoft Research                       China
Vuk Ercegovac       IBM Almaden Research Lab                 USA
George Fletcher     Washington State University              USA
Irini Fundulaki     ICS Forth                                Greece
Floris Geerts       University of Edinburgh                  UK
Bernard Jim Jansen  The Pennsylvania State University        USA
Panagiotis Kalnis   King Abdullah Univ. of Science & Tech.   Saudi Arabia
Daniel Kifer        The Pennsylvania State University        USA
Georgia Koutrika    Stanford University                      USA
Sang-goo Lee        Seoul National University                South Korea
Chengkai Li         University of Texas at Arlington         USA
Feifei Li           Florida State University                 USA
Tao Li              Florida International University         USA
Ee-Peng Lim         Singapore Management University          Singapore
Bo Luo              University of Kansas                     USA
Gang Luo            IBM TJ Watson Research Lab               USA
Michael Nelson      Old Dominion University                  USA
Yuan Ni             IBM China Research Lab                   China
Neolkis Polyzotis   University of California-Santa Cruz      USA
Oded Shmueli        Technion - Israel Institute of Tech.     Israel
Pierre Senellart    Télécom ParisTech                        France
Erik Vee            Yahoo! Research                          USA
Raymond Wong        Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Tech.       Hong Kong
GuiRong Xue         Shanghai Jiao Tong University            China