SIGWEB - Awards

The Douglas Engelbart Best Paper Award for best paper, which is named after Douglas C. Engelbart, in recognition of his life's work and contributions to the field of hypertext and hypermedia.

2024 | Joey Donald Jones, David Millard. Experiencing The Authorial Burden
2023 | Mark Anderson and David Millard. Seven Hypertexts
2022 | Mark Bernstein and Stee McMorris. Links Of Darkness: Hypertext And Horror
2021 | Alisa Rieger, Tim Draws, Mariët Theune and Nava Tintarev. This Item Might Reinforce Your Opinion: Obfuscation and Labeling of Search Results to Mitigate Confirmation Bias
2020 | Alessio Antonini, Francesca Benatti and Sally Blackburn-Daniels. On Links To Be: Exercises in Style #2.
2019 | Jacob Wobbrock, Anya Hsu, Marijn Burger and Michael Magee. Isolating the Effects of Web Page Visual Appearance on the Perceived Credibility of Online News among College Students.
2018 | Lemei Zhang, Peng Liu and Jon Atle Gulla. A Deep Joint Network for Session-based News Recommendations with Contextual Augmentation.
2017 | Ujwal Gadiraju, Jie Yang and Alessandro Bozzon. Clarity is a Worthwhile Quality - On the Role of Task Clarity in Microtask Crowdsourcing.
2016 | Charlie Hargood, Verity Hunt, Mark Weal and David Millard. Patterns of Sculptural Hypertext in Location Based Narratives.
2015 | Axel Schulz, Benedikt Schmidt, and Thorsten Strufe. Small-Scale Incident Detection based on Microposts.
2014 | Georges Gouriten, Silviu Maniu, and Pierre Senellart. Scalable, Generic, and Adaptive Systems for Focused Crawling.
2013 | David Millard, Charlie Hargood, Michael Jewell, and Mark Weal. Canyons, Deltas and Plains: Towards a Unified Sculptural Model of Location-Based Hypertext.
2012 | Björn Elmar Macek, Christoph Scholz, Martin Atzmüller, and Gerd Stumme. Anatomy of a Conference.
2011 | Ricardo Kawase, George Papadakis, Eelco Herder and Wolfgang Nejdl. Beyond the Usual Suspects: Context-Aware Revisitation Support.
2010 | James Goulding, Tim Brailsford and Helen Ashman. Hyperorders and Transclusion: Understanding Dimensional Hypertext.

Ted Nelson Newcomer Award for best newcomer paper, which is presented to the best paper written by authors who have never published in earlier Hypertext proceedings.

2024 | Marta Alet, Diego Saez-Trumper. Constructing a Common Ground: Analyzing the quality and usage of International Auxiliary Languages in Wikipedia
2023 | Giuseppe Carrino, Angelo Di lorio, Gioele Barabucci. Comparison of news commonality and churn in international news outlets with TARO
2022 | Fedor Vitiugin and Carlos Castillo. Cross-Lingual Query-Based Summarization of Crisis-Related Social Media: An Abstractive Approach Using Transformers
2021 | Mithun Das, Punyajoy Saha, Ritam Dutt, Pawan Goyal, Animesh, Mukherjee and Binny Mathew. You too Brutus! Trapping Hateful Users in Social Media: Challenges, Solutions & Insighs
2020 | Sofia Kitromili, James Jordan and David Millard. What Authors Think about Hypertext Authoring.
2019 | Isaac Alpizar-Chacon and Sergey Sosnovsky. Expanding the Web of Knowledge: one Textbook at a Time.
2018 | Sumit Bhatia and Harit Vishwakarma. Know Thy Neighbors, and More! Studying the Role of Context in Entity Recommendation.
2017 | Andreas Thalhammer, Steffen Thoma, Andreas Harth and Rudi Studer. Entity-centric Data Fusion on the Web.
2016 | Britta Meixner and Christoph Einsiedler. Download and Cache Management for HTML5 Hypervideo Players.
2014 | Janette Lehmann, Claudia Müller-Birn, David Laniado, Mounia Lalmas, Andreas Kaltenbrunner. Readers Preference and Behavior on Wikipedia.
2013 | Dominic Rout, Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro, Kalina Bontcheva, Trevor Cohn. Where’s @wally? A Classification Approach to Geolocating Users Based on their Social Ties.
2012 | Eugenia-Maria Kontopoulou, Maria Predari, Thymios Kostakis, and Efstratios Gallopoulos. Graph and Matrix Metrics to Analyze Ergodic Literature for Children.
2011 | Anna Squicciarini, Smitha Sundareswaran, Dan Lin, and Josh Wede. A3P: Adaptive Policy Prediction for Shared Images over Popular Content Sharing Sites.
2010 | Heiko Haller and Andreas Abecker. iMapping: A Zooming User Interface Approach for Personal and Semantic Knowledge Management.

Presented annually at the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng). Authors of the winning paper will share a $1000 honorarium and each will receive a plaque.

2023 | Curtis Wigington. Multi-Task CTC for Joint Handwriting Recognition and Character Bounding Box Prediction
2022 | Thisanaporn Mungmeeprued, Yuxin Ma, Nisarg Mehta, Aldo Lipani. Tab this folder of documents: page stream segmentation of business documents
2021 | F. Singhofer, A. Garifullina, M. Kern, and A. Scherp. A novel approach on the joint de-identification of textual and relational data with a modified mondrian algorithm
2019 | Matthias Miller, Alexandra Bonnici, and Mennatallah El-Assady. Augmenting Music Sheets with Harmonic Fingerprints.
2018 | Dallas Fraser, Andrew Kane and Frank Tompa. Choosing Math Features for BM25 Ranking with Tangent-L.
2017 | Mark Borg and Kenneth Camilleri. Towards a Transcription System of Sign Language Video Resources via Motion Trajectory Factorisation.
2016 | Frank Mittelbach. A general framework for globally optimized pagination.
2015 | Angelo Di Iorio, Raffaele Giannella, Francesco Poggi, Silvio Peroni, and Fabio Vitali. Exploring Scholarly Papers Through Citations
2014 | Joshua Hailpern, Niranjan Damera-Venkata, and Marina Danilevsky. Truncation: All the News that Fits We'll Print
2013 | Thanh-Ha Do, Salvatore Tabbone, and Oriol Ramos Terrades. Document Noise Removal Using Sparse Representations over Learned Dictionary
2012 | Graeme Gange, Kim Marriott and Peter Stuckey. Optimal Guillotine Layout
2011 | Niranjan Damera-Venkata, José Bento and Eamonn O'Brien-Strain. Probabilistic Document Model for Automated Document Composition
2010 | Cheng Thao and Ethan V. Munson. Using Versioned Tree Data Structure, Change Detection and Node Identity for Three-Way XML Merging.

The Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award is given to the best paper that is presented at the JCDL (and earlier ACM DL) since 1998. All full papers that are accepted for presentation are eligible and the JCDL Steering Committee selects the winner.

Best paper at the JCDL conference (more information)

2023 | Christof Bless, Ildar Baimuratov and Oliver Karras. SciKGTeX - A LaTeX Package to Semantically Annotate Contributions in Scientific Publications
2022 | Martin Klein, Lyudmila Balakireva, Karolina Holub, Drazenko Celjak and Ingeborg Rudomino. Investigating Bloom Filters for Web Archives Holdings
2021 | Mari Sato, Adam Jatowt, Yijun Duan, Ricardo Campos, and Masatoshi Yoshikawa. Estimating Contemporary Relevance of Past News
2020 | Yusuke Yamamoto and Takehiro Yamamoto. Personalization Finder: A Search Interface for Identifying and Self-controlling Web Search Personalization
2019 | Drahomira Herrmannova, Nancy Pontika and Dr. Petr Knoth. Do Authors Deposit on Time? Tracking Open Access Policy Compliance.
2018
- Myriam Traub, Thaer Samar, Jacco van Ossenbruggen and Lynda Hardman. Impact of Crowdsourcing OCR Improvements on Retrievability Bias.
- Federico Nanni, Simone Paolo Ponzetto and Laura Dietz. Entity-Aspect Linking: Providing Fine-Grained Semantics of Entities in Context.
2017 | Nicholas Cole, Alfie Abdul-Rahman, and Grace Mallon. Quill: A Framework for Constructing Negotiated Texts - with a Case Study on the US Constitutional Convention of 1787.
2016 | Martin Klein, Peter Broadwell, Sharon Farb, and Todd Grappone. Comparing Published Scientific Journal Articles to Their Pre-print Versions.
2015 | Pertti Vakkari and Janna Pontinen. Result List Actions in Fiction Search.
2014 | Chuck Cartledge and Michael Nelson. When Should I Make Preservation Copies of Myself?
2013 | Kazunari Sugiyama and Min-Yen Kan. Exploiting Potential Citation Papers in Scholarly Paper Recommendation.
2012 | Hongbo Deng, Jiawei Han, Michael R. Lyu, and Irwin King. Modeling and Exploiting Heterogeneous Bibliographic Networks for Expertise Ranking.
2011 | Robert Sanderson, Benjamin Albritton, Rafael Schwemmer and Herbert Van De Sompe. SharedCanvas: A Collaborative Model for Medieval Manuscript Layout Dissemination.
2010 | David Bamman, Alison Babeu and Gregory Crane. Transferring Structural Markup Across Translations Using Multilingual Alignment and Projection.

Hypertext Douglas Engelbart Best Paper Award

Hypertext Ted Nelson Newcomer Award

SIGWEB DocEng Best Paper Award

SIGWEB/SIGIR Vannevar Bush Award