WORKSHOP REPORT Report on the Joint WICOW/AIRWeb Workshop on Web Quality (WebQuality 2011) Carlos Castillo1, Zoltan Gyongyi2, Adam Jatowt3 and Katsumi Tanaka3 Yahoo! Research Avinguda Diagonal 177, 08018 Barcelona, Spain Google Research 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA Kyoto University Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku 606-8501 Kyoto, Japan chato@yahoo-inc.com zoltang@google.com {adam,tanaka}@dl.kuis.kyotou.ac.jp Abstract The Joint WICOW/AIRWeb Workshop on Web Quality i (WebQuality 2011) was held in conjunction with the 20th International World Wide Web Conference in Hyderabad, India on the 28th March 2011. Seven full-papers presentations and a keynote talk were delivered in three sessions. This report briefly summarizes the workshop. WebQuality 2011 was held on 28th March 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 had been 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,
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