Microsoft at WSDM 2020

Microsoft at WSDM 2020

About

Microsoft is a proud Silver sponsor for one of the premier conferences on web-inspired research involving search and data mining. Stop by our booth to chat with our experts, see demos of our latest research and find out about career opportunities with Microsoft.

Workshop Chair: Milad Shokouhi

Senior Program Committee Members: Gabriella Kazai, Emre Kiciman, Xing Xie

Program Committee Members: Jiang Bian, Yuxiao Dong, Adam Fourney, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Arnd Christian König, Xiaolu Lu, Bhaskar Mitra, Ruihua Song, Fangzhao Wu, Wei Wu, Elad Yom-Tov

Sessions

Microsoft presentation schedule

Monday, February 3

9:00 AM–5:00 PM | Regency CD | Industry Day
Search and Recommendation in the Modern Workplace
Keynote Speaker: Nitin Agrawal

AI-Driven Email Subject Lines for Marketing Campaigns
Short Talk: Jun Ye

9:00 AM–5:15 PM | Regency B | Workshop
HSDM 2020: Workshop on Health Search and Data Mining 
Co-organizer: Ryen White
Program Committee Member: Elad Yom-Tov

9:00 AM–12:00 PM | West Alabama | Tutorial
Challenges, Best Practices and Pitfalls in Evaluating Results of Online Controlled Experiments
Somit Gupta, Xiaolin Shi, Pavel Dmitriev, Xin Fu, Avijit Mukherjee

Tuesday, February 4

3:30 PM–5:00 PM | Spotlight Presentations
Sequential Recommendation with Dual Side Neighbor-based Collaborative Relation Modeling 
Jiarui Qin, Kan Ren, Yuchen Fang, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu

Model Compression with Two-stage Multi-teacher Knowledge Distillation for Web Question Answering System 
Ze Yang, Linjun Shou, Ming GongWutao LinDaxin Jiang

Influence Maximization with Spontaneous User Adoption 
Lichao Sun, Albert Chen, Philip Yu, Wei Chen

Wednesday, February 5

2:00 PM–3:00 PM | Paper Session
Extreme Regression for Dynamic Search Advertising
Yashoteja Prabhu, Aditya Kusupati, Nilesh GuptaManik Varma

Thursday, February 6

3:30 PM–5:00 PM | Paper Session
Toward Activity Discovery in the Personal Web
Tara Safavi, Adam FourneyRobert SimMarcin JuraszekShane Williams, Ned Friend, Danai Koutra, Paul Bennett

1:30 PM–4:00 PM | Demo Session
FAQAugmenter: Suggesting Questions for Enterprise FAQ Pages
Ankush Chatterjee, Manish Gupta, Puneet Agrawal

Friday, February 7

9:00 AM–12:00 PM | Rice
NLP4REC 2020: Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Recommendations
9:25 AM–10:00 AM: Invited speaker, Julia Kiseleva
11:20 AM–11:50 AM: Panelist: Julia Kiseleva

9:00 AM–12:00 PM | Regency C
SUM 2020: Workshop on State-based User Modelling
Invited Speaker: Ahmed Hassan Awadallah

Career opportunities