AIRWeb, papers available

AIRWeb 2008 was held in Beijing, China. AIRWeb is a workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web, including tasks such as gathering, indexing, filtering, retrieving and ranking information from collections wherein a subset has been manipulated maliciously. One example of this manipulation is search engine spamming.

The papers and presentations are available online; this year we had 3 sessions with presentations of peer-reviewed papers on Adversarial IR on the Web, covering usage analysis, network analysis and content analysis; followed by one session with the Web Spam Challenge results and a panel.

The panel was very interesting and included experts from Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and Amazon.