Robert West

2024

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Fly-Swat or Cannon? Cost-Effective Language Model Choice via Meta-Modeling.
Marija Sakota|Maxime Peyrard|Robert West
Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2024, Merida, Mexico, March 4-8, 2024

2023

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A Large-Scale Characterization of How Readers Browse Wikipedia.
Tiziano Piccardi|Martin Gerlach|Akhil Arora|Robert West
ACM Transactions on the Web 2023 Volume 17 Issue 2
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Automated Content Moderation Increases Adherence to Community Guidelines.
Manoel Horta Ribeiro|Justin Cheng|Robert West
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, WWW 2023, Austin, TX, USA, 30 April 2023 - 4 May 2023
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Descartes: Generating Short Descriptions of Wikipedia Articles.
Marija Sakota|Maxime Peyrard|Robert West
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, WWW 2023, Austin, TX, USA, 30 April 2023 - 4 May 2023

2022

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Quote Erat Demonstrandum: A Web Interface for Exploring the Quotebank Corpus.
Vuk Vukovic|Akhil Arora|Huan-Cheng Chang|Andreas Spitz|Robert West
SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11 - 15, 2022
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Wikipedia Reader Navigation: When Synthetic Data Is Enough.
Akhil Arora|Martin Gerlach|Tiziano Piccardi|Alberto García-Durán|Robert West
WSDM '22: The Fifteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Virtual Event / Tempe, AZ, USA, February 21 - 25, 2022
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Going Down the Rabbit Hole: Characterizing the Long Tail of Wikipedia Reading Sessions.
Tiziano Piccardi|Martin Gerlach|Robert West
Companion of The Web Conference 2022, Virtual Event / Lyon, France, April 25 - 29, 2022
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WIKI'2022: 9th Annual Wiki Workshop.
Leila Zia|Robert West|Miriam Redi|Srijan Kumar|Emily Lescak
Companion of The Web Conference 2022, Virtual Event / Lyon, France, April 25 - 29, 2022

2021

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Quotebank: A Corpus of Quotations from a Decade of News.
Timoté Vaucher|Andreas Spitz|Michele Catasta|Robert West
WSDM '21, The Fourteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Virtual Event, Israel, March 8-12, 2021
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Crosslingual Topic Modeling with WikiPDA.
Tiziano Piccardi|Robert West
WWW '21: The Web Conference 2021, Virtual Event / Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 19-23, 2021.
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On the Value of Wikipedia as a Gateway to the Web.
Tiziano Piccardi|Miriam Redi|Giovanni Colavizza|Robert West
WWW '21: The Web Conference 2021, Virtual Event / Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 19-23, 2021.
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Interventions for Softening Can Lead to Hardening of Opinions: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial.
Andreas Spitz|Ahmad Abu-Akel|Robert West
WWW '21: The Web Conference 2021, Virtual Event / Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 19-23, 2021.

2020

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Privacy-Preserving Classification with Secret Vector Machines.
Valentin Hartmann|Konark Modi|Josep M. Pujol|Robert West
CIKM '20: The 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Ireland, October 19-23, 2020
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Calibration of Google Trends Time Series.
Robert West
CIKM '20: The 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Ireland, October 19-23, 2020
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Broccoli: Sprinkling Lightweight Vocabulary Learning into Everyday Information Diets.
Roland C. Aydin|Lars Henning Klein|Arnaud Miribel|Robert West
WWW '20: The Web Conference 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, April 20-24, 2020
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Quantifying Engagement with Citations on Wikipedia.
Tiziano Piccardi|Miriam Redi|Giovanni Colavizza|Robert West
WWW '20: The Web Conference 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, April 20-24, 2020

2019

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Crosslingual Document Embedding as Reduced-Rank Ridge Regression.
Martin Josifoski|Ivan S. Paskov|Hristo S. Paskov|Martin Jaggi|Robert West
Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2019, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, February 11-15, 2019
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Why the World Reads Wikipedia: Beyond English Speakers.
Florian Lemmerich|Diego Sáez-Trumper|Robert West|Leila Zia
Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2019, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, February 11-15, 2019
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Message Distortion in Information Cascades.
Manoel Horta Ribeiro|Kristina Gligoric|Robert West
The World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 13-17, 2019

2018

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Compiling Questions into Balanced Quizzes about Documents.
Cristina Menghini|Jessica Dehler-Zufferey|Robert West
Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2018, Torino, Italy, October 22-26, 2018
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Structuring Wikipedia Articles with Section Recommendations.
Tiziano Piccardi|Michele Catasta|Leila Zia|Robert West
The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2018, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, July 08-12, 2018
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When Sheep Shop: Measuring Herding Effects in Product Ratings with Natural Experiments.
Gael Lederrey|Robert West
Proceedings of the 2018 World Wide Web Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2018, Lyon, France, April 23-27, 2018
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Welcome on Behalf of the Wiki Workshop Chairs & Organization.
Robert West|Leila Zia|Dario Taraborelli|Jure Leskovec
Companion Proceedings of the The Web Conference 2018, WWW 2018, Lyon , France, April 23-27, 2018

2017

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Why We Read Wikipedia.
Philipp Singer|Florian Lemmerich|Robert West|Leila Zia|Ellery Wulczyn|Markus Strohmaier|Jure Leskovec
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2017, Perth, Australia, April 3-7, 2017

2016

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Improving Website Hyperlink Structure Using Server Logs.
Ashwin Paranjape|Robert West|Leila Zia|Jure Leskovec
Proceedings of the Ninth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, San Francisco, CA, USA, February 22-25, 2016
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Disinformation on the Web: Impact, Characteristics, and Detection of Wikipedia Hoaxes.
Srijan Kumar|Robert West|Jure Leskovec
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2016, Montreal, Canada, April 11 - 15, 2016
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Growing Wikipedia Across Languages via Recommendation.
Ellery Wulczyn|Robert West|Leila Zia|Jure Leskovec
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2016, Montreal, Canada, April 11 - 15, 2016

2015

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Mining Missing Hyperlinks from Human Navigation Traces: A Case Study of Wikipedia.
Robert West|Ashwin Paranjape|Jure Leskovec
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2015, Florence, Italy, May 18-22, 2015

2014

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The last click: why users give up information network navigation.
Aju Thalappillil Scaria|Rose Marie Philip|Robert West|Jure Leskovec
Seventh ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2014, New York, NY, USA, February 24-28, 2014
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Knowledge base completion via search-based question answering.
Robert West|Evgeniy Gabrilovich|Kevin Murphy|Shaohua Sun|Rahul Gupta|Dekang Lin
23rd International World Wide Web Conference, WWW '14, Seoul, Republic of Korea, April 7-11, 2014

2013

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Here and there: goals, activities, and predictions about location from geotagged queries.
Robert West|Ryen W. White|Eric Horvitz
The 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR '13, Dublin, Ireland - July 28 - August 01, 2013
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No country for old members: user lifecycle and linguistic change in online communities.
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil|Robert West|Dan Jurafsky|Jure Leskovec|Christopher Potts
22nd International World Wide Web Conference, WWW '13, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 13-17, 2013
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From cookies to cooks: insights on dietary patterns via analysis of web usage logs.
Robert West|Ryen W. White|Eric Horvitz
22nd International World Wide Web Conference, WWW '13, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 13-17, 2013

2012

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Human wayfinding in information networks.
Robert West|Jure Leskovec
Proceedings of the 21st World Wide Web Conference 2012, WWW 2012, Lyon, France, April 16-20, 2012
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A data-driven sketch of Wikipedia editors.
Robert West|Ingmar Weber|Carlos Castillo
Proceedings of the 21st World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2012, Lyon, France, April 16-20, 2012 (Companion Volume)

2010

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Automatically suggesting topics for augmenting text documents.
Robert West|Doina Precup|Joelle Pineau
Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2010, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 26-30, 2010

2009

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Completing wikipedia's hyperlink structure through dimensionality reduction.
Robert West|Doina Precup|Joelle Pineau
Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2009, Hong Kong, China, November 2-6, 2009