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Proceedings of the 2011 Joint WICOW/AIRWeb Workshop on Web Quality (WebQuality '11)
| Content Provider | ACM Digital Library |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | WebQuality 2011 was held on March 28, 2011 as a joint WICOW/AIRWeb workshop. WICOW (International Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web) workshops have addressed information credibility on the Web in 4 previous editions (2007-2010), while AIRWeb (Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web) installments have covered adversarial information retrieval issues in 5 previous editions (2005-2009). The main topics of the two workshop series were on a path of convergence, due to the continued diversification and fragmentation of web content, the increasing sophistication of manipulation attempts, and the growth in author base, particularly facilitated by emerging social media. Accordingly, a joint workshop catering for the larger research community interested in web content quality issues in general was held at WWW 2011. On one hand, the joint workshop aimed to cover the more blatant and malicious attempts that deteriorate web quality---such as spam, plagiarism, or various forms of abuse---and ways to prevent them or neutralize their impact on information retrieval. On the other hand, it also provided a venue for exchanging ideas on quantifying finer-grained issues of content credibility and author reputation, and modeling them in web information retrieval. The main objective of the workshop was to provide the research communities working on web spam, abuse, credibility, and reputation topics with a survey of current problems and potential solutions. It was meant to present an opportunity for close interaction between practitioners who may have focused on more isolated sub-areas previously. For an open publication platform such as the World Wide Web, content quality is a central issue. Low publishing barriers lead to very limited quality control, which results in the proliferation of mistaken, unreliable, and sometimes outright intentionally misleading information. Low quality (textual or multimedia) content can have detrimental effects on users, especially in the light of the ever-increasing role the Web plays in our daily lives. Content quality challenges call for technology that facilitates judging the trustworthiness of content and assessing the accuracy of the information. Some of these challenges and technologies are not fundamentally new: search engine spam is over a decade old now, and content credibility problems have received a fair share of research attention in the past few years as well. However, novel web content quality issues abound as various forms of adversarial behavior gain in sophistication, and as new groups of users and web platforms (such as microblogging services or local recommendation engines) emerge. |
| ISBN | 9781450307062 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Publisher Date | 2011-03-28 |
| Access Restriction | Subscribed |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Conference Proceedings |
