AIRWeb'07

Program (Archived)

For citation information, please refer to the Workshop Proceedings.

May 8, 2007.- Presentations of full papers are 20 minutes maximum, and presentations of short papers are 15 minutes maximum, including any questions and answers.

Schedule: Morning

Welcome

Session 1: Temporal and Topological Factors (8:30-10:00)

Session chair: Soumen Chakrabarti

Splog Detection Using Self-similarity Analysis on Blog Temporal Dynamics
Yu-Ru Lin, Hari Sundaram, Yun Chi, Junichi Tatemura and Belle Tseng

Improving Web Spam Classification using Rank-time Features
Krysta Svore, Qiang Wu, Chris Burges and Aaswath Raman

Improving Web Spam Classifiers Using Link Structure (S)
Qingqing Gan and Torsten Suel

Transductive Link Spam Detection
Dengyong Zhou, Christopher Burges and Tao Tao     (presenter: Krysta Svore)

Session 2: Link Farms (10:30-12:00)

Session chair: Andrew Tomkins

Using Spam Farm to Boost PageRank
Ye Du, Yaoyun Shi and Xin Zhao

Extracting Link Spam using Biased Random Walks from Spam Seed Sets
Baoning Wu and Kumar Chellapilla

A Large-Scale Study of Link Spam Detection by Graph Algorithms (S)
Hiroo Saito, Masashi Toyoda, Masaru Kitsuregawa and Kazuyuki Aihara

Measuring Similarity to Detect Qualified Links
Xiaoguang Qi, Lan Nie and Brian Davison

Schedule: Afternoon

Session 3: Tagging, P2P and Cloaking (13:30-15:00)

Session chair: Dennis Fetterly

Combating Spam in Tagging Systems
Georgia Koutrika, Frans Effendi, Zoltán Gyöngyi, Paul Heymann and Hector García-Molina

New Metrics for Reputation Management in P2P Networks
Debora Donato, Mario Paniccia, Maddalena Selis, Carlos Castillo, Giovanni Cortese and Stefano Leonardi

Computing Trusted Authority Scores in Peer-to-Peer Web Search Networks
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Debora Donato, Carlos Castillo and Gerhard Weikum

A Taxonomy of JavaScript Redirection Spam
Kumar Chellapilla and Alexey Maykov

Session 4: Web Spam Challenge (15:30-17:00)

Description of the challenge and the dataset

Web Spam Detection via Commercial Intent Analysis (S)
András A. Benczúr, István Bíró, Károly Csalogány and Tamás Sárlós

Challenge Entry by Tony Abou-Assaleh and Tapajyoti Das

Challenge Entry by András A. Benczúr, István Bíró, Károly Csalogány and Tamás Sárlós

Challenge Entry by Gordon V. Cormack

Challenge Entry by Dennis Fetterly, Steve Chien, Marc Najork, Mark Manasse and Alexandros Ntoulas

Challenge Entry by Pascal Filoche, Tanguy Urvoy, Chauveau Emmanuel and Lavergne Thomas

Challenge Entry by Guanggang Geng, Chunheng Wang, Xiaobo Jin, Qiudan Li and Lei Xu

Challenge evaluation results

Closing Remarks (5 minutes)

For citation information, please refer to the Workshop Proceedings.