Call for Papers: Workshop on Personalization and Recommendations in Search (PaRiS) at WSDM 2022

*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 at WSDM 2022
<https://www.wsdm-conference.org/2022/> 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 but will
not be archived.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 submissionFour
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
<https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template>, 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:https://www.wsdm-conference.org/2022/calls/
<https://www.wsdm-conference.org/2022/calls/>At least one author of each
accepted paper must attend the workshop and present the paper. The deadline
for paper submission is Dec 18, 2021.Papers can be submitted through CMT:
 https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/PaRiS2022
<https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/PaRiS2022>Please reach out to
paris2022-/[email protected] <paris2022-/[email protected]> for any question or
clarification regarding the workshop. Important DatesPlease pay attention
to the following dates: - Paper Submission Deadline: Dec 18, 2021 (11: 59
P.M.)- Acceptance notification: Jan 20, 2022- Workshop date: Feb 25,
2022All deadlines are 11:59 pm, anywhere in the world.Thanks,Sudarshan
LamkhedeManager - Search and Recommendations (Netflix Research)*

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