Below is an overview of the schedule. The speakers and tutors are listed here. The room assignment for each session is listed inย Session Room Info.
| Monday, 30 July | Tuesday, 31 July | Wednesday, 1 August | Thursday, 2 August | Friday, 3 August | Saturday, 4 August |
| registration 8:30 – 9:00 | |||||
| (Web) Data Science | Web Mining & Information Extraction | Social Web & Online Learning | Web-scale Crowdsourcing & Human Computation | Big Data & Web Semantics | Web & Society |
| Sessions start at 9:00 | |||||
| Welcome by WWSSS chairs (WWSSS Co-Chairs), “Introduction to Web Science” (Speaker: Wolfgang Nejdl), “Data Science in the Context of the Web” (Speaker: Stefan Dietze) | Keynote: “Text Mining and Social Media Analysis with GATE: Donald Trump, Brexit, climate change and curing cancer” (Speaker: Diana Maynard) | Keynote: “Web Analytics for Everyday Learning” (Speaker: Mathieu d’Aquin) | Keynote: “Social Computing & Crowdsourcing” (Speaker: Ujwal Gadiraju) | Keynote: “Web Semantics & Knowledge Graphs” (Speaker: Harald Sack) | Keynote: “Using Advertising Audience Estimates for Population Studies” (Speaker: Ingmar Weber) |
| Coffee 10:30-11:00 | |||||
| Data Science Process – Obtaining, exploring, interpreting Web Data (Speaker: Claudia Niederee) | Tutorial: “Information Extraction with GATE” (Speaker: Diana Maynard) | Tutorial: “Personal Web Analytics: What does my own browsing behaviour tell me about what I’m learning online?”, organised by AFEL project | Tutorial: “Scaling up Human Computation through Microtask Crowdsourcing” (Speaker: Markus Rokicki) | Tutorial: “Introduction to Scalable Big Data Processing” (Speaker: Robert Jรคschke) | Keynote: “Copyright and Data Protection Law in Data Mining” (Speaker: Christian Heinze) |
| Lunch 12.30-14:00 | |||||
| Tutorial: Machine Learning for Web Science (Speaker: Jaspreet Singh) | Tutorial: “Temporal Information Retrieval & Web Archive Analysis” (Speaker: Avishek Anand) | Supervised group work | Tutorial: “Knowledge Construction in Wikipedia” (Speaker: Besnik Fetahu) | Tutorial: “Visualisation & Visual Analytics” (Speaker: Thorsten May) | Tutorial: “Digital Social Sciences (Complex Network Analysis)” (Speaker: Nino Antulov-Fantulin) |
| Coffee 15.30-16.00 | |||||
| Talk/Tutorial: “Philosophy & Ethics of Web Science” (Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda) | Tutorial/Talk: “Truth Discovery” (Speaker: Klaus Broelemann) | Supervised group work | Excursion starting time 16.00 | Group presentations | Group presentations & closing |
| Hands-on work | |||||
| ย | |||||
| Welcome reception & poster session starts at 18:00 | Freetime | BBQ | Social Dinner | Freetime | |