Last week saw the 2008 edition of the World Wide Web Conference which brings together key researchers, innovators, decision-makers, technologists, businesses, and standards bodies working to shape the Web.
The 2008 conference in Beijing focussed on - how the Web access is moving from the desktop to cell phones and TV screens, and how most users are moving from passive browsing experiences on the Internet to active participation in building Web communities.
What really grabbed my attention on their site is a virtual treasure house of search and web research papers. As someone involved in SEO & social media marketing, I loved the depth of these reports. Beware, this is strictly for the academic-oriented, but anyone with deep interest in web or search would understand the value.
Here are some gems from the site - use the link below if you wanna download the detailed PDFs :
Search: Query Analysis
* Modeling Anchor Text and Classifying Queries to Enhance Web Document Retrieval
* Unsupervised Query Segmentation using Generative Language Models and Wikipedia
* Spatial Variation in Search Engine Queries
Data Mining: Log Analysis
* Query-Sets: Using Implicit Feedback and Query Patterns to Organize Web Documents
* Mining the Search Trails of Surfing Crowds: Identifying Relevant Websites From User Activity
* Using the Wisdom of the Crowds for Keyword Generation
Internet Monetization: Online advertising
* Externalities in Online Advertising
* A combinatorial allocation mechanism with penalties for banner advertising
* Dynamic Cost-Per-Action Mechanisms and Applications to Online Advertising
Search: Ranking and Retrieval Enhancement
* Ranking Refinement and Its Application to Information Retrieval
* Learning to Rank Relational Objects and Its Application to Web Search
* Contextual Advertising by Combining Relevance with Click Feedback
Rich Media
* Generating Diverse and Representative Image Search Results for Landmarks
* PageRank for Image Search
* Graph Theoretical Framework for Simultaneously Integrating Visual and Textual Features for Efficient Web Image Clustering
* Flickr Tag Recommendation based on Collective Knowledge
Search: Applications
* Automatic Online News Issue Construction in Web Environment
* Finding the Right Facts in the Crowd: Factoid Question Answering over Social Media
* Personalized Interactive Faceted Search
Each of the above topic has been covered in details reports on PDF which can be downloaded from this page on the www2008 website. Apart from the above, there are many more research papers which are more technical than I can handle ;-)
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