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

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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 L3S
Wolfgang Nejdl: Exploring Web Archives: Challenges and Solutions
Wolfgang Nejdl
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6. 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

7. 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

8. 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
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9. Next Web Science Lecture
April 19, 2016, 3pm
Wolfgang Nejdl
13/11/18

10. Course Web Page and Contacts
Contact
Contact persons:
Nam Khan Tran, Appelstr. 4, ground floor
Wolfgang Nejdl
13/11/18