Query Log Analysis:

Social and Technological Challenges

A workshop at the 16th International World Wide Web Conference
May 8, 2007 - Banff, Alberta, Canada

Overview

Schedule

Program
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Call for Participation

Important Dates

Organizing Committee

Related Workshops

Workshop Schedule

8:30-8:40 Welcome and overview
8:40-9:10 Query Logs Alone are not Enough
(Grimes, Tang & Russell - Google)
9:10-9:25
Comparing Click Logs and Editorial Labels for Training Query Rewriting (Zhang & Jones - Yahoo!)
9:30-10:00 One-minute introductions
10:00-10:30 Break Demo video TrackMeNot
10:30-11:00
Can We Find Common Rules of Browsing Behavior?
(Velayathan & Yamada - NII)
11:00-11:30
Functional Faceted Web Query Analysis
(Nguyen & Kan - National University of Singapore)
11:30-12:00
Web Search Engine Evaluation using Clickthrough Data and a User Model (Dupret, Piwowarski & Murdock - Yahoo!)
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:00
A Study of Mobile Search Queries in Japan (Baeza-Yates, Dupret & Velasco - Yahoo!)
2:00-3:00
Panel Discussion: Broader Issues of Data Availability
Access to Query Logs - An Academic Researcher's Point of View (Judit Bar-Ilan - Bar-Ilan University)
Preserving the Collective Expressions of the Human Consciousness (Jansen - Penn State University)
John Morris (Center for Democracy & Technology)
3:00-3:30 Break Demo video TrackMeNot
3:30-4:30
Panel Discussion: Solutions for Preserving Privacy
User 4XXXXX9: Anonymizing Query Logs
(Adar - University of Washington)
Towards Privacy-Preserving Query Log Publishing
(Xiong & Agichtein - Emory University)
Daniel Weitzner (W3C)
4:30-4:55 Moderated group discussion
4:55-5:00 Closing remarks
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