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 and mobile search 

• Multimedia Web search 

• Query analysis and query processing 

• 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 

• Clustering, classification, and summarization of Web data 

• Data, entity, event, and relationship extraction 

• Data extraction, integration and 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 for Web data 

• Opinion mining and sentiment analysis 

• Web traffic and log analysis 

• Web measurements, web evolution and web models 

• Web recommender systems and algorithms 

• Mobile Mining 

• Neural architectures for Web search and mining 

• Web search and data mining under privacy constraints 

Social Search, Mining and Other Applications 

• Personal assistants, dialogue models, and conversational interaction 

• Collaborative search and question answering 

• Social network dynamics 

• Human computation and crowdsourcing 

• Influence and viral marketing in social networks 

• Instant messaging and social networks 

• Link prediction and community detection 

• Location-based social networks 

• Searching and mining crowd-generated data and collaboratively generated content 

• Sampling, experiments, and evaluation in social networks 

• Social media analysis: blogs and friendship networks 

• Social network analysis, theories, models and applications 

• Social reputation, influence, and trust 

• Social tagging  

• User activity modeling and exploitation 

• Interpretable models of individual and social behavior