Topics covered include but are not limited to:

Web Search

• Adversarial search
• Algorithms and systems for Web-scale search
• Audio and touch interfaces to search
• Distributed search, metasearch, peer-to-peer search
• Indexing web content
• Local search
• Mobile search
• Multimedia Web search
• Query analysis and query processing
• Retrieval and ranking
• Search benchmarking and evaluation
• Search user behavior and log analysis
• Search user interfaces and interaction
• Searching social and real-time content
• Semantic search, faceted search, and knowledge graphs
• Sponsored search
• Task-driven search
• Vertical portals and search
• Voice search, conversational search, and dialog in search
• Web crawling
• Zero-query and implicit search

Web Mining

• Algorithms and systems for Web-scale mining
• Bridging unstructured and structured data
• Clustering, classification, and summarization of Web data
• Data, entity, event, and relationship extraction
• Data integration and data cleaning
• Discovery-driven Web and social network mining
• Geo and location data analysis
• Knowledge acquisition and automatic construction of knowledge bases
• Large-scale graph analysis
• Modeling trustworthiness and reliability of online information
• Multimodal data mining
• NLP for Web mining
• Online and streaming algorithms
• Opinion mining and sentiment analysis
• Web traffic and log analysis
• Web measurements, web evolution and web models
• Web recommender systems and algorithms
• Mobile Mining

Social Search, Mining and Applications

• Collaborative search and question answering
• Dynamics of social networks
• Human computation and crowdsourcing
• Influence spreading and viral marketing in social networks
• Instant messaging and social networks
• Link prediction and community detection
• Location-based social networks
• Mining crowd-generated data
• Sampling, experiments, and evaluation in social networks
• Searching social media and collaboratively generated content
• Social media analysis: blogs and friendship networks
• Social network analysis, theories, models, and applications
• Social reputation, influence, and trust
• Tags, users, and search
• User activity modeling and exploitation
• User profiling