Schedule of the workshop

In the following please find tentative program which will be finalized soon. We decided to have both long and short papers presented by the authors. If you have any kind of demos they would be very welcome and we try to set up a short and informal demo session maybe just before a closing discussion session. Long papers will be given 25 minutes presentation time. Short papers will be given 5 minutes to introduce their work just before the poster session.
08:30-09:00 Welcome and introduction
Welcome and introduction to the workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb) 2008
Susanne Boll (University of Oldenburg), Christopher Jones (Cardiff University), Eric Kansa (UC Berkeley), Puneet Kishor (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Mor Naaman (Yahoo!, Inc.) Ross Purves (University of Zurich), Arno Scharl (MODUL University Vienna), Erik Wilde (UC Berkeley)
09:00-10:00 Session 1
09:00-09:30 The Locative Web
Erik Wilde, UC Berkeley Martin Kofahl, University of Rostock
09:30-10:00 A Differential Notion of Place for Local Search
Vlad Tanasescu, KMi - The Open University
John Domingue, KMi - The Open University
10:00-10:30 Short Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Session 2
10:30-11:00 Determining Geographic Representations for Arbitrary Concepts at Query Time
Andreas Henrich, University of Bamberg
Volker Lüdecke, University of Bamberg
11:00-11:30 Urban Web Crawling
Dirk Ahlers, OFFIS - Institute of Information Technology, Oldenburg
Susanne Boll, University of Oldenburg
11:30-12:00 LocalSavvy: Aggregating Local Points of View about News Issues
Jiahui Liu, Northwestern University
Larry Birnbaum, Northwestern University
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-14:30 Session 3
13:30-14:00 Discovering Geographical-specific Interests from Web Click Data
Chang Sheng, School of Computing, National University of Singapore
Wynne Hsu, School of Computing, National University of Singapore
Mong Li Lee, School of Computing, National University of Singapore
14:00-14:30 Analysis of Geographic Queries in a Search Engine Log
Qingqing Gan, Polytechnic University
Josh Attenberg, Polytechnic University
Alexander Markowetz, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Torsten Suel, Polytechnic University
14:30-15:30 Short Paper Presentation
Core Geographical Concepts: Case Finnish Geo-Ontology
Riikka Henriksson, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK)
Tomi Kauppinen, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK)
Eero Hyvonen, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK)
Acquisition of a Vernacular Gazetteer from Web Sources
Florian Twaroch, School of Computer Science, Cardiff University
Christopher Jones, School of Computer Science, Cardiff University
Alia Abdelmoty, School of Computer Science, Cardiff University
Annotating and Visualizing Location Data in Geospatial Web Applications
Arno Scharl, MODUL University Vienna, Department of New Media Technology
Hermann Stern, Graz University of Technology, Knowledge Management Institute
Albert Weichselbraun, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Institute for Information Business
Computable Social Patterns from Sparse Sensor Data
Dinh Phung, Department of Computing, Curtin University of Technology
Brett Adams, Department of Computing, Curtin University of Technology
Svetha Venkatesh, Department of Computing, Curtin University of Technology
Modeling and Visualizing Geo-Sensitive Queries Based on User Clicks
Ziming Zhuang, Pennsylvania State University
Cliff Brunk, Yahoo! Applied Research
C. Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break & Short Papers' Poster Session
16:00-17:00 Session 4
16:00-16:30 Discovering Co-located Queries in Geographic Search Logs
Xiangye Xiao, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Long-Hao Wang, Microsoft Research Asia
Xing Xie, Microsoft Research Asia
Qiong Luo, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
16:30-17:00 Geographic Web Usage Estimation By Monitoring DNS Caches
Hüseyin Akcan, Polytechnic University
Torsten Suel, Polytechnic University Herve Brünnimann, Polytechnic University
17:00-17:30 Summary and closing of the workshop and farewell
19:00 Social Event - toba