Call for Papers - 2nd workshop on Personalization and Recommendations in Search (PaRiS)

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submission and will not be published in the proceedings.*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 <https://www2023.thewebconf.org/>

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: 6th of February 2023
   - Author notification: 6th of March 2023
   - Camera-ready version deadline: 20th of March 2023
   - Workshop: Monday, 1st of May 2023

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

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


Thanks,

Sudarshan Lamkhede <https://www.linkedin.com/in/sudarshanlamkhede/>

(twitter: @__sudarshan__)

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