WWW / The Web Conference

Automatic Intent-Slot Induction for Dialogue Systems

Zengfeng Zeng, Dan Ma, Haiqin Yang, Zhen Gou, Jianping Shen

Comments 12 pages, 11 figures, 6 tables, in WWW'21

Toward the Next Generation of News Recommender Systems

Himan Abdollahpouri, Edward Malthouse, Joseph Konstan, Bamshad Mobasher, Jeremy Gilbert

Comments WWW '21 Companion, April 19-23, 2021, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Deepfake Videos in the Wild: Analysis and Detection

Jiameng Pu, Neal Mangaokar, Lauren Kelly, Parantapa Bhattacharya, Kavya Sundaram, Mobin Javed, Bolun Wang, Bimal Viswanath

Comments Accepted to The Web Conference 2021; First two authors contributed equally to this work; 12 pages, 6 tables

Task-adaptive Neural Process for User Cold-Start Recommendation

Xixun Lin, Jia Wu, Chuan Zhou, Shirui Pan, Yanan Cao, Bin Wang

Comments Accepted by WWW 2021

How does Truth Evolve into Fake News? An Empirical Study of Fake News Evolution

Mingfei Guo, Xiuying Chen, Juntao Li, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan

Comments 5 pages, 2 figures

Journal ref The Web Conference 2021, Workshop on News Recommendation and Intelligence

PFA: Privacy-preserving Federated Adaptation for Effective Model Personalization

Bingyan Liu, Yao Guo, Xiangqun Chen

Comments This paper has been accepted by WWW2021

A Model of Two Tales: Dual Transfer Learning Framework for Improved Long-tail Item Recommendation

Yin Zhang, Derek Zhiyuan Cheng, Tiansheng Yao, Xinyang Yi, Lichan Hong, Ed H. Chi

Comments Accepted by WWW 2021 as a long paper

Motif-driven Dense Subgraph Discovery in Directed and Labeled Networks

Ahmet Erdem Sariyuce

Comments 12 pages, 8 figures. To appear in The Web Conference (WWW) 2021

Time Series Change Point Detection with Self-Supervised Contrastive Predictive Coding

Shohreh Deldari, Daniel V. Smith, Hao Xue, Flora D. Salim

Comments Accepted at The WEB Conference 2021 (WWW'21)

"Go eat a bat, Chang!": On the Emergence of Sinophobic Behavior on Web Communities in the Face of COVID-19

Fatemeh Tahmasbi, Leonard Schild, Chen Ling, Jeremy Blackburn, Gianluca Stringhini, Yang Zhang, Savvas Zannettou

Comments This is the full version of the paper, with same title, appearing in the Proceedings of the 30th The Web Conference (WWW 2021). Please cite the WWW version

Understanding & Predicting User Lifetime with Machine Learning in an Anonymous Location-Based Social Network

Jens Helge Reelfs, Max Bergmann, Oliver Hohlfeld, Niklas Henckell

Comments To appear at the WWW'21 LocWeb Workshop

Automated Creative Optimization for E-Commerce Advertising

Jin Chen, Ju Xu, Gangwei Jiang, Tiezheng Ge, Zhiqiang Zhang, Defu Lian, Kai Zheng

Comments 10 pages, 5 figures, the Web Conference 2021

Language-agnostic Topic Classification for Wikipedia

Isaac Johnson, Martin Gerlach, Diego Sáez-Trumper

Comments Accepted to WikiWorkshop at The Web Conference 2021

Dynamic Embeddings for Interaction Prediction

Zekarias T. Kefato, Sarunas Girdzijauskas, Nasrullah Sheikh, Alberto Montresor

Comments Accepted for the International World Wide Web Conference Committee, WWW'21

Variation Control and Evaluation for Generative SlateRecommendations

Shuchang Liu, Fei Sun, Yingqiang Ge, Changhua Pei, Yongfeng Zhang

Comments 12 pages, 8 figures, to be published in WWW 2021

Graph Contrastive Learning with Adaptive Augmentation

Yanqiao Zhu, Yichen Xu, Feng Yu, Qiang Liu, Shu Wu, Liang Wang

Comments Accepted to WWW 2021, authors' version. 12 pages, 3 figures, 5 tables. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2006.04131

Random Walks with Erasure: Diversifying Personalized Recommendations on Social and Information Networks

Bibek Paudel, Abraham Bernstein

Comments Web Conference 2021 (WWW '21)

Journal ref Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021 (WWW '21), April 19--23, 2021, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Data Poisoning Attacks and Defenses to Crowdsourcing Systems

Minghong Fang, Minghao Sun, Qi Li, Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Jin Tian, Jia Liu

Comments To appear in the Web Conference 2021 (WWW '21)

Structure-Augmented Text Representation Learning for Efficient Knowledge Graph Completion

Bo Wang, Tao Shen, Guodong Long, Tianyi Zhou, Yi Chang

Comments 12 pages, WWW'21, April19-23, 2021, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Controllable and Diverse Text Generation in E-commerce

Huajie Shao, Jun Wang, Haohong Lin, Xuezhou Zhang, Aston Zhang, Heng Ji, Tarek Abdelzaher

Journal ref The Web Conference (WWW)2021

Minimally-Supervised Structure-Rich Text Categorization via Learning on Text-Rich Networks

Xinyang Zhang, Chenwei Zhang, Luna Xin Dong, Jingbo Shang, Jiawei Han

Comments WWW'21

Beyond I.I.D.: Three Levels of Generalization for Question Answering on Knowledge Bases

Yu Gu, Sue Kase, Michelle Vanni, Brian Sadler, Percy Liang, Xifeng Yan, Yu Su

Comments Accepted to TheWebConf 2021 (previously WWW)

Few-shot Network Anomaly Detection via Cross-network Meta-learning

Kaize Ding, Qinghai Zhou, Hanghang Tong, Huan Liu

Comments Accepted by The Web Conference 2021

Graph-based Hierarchical Relevance Matching Signals for Ad-hoc Retrieval

Xueli Yu, Weizhi Xu, Zeyu Cui, Shu Wu, Liang Wang

Comments To appear at WWW 2021

Using Prior Knowledge to Guide BERT's Attention in Semantic Textual Matching Tasks

Tingyu Xia, Yue Wang, Yuan Tian, Yi Chang

Comments 10 pages, WWW'21, April19-23, 2021, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Robust Generalization and Safe Query-Specialization in Counterfactual Learning to Rank

Harrie Oosterhuis, Maarten de Rijke

Comments In Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021 (WWW '21), April 19-23, 2021, Ljubljana, Slovenia. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 12 pages

Not All Features Are Equal: Discovering Essential Features for Preserving Prediction Privacy

Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah, Mohammadkazem Taram, Ali Jalali, Ahmed Taha Elthakeb, Dean Tullsen, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh

Comments This paper is presented at the 2021 Web conference (WWW 2021)

SEPAL: Towards a Large-scale Analysis of SEAndroid Policy Customization

Dongsong Yu, Guangliang Yang, Guozhu Meng, Xiaorui Gong, Xiu Zhang, Xiaobo Xiang, Xiaoyu Wang, Yue Jiang, Kai Chen, Wei Zou, Wenke Lee, Wenchang Shi

Comments 12 pages, 9 figures, accepted by WWW'21

Disentangling User Interest and Conformity for Recommendation with Causal Embedding

Yu Zheng, Chen Gao, Xiang Li, Xiangnan He, Depeng Jin, Yong Li

Comments Accepted by WWW'21

A Hybrid Bandit Model with Visual Priors for Creative Ranking in Display Advertising

Shiyao Wang, Qi Liu, Tiezheng Ge, Defu Lian, Zhiqiang Zhang

Comments To be published in the International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) 2021