Call for Papers - WWW2007 Workshop
Query Log Analysis: Social and Technological
Challenges
May 8, 2007, Banff, Alberta, Canada
http://querylogs2007.
webir.org/
The past few years have seen a surge in research that uses
personal search
histories and search systems' query logs. Such research is
enabling users
to find more of what they are looking for, quickly and
easily. However, it
comes at a social cost. Query logs capture explicit
descriptions of users’
information needs. Logs of interactions that follow a
user’s query (e.g.,
click-though and navigation patterns) capture derivative
traces that
further characterize the user and their interests. The data
is rich with
personal detail, creating opportunities and risk. The social
and
technological challenges of working with such data have
important
implications for query log analysis research.
This workshop will provide an interdisciplinary venue for
collective
thinking about query log analysis from all its angles. By
bringing together
stakeholders from various disciplines we hope to expand the
understanding
of the problems and concerns raised by all parties. This
workshop will open
a dialogue within the research community on collecting query
log data,
sharing information without compromising user privacy, and
tapping into the
collaborative knowledge that can be found in query logs.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Technology
Ranking with query logs (QLs)
Query refinement using QLs
Collaborative filtering based on QLs
Targeted advertising using QLs
Use of sessions and cookies in QLs
Social
Ethics of QL collection and use
Legal issues in QL collection and use
Policies and practices of query logging
Implications of QL data
Raising public awareness about query logs
Security
Anonymization of QL data
User-driven masking of QL recording
Blocking QL recording
Standards
Developing standards for producing and sharing logs
Producing QL practices similar to the Robots Exclusion
Standard
We invite submissions of papers describing original work in
these areas or
in related areas. Papers may describe empirical research,
work in progress,
or theoretical explorations.
Important dates:
Paper Submission - 12 February, 2007
Acceptance Notification - 21 March, 2007
Revisions due - 30 March, 2007
Registration is limited. Interested participants are asked
to submit a
statement of interest describing their research or area of
expertise and
their reason for wanting to participate.
How to submit papers/position papers/attendance requests:
Regular papers (up to 8 pages long) and position papers (up
to 4 pages)
should be submitted in PDF format to:
http://www
.easychair.org/WWW2007Workshops/
Authors should follow the guidelines for conference
submissions found at
http://w
ww2007.org/submission-workshops.php. Please indicate if
the work
described is also published elsewhere.
Attendance requests – please email a short bio and a short
position
statement to einat il.ibm.com or to any of the other
organizers (up to 500
words, PDF preferred).
Papers accepted to the workshop will be included in the
WWW2007 Workshop
proceedings and distributed to participants on a CD-ROM.
Attendees are
invited to submit a full paper to a special issue of the ACM
Transactions
on the Web with an expected publication date is early 2008.
Organizers
---------------
Einat Amitay, IBM Research, Haifa Lab
einatil.ibm.com
G. Craig Murray, University of Maryland
gcraigmumd.edu
Jaime Teevan, Microsoft Research
teevancsail.mit.edu
Program Committee:
--------------------------
Eytan Adar, U of Washington
Eugene Agichtein, Emory University
Steve Beitzel, Telcordia Technologies
Mark J Boyd, eBay
Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research
Jim Jansen, Penn State
Thorsten Joachims, Cornell
Diane Kelly, UNC
Tie-Yan Liu, Microsoft Research Asia
Llew Mason, Amazon.com
Jian-Yun Nie, U of Montreal, Canada
Filip Radlinski, Cornell
Daniel Russell, Google
Amanda Spink, Queensland University of Technology
Falk Scholer, RMIT, Australia
Ramakrishnan Srikant, Google
Tao Yang, Ask.com
For additional details and a list of confirmed speakers and
panelists
please visit the workshop website at http://querylogs2007.
webir.org/
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