WSCD2013: Workshop on Web Search Click Data

Including the results of the Switching Detection Challenge
Held in conjunction with WSDM 2013
February 12th, 2013

9:00am – Session 1

• Intro/gathering (15 min)

• Invited talk (45 min)

  Proprietary Data in Research: Public resources and questions of reproducibility
  Paul Bennett (Microsoft Reseach Redmond)

• Paper presentation (30 min)

  Iterative Expectation for Multi Period Information Retrieval [pdf]
  Marc Sloan and Jun Wang

10:30am – Coffee Break

11:00am – Session 2

• Invited talk (55 min)

  Measuring Web User Engagement: a melting pot of web analytics, focus attention, positive affect, user interest, mouse, gaze, sentimentality, saliency, etc
  Mounia Lalmas (Yahoo! Labs Barcelona)

• Challenge Overview and Summary of Results (45 min)

  Overview of the Switching Detection Challenge
  Pavel Serdyukov and Alexey Gorodilov

• Participant talk (20 min)

  Yandex Participation
  

1:00pm – Lunch

2:30pm – Session 3

• Participant talk (30 min)

  Challenge winner's presentation via Skype
  Detecting Search Engine Switching Based on User Preferences, Search Tasks, and Behavior Patterns [pdf]
  Denis Savenkov, Dmitry Lagun, Qiaoling Liu

• Invited talk (60 min)

  Looking Beyond the Clicks: Acquiring and Mining Searcher Examination and Interaction Data
  Eugene Agichtein (Emory University)

4:00pm – Afternoon Break

4:30pm – Session 4

• Web data panel discussion

6:00pm – End of Workshop