Program
For abstracts, presentation slides, and complete papers, please refer to the Workshop Proceedings.
The program was structured around a keynote address on the Future of Adversarial Information Retrieval and four sessions with presentations of peer-reviewed papers in the areas of Social Spam, Temporal Analysis, Content Analysis, and future Web Spam Challenges.
9:30-10:15 Keynote
- (5 min) Opening Remarks
- (40 min) Keynote: The Potential for Research and Development in Adversarial Information Retrieval
Brian D. Davison
10:15-11:00 Social Spam
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(30 min)
Social Spam Detection
Benjamin Markines, Ciro Cattuto and Filippo Menczer -
(20 min)
Tag Spam Creates Large Non-Giant Connected Components
Nicolas Neubauer, Robert Wetzker and Klaus Obermayer
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-13:00 Temporal Analysis
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(30 min)
Looking into the Past to Better Classify Web Spam
Na Dai, Brian D. Davison and Xiaoguang Qi -
(30 min)
A Study of Link Farm Distribution and Evolution Using a Time Series of Web Snapshots
Young-joo Chung, Masashi Toyoda and Masaru Kitsuregawa -
(20 min)
Web Spam Filtering in Internet Archives
Miklós Erdélyi, András A. Benczúr, Julien Masanes and Dávid Siklósi
13:00-14:30 Break
14:30-16:00 Content Analysis
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(30 min)
Web Spam Identification Through Language Model Analysis
Juan Martinez-Romo and Lourdes Araujo -
(30 min)
An Empirical Study on Selective Sampling in Active Learning for Splog Detection
Taichi Katayama, Takehito Utsuro, Yuuki Sato, Takayuki Yoshinaka, Yasuhide Kawada and Tomohiro Fukuhara -
(20 min)
Linked Latent Dirichlet Allocation in Web Spam Filtering
István Bíró, Dávid Siklósi, Jácint Szabó and András Benczúr
16:00-16:30 Break
16:30-18:00 Spam Research Collections
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(20 min)
Web Spam Challenges: Looking Backward and Forward
Carlos Castillo -
(20 min)
Nullification Test Collections for Web Spam and SEO
Timothy Jones, David Hawking, Ramesh Sankaranarayana and Nick Craswell -
(20 min)
Web Spam Challenge Proposal for Filtering in Archives
András A. Benczúr, Miklós Erdélyi, Julien Masanes and Dávid Siklósi - (20 min) Community Discussion of future Web Spam Challenges
- (10 min) Closing Remarks