About
The WWW has reached the stage where it can be looked upon as a gigantic information copying and distribution mechanism. But when the problem of distributing and copying information is essentially solved, where do we go next? There are a number of values that can be derived from the mesh, that also have immediate relevancy for the ML community. Goal of the workshop is to link these areas, and encourage cross-boundary thinking and working.
Topics will be:
Machine learning and probabilistic modeling: Recommendation systems and knowledge extraction are two immediate applications, with research required for large scale inference, modeling languages, and efficient decision making.
Game theory and mechanism design: When a large number of contributors is involved, how can tasks and incentive structures be made such that the desired goal is achieved? Research is required for solving very large games, and for mechanism design under uncertainty.
Knowledge representation and reasoning: Large parts of the web are currently stored in an unstructured way, making linking and evaluating knowledge a complex problem. Open points are the difficulty of reasoning, the tradeoff between efficiency of reasoning and power of the representation, and reasoning under uncertainty.
Social networks and collective intelligence: How does information flow in the web? Who is reading what, who is in touch with whom? These networks need to be analyzed, modeled, and made amenable to reasoning. (
Privacy preserving learning: What can be learned, and how can be learned, whilst only revealing a minimal set of information, or information that does not make users individually identifiable?
More information about workshop - http://research.microsoft.com/osa/adCenter/beyond_search/
Videos

Trust-Enhanced Peer-to-Peer Collaborative Web Search
Sep 4, 2019
·
10 views

Discussion
Nov 3, 2009
·
4868 views

Interactively Optimizing Information Systems as a Dueling Bandits Problem
Dec 20, 2008
·
4210 views

Online Search and Advertising, Future and Present
Dec 20, 2008
·
5605 views

Internet Advertising and Optimal Auction Design
Dec 20, 2008
·
4136 views

Search Query Disambiguation from Short Sessions
Dec 20, 2008
·
4822 views

Learning optimally from self-interested data sources in on-line ad auctions
Dec 20, 2008
·
3849 views

Collective Wisdom: Information Growth in Wikis and Blogs
Dec 20, 2008
·
4316 views

Scalable Collaborative Filtering Algorithms for Mining Social Networks
Dec 20, 2008
·
8176 views

Beyond Search - Computational Intelligence for the Web - Introduction
Dec 20, 2008
·
4164 views

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning - Discussion
Dec 20, 2008
·
5259 views

Machine Learning - Discussion
Dec 20, 2008
·
3912 views

Machine Learning, Market Design, and Advertising
Dec 20, 2008
·
7068 views

Social Networks - Discussion
Dec 20, 2008
·
3880 views

Machine Learning for the Web: A Unified View
Dec 20, 2008
·
11752 views