WIDM 2009: Hong Kong, China

Querying, question answering, & searching

• Dik Lun Lee:
  User profiling and personalized information delivery on the static and mobile web. 1-2
  
• Maria Soledad Pera, Rani Qumsiyeh, Meher T. Shaikh, Yiu-Kai Ng:
  Retrieving good, better, and best answers to questions in advertisements. 3-6
  
• Sofia Stamou, Lefteris Kozanidis:
  Impact of search results on user queries. 7-10
  
• Tomás Skopal, Vlastislav Dohnal, Michal Batko, Pavel Zezula:
  Distinct nearest neighbors queries for similarity search in very large multimedia databases. 11-14
  

Web algorithms

• Nobutaka Suzuki, Yuji Fukushima:
  Satisfiability of simple xpath fragments in the presence of dtds. 15-22
  
• Tahira Hasan, Sudhir P. Mudur, Nematollaah Shiri:
  A session generalization technique for improved web usage mining. 23-30
  
• Xianchao Zhang, Bo Han, Wenxin Liang:
  Automatic seed set expansion for trust propagation based anti-spamming algorithms. 31-38
  

Web Information mining & extraction techniques

• Jung-Jin Lee, Jung-Hyun Lee, JongWoo Ha, SangKeun Lee:
  Novel web page classification techniques in contextual advertising. 39-47
  
• Tu-Anh Nguyen-Hoang, Kiem Hoang:
  Efficient approach for incremental Vietnamese document clustering. 47-54
  
• You Chen, Sen Yang, Xueqi Cheng:
  Bursty topics extraction for web forums. 55-58
  
• Yanhong Liu, Peiquan Jin, Lihua Yue:
  Extracting position relations from the web. 59-62
  
• Emdad Ahmed, Hasan M. Jamil:
  Post processing wrapper generated tables for labeling anonymous datasets. 63-66
  

Searching, matching, & browsing

• Marti A. Motoyama, George Varghese:
  I seek you: searching and matching individuals in social networks. 67-75
  
• Xianpei Han, Jun Zhao:
  Web personal name disambiguation based on reference entity tables mined from the web. 75-82
  
• Naoto Asahi, Takehiro Yamamoto, Satoshi Nakamura, Katsumi Tanaka:
  Finding intermediate entity between two examples on the web. 83-87
  
• George Tsatsaronis, Iraklis Varlamis, Sofia Stamou, Kjetil Nørvåg, Michalis Vazirgiannis:
  Semantic relatedness hits bibliographic data. 87-90
  
• Mayu Iwata, Yuki Arase, Takahiro Hara, Shojiro Nishio:
  Investigation of children's characteristics for web browsing. 91-94