AIRWeb 2007 is third in a series of workshops on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web. This year the workshop also features a web spam challenge.

AIRWeb is a series of international workshops focusing on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web that brings together both researchers and industry practitioners, to present and discuss advances in the state of the art. This year, AIRWeb’2007 will be co-located with the WWW’07 conference in Banff, Canada. The workshop will include a Web Spam challenge that will test different spam detection techniques on a shared reference collection.

The call for papers lists a interesting set of problems, including new one’s like malicious tagging.

* Link spam
* Content spam
* Cloaking
* Comment spam
* Spam-oriented blogging
* Click fraud detection
* Reverse engineering of ranking algorithms
* Web content filtering
* Advertisement blocking
* Stealth crawling
* Malicious tagging

Web spam is one area where research is highly influenced by discussions with practitioners. With sponsorship and involvement from industry leaders, this should be a great venue to seek inputs. We plan to submit a paper on our continuing work on splogs.

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