CONFERENCE REPORT The Fourth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2011) Irwin King AT&T Labs Research The Chinese University of Hong Kong king@cse.cuhk.edu.hk Hang Li Microsoft Research Asia hangli@microsoft.com Overview The Fourth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2011) was held in Hong Kong, during February 9-12, 2011. WSDM (pronounced \wisdom") was held first at Stanford University in 2008 and subsequently in Barcelona, Spain and New York, USA. This is the first time the conference series is being located in the Asia Pacific, reacting to the growth of web search and data mining research interest in this region. Although it has only been a few years since its inception, WSDM has rapidly grown to become the premier international conference on Web search and Web data mining. Different from WWW, WSDM focuses on search and data mining. It also differs from SIGIR and SIGKDD with its emphasis on the Web. WSDM is sponsored by ACM SIGIR, SIGKDD, SIGMOD, and SIGWEB. WSDM emphasizes on participation and communication for both academia and industry. It invites fundamental and theoretical research on Web search and Web data mining, as well as practical applications of this
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