Seventh ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2014, New York, NY, USA, February 24-28, 2014
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the Seventh ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2014) held on February 24--28, 2014 in New York City, New York, USA. As with previous installments, WSDM attracted many high quality submissions covering a broad spectrum of Web search and data mining topics. WSDM continues be a leading forum for reporting the latest research developments in the field. We are delighted to present here the proceedings of the conference. We received a total of 355 submissions from a diverse group of 44 countries and regions, of which 64 were accepted for full paper publication in the proceedings, thus achieving an acceptance rate of 18%. The accepted papers are from 20 different countries and represent a nice mix of academic and industrial research, making this a truly international and diverse forum. Some of the most popular research topics this year include Web search, computational advertising, recommender systems, and social networks. As in the past, WSDM 2014 continues to be a single track conference. To accommodate this, 19 papers were chosen to be presented as long presentations, while the remaining 45 will be presented as short presentations. As in the past, all authors of accepted papers were afforded the opportunity to present a poster during the poster session. There were many remarkable papers submitted to the conference. We chose 10 of the most exceptional papers as Best Paper Award candidates.