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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>++apologies for cross-posting++<BR>
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****CALL FOR PAPERS****</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> 3rd Workshop on Information Credibility on
the Web (WICOW 2009)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> in
conjunction with 18th World Wide Web Conference 2009</FONT></DIV>
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April 20, 2009, Madrid,
Spain<BR>
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href="http://www.dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/wicow3/">http://www.dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/wicow3/</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR> * WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION*</DIV>
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<DIV>As computers and computer networks become more common, a huge amount of
information, such as that found in Web documents, has been accumulated and
circulated. Such information helps many people to organize their private and
professional lives. However, in general, the quality control of Web content is
insufficient due to low publishing barriers. In result there is a lot of
mistaken or unreliable information on the Web that can have detrimental effects
on users. This calls for technology that would facilitate judging the
trustworthiness of content and the quality and accuracy of the information that
users encounter on the Web. Such technology should be able to handle a wide
range of tasks: extracting credible information related to a given topic,
organizing this information, detecting its provenance, clarifying background,
facts, and other related opinions and the distribution of them, and so on. The
issue of Web information reliability has become also apparent in the view of the
recent emergence of many popular Web 2.0 applications, the growth of the
so-called Deep Web and the ubiquity of Internet advertising.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR> * TOPICS *</DIV>
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<DIV> The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion
on<BR> issues related to information credibility criteria and the process
of<BR> its evaluation. We invite submissions on any aspect of
information<BR> credibility on the Web. Topics include, but are not limited
to:</DIV>
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<DIV> Information credibility evaluation and its applications<BR> Web
content analysis for credibility evaluation<BR> Author's intent
detection<BR> Credibility of Web search results<BR> Search models and
applications for trustworthy content on the Web<BR> Conflicting opinion
detection<BR> Online media and news credibility<BR> Multimedia content
credibility<BR> Credibility evaluation of user-generated content (e.g.,
Wikipedia, question answering sites)<BR> Information credibility evaluation
in social networks and Web 2.0 applications<BR> Analysis of information
dissemination on the Web (e.g., in blogosphere)<BR> Spatial and temporal
aspects in information credibility on the Web<BR> Information credibility
theory and fundamentals<BR> Estimation of information age, provenance and
validity<BR> Estimation of author's and publisher's
reputation<BR> Sociological and psychological aspects of information
credibility estimation<BR> Users study for information credibility
evaluation<BR> Persuasive technologies<BR> Information credibility in
online advertising and Internet monetization<BR> Web spam
detection<BR> Data consistency and provenance<BR> Processing uncertain
data and information</DIV>
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<DIV><BR> * KEYNOTE *</DIV>
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<DIV>Title: User Generated Content: How Good it is?</DIV>
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<DIV>Speaker: Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research)</DIV>
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<DIV>Abstract: See website.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR> * IMPORTANT DATES *</DIV>
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<DIV> February 3, 2009 - Paper submission deadline<BR> February 26,
2009 - Notification of acceptance<BR> March 6, 2009 - Camera ready
deadline<BR> April 20, 2009 - Workshop</DIV>
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<DIV><BR> * SUBMISSION *</DIV>
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<DIV> Submissions should be sent in English in PDF format. Papers
should<BR> adhere to ACM formatting guidelines and be no longer than 8
pages.<BR> They must be original and have not been submitted for
publication<BR> elsewhere. We encourage also submission of position papers
outlining<BR> interesting research directions.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR> * ORGANIZATION *</DIV>
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<DIV> Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan)<BR> Xiaofang Zhou
(University of Queensland, Australia)<BR> Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University,
Japan)</DIV>
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<DIV> Program Committee:</DIV>
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<DIV> Witold Abramowicz (Poznan University of Economics,
Poland)<BR> Sourav S Bhowmick (Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore)<BR> Yunbo Cao (Microsoft Research Asia, China)<BR> James
Caverlee (Texas A&M University, USA)<BR> David Danielson (Stanford
University, USA)<BR> Jean-Yves Delort (Macquarie University,
Australia)<BR> Ke Deng (University of Queensland, Australia)<BR> Pavel
Dmitriev (Yahoo!, USA)<BR> Rino Falcone (CNR, Italy)<BR> Marta
Indulska (University of Queensland, Australia)<BR> Kentaro Inui (NAIST,
Japan)<BR> Daxin Jiang (Microsoft Research Asia, China)<BR> Yoshikiyo
Kato (NICT, Japan)<BR> Nick Koudas (University of Toronto,
Canada)<BR> Marek Kowalkiewicz (SAP Research, Australia)<BR> Sadao
Kurohashi (Kyoto University, Japan)<BR> Chen Li (UC Irvine,
USA)<BR> Ee-Peng Lim (Singapore Management University,
Singapore)<BR> Li Ma (IBM Research, China)<BR> Yutaka Matsuo
(University of Tokyo, Japan)<BR> Martin Memmel (DFKI,
Germany)<BR> Miriam Metzger (UCSB, USA)<BR> Sudha Ram (University of
Arizona, USA)<BR> Shazia Sadiq (University of Queensland,
Australia)<BR> Kazutoshi Sumiya (University of Hyogo, Japan)<BR> Wei
Wang (University of New South Wales, Australia)<BR> Martin Wolpers
(Fraunhofer FIT, Germany)<BR> Xiaochun Yang (Northeastern University,
China)<BR> Masatoshi Yoshikawa (Kyoto University, Japan)</DIV>
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<DIV><BR> * CONTACT *</DIV>
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<DIV> Adam Jatowt<BR> email: adam [at] dl [dot] kuis [dot] kyoto-u
[dot] ac [dot] jp<BR> phone/fax: +81-75-231-4282</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>