[AISWorld] Call for Participation: 2nd Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb), Lyon, France, April 17, 2012

[Marc Spaniol]

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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2nd Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2012)
in conjunction with WWW 2012
April 17, 2012, Lyon, France
http://www.temporalweb.net/

Objectives:
The objective of this workshop is to provide a venue for researchers of 
all domains (IE/IR, Web mining etc.) where the temporal dimension opens 
up an entirely new range of challenges and possibilities. The workshop’s 
ambition is to help shaping a community of interest on the research 
challenges and possibilities resulting from the introduction of the time 
dimension in Web analysis.

TempWeb focuses on temporal data analysis along the time dimension for 
Web data that has been collected over extended time periods. A major 
challenge in this regard is the sheer size of the data it exposes and 
the ability to make sense of it in a useful and meaningful manner for 
its users. Web scale data analytics therefore needs to develop 
infrastructures and extended analytical tools to make sense of these. 
TempWeb will take place April 17, 2012 in conjunction with the 
International World Wide Web Conference in Lyon, France.

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KEYNOTE

Staffan Truvé, CTO, Recorded Future

"Recorded Future - Unlocking the Predictive Power of the Web"

Recorded Future aims to unlock the predictive power of the Web by 
continuously harvesting large parts of the web, and by using linguistic 
analysis to derive structured information that can be aggregated and 
further analyzed. This talk will present the underlying ideas, the 
techniques being used, and some important challenges going forward.

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PROGRAM

9.00 - 9.30 Welcome and Introduction to the Workshop (Chairs)

9.30 - 10.30 Keynote by Staffan Truvé, CTO, Recorded Future
Recorded Future - Unlocking the Predictive Power of the Web

10.30 - 11.00 Break

11.00 - 12.30 Web Dynamics

Geerajit Rattanaritnont, Masashi Toyoda and Masaru Kitsuregawa.
Analyzing Patterns of Information Cascades based on Users' Influence and 
Posting Behaviors

Masahiro Inoue and Keishi Tajima.
Noise Robust Detection of the Emergence and Spread of Topics on the Web

Margarita Karkali, Vassilis Plachouras, Costas Stefanatos and Michalis 
Vazirgiannis.
Keeping Keywords Fresh: A BM25 Variation for Personalized Keyword Extraction

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 15.30 Identifying and leveraging time information

Erdal Kuzey and Gerhard Weikum.
Extraction of Temporal Facts and Events from Wikipedia

Jannik Strötgen, Omar Alonso and Michael Gertz.
Identification of Top Relevant Temporal Expressions in Documents

Ricardo Campos, Gaël Dias, Alípio Jorge and Célia Nunes.
Enriching Temporal Query Understanding through Date Identification: How 
to Tag Implicit Temporal Queries?

15.30 - 16.00 Break

16.00 - 17.00 Panel and wrapping up

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Workshop Officials:
PC-Chairs and Organizers:
Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research, Spain)
Julien Masanès (Internet Memory Foundation, France and Netherlands)
Marc Spaniol (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany)

Program Committee:
Eytan Adar (University of Michigan, USA)
Omar Alonso (Microsoft Bing, USA)
Srikanta Bedathur (IIIT-Delhi, India)
Andras Benczur (Hungarian Academy of Science)
Klaus Berberich (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany)
Roi Blanco (Yahoo! Research, Spain)
Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University, Japan)
Scott Kirkpatrick (Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel)
Ravi Kumar (Yahoo! Research, USA)
Christian König (Microsoft Research, USA)
Frank McCown (Harding University, USA)
Michael Nelson (Old Dominion University, USA)
Nikos Ntarmos (University of Patras, Greece)
Kjetil Norvag (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Philippe Rigaux (Internet Memory Foundation, France and Netherlands)
Thomas Risse (L3S Research Center, Germany)
Pierre Senellart (Télécom ParisTech, France)
Torsten Suel (NYU Polytechnic, USA)
Masashi Toyoda (Tokyo University, Japan)
Peter Triantafillou (University of Patras, Greece)
Michalis Vazirgiannis (Athens University of Economics and Business & 
École Polytechnique)
Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany)