WebKDD 2004

Workshop on
Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis

Held in conjunction with
The 10th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2004)

August 22-25, 2004, Seattle, Washington


Call for Papers Instructions for Authors Accepted Papers Workshop Program Program Committee Related Events

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Final Program - August 22, 2004

08:30-08:45

Introduction & Welcome

Session 1:  Web Usage Analysis and User Modeling

08:45-09:10

Sequential Analysis for Learning Modes of Browsing
Giles Hooker, Matthew Finkelman
09:10-09:35 Mining Temporally Evolving Graphs
Prasanna Desikan, Jaideep Srivastava
09:35-10:00 A Formal Model of the ETL Process for OLAP-Based Web Usage Analysis
Thilo Maier

10:00-10:30

Coffee Break

Session 2:  Web Personalization and Recommender Systems

10:30-10:55

Using Distinctive Information Channels for a Mission-based Web Recommender System
Jia Li, Osmar R. Zaiane
10:55-11:20 Complete this Puzzle: A Connectionist Approach to Accurate Web Recommendations based on a Committee of Predictors
Olfa Nasraoui, Mrudula Pavuluri
11:20-11:45 Collaborative Quality Filtering: Establishing Consensus or Recovering Ground Truth?
Jonathan Traupman, Robert Wilensky

11:45-13:15

Lunch

Session 3:  Searh Engine Personalization

13:15-13:40

Spying Out Real User Preferences for Metasearch Engine Personalization
Lin Deng, Xiaoyong Chai, Qingzhao Tan, Wilfred Ng, Dik Lee
13:40-14:05 Personalizing PageRank Based on Domain Profiles
Mehmet S. Aktas, Mehmet A. Nacar, Filippo Menczer

Session 4:  Semantic Web Mining (Joint Session with MSW'04 Workshop)

14:05-14:15

Joint Session Introduction

14:15-14:40

Boosting for Text Classification with Semantic Features
Stephan Bloehdorn, Andreas Hotho
14:40-15:05 Integrating Web Conceptual Modeling and Web Usage Mining
Rosa Meo, Pier Lanzi, Maristella Matera, Roberto Esposito

15:05-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-15:55

Discovering Links between Lexical and Surface Features in Questions and Answers
Soumen Chakrabarti

15:55-16:30

Joint Discussion and Closing