Microsoft at WSDM 2020
Location: Houston, TX, USA
Microsoft presentation schedule
Monday, February 3
9:00 AM–5:00 PM | Regency CD | Industry Day
Search and Recommendation in the Modern Workplace
Keynote Speaker: Nitin Agrawal (opens in new tab)
AI-Driven Email Subject Lines for Marketing Campaigns
Short Talk: Jun Ye (opens in new tab)
9:00 AM–5:15 PM | Regency B | Workshop
HSDM 2020: Workshop on Health Search and Data Mining (opens in new tab)
Co-organizer: Ryen White
Program Committee Member: Elad Yom-Tov (opens in new tab)
9:00 AM–12:00 PM | West Alabama | Tutorial
Challenges, Best Practices and Pitfalls in Evaluating Results of Online Controlled Experiments
Somit Gupta (opens in new tab), Xiaolin Shi, Pavel Dmitriev, Xin Fu, Avijit Mukherjee
Tuesday, February 4
3:30 PM–5:00 PM | Spotlight Presentations
Sequential Recommendation with Dual Side Neighbor-based Collaborative Relation Modeling
Jiarui Qin, Kan Ren, Yuchen Fang, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
Model Compression with Two-stage Multi-teacher Knowledge Distillation for Web Question Answering System
Ze Yang (opens in new tab), Linjun Shou (opens in new tab), Ming Gong (opens in new tab), Wutao Lin, Daxin Jiang (opens in new tab)
Influence Maximization with Spontaneous User Adoption
Lichao Sun, Albert Chen, Philip Yu, Wei Chen
Wednesday, February 5
2:00 PM–3:00 PM | Paper Session
Extreme Regression for Dynamic Search Advertising
Yashoteja Prabhu (opens in new tab), Aditya Kusupati, Nilesh Gupta (opens in new tab), Manik Varma
Thursday, February 6
3:30 PM–5:00 PM | Paper Session
Toward Activity Discovery in the Personal Web
Tara Safavi, Adam Fourney, Robert Sim, Marcin Juraszek (opens in new tab), Shane Williams, Ned Friend (opens in new tab), Danai Koutra, Paul Bennett
1:30 PM–4:00 PM | Demo Session
FAQAugmenter: Suggesting Questions for Enterprise FAQ Pages
Ankush Chatterjee (opens in new tab), Manish Gupta, Puneet Agrawal (opens in new tab)
Friday, February 7
9:00 AM–12:00 PM | Rice
NLP4REC 2020: Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Recommendations (opens in new tab)
9:25 AM–10:00 AM: Invited speaker, Julia Kiseleva (opens in new tab)
11:20 AM–11:50 AM: Panelist: Julia Kiseleva (opens in new tab)
9:00 AM–12:00 PM | Regency C
SUM 2020: Workshop on State-based User Modelling (opens in new tab)
Invited Speaker: Ahmed Hassan Awadallah