[dbjapan] WICOW'09 at WWW'09: Call for Participation, Keynote and Accepted Papers

[Adam Jatowt <adam [at] dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp>]

                            ****CALL FOR PARTICIPATION****

The 3rd Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web (WICOW 2009)

        in conjunction with the 18th World Wide Web Conference 2009

                                   April 20, 2009, Madrid, Spain
                          http://www.dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/wicow3/


 * WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION*

The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion on issues related to information credibility criteria and the process of its evaluation. As the quality control of Web content is insufficient due to low publishing barriers there is a lot of mistaken or unreliable information on the Web. This calls for technology that would facilitate judging the trustworthiness of content and the quality and accuracy of the information that users encounter on the Web. Such technology should be able to handle a wide range of tasks: extracting credible information related to a given topic, organizing this information, detecting its provenance, clarifying background, facts, and other related opinions and the distribution of them, and so on.


 * ORGANIZATION *

 Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan) [Chair]
 Xiaofang Zhou (University of Queensland, Australia) [Chair]
 Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University, Japan) [PC Chair]


 * KEYNOTE *

Title: User Generated Content: How Good it is?

Speaker: Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research)

Abstract: See website.


 * ACCEPTED PAPERS *

"Automatically Assessing Resource Quality for Educational Digital Libraries"
(Philipp Wetzler, Steven Bethard, Kirsten Butcher, James H. Martin and
Tamara Sumner)

"A Method of Analyzing Credibility based on LOD Control of Digital Maps"
(Daisuke Kitayama, Ryong Lee and Kazutoshi Sumiya)

"Data Quality in Web Archiving"
(Marc Spaniol, Dimitar Denev, Arturas Mazeika, Pierre Senellart and
Gerhard Weikum)

"The effects of source credibility ratings on a cultural heritage
information aggregator"
(Alia Amin, Junte Zhang, Henriette Cramer, Lynda Hardman and Vanessa Evers)

"Seller's Credibility in Electronic Markets: A Complex Network based Approach"
(Adriano Pereira, Arlei Silva, Wagner Meira Jr. and Virgilio Almeida)

"Evaluating Brand Value on the Web"
(Takuya Kobayashi, Hiroaki Ohshima, Satoshi Oyama and Katsumi Tanaka)

"Statement Map: Assisting Information Credibility Analysis by
Visualizing Arguments"
(Koji Murakami, Eric Nichols, Suguru Matsuyoshi, Asuka Sumida, Shouko
Masuda, Kentaro Inui and Yuji Matsumoto)

"QuWi: Quality Control in Wikipedia"
(Alberto Cusinato, Vincenzo Della Mea, Francesco Di Salvatore and
Stefano Mizzaro)

"Blog Credibility Ranking by Exploiting Verified Content"
(Andreas Juffinger, Michael Granitzer and Elisabeth Lex)