For SEO Spammers: AIRWeb 2008 Presentations

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

SEO spammers, whether your life gravitates around a “social network circus” or ”link building” or not, it is time to revisit your drawing board.

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

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
• 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

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
• 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

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