WebSci and SIGWEB are pleased to announce the availability of a fund to help support attendance to WebSci 2023 in Austin, TX, USA.
WebSci’23 travel grants provide support up to $1,500 for students, early career scholars and other presenters from underrepresented regions, who have an accepted paper at the conference and submit scholarship applications by March 26, 2023. In the event that scholarship applications exceed available funds, preference will be given to presenters from underrepresented regions who are planning to attend the whole Web Conference. This fund offsets travel costs but won't cover registration.
To apply for the Travel Grant Program, please complete the online application at the link below no later than March 26, 2023. Notifications will be sent by March 31.
WebSci free online tickets are intended to help students to attend the conference virtually. In the event that requests exceed available tickets, preference will be given to students who are presenting a paper and those who are from underrepresented regions. To apply for a free ticket, please complete the online application at the link below by March 26, 2023.
To apply for either kind of support, kindly submit this very simple form: https://forms.gle/pLvQg7vjwYpXieXLA
This year WebSci’23 is co-located with The Web Conference, with both taking place in Austin, Texas. WebSci’23 will take place on Sunday, April 30 and Monday, May 01. To participate in the WebSci’23 conference, you may choose to either register for WebSci-only at a rate of $100 for virtual participation or $450 early-bird rate for in-person participation, or register for The Web Conference, which allows for participation in WebSci’23 at no additional costs. For WebSci’23, there is only one rate for ACM members, non-ACM members, and students.
Registration is open and may be started here. For any enquiries regarding registration, please contact
In other exciting news, WebSci and SIGWEB have agreed to support students and early career scholars via travel grants and free online tickets. Details on the criteria and application procedures will be shared via mail updates and our social media channels soon, so stay tuned for this!
While we are still working on the last aspects of the conference program and the exact timings, we can promise you two conference days packed with interesting events, including keynotes by Dhiraj Murthy and David Rand (shared with The Web Conference) and attendance at The Web Conference’s keynote talk by Bob Metcalfe. WebSci’23 will close with an expert panel on Monday evening.
Front and center of the conference will, as always, of course be the authors and their submissions, discussing all aspects of this year’s theme Inequalities in the Face of Concurrent Crises. WebSci’23 will therefore have paper sessions on the full range of Web Science topics, approaching the theme from different perspectives - from Online Communities and Digital Analytics and Language and Emotions to sessions on Politics and Ideology, Harmful and Problematic Behavior, and Misinformation and Misperceptions. Over the coming weeks, we will present the individual paper sessions in more detail.
For this and everything else #WebSci23, keep an eye on the hashtag on social media, and check our website for further updates.
We are excited to announce 27 accepted tutorials at #TheWebConf 2023. The conference will take place in Texas, USA on April 30 - May 4 2023. See the complete list with teaser videos at https://www2023.thewebconf.org/program/tutorials/.
Internet Advertising to Improve Public Health: Opportunities and Challenges
Elad Yom-Tov, Liat Levontin, Ingmar Weber and Manuela Fritz.
Trustworthy Recommender Systems
Wenqi Fan, Xiangyu Zhao, Lin Wang, Xiao Chen, Jingtong Gao and Qidong Liu.
Data-Informed Interaction Learning
Behrooz Omidvar-Tehrani and Sihem Amer-Yahia.
Graph Neural Networks: Foundation, Frontiers and Applications
Lingfei Wu, Peng Cui, Jian Pei, Liang Zhao and Xiaojie Guo.
Mining of Real-world Hypergraphs: Patterns, Tools, and Generators
Geon Lee, Jaemin Yoo and Kijung Shin.
Practical Bandits: An Industry Perspective
Bram van den Akker, Olivier Jeunen, Ying Li, Ben London, Zahra Nazari and Devesh Parekh.
Same Data, Different Model: Choosing an Ontology Modeling Methodology
Cogan Shimizu, Torsten Hahmann and Hande McGinty.
Graph Neural Networks for Tabular Data Learning
Cheng-Te Li, Yu-Che Tsai and Jay Chiehen Liao.
Conversational Information Seeking: Theory and Application
Jeffrey Dalton, Filip Radlinksi, Federico Rossetto, Hamed Zamani and Johanne Trippas.
Tutorial: Declarative Web Applications with XForms
Steven Pemberton.
Tutorial: Invisible Markup
Steven Pemberton.
Catch Me If You GAN: Generation, Detection, and Obfuscation of Deepfake Texts
Adaku Uchendu, Thai Le and Dongwon Lee.
Towards Next-Generation Intelligent Assistants for AR/VR Devices
Xin Luna Dong, Seungwhan Moon, Yifan Xu and Zhou Yu.
Fairness in Ranking: From Values to Technical Choices and Back
Julia Stoyanovich, Meike Zehlike and Ke Yang.
Lecture-style Tutorial: Causal AI for web and health care
Utkarshani Jaimini, Usha Lokala, Kaushik Roy and Amit Sheth.
Turning Web-Scale Texts to Knowledge: Transferring Pretrained Representations to Text Mining Applications
Yu Meng, Jiaxin Huang, Yu Zhang and Jiawei Han.
The Advantages of Adding Noise
Reyhaneh Abdolazimi and Reza Zafarani.
Advances in Simulation Technology for Web Applications
Da Xu, Shuyuan Xu, Bo Yang and Yongfeng Zhang.
Model Monitoring in Practice: Lessons Learned and Open Challenges
Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Himabindu Lakkaraju, Pradeep Natarajan and Mehrnoosh Sameki.
Continual Graph Learning
Xikun Zhang, Dongjin Song, Yushan Jiang, Zijie Pan and Dacheng Tao.
Never-Ending Learning, Lifelong Learning and Continual Learning in the Era of Large Pre-Trained Language Models
Estevam Hruschka.
Multi-Modal Recommender Systems: Towards Addressing Sparsity, Comparability, and Explainability
Trung-Hoang Le, Quoc-Tuan Truong, Aghiles Salah and Hady Lauw.
Lifelong Learning Cross-domain Recommender Systems
Liang Hu, Shoujin Wang, Qi Zhang and Usman Naseem.
Towards Out-of-Distribution Generalization on Graphs
Xin Wang, Haoyang Li and Wenwu Zhu.
Spoken Language Understanding for Conversational AI: Recent Advances and Future Direction
Soyeon Han, Siqu Long, Henry Weld and Josiah Poon.
Self-supervised Learning and Pre-training on Graphs
Yukuo Cen, Yuxiao Dong and Jie Tang.
When Sparse Meets Dense: Learning Advanced Graph Neural Networks with DGL-Sparse Package
Minjie Wang, Hongzhi Chen, Quan Gan, George Karypis and Zheng Zhang.
The conference will take place in Texas, USA on April 30 - May 4 2023. The following calls for contributions still open for submissions, as well as the list of upcoming workshops and tutorials.
Special Track on The Creative Web, chaired by:
https://www2023.thewebconf.org/calls/special-tracks/creativeweb/
This track investigates the creative aspects of content on the Web. The track consists of two strands: a research strand and (focusing on the scientific study of Web creativity systems) an art works strand (focusing on the creative output of such systems).
Submit by February 6, 2023 via Easychair, at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thewebconf2023 for research strand papers (make sure to select “Creativity on the Web”); and at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thewebconf2023iwpd for art work description papers (make sure to select “Creativity on the Web - Art”). Notifications will be sent out on March 6, 2023.
The Posters and Demos Track is a forum to foster interactions among researchers and practitioners by allowing them to present and demonstrate their new and innovative work. In addition, the Posters and Demos track will enable conference attendees to learn novel ongoing research projects through informal interactions. Demos submissions must be based on an implemented and tested system.
Submit your proposals by February 3, 2023 at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thewebconf2023iwpd and choose the Poster-Demo track. Notifications for accepted proposals will be sent out on March 3, 2023.
Posters and Demos Chairs:
The Web Developer and W3C track aims at gathering developers and researchers to exchange experience and insight about how software development contributes to the evolving web platform.
Format: Technical Key Note / Screen Share Session & Live Code / Other
Submit your contribution by February 9, 2023 at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thewebconf2023 and choose the Web Developer and W3C track. Notifications for accepted contributions will be sent out on March 10, 2023.
Developer Track Chair: Pierre-Antoine Champin (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)
The PhD Symposium of The Web Conference 2023 welcomes submissions from PhD students on their ongoing research related to the main conference topics. These topics include: Semantics and Knowledge, Web Search, Web Systems and Infrastructure, Web Mining and Content Analysis, Economics, Monetization, and Online Markets, User Modeling and Personalization, Web and Society, Web of Things, Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing, Social Network Analysis and Graph Algorithms, Security, Privacy, Trust and Social Web (see also the Research Tracks).
Submit your contribution by February 3, 2023 at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thewebconf2023iwpd and choose the PhD Symposium track. Notifications for accepted contributions will be sent out on February 24, 2023.
PhD Symposium Chairs:
The Web Conference 2023 selected 22 workshops! Congratulations to all the selected workshops.
Find the links to various workshops at: https://www2023.thewebconf.org/program/workshops/
The Web Conference 2023 selected 27 tutorials! Congratulations to all the selected tutorials.
Find the links to various workshops at: https://www2023.thewebconf.org/program/tutorials/
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The ACM Web Conference Steering Committee is pleased to announce that the WebConf 2024 will be in Singapore and WebConf 2025 will be in Sydney, Australia. WebConf 2024 will be organized by a team led by Prof. Tat-seng Chua of National Singapore University (NUS), Singapore and Prof. Chong Wah Ngo of Singapore Management University (SMU), Singapore. WebConf 2025 will be organized by a team led by Prof. Guodong Long and Prof. Michael Blumenstein from University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia and Prof. Yi Chang of Jilin University, China. More information on the CFP, conference time, and venue will be made available in due course.
The ACM WebConf Steering Committee invites your participation in WebConf 2023 (Austin), WebConf 2024 (Singapore), and WebConf 2025 (Sydney) premier events of the ACM SIGWEB Society.