Call for Participation
The 12th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM’19)
11-15 February. Melbourne, Australia
http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2019/


WSDM is a highly selective conference that includes invited talks, as well as refereed full papers. WSDM publishes original, high-quality papers related to search and data mining on the Web and the Social Web, with an emphasis on practical yet principled novel models of search and data mining, algorithm design and analysis, economic implications, and in-depth experimental analysis of accuracy and performance.

Keynotes & Invited Speakers

Jaime Teevan, Microsoft - Attending to What Matters

Rohit Prasad, Amazon - Alexa Everywhere: AI for Daily Convenience

Aleksandra Korolova, University of Southern California - Privacy-Preserving WSDM

Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam - Reinforcement Learning to Rank

H. V. Jagadish, University of Michigan - Responsible Data Science

Accepted Papers
http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2019/accepted-papers.php

Accepted Demonstrations
http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2019/accepted-demos.php

Accepted Doctoral Consortium Papers
http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2019/accepted-doctoral-consortium-papers.php

WSDM Workshops

The following workshops have been selected for WSDM 2019, and are now seeking contributions.


* Task Intelligence Workshop — https://aka.ms/TaskIntelligence

* The International Workshop on Web-based Information Analysis towards Smart City (WISC’19) — https://sites.google.com/view/wsdm19wisc/home

* The 1st International Workshop on Context-aware Recommendation Systems with Big Data Analytics (CARS-BDA) — http://wise-conferences.org/CARS-BDA/CARS-BDA.html

* DAPA: The WSDM 2019 Workshop on Deep Matching in Practical Applications — https://wsdm2019-dapa.github.io/

* The WSDM 2019 Workshop on Interactive Data Mining — https://idatamining.github.io/2019/

WSDM Tutorials

Information about WSDM tutorials will soon be posted on the conference webpage http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2019/. Tutorial choices will include 6 half day tutorials and 1 full day tutorial.

WSDM Cup 2019

We invite you to take part in one of the four competitions described below. Winners and runners-up will be invited as guests to attend the WSDM Cup Workshop at WSDM 2019 in Melbourne Australia on February 15 2019. A range of cash prizes will also be on offer, with details in each task page.


* Task 1: ByteDance - Fake News Classification — Register now at https://www.kaggle.com/c/fake-news-pair-classification-challenge/

* Task 2: Spotify - Sequential Skip Prediction Challenge — Register now at https://www.crowdai.org/challenges/spotify-sequential-skip-prediction-challenge

* Task 3: Baidu - Retention Rate of Baidu Hao Kan APP Users — Register now at http://dianshi.baidu.com/competition/24/rule

* Task 4: Sichuan Airlines - Intelligent Flight Schedules — Register now at http://dianshi.baidu.com/competition/25/rule


Registration

Registration for the 12th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2019 is now open. The deadline for early bird registration rates is December 8, 2018.

http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2019/registration.php






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Dr Guido Zuccon
Senior Lecturer & ARC DECRA Fellow
School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
The University of Queensland
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www: www.zuccon.net | ielab.io

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