To facilitate mainstream dissemination of the manuscripts presented at AIRWeb 2008 here are the papers as listed over at http://airweb.cse.lehigh.edu/2008/program.html
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8:30 – 10:00
- (10 min.) Introduction
- Usage Analysis
- (25 min.) A Large-scale Study of Automated Web Search Traffic slides
Greg Buehrer, Jack Stokes and Kumar Chellapilla - (25 min.) Identifying Web Spam with User Behavior Analysis slides
Yiqun Liu, Rongwei Cen, Min Zhang, Liyun Ru and Shaoping Ma - (15 min.) Query-log mining for detecting spam slides
Carlos Castillo, Claudio Corsi, Debora Donato, Paolo Ferragina and Aristides Gionis
- (25 min.) A Large-scale Study of Automated Web Search Traffic slides
10:30 – 12:00
- Text Analysis
- (15 min.) Cleaning Search Results using Term Distance Features slides
Josh Attenberg and Torsten Suel - (15 min.) Exploring Linguistic Features for Web Spam Detection: A Preliminary Study slides
Jakub Piskorski, Marcin Sydow and Dawid Weiss - (15 min.) Latent Dirichlet Allocation in Web Spam Filtering slides
Istvan Biro, Jacint Szabo and Andras Benczur
- (15 min.) Cleaning Search Results using Term Distance Features slides
- General
- (25 min.) Analysing Features of Japanese Splogs and Characteristics of Keywords slides
Yuuki Sato, Takehito Utsuro, Tomohiro Fukuhara, Yasuhide Kawada, Yoshiaki Murakami, Hiroshi Nakagawa and Noriko Kando - (15 min.) Webspam Identification Through Content and Hyperlinks slides
Jacob Abernethy, Olivier Chapelle and Carlos Castillo
- (25 min.) Analysing Features of Japanese Splogs and Characteristics of Keywords slides
13:30 – 15:00
- Social Networks
- (25 min.) Identifying Video Spammers in Online Social Networks slides
Fabricio Benevenuto, Tiago Rodrigues, Virgilio Almeida, Jussara Almeida, Chao Zhang and Keith Ross - (25 min.) A Few Bad Votes Too Many? Towards Robust Ranking in Social Media slides
Eugene Agichtein, Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, and Hongyuan Zha - (25 min.) The Anti-Social Tagger – Detecting Spam in Social Bookmarking Systems slides
Beate Krause, Christoph Schmitz, Andreas Hotho and Gerd Stumme
- (25 min.) Identifying Video Spammers in Online Social Networks slides
- Link Analysis
- (25 min.) Robust PageRank and Locally Computable Spam Detection Features
Vahab Mirrokni, Reid Andersen, Christian Borgs, Jennifer Chayes, John Hopcroft, Kamal Jain and Shang-Hua Teng
- (25 min.) Robust PageRank and Locally Computable Spam Detection Features
15:30 – 17:00
- Web Spam Challenge
- (5 min.) Description of the challenge
- (12 min.) Data Analysis School, Moscow slides
Konstantin Bauman, Alexey Brodskiy, Sergey Kacher, Elmira Kalimulina, Ruslan Kovalev, Mikhail Lebedev, Dmitry Orlov, Pavel Sushin, Pavel Zryumov, Dmitry Leshchiner and Ilya Muchnik - (12 min.) Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences slides
David Siklosi, Andras Benczur - (12 min.) Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing slides
Guanggang Geng, Xiaobo Jin and Chunheng Wang - (5 min.) Announcement of results
- Panel
- (45 min.): The Future of Adversarial IR on the Web
Amit Aggarwal, Zoltán Gyöngyi, Alexandros Ntoulas, Erik Selberg, and Andrew Tomkins
- (45 min.): The Future of Adversarial IR on the Web
