Best Paper Awards
The best paper awards were sponsored by Microsoft Research.
Best paper
Assessing the Impact of Syntactic and Semantic Structures for Answer Passages Reranking
Kateryna Tymoshenko (University of Trento); Alessandro Moschitti (Qatar Computing Research Institute).
Best Student Paper
Struggling and Success in Web Search
Daan Odijk (University of Amsterdam); Ryen W. White, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Susan T. Dumais (Microsoft Research).
Runner up Best Paper
Private Analysis of Infinite Data Streams Via Retroactive Grouping
Rui Chen, Yilin Shen, Hongxia Jin (Samsung Research America).
Runner up Best Student Paper
Personalized Trip Recommendation with POI Availability and Uncertain Traveling Time
Chenyi Zhang, Hongwei Liang, Ke Wang (Simon Fraser University); Jianling Sun (Zhejiang University).