Sunrise over the town of St Kilda and city of Melbourne, Australia
February 11, 2019 - February 15, 2019

Microsoft @ WSDM 2019

Location: Melbourne, Australia

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Tuesday, February 12, 2019 | 10:00 AM–10:30 AM | Session 1: Search and Ranking

MSA: Jointly Detecting Drug Name and Adverse Drug Reaction Mentioning Tweets with Multi-Head Self-Attention

Chuhan Wu, Fangzhao Wu, Zhigang Yuan, Junxin Liu, Yongfeng Huang, Xing Xie

 

Tuesday, February 12, 2019 | 11:00 AM–12:30 PM | Session 2: Knowledge Graphs and Analytics

Clustered Monotone Transforms for Rating Factorization

Raghav Somani, Gaurush Hiranandani, Oluwasanmi Koyejo, Sreangsu Acharyya

 

Wednesday, February 13, 2019 | 10:00 AM–10:30 PM | Session 5: Understanding Conversation, Discussion, and Opinions

Multi-Representation Fusion Network for Multi-Turn Response Selection in Retrieval-Based Chatbots

Chongyang Tao, Wei Wu, Can Xu, Wenpeng Hu, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan

Attitude Detection for One-Round Conversation: Jointly Extracting Target-Polarity Pairs

Zhaohao Zeng, Ruihua Song, Pingping Lin, Tetsuya Sakai

 

Wednesday, February 13, 2019 | 4:15 PM-5:30 PM | Session 8: Counterfactual and Causal Learning

Genie: An Open Box Counterfactual Policy Estimator for Optimizing Sponsored Search Marketplace

Murat Ali Bayir, Mingsen Xu, Yaojia Zhu, Yifan Shi

 

Thursday, February 14, 2019 | 9:00 AM–10:30 AM | Session 9: Recommendation

Slice: Scalable Linear Extreme Classifiers trained on 100 Million Labels for Related Searches

*Best Paper Award

Himanshu Jain, Venkatesh Balasubramanian, Bhanu Teja Chunduri, Manik Varma

Neural Tensor Factorization for Temporal Interaction Learning

Xian Wu, Baoxu Shi, Yuxiao Dong, Chao Huang, Nitesh Chawla

Shaping Feedback Data in Recommender Systems with Interventions Based on Information Foraging Theory

Tobias Schnabel, Paul Bennett, Thorsten Joachims

 

Thursday, February 14, 2019 | 11:00 AM–11:45 AM | Session 10: Personalization and Characterizing User Behavior

Characterizing and Predicting Email Deferral Behaviour

Bahareh Sarrafzadeh, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Christopher Lin, Chia-Jung Lee, Milad Shokouhi, Susan Dumais

Task Duration Estimation

Ryen W. White, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah

Neural Demographic Prediction using Search Query

Chuhan Wu, Fangzhao Wu, Junxin Liu, Shaojian He, Yongfeng Huang, Xing Xie

 

Thursday, February 14, 2019 | 2:00 PM–3:25 PM | Session 11: Domain Transfer and Representation Learning

Domain Adaptation for Commitment Detection in Email

Hosein Azarbonyad, Robert Sim, Ryen W. White