Awards

Best Interdisciplinary Paper Awards

MENTA: Inducing Multilingual Taxonomies from Wikipedia
Gerard de Melo and Gerhard Weikum

FACeTOR: Cost-Driven Exploration of Faceted Query Results
Abhijith Kashyap, Vagelis Hristidis and Michalis Petropoulos

Student Travel Awards

Ranking under Temporal Constraints
Lidan Wang (USA)

Collaborative Dual-PLSA: Mining Distinction and Commonality across Multiple DOmains for Classification
Fuzhen Zhuang (China)

MENTA: Inducing Multilingual Taxonomies from Wikipedia
Gerard de Melo (Germany)

Network Growth and the Spectral Evolution Model
Jérôme Kunegis (Germany)

Selected New Training Documents to Update User Profile
Abdulmohsen Algarni (Australia)

FACeTOR: Cost-Driven Exploration of Faceted Query Results
Abhijith Kashyap (USA)

Factors Affecting Click-Through Behavior in Aggregated Search Interfaces
Shanu Sushmita (UK)

Temporal Query Log Profiling to Improve Web Search Ranking
Alexander Kotov (USA)

A Unified Optimization Framework for Robust, Risk-aware Pseudo-relevance Feedback
Joshua Dillon (USA)

A Probabilistic Topic-Connection Model for Automatic Image Annotation
Xin Chen (USA)

Procedure of Selection

The following is a summary of procedures of Best Interdisciplinary Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award as well as Student Travel Award (STA). The Best Multi-disciplinary Paper Award will be the paper that would have most significant impact in the DB+IR+KM areas. Best Student paper would be such a paper whose first author is a student.

1. Each of PC and industry track chairs (DB/IR/KM/Industry) recommended one to three candidate papers for the Best Multidisciplinary Paper Award and the Best Student Paper Award, respectively, to the award committee that consists of nince Award Committee Members including two keynote speakers and several senior researchers recommended by PC Chairs and Conference Chair.
2. The Award Committee members reviewed all the papers and vote for best papers. An ordering was made based on the voting of all the members of the committee. The committee went through a duscussion by email and came to the final result that was recommended to the general chair.
3. The general chair made the final decision.

Best Interdisciplinary Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award Shortlist

FACeTOR: Cost-Driven Exploration of Faceted Query Results
Abhijith Kashyap, Vagelis Hristidis and Michalis Petropoulos

FacetCube: A Framework of Incorporating Prior Knowledge into Non-negative Tensor Factorization
Yun Chi and Shenghuo Zhu

Ranking under Temporal Constraints
Lidan Wang, Donald Metzler, Jimmy Lin

Examining the Information Retrieval Process from an Inductive Perspective
Ronan Cummins, Mounia Lalmas, Colm O'Riordan

MENTA: Inducing Multilingual Taxonomies from Wikipedia
Gerard de Melo and Gerhard Weikum

Collaborative Dual-PLSA: Mining Distinction and Commonality across MultipleDomains for Classification
Fuzhen Zhuang, Ping Luo, Zhiyong Shen, Qing He, Yuhong Xiong, ZhongzhiShi and Hui Xiong

The Anatomy of a Click: Modeling user behavior on web information systems
vKunal Punera, Srujana Merugu

PROSPECT: A system for screening candidates for recruitment
Amit Singh, Rose Catherine, Karthik Visweswariah, Vijil Chenthamarakshan, Nanda Kambhatla