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| − | | Acronym = TWEB 2008
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| − | | Title = ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), Special issue on Query Log Analysis: Technology & Ethics
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| − | | Type = Conference
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| − | | Field = Information retrieval
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| − | | Homepage = www.acm.org/tweb
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| − | | Submission deadline = Dec 17, 2007
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| − | | Notification = Mar 31, 2008
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| − | Call for Papers
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| − | Special issue on Query Log Analysis: Technology & Ethics
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| − | ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
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| − | http://www.acm.org/tweb
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| − | GUEST EDITORS
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| − | Einat Amitay, IBM Research, Haifa Lab, Israel, e-mail : einat@il.ibm.com
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| − | Andrei Broder, Yahoo! Research, USA, e-mail: broder@yahoo-inc.com
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| − | The complete records of queries received by web search engines (Query Logs
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| − | or QLs) are the fundamental evidence of their audience search goals and the
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| − | engines? ability to provide satisfactory answers. QLs include information
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| − | such as queries submitted, reformulations, session boundaries, results
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| − | actually explored (click through data), time spent reading each result, and
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| − | so on. Commercial search engines use QL analysis to extract patterns of
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| − | individual and collective behavior and use this feedback for improving
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| − | search performance and accuracy. At the same time, the queries made by a
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| − | particular individual often reflect their current interests and
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| − | preoccupation and reveal a surprising amount of highly personal
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| − | information. Hence the use of QLs raises issues of privacy and data
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| − | ownership, which in turn gives rise to technical problems of QL
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| − | anonymization and data security and legal and ethical problems regarding
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| − | the use and retention of QLs.
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| − | This special issue of ACM Transactions on the Web aims to gather a
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| − | collection of high quality contributions that reflect both technical and
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| − | non-technical issues related to QL analysis.
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| − | Particular areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
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| − | Search & Ranking: Use of QLs for ? ranking; query refinement and
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| − | expansion; behavior prediction; implicit collaborative filtering; targeted
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| − | advertising; document expansion; document clustering; metadata creation;
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| − | etc;
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| − | Data mining & prediction: QL trend extraction; ?Buzz? mining; Product
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| − | performance prediction; Correlation of QL data with external events;
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| − | Patterns of information-seeking & interaction behaviors observed in QLs;
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| − | Performance & Evaluation: Query caching based on QL patterns; Sampling
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| − | QLs; QL-based search quality evaluation; QL-based models of relevance;
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| − | Privacy & Policy: QL anonymization; Privacy preserving tools (e.g. query
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| − | blocking, masking and obfuscation); Privacy preserving QLs analysis.
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| − | Legal, regulatory, and ethical issues in QL collection and use; Practical
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| − | policies and practices of query logging; QL data retention issues.
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| − | Prospective authors, please submit your paper according to the directions
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| − | on the ACM TWEB Web site following the content and formatting guidelines
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| − | available at http://www.acm.org/tweb/author.html . There you can also find
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| − | detailed information about the ACM TWEB review process. When submitting
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| − | your paper, please mention that it is to be considered for the special
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| − | issue on Query Log Analysis: Technology & Ethics. In addition, please send
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| − | a copy of your paper to einat@il.ibm.com
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| − | IMPORTANT DATES
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| − | Papers Due: December 17, 2007
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| − | Author notification: March 31, 2008
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| − | Revised versions of accepted papers due: June 16, 2008 (all accepted papers
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| − | expected to undergo minor set of revisions)
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| − | Camera-ready copies due: August 1, 2008:
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| − | Issue published; November 2008
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| − | </pre>This CfP was obtained from [http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=1701&copyownerid=312 WikiCFP]
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