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Venue:<\/strong> Hyatt Regency San Francisco (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> The Web Conference (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Sponsorship and Partnership co-chair<\/h3>\r\nKuansan Wang<\/a>\r\n

Program committee co-chair<\/h3>\r\nRyen White<\/a>"},{"id":1,"name":"Presentations","content":"[accordion]\r\n[panel header=\"Demos\"]\r\n

<\/h4>\r\nWednesday, May 15, 2019 | 2:00 PM\u20133:00 PM\r\n

Alexandra Vtyurina, Adam Fourney<\/a>, Meredith Ringel Morris<\/a>, Leah Findlater and Ryen W. White<\/a><\/p>\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[\/accordion]\r\n\r\n[accordion]\r\n[panel header=\"Oral presentations\"]\r\n

Multi-task Feature Learning for Knowledge Graph Enhanced Recommendation<\/h4>\r\nWednesday, May 15, 2019 | 10:54 AM\u201311:18 AM | Grand Ballroom C\r\n

Hongwei Wang, Fuzheng Zhang, Miao Zhao, Wenjie Li, Xing Xie<\/a>, Minyi Guo<\/p>\r\n\r\n

It's almost like they're trying to hide it: How User-Provided Image Descriptions Have Failed to Make Twitter Accessible<\/h4>\r\nWednesday, May 15, 2019 | 10:54 AM\u201311:18 AM | Seacliff A+B\r\n

Cole Gleason, Patrick Carrington, Cameron Cassidy, Meredith Ringel Morris<\/a>, Kris M. Kitani, Jeffrey P. Bigham<\/p>\r\n\r\n

NetSMF: Large-scale Network Embedding as Sparse Matrix Factorization<\/h4>\r\nWednesday, May 15, 2019 | 11:42 AM\u201312:06 PM | Grand Ballroom B\r\n

Jiezhong Qiu, Yuxiao Dong<\/a>, Hao Ma, Jian Li, Chi Wang<\/a>, Kuansan Wang<\/a>, Jie Tang<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Forecasting U.S. Domestic Migration Using Internet Search Queries<\/h4>\r\nWednesday, May 15, 2019 | 12:06 PM\u201312:30 PM | Seacliff A+B\r\n

Allen Yilun Lin, Justin Cranshaw<\/a>, Scott Counts<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Exploring User Behavior in Email Re-Finding Tasks<\/a><\/h4>\r\nThursday, May 16, 2019 | 10:54 AM\u201311:18 AM | Grand Ballroom C\r\n

Joel Mackenzie, Kshitiz Gupta<\/strong>, Fang Qiao<\/strong>, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah<\/a>, Milad Shokouhi<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

A First Look at Deep Learning Apps on Smartphones<\/h4>\r\nThursday, May 16, 2019 | 4:48 PM\u20135:12 PM | Grand Ballroom C\r\n

Mengwei Xu, Jiawei Liu, Yuanqiang Liu, Felix Xiaozhu Lin, Yunxin Liu<\/a>, Xuanzhe Liu<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Bayesian Exploration with Heterogeneous Agents<\/a><\/h4>\r\nFriday, May 17, 2019 | 11:42 AM\u201312:06 PM | Seacliff A+B\r\n

Nicole Immorlica<\/a>, Jieming Mao, Aleksandrs Slivkins<\/a>, Zhiwei Steven Wu<\/p>\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[\/accordion]\r\n\r\n[accordion]\r\n[panel header=\"Tutorials\"]\r\n

Deep Chit-Chat: Deep Learning for Chatbots<\/h4>\r\nMonday, May 13, 2019 | 9:00 AM\u201312:30 PM\r\n

Organizers: Wei Wu<\/a>, Rui Yan<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n

The Practice of Labeling: everything you always wanted to know about labeling<\/h4>\r\nMonday, May 13, 2019 | 9:00 AM\u201312:30 PM\r\n

Organizer: Omar Alonso<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n

A\/B Testing at Scale: Accelerating Software Innovation<\/h4>\r\nMonday, May 13, 2019 | 2:00 PM\u20135:30 PM\r\n

Organizers: Somit Gupta<\/strong>, Ronny Kohavi<\/strong>, Alex Deng<\/strong>, Jeff Omhover<\/strong>, and Pawel Janowski<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Fairness-Aware Machine Learning: Practical Challenges and Lessons Learned<\/h4>\r\nTuesday, May 14, 2019 | 9:00 AM\u201312:30 PM | Garden A\r\n

Co-organizers: Sarah Bird<\/strong>, Emre Kiciman<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Representation Learning on Networks: Theories, Algorithms, and Applications<\/h4>\r\nTuesday, May 14, 2019 | 9:00 AM\u201312:30 PM | Grand Ballroom B\r\n

Co-organizer: Yuxiao Dong<\/a><\/p>\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[\/accordion]"},{"id":2,"name":"Posters","content":"

Wednesday, May 15, 2019 | 2:00 PM\u20133:30 PM | Pacific Concourse<\/h3>\r\n

A Scalable Hybrid Research Paper Recommender Platform for Microsoft Academic<\/h4>\r\n

Anshul Kanakia<\/strong>, Zhihong Shen<\/strong>, Darrin Eide<\/a>, Kuansan Wang<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Diversity and Exploration in Social Learning<\/h4>\r\n

Nicole Immorlica<\/a>, Jieming Mao, Christos Tzamos<\/p>\r\n\r\n

End-to-end Entity Matching using Pre-trained Deep Models<\/h4>\r\n

Chen Zhao, Yeye He<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Forecasting U.S. Domestic Migration Using Internet Search Queries<\/h4>\r\n

Allen Yilun Lin, Justin Cranshaw<\/a>, Scott Counts<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Gaps in Information Access in Social Networks<\/a><\/h4>\r\n

Benjamin Fish<\/a>, Ashkan Bashardoust, danah boyd<\/a>, Sorelle Friedler, Carlos Scheidegger, Suresh Venkatasubramanian<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Knowledge Graph Convolutional Networks for Recommender Systems<\/h4>\r\n

Hongwei Wang, Miao Zhao, Xing Xie<\/a>, Wenjie Li, Minyi Guo<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Multi-Task Feature Learning for Knowledge Graph Enhanced Recommendation<\/h4>\r\n

Hongwei Wang, Fuzheng Zhang, Miao Zhao, Wenjie Li, Xing Xie<\/a>, Minyi Guo<\/p>\r\n\r\n

NetSMF: Large-Scale Network Embedding as Sparse Matrix Factorization<\/h4>\r\n

Jiezhong Qiu, Yuxiao Dong<\/a>, Hao Ma, Jian Li, Chi Wang<\/a>, Kuansan Wang<\/a>, Jie Tang<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Neural Chinese Named Entity Recognition via CNN-LSTM-CRF and Joint Training with Word Segmentation<\/h4>\r\n

Fangzhao Wu<\/a>, Junxin Liu, Chuhan Wu, Yongfeng Huang, Xing Xie<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Thursday, May 16, 2019 | 2:00 PM\u20133:30 PM | Pacific Concourse<\/h3>\r\n

Neural Chinese Named Entity Recognition via CNN-LSTM-CRF and Joint Training with Word Segmentation<\/h4>\r\n

Fangzhao Wu<\/a>, Junxin Liu, Chuhan Wu, Yongfeng Huang, Xing Xie<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Neural Chinese Word Segmentation with Lexicon and Unlabeled Data via Posterior Regularization<\/h4>\r\n

Junxin Liu, Fangzhao Wu<\/a>, Chuhan Wu, Yongfeng Huang, Xing Xie<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Outage Prediction and Diagnosis for Cloud Service Systems<\/h4>\r\n

Yujun Chen<\/strong>, Xian Yang<\/strong>, Qingwei Lin<\/strong>, Hongyu Zhang, Feng Gao<\/strong>, Zhangwei Xu<\/strong>, Yingnong Dang<\/strong>, Dongmei Zhang<\/a>, Hang Dong<\/strong>, Yong Xu<\/strong>, Hao Li<\/strong>, Yu Kang<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Exploring User Behavior in Email Re-Finding Tasks<\/a><\/h4>\r\n

Joel Mackenzie, Kshitiz Gupta<\/strong>, Fang Qiao<\/strong>, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah<\/a>, Milad Shokouhi<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Friday, May 17, 2019 | 2:00 PM\u20133:30 PM | Pacific Concourse<\/h3>\r\n

Studying Preferences and Concerns about Information Disclosure in Email Notifications<\/a><\/h4>\r\n

Yongsung Kim, Adam Fourney<\/a>, Ece Kamar<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

A First Look at Deep Learning Apps on Smartphones<\/h4>\r\n

Mengwei Xu, Jiawei Liu, Yuanqiang Liu, Felix Xiaozhu Lin, Yunxin Liu<\/a>, Xuanzhe Liu<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Learning Fast Matching Models from Weak Annotations<\/h4>\r\n

Xue Li, Zhipeng Luo, Hao Sun, Jianjin Zhang, Weihao Han, Xianqi Chu, Liangjie Zhang, Qi Zhang<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Bayesian Exploration with Heterogeneous Agents<\/a><\/h4>\r\n

Nicole Immorlica<\/a>, Jieming Mao, Aleksandrs Slivkins<\/a>, Zhiwei Steven Wu<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Evaluating User Actions as a Proxy for Email Significance<\/h4>\r\n

Tarfah Alrashed, Chia-Jung Lee, Peter Bailey<\/a>, Christopher Lin<\/strong>, Milad Shokouhi<\/a>, Susan Dumais<\/a><\/p>"},{"id":3,"name":"Tracks","content":"

Crowdsourcing and Human Computation<\/a><\/h4>\r\n

Track Co-chair: Omar Alonso<\/strong>\r\nProgram Committee member: Dan Goldstein<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Economics, Monetization, and Online Markets<\/a><\/h4>\r\n

Track Co-chair: Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>\r\nProgram Committee members: David Pennock<\/a>, Nikhil Devanur<\/a>, Tao Qin<\/a>, Vasilis Syrgkanis<\/a>, Weidong Ma<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Health on the Web<\/a><\/h4>\r\n

Track Co-chair: Emre K\u0131c\u0131man<\/a>\r\nProgram Committee members: Amit Sharma<\/a>, Ran Gilad-Bachrach<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Intelligent Systems and Infrastructure<\/a><\/h4>\r\n

Program Committee member: Thomas Karagiannis<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Search<\/a><\/h4>\r\n

Track Co-chair: Nick Craswell<\/a>\r\nProgram Committee members: Elad Yom-Tov<\/a>, Omar Alonso<\/strong>, Bhaskar Mitra<\/a>, Chenyan Xiong<\/a>, Kaushik Chakrabarti<\/a>, Wei Wu<\/a>, Yuanhua Lv<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Social Network Analysis and Graph Algorithms track and the User Modeling, Personalization, and Experience<\/a><\/h4>\r\n

Program Committee members: Ahmed Hassan Awadallah<\/a>, Jake Hofman<\/a>, Wei Chen<\/a>, Yuxiao Dong<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

User Modeling, Personalization, and Experience<\/a><\/h4>\r\n

Program Committee members: Elnaz Nouri<\/strong>, Jiannan Lu<\/strong>, Julia Kiseleva<\/strong>, Milad Shokouhi<\/a>, Yuxiao Dong<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Web Mining and Content Analysis<\/a><\/h4>\r\n

Program Committee members: Xing Xie<\/a><\/p>"},{"id":4,"name":"Workshops","content":"

International Workshop of Deep Learning for Graphs and Structured Data Embedding<\/h4>\r\nMonday, May 13, 2019 | 9:00 AM\u201312:30 PM | Bayview A\r\n

Organizers: Ling Chen, Yuxiao Dong<\/a>, Bin Li, Fragkiskos D. Malliaros, Jie Tang, Michalis Vazirgiannis, Hui Xiong<\/p>\r\n\r\n

AW4CITY 2019: 5th International Smart City Workshop<\/h4>\r\nMonday, May 13, 2019 | 9:00 AM\u201312:30 PM | Bayview B\r\n

Keynote Speaker: Stephen Cohen<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Accepted Paper: Leveraging AI and Sensor Fabrics to Evolve Smart City Solution Designs\r\nWilliam H. Money, Stephen Cohen<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n

2019 WWW Workshop on Knowledge Graph Technology and Applications<\/h4>\r\nMonday, May 13, 2019 | 9:00 AM\u20135:30 PM | Grand Ballroom B\r\n

Invited Speaker: Benjamin Han<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Panelists: Kuansan Wang<\/a>, Benjamin Han<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Organizers: Huajun Chen, Ying Ding, Laura Dietz, Wendy Hall, James Hendler, Deborah McGuinness, Edgar Meij, Sam Molyneux, Varish Mulwad, Raghava Mutharaju, Jeff Z. Pan, Xiang Ren, Jie Tang, Alex Wade, Mengting Wan, Chenyan Xiong<\/a>, Min Zhan<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Workshop on the Intersection of Machine Learning and Mechanism Design (MDML\u2019 2019)<\/h4>\r\nMonday, May 13, 2019 | 2:00 PM\u20135:30 PM\r\n

Invited Speaker: David Pennock<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Search-Oriented Conversational AI (SCAI)<\/h4>\r\nTuesday, May 14, 2019 | 9:00 AM\u201312:30 PM | Seacliff A\r\n

Organizers: Julia Kiseleva<\/strong>, Jeff Dalton, Aleksandr Chuklin, and Mikhail Burtsev<\/p>\r\n\r\n

9th Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb)<\/h4>\r\nTuesday, May 14, 2019 | 9:00 AM\u201312:30 PM | Waterfront A\r\n

Program committee member: Omar Alonso<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Keynote speaker: Omar Alonso<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Accepted paper: The Power of Temporal Features for Classifying News Articles\r\nLukas Lange, Omar Alonso<\/strong>, Jannik Str\u00f6tgen<\/p>\r\n\r\n

ECNLP: First Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP<\/h4>\r\nTuesday, May 14, 2019 | 9:00 AM\u20135:30 PM | Pacific L\r\n

Accepted paper: Exploration of Product Search Intents via Clustering of Query Clusters\r\nOmar Alonso<\/strong>, Vasileios Kandylas<\/strong>, Serge-Eric Tremblay<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n

10th Latin American Web Conference LA-Web 2019<\/h4>\r\nTuesday, May 14, 2019 | 9:00 AM\u20136:00 PM | Marina Room\r\n

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