Adversarial IR on the Web (AIRWeb'09) in Madrid

Submitted by ChaTo on Thu, 2009/01/08 - 09:14

The Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web workshop is now in its fifth edition! The deadline for research articles is February 13, 2009.

Adversarial Information Retrieval addresses tasks such as gathering, indexing, filtering, retrieving and ranking information from collections wherein a subset has been manipulated maliciously. On the Web, the predominant form of such manipulation is search engine spamming (or spamdexing), i.e., malicious attempts to influence the outcome of ranking algorithms, aimed at getting an undeserved high ranking for some
items in the collection. Topics include:

  • Link spam
  • Content spam
  • Cloaking
  • Blog/forum/wiki spam
  • Tag spam
  • Review and rating spam
  • Click fraud detection
  • Reverse engineering of ranking algorithms
  • Web content filtering
  • Online advertisement blocking
  • Stealth crawling

For more information, see http://airweb.cse.lehigh.edu/2009/cfp.html