AIRWeb 2006
Second International Workshop on
Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web
At the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 10 August 2006, Seattle, USA

Workshop Program

9:00Welcome
Brian D. Davison, Lehigh University [slides]
9:10 Link-Based Characterization and Detection of Web Spam
Luca Becchetti, Carlos Castillo, Debora Donato, Stefano Leonardi, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", and Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research Barcelona [slides]
9:40 Tracking Web Spam with Hidden Style Similarity
Tanguy Urvoy, Thomas Lavergne, and Pascal Filoche, France Telecom R&D [slides]
10:10 Web Spam Detection with Anti-Trust Rank
Vijay Krishnan and Rashmi Raj, Stanford University [slides]
10:30Morning Break
11:00Invited Talk on Sponsored Search
Jan Pedersen, Yahoo! [slides]
12:30Lunch
1:30 Adversarial Information Retrieval Aspects of Sponsored Search
Bernard J. Jansen, Pennsylvania State University [slides]
1:50 Link-Based Similarity Search to Fight Web Spam
András A. Benczúr, Károly Csalogány, and Tamás Sarlós, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Eötvös University [slides]
2:20 Improving Cloaking Detection using Search Query Popularity and Monetizability
Kumar Chellapilla, and David Maxwell Chickering, Microsoft Live Labs [Slides]
3:00Afternoon Break
3:30Expert Panel on Blog Spam
  • Tim Converse, Yahoo! Search [slides]
  • Dennis Fetterly, Microsoft Research [Slides]
  • Natalie Glance, Nielsen BuzzMetrics [Slides]
  • Jeremy Hylton, Google
  • Greg Linden, Findory.com [Slides]
  • Paul Querna, Ask.com [Slides]
5:00Discussion and Final Remarks
Marc Najork, Microsoft Research

Workshop Information

 

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