Program (Archived)

For citation information, please refer to the Workshop Proceedings.

The program was structured around 3 sessions with presentations of peer-reviewed papers on Adversarial IR on the Web, covering usage analysis, network analysis and content analysis; followed by one session with the Web Spam Challenge results and a panel on the future of Adversarial IR on the Web.

8:30 - 10:00

• (10 min.) Introduction
• Usage Analysis
• (25 min.) A Large-scale Study of Automated Web Search Traffic slides
  Greg Buehrer, Jack Stokes and Kumar Chellapilla
• (25 min.) Identifying Web Spam with User Behavior Analysis slides
  Yiqun Liu, Rongwei Cen, Min Zhang, Liyun Ru and Shaoping Ma
• (15 min.) Query-log mining for detecting spam slides
  Carlos Castillo, Claudio Corsi, Debora Donato, Paolo Ferragina and Aristides Gionis

10:30 - 12:00

• Text Analysis
• (15 min.) Cleaning Search Results using Term Distance Features slides
  Josh Attenberg and Torsten Suel
• (15 min.) Exploring Linguistic Features for Web Spam Detection: A Preliminary Study slides
  Jakub Piskorski, Marcin Sydow and Dawid Weiss
• (15 min.) Latent Dirichlet Allocation in Web Spam Filtering slides
  Istvan Biro, Jacint Szabo and Andras Benczur
• General
• (25 min.) Analysing Features of Japanese Splogs and Characteristics of Keywords slides
  Yuuki Sato, Takehito Utsuro, Tomohiro Fukuhara, Yasuhide Kawada, Yoshiaki Murakami, Hiroshi Nakagawa and Noriko Kando
• (15 min.) Webspam Identification Through Content and Hyperlinks slides
  Jacob Abernethy, Olivier Chapelle and Carlos Castillo

13:30 - 15:00

• Social Networks
• (25 min.) Identifying Video Spammers in Online Social Networks slides
  Fabricio Benevenuto, Tiago Rodrigues, Virgilio Almeida, Jussara Almeida, Chao Zhang and Keith Ross
• (25 min.) A Few Bad Votes Too Many? Towards Robust Ranking in Social Media slides
  Eugene Agichtein, Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, and Hongyuan Zha
• (25 min.) The Anti-Social Tagger - Detecting Spam in Social Bookmarking Systems slides
  Beate Krause, Christoph Schmitz, Andreas Hotho and Gerd Stumme
• Link Analysis
• (25 min.) Robust PageRank and Locally Computable Spam Detection Features slides
  Vahab Mirrokni, Reid Andersen, Christian Borgs, Jennifer Chayes, John Hopcroft, Kamal Jain and Shang-Hua Teng

15:30 - 17:00

• Web Spam Challenge
• (5 min.) Description of the challenge
• (12 min.) Data Analysis School, Moscow slides
  Konstantin Bauman, Alexey Brodskiy, Sergey Kacher, Elmira Kalimulina, Ruslan Kovalev, Mikhail Lebedev, Dmitry Orlov, Pavel Sushin, Pavel Zryumov, Dmitry Leshchiner and Ilya Muchnik
• (12 min.) Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences slides
  David Siklosi, Andras Benczur
• (12 min.) Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing slides
  Guanggang Geng, Xiaobo Jin and Chunheng Wang
• (5 min.) Announcement of results
• Panel
• (45 min.): The Future of Adversarial IR on the Web
  Amit Aggarwal, Zoltán Gyöngyi, Alexandros Ntoulas, Erik Selberg, and Andrew Tomkins

Presentations of full papers will be 20 minutes, plus 5 minutes for questions and discussion. Short papers will be allowed 10 minutes, plus 5 minutes for questions and discussion.