A Selection of Search-Related Papers to Be Presented at the
WWW2007 Conference
Banff, Alberta, Canada
May 8 - May 12, 2007

What follows is a selection of papers that will be presented at WWW2007.
You can find a complete list of papers here.

You can also access papers from the following workshops:
+ Sponsored Search Auctions
+ MobEA V - Mobile Web in the Developing World
+ Social and Collaborative Construction of Structured Knowledge
+ Tagging and Metadata for Social Information Organization


++ Bill Slawski at Search Engine Land has prepared a list of papers that will be presented at the
Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb 2007) workshop.


Refereed Conference Papers

• Summarizing Email Conversations with Clue Words
  10 pages; PDF
• Giuseppe Carenini (Dept. of Computer Science, University of British Columbia)
• Raymond Ng (Dept. of Computer Science, University of British Columbia)
• Xiaodong Zhou (Dept. of Computer Science, University of British Columbia)
  
  
• Organizing and Searching the World Wide Web of Facts - Step Two: Harnessing the Wisdom of the Crowds
  10 pages; PDF
  
  • Marius Pasca (Google Inc.)

• Do Not Crawl in the DUST: Different URLs with Similar Text
  10 pages; PDF
  
• Ziv Bar-Yossef (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and Google Haifa)
• Idit Keidar (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
• Uri Schonfeld (University of California Los Angeles)
  
  
• Detecting Near-Duplicates for Web Crawling
  10 pages; PDF
  
• Gurmeet Manku (Google Inc.)
• Arvind Jain (Google Inc.)
• Anish Das Sarma (Stanford University)
  
  
• Demographic Prediction based on User's Browsing Behavior
  10 pages; PDF
• Jian Hu (Microsoft Research Asia)
• Hua-Jun Zeng (Microsoft Research Asia)
• Hua Li (Microsoft Research Asia)
• Cheng Niu (Microsoft Research Asia)
• Zheng Chen (Microsoft Research Asia)
  
  
• Why We Search? Visualizing and Predicting User Behavior
  10 pages; PDF
  
• Eytan Adar (University of Washington, CSE)
• Daniel Weld (University of Washington, CSE)
• Brian Bershad (University of Washington, CSE)
• Steven Gribble (University of Washington)
  
  
• Topic Sentiment Mixture: Modeling Facets and Opinions in Weblogs
  HTML Paper
  
• Qiaozhu Mei (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Xu Ling (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Matthew Wondra (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Hang Su (Vanderbilt University)
• ChengXiang Zhai (UIUC)
  
• NetProbe: A Fast and Scalable System for Fraud Detection in Online Auction Networks
  10 pages; PDF
• Shashank Pandit (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Duen Horng Chau (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Samuel Wang (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie Mellon University)
  
  
• Navigation-Aided Retrieval
  10 pages; PDF
  
• Shashank Pandit (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Christopher Olston (Yahoo! Research)
  
  
• Efficient Search Engine Measurements
  HTML Paper
• Ziv Bar-Yossef (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and Google Haifa)
• Maxim Gurevich (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
  
  
• Efficient Search in Large Textual Collections with Redundancy
  8 pages; PDF
  
• Jiangong Zhang (Polytechnic University)
• Torsten Suel (Polytechnic University)
  
  
• The Discoverability of the Web
  10 pages; PDF
  
• Anirban Dasgupta (Yahoo! Research)
• Arpita Ghosh (Yahoo! Research)
• Ravi Kumar (Yahoo! Research)
• Christopher Olston (Yahoo! Research)
• Sandeep Pandey (Yahoo! Research)
• Andrew Tomkins (Yahoo! Research)
  
  
• Combining Classifiers to Identify Online Databases
  HTML paper
  
• Luciano Barbosa (University of Utah)
• Juliana Freire (University of Utah)
  
  
• An Adaptive Crawler for Locating Hidden-Web Entry Points
  10 pages; PDF
  
• Luciano Barbosa (University of Utah)
• Juliana Freire (University of Utah)
  
  
• Random Web Crawls
  10 pages; PDF
  
  • Toufik Bennouas (Criteo R&D)
  • Fabien de Montgolfier (Universite Paris 7)
  
  
• Extraction and Classification of Dense Communities in the Web
  HTML paper
  
• Yon Dourisboure (Institute for Informatics and Telematics of C.N.R.)
• Filippo Geraci (Institute for Informatics and Telematics of C.N.R.)
• Marco Pellegrini (Institute for Informatics and Telematics of C.N.R.)

• Web Projections: Learning from Contextual Subgraphs of the Web
  10 pages; PDF
  
• Jure Leskovec (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Susan Dumais (Microsoft Research)
• Eric Horvitz (Microsoft Research)

• Supervised Rank Aggregation
  9 pages; PDF
  
• Yu-ting Liu (Microsoft Research Asia and Beijing Jiatong University)
• Tie-Yan Liu (Microsoft Research Asia)
• Tao Qin (Tsinghua University)
• Zhi-Ming Ma (Chinese Academy of Science)
• Hang Li (Microsoft Research Asia)
  
  
• Navigating the Intranet with High Precision
  10 pages; PDF
• Huaiyu Zhu (IBM Research)
• Alexander Löser (SAP Research)
• Sriram Raghavan (IBM Almaden Research Center)
• Shivakumar Vaithyanathan (IBM Research)
  
  
• Optimizing Web Search Using Social Annotation
  HTML paper
  
• Shenghua Bao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
• Xiaoyuan Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
• Ben Fei (IBM China Research Lab)
• Gui-Rong Xue (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
• Zhong Su (IBM China Research Lab)
• Yong Yu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

• Robust Methodologies for Modeling Web Click Distributions
  10 pages; PDF
  
• Kamal Ali (Yahoo)
• Mark Scarr (Yahoo)
  
  
• Predicting Clicks: Estimating the Click-Through Rate for New Ads
  10 pages; PDF
• Matthew Richardson (Microsoft Research)
• Ewa Dominowska (Microsoft)
• Robert Ragno (Microsoft Research)
  
  
• Dynamics of Bid Optimization in Online Advertisement Auctions
  10 pages; PDF
  
• Christian Borgs (Microsoft Research)
• Jennifer Chayes (Microsoft Research)
• Omid Etesami (U.C. Berkeley)
• Nicole Immorlica (Microsoft Research)
• Kamal Jain (Microsoft Research)
• Mohammad Mahdian (Yahoo! Research)

• Compare&Contrast: Using the Web to Discover Comparable Cases for News Stories
  HTML paper
• Jiahui Liu (Northwestern University)
• Earl Wagner (Northwestern University)
• Larry Birnbaum (Intelligent Information Laboratory, Northwestern University)
  
  
• Answering Bounded Continuous Search Queries in the World Wide Web
  HTML pages
  
• Dirk Kukulenz (Institute of Information Systems)
• Alexandros Ntoulas (Microsoft Search Labs)
  
  
• Answering Relationship Queries on the Web
  10 pages; PDF
  
• Gang Luo (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
• Chunqiang Tang(IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
• Ying-li Tian (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
  
  
  
• Dynamic Personalized Pagerank in Entity-Relation Graphs
  10 pages; PDF
• Soumen Chakrabarti (IIT Bombay)
  
• A Large-scale Evaluation and Analysis of Personalized Search Strategies
  10 pages; PDF
• Zhicheng Dou (Nankai University, China)
• Ruihua Song (Microsoft Research Asia)
• Ji-Rong Wen (Microsoft Research Asia)
  
  
• Privacy-Enhancing Personalized Web Search
  10 pages; PDF
• Yabo Xu (Simon Fraser University)
• Benyu Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia)
• Zheng Chen (Microsoft Research Asia)
• Ke Wang (Simon Fraser University)

• Homepage Live: Automatic Block Tracing for Web Personalization
  HTML Version
  
  
• Open User Profiles for Adaptive News Systems: Help or Harm?
  10 pages;  PDF
  
• Jae-wook Ahn (University of Pittsburgh)
• Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh)
• Jonathan Grady (University of Pittsburgh)
• Daqing He (University of Pittsburgh)
• Sue Yeon Syn (University of Pittsburgh)
  
• Investigating Behavioral Variability in Web Search
  10 pages; PDF
• Ryen White (Microsoft Research)
• Steven M. Drucker (Microsoft LiveLabs)
  
  
• CSurf: A Context-Driven Non-Visual Web-Browser
  10 pages; PDF
• Jalal Mahmud (Stony Brook University)
• Yevgen Borodin (Stony Brook University)
• I.V. Ramakrishnan (Stony Brook University)

• GeoTracker: Geospatial and Temporal RSS Navigation
  HTML Version
• Yih-Farn Chen (AT&T Labs - Research) (AT&T)
• Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio (AT&T Labs - Research)
• David Gibbon (AT&T Labs - Research)
• Rittwik Jana (AT&T Labs - Research)
• Serban Jora (AT&T Labs - Research)
• Bernard Renger (AT&T Labs - Research)
• Bin Wei (AT&T Labs - Research)

• Learning Information Intent via Observation
  10 pages; PDF
• Anthony Tomasic (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Isaac Simmons (Carnegie Mellon University)
• John Zimmerman (Carnegie Mellon University)
  
  
• Towards Domain-Independent Information Extraction from Web Tables
  10 pages; PDF
• Wolfgang Gatterbauer (DBAI, Vienna University of Technology)
• Paul Bohunsky (DBAI, Vienna University of Technology)
• Marcus Herzog (DBAI, Vienna University of Technology)
• Bernhard Krüpl (DBAI, Vienna University of Technology)
• Bernhard Pollak (DBAI, Vienna University of Technology)
  
  
• Web Object Retrieval
  9 pages; PDF
  
• Zaiqing Nie (Microsoft Research Asia)
• Yunxiao Ma (Microsoft Research Asia)
• Shuming Shi (Microsoft Research Asia)
• Ji-Rong Wen (Microsoft Research Asia)
• Wei-Ying Ma (Microsoft Research)
  
• Toward Expressive Syndication on the Web
  HTML paper
  
• Christian Halaschek-Wiener (University of Maryland)
• James Hendler (University of Maryland)
  
  
• Measuring Semantic Similarity between Words Using Web Search Engines
  HTML papers
  
• Danushka Bollegala (The University of Tokyo)
• Yutaka Matsuo (AIST)
• Mitsuru Ishizuka (The University of Tokyo)
  
  
• Using Google Distance to weight approximate ontology matches
  9 pages; PDF
  
• Risto Risto Gligorov (Philips Research)
• Zharko Aleksovski (Philips Research)
• Warner ten Kate (Philips Research)
• Frank van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  
  
• Yago: A Core of Semantic Knowledge - Unifying WordNet and Wikipedia
  10 pages; PDF
  
• Fabian M. Suchanek (Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science)
• Gjergji Kasneci (Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science)
• Gerhard Weikum (Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science)