Topics in Web Science SS 2016 Prof. Wolfgang Nejdl, Nam Khanh Tran

Aim of the Course Insights into contemporary Web research Introduction to Web Science: A new interdisciplinary research area Wolfgang Nejdl 13/11/18

Web Science @ L3S „Preserving, understanding and shaping the Web” 25 Jahre Web - Archivierung, Suche, Analyse (ERC) K3: Je mehr Informationen, desto besser ? Informatik- und interdisziplinäre Forschung zu Internet und Web Internet: Wie sieht das Netz von morgen aus? Information: Wie bekomme ich die Informationen, die ich brauche? Community: Wie nutzen Gruppen das Web? Society: Welche Anforderungen stellen wir an das Web? Ausgewählte Projekte Soziale Medien im Forschungsalltag ViFaChem: Informationsversorgung für Industrie und Forschung MAPPING Datenschutz, Copyright und Internet Governance Computer Vision & Bewegungsanalyse, IIP (ERC) 13/11/18

Course Organization An introductory lecture per topic is given along with 3-5 state-of-the-art research articles presenting recent advances in the topic (April, May) Each student presents two articles, on a topic of her/his choice, in the second part of the course (June, July). Each student reads all articles (~4 papers per topic) suggested by the lecturers (links to the papers are available at the course web page). In the oral exam detailed questions about the two selected papers and general questions about other papers have to be answered by the student Advice: Attending the presentations from the lecturers and the students will be a great help to understand the papers. Wolfgang Nejdl 13/11/18

Topics Andrea Ceroni: Event Detection Asmelash Teka: Mining the Social Web Besnik Fetahu: Semantic Text Mining Ivana Marenzi: Search as Research - Comparing Search Engines Jaspreet Singh: Evaluating Information Retrieval Systems Nam Khanh Tran: Time-Aware Contextualization Ujwal Gadiraju: Crowdsourcing-Challenges and Opportunities in Web Science Wolfgang Nejdl: Web Science @ L3S Wolfgang Nejdl: Exploring Web Archives: Challenges and Solutions Wolfgang Nejdl 13/11/18

Student Paper Presentations Each student picks two papers for presentation First-come first-served 2-3 students are presenting their topics per lecture (30min. presentation + 15min. questions) Coaches help students understand papers and give feedback on the presentations Wolfgang Nejdl 13/11/18

Oral Exam in August / September Possible dates will be announced Detailed questions on the paper you presented More general questions on other presented papers Wolfgang Nejdl 13/11/18

8th ACM Web Science Conference 2016, May 2016 Interdisziplinäre Forschung zu allen Aspekte des Web „10 Jahre Web Science Research Initiative“ Keynotes Ricardo Baeza-Yatest, Yahoo! Andrew Tomkins, Google Daniel Olmedilla, Facebook Jure Leskovec, Stanford & Pinterest Daniel Miller, UCL, ERC Grant „Social Network Sites and Social Science” Helen Margetts, Oxford Internet Institute Panels 10 Years of Web Science Social Network Sites and Social Science Privacy and Internet Governance 13/11/18

Next Web Science Lecture April 19, 2016, 3pm Wolfgang Nejdl 13/11/18

Course Web Page and Contacts http://www2.kbs.uni-hannover.de/WebScience.html Contact email: ntran@L3S.de Contact persons: Nam Khan Tran, Appelstr. 4, ground floor Wolfgang Nejdl 13/11/18