SIGKDD Awards

ACM SIGKDD is pleased to announce the winners of the best paper awards for 2008.

BEST RESEARCH PAPER: WINNER

FastANOVA: an efficient algorithm for genome-wide association study
X. Zhang, F. Zou, W. Wang

BEST RESEARCH PAPER: RUNNER-UP

Get Another Label? Improving Data Quality and Data Mining Using Multiple, Noisy Labelers.
V. S. Sheng, F. Provost, P. G. Ipeirotis.

BEST RESEARCH PAPER: RUNNER-UP

SPIRAL: Efficient and Exact Model Identification for Hidden Markov Models
Y. Fujiwara, Y. Sakurai, M. Yamamuro

BEST STUDENT PAPER: WINNER

Effective Label Acquisition for Collective Classification
M. Bilgic, L. Getoor

BEST STUDENT PAPER: RUNNER-UP

Volatile Correlation Computation: A Checkpoint View
W. Zhou, H. Xiong

BEST APPLICATION PAPER: WINNER

Context-Aware Query Suggestion by Mining Click-Through and Session Data
H. Cao, D. Jiang, J. Pei, Q. He, Z. Liao, E. Chen, H. Li.

BEST APPLICATION PAPER: RUNNER-UP

Learning from Multi-Topic Web Documents for Contextual Advertising
Y. Zhang, A. C. Surendran, J. C. Platt, M. Narasimhan