WSDM (pronounced “wisdom”) is the premier international ACM conference covering research in the areas of search and data mining on the Web. The Fifth ACM WSDM Conference will take place in Seattle, Washington, USA during February 9-12, 2012.

WSDM publishes original, high quality papers and presentations related to search and data mining on the Web and the Social Web, with an emphasis on practical but principled novel models of search, retrieval and data mining, algorithm design and analysis, economic implications, and in-depth experimental analysis of accuracy and performance.

WSDM 2012 is a highly selective, single track meeting that includes invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. Topics covered include but are not limited to：

Web Search
Web Dynamics and Search
Multifaceted and task-driven search
Multimedia Web search
Security and privacy in Web search and mining
User interfaces and interaction
User and search modeling
Personalized search and ranking
Distributed, meta, and peer-to-peer search
Vertical portals and search
Search quality benchmarking and evaluation
Ranking and machine learning for ranking
Searching social and real-time content
Web Mining
Web measurements, Web evolution, Web models
Clustering, classification, and summarization of Web data
Opinion mining and sentiment analysis
Multimodal data mining
Data, entity, event and relationship extraction
Sense and entity disambiguation
Data integration and data cleaning
Discovery-driven Web and social network mining
Traffic and log analysis
Algorithms and systems for Web-scale search and mining
Social Search and Mining
Social network analysis, theories, models, and applications
Social media analysis: blogs and friendship networks
Social reputation, influence, and trust
User profiling and recommendation systems
User activity modeling and exploitation
Tags, Users, and Search
Collaborative search and question answering
Searching social media and collaboratively generated content

Important Dates

August 4, 2011
Paper abstracts deadline

August 11, 2011
Paper submission deadline

October 26, 2011
Author notification


Organizers

Conference General Chairs
Eytan Adar, University of Michigan, US
Jaime Teevan, Microsoft Research, US

Program Committee Chairs
Eugene Agichtein, Emory University, US
Yoelle Maarek, Yahoo! Research, Israel