{"id":631884,"date":"2020-01-21T17:03:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T01:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&p=631884"},"modified":"2020-01-28T12:59:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T20:59:51","slug":"wsdm-2020","status":"publish","type":"msr-event","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/wsdm-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft at WSDM 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Venue:<\/strong> Hyatt Regency Houston\/Galleria (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\n2626 Sage Road
\nHouston, TX 77056<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> WSDM 2020 (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microsoft is a proud Silver sponsor of WSDM 2020, one of the premier conferences on web-inspired research involving search and data mining. Stop by our booth to chat with our experts, see demos of our latest research and find out about\u202fcareer opportunities\u202fwith Microsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":631893,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","msr_startdate":"2020-02-03","msr_enddate":"2020-02-07","msr_location":"Houston, TX, USA","msr_expirationdate":"","msr_event_recording_link":"","msr_event_link":"","msr_event_link_redirect":false,"msr_event_time":"","msr_hide_region":false,"msr_private_event":false,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[13555],"msr-region":[197900],"msr-event-type":[197941],"msr-video-type":[],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-program-audience":[],"msr-post-option":[],"msr-impact-theme":[],"class_list":["post-631884","msr-event","type-msr-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","msr-research-area-search-information-retrieval","msr-region-north-america","msr-event-type-conferences","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_about":"Venue:<\/strong> Hyatt Regency Houston\/Galleria<\/a>\r\n2626 Sage Road\r\nHouston, TX 77056\r\n\r\nWebsite:<\/strong> WSDM 2020<\/a>","tab-content":[{"id":0,"name":"About","content":"Microsoft is a proud Silver sponsor for one of the premier conferences on web-inspired research involving search and data mining. Stop by our booth to chat with our experts, see demos of our latest research and find out about\u202fcareer opportunities\u202fwith Microsoft.\r\n\r\nWorkshop Chair:<\/strong> Milad Shokouhi<\/a>\r\n\r\nSenior Program Committee Members:<\/strong> Gabriella Kazai<\/a>, Emre Kiciman<\/a>, Xing Xie<\/a>\r\n\r\nProgram Committee Members:<\/strong> Jiang Bian<\/a>, Yuxiao Dong<\/a>, Adam Fourney<\/a>, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah<\/a>, Arnd Christian K\u00f6nig<\/a>, Xiaolu Lu<\/a>, Bhaskar Mitra<\/a>, Ruihua Song<\/a>, Fangzhao Wu<\/a>, Wei Wu<\/a>, Elad Yom-Tov<\/a>"},{"id":1,"name":"Sessions","content":"

Microsoft presentation schedule<\/h2>\r\n

Monday, February 3<\/h3>\r\n9:00 AM\u20135:00 PM | Regency CD | Industry Day\r\nSearch and Recommendation in the Modern Workplace<\/strong>\r\nKeynote\u00a0Speaker:\u00a0Nitin Agrawal<\/a>\r\n\r\nAI-Driven Email Subject Lines for Marketing Campaigns<\/strong>\r\nShort Talk:\u00a0Jun Ye<\/a>\r\n\r\n9:00 AM\u20135:15 PM | Regency B | Workshop\r\nHSDM 2020: Workshop on\u00a0Health Search and Data Mining\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>\r\nCo-organizer:\u00a0Ryen White<\/a>\r\nProgram Committee Member:\u00a0Elad Yom-Tov<\/a>\r\n\r\n9:00 AM\u201312:00 PM\u00a0| West Alabama\u00a0|\u00a0Tutorial\r\nChallenges, Best Practices and Pitfalls in Evaluating Results of Online Controlled Experiments<\/strong>\r\nSomit\u00a0Gupta<\/a>, Xiaolin Shi,\u00a0Pavel Dmitriev, Xin Fu, Avijit Mukherjee\r\n

Tuesday, February 4<\/h3>\r\n3:30 PM\u20135:00 PM | Spotlight Presentations\r\nSequential Recommendation with Dual Side Neighbor-based Collaborative Relation Modeling\u00a0<\/strong>\r\nJiarui\u00a0Qin,\u00a0Kan Ren<\/a>,\u00a0Yuchen\u00a0Fang,\u00a0Weinan\u00a0Zhang, Yong Yu\r\n\r\nModel Compression with Two-stage Multi-teacher Knowledge Distillation for Web Question Answering System\u00a0<\/strong>\r\nZe Yang<\/a>, Linjun\u00a0Shou<\/a>, Ming Gong<\/a>,\u00a0Wutao\u00a0Lin<\/b>,\u00a0Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>\r\n\r\nInfluence Maximization with Spontaneous User Adoption\u00a0<\/strong>\r\nLichao\u00a0Sun, Albert Chen, Philip Yu,\u00a0Wei Chen<\/a>\r\n

Wednesday, February 5<\/h3>\r\n2:00 PM\u20133:00 PM\u00a0|\u00a0Paper Session\r\nExtreme Regression for Dynamic Search Advertising<\/strong>\r\nYashoteja\u00a0Prabhu<\/a>, Aditya\u00a0Kusupati,\u00a0Nilesh Gupta<\/a>,\u00a0Manik Varma<\/a>\r\n

Thursday, February 6<\/h3>\r\n3:30 PM\u20135:00 PM | Paper Session\r\nToward Activity Discovery in the Personal Web<\/strong>\r\nTara\u00a0Safavi,\u00a0Adam\u00a0Fourney<\/a>,\u00a0Robert Sim<\/a>,\u00a0Marcin\u00a0Juraszek<\/a>,\u00a0Shane Williams<\/a>, Ned Friend<\/a>, Danai\u00a0Koutra,\u00a0Paul Bennett<\/a>\r\n\r\n1:30 PM\u20134:00 PM | Demo Session\r\nFAQAugmenter: Suggesting Questions for Enterprise FAQ Pages<\/strong>\r\nAnkush Chatterjee<\/a>, Manish Gupta<\/a>, Puneet Agrawal<\/a>\r\n

Friday,\u00a0February 7<\/h3>\r\n9:00 AM\u201312:00 PM | Rice\r\nNLP4REC 2020: Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Recommendations<\/strong><\/a>\r\n9:25 AM\u201310:00 AM: Invited speaker, Julia\u00a0Kiseleva<\/a>\r\n11:20 AM\u201311:50 AM: Panelist: Julia\u00a0Kiseleva<\/a>\r\n\r\n9:00 AM\u201312:00 PM | Regency C\r\nSUM 2020: Workshop on State-based User Modelling<\/strong><\/a>\r\nInvited Speaker:\u00a0Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a>"},{"id":2,"name":"Career opportunities","content":"Job openings are always searchable at https:\/\/careers.microsoft.com\/<\/a> including:\r\n