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| {{Event
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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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