Call For Papers

Personalization has been a prevalent concept in the context of recommender systems. And the Web Search engines such as Google and Bing have been incorporating user intents and context to show different ranked lists of results for different users for the same query. Furthermore, in recent years, we are seeing widespread usage of personalization and recommendations in search. Examples of personalized search include e-commerce sites like Etsy.com, Music search on Spotify, restaurants search on UberEats, talent search on LinkedIn etc. showing different users’ different relevant results for the same query. These applications indicate how valuable personalization has been in the context of search. Similarly we find recommendations adding value to search beyond typical retrieval and ranking approaches. In this workshop, we want to bring all such applications and approaches developed to incorporate personalization and recommendation in search algorithms.

This workshop to be held with the WebConf 2023 welcomes submissions from academia and industry researchers and practitioners to submit their work related to personalization and recommendations in search. Please note that for the scope of this workshop both personalization and/or recommendations are for improving search experience. Personalization or recommendations as stand-alone topics are out of the scope for this workshop. We also welcome work that can highlight the challenges faced in developing a search algorithm with personalization in real production systems. We invite quality research contributions, including original research, preliminary research results, and proposals for new work, to be submitted as an extended abstract. All submitted papers will be peer reviewed by the program committee and judged for their relevance to the workshop, especially to the topics identified below, and their potential to generate discussion.

Accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop and will be published in the companion (workshop) proceedings of the WebConf 2023. We welcome research that has been previously published or is under review elsewhere. Such articles should be clearly identified at the time of submission and will not be published in the proceedings.

The topics of interest are (but not limited to) listed below:

• Personalized query interpretation and intent disambiguation
• Incorporating user context in real time or in-session adaptation for personalization in search
• Personalized evidence generation (such as summary, snippet/TAU, topics, among others) and explainability of search results
• Fairness and privacy in personalized search
• Latency, caching and other infrastructural considerations for real-world personalized search systems
• Lessons learnt and challenges for developing large scale personalized search systems
• Leveraging different modality of data, including text, image, audio for personalization of search
• New learning to rank (LTR) approaches for search personalization as well as beyond traditional LTR approaches, such as reinforcement learning for search personalization
• New applications for personalization and recommendations for search (e.g. in healthcare)
• Evaluation metrics for personalization and recommendation in search
• Optimization of delayed user behavioral rewards for personalization and recommendations in search context
• Human-computer interaction considerations in designing user interfaces and interaction for personalized search
• Datasets or design of simulator for personalized search/recommendation
• Personalizations and recommendations for Conversational Assistants
• Personal search (e.g. email search, desktop search, etc.) is not within the scope of the workshop.

Paper submission

Four page extended abstract reporting original results, preliminary results, and proposals for new work, will be considered for presentation/poster session at the workshop. Manuscripts must be self-contained and in English with 4 pages length plus references. Papers must be submitted in PDF according to the new ACM format published in ACM guidelines, selecting the generic “sigconf” sample. The PDF files must have all non-standard fonts embedded. After uploading your submission, please verify the copy stored on the CMT site. Please follow other guidelines for formatting submissions as indicated in the main conference page:

The WebConf 2023

At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop and present the paper. The deadline for paper submission is 6th of February 2023. Papers can be submitted through EasyChair:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thewebconf2023iwpd

Workshop Website

https://paris-workshop.github.io/www/index.html

Important Dates

Please pay attention to the following dates:

• Submission deadline: 24th of February 2023
• Author notification: 3rd of March 2023
• Camera-ready version deadline: 15th of March 2023
• Workshop: Monday, 1st of May 2023

All deadlines are 11:59 pm, Anywhere on Earth (AoE).

Please reach out to paris-organizers at googlegroups dot com for any question or clarification regarding the workshop.