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The ACM Web Conference (TheWebConf), formerly the The Web Conference (TheWebConf) and the International World Wide Web Conference (www or IW3), aims to provide the world with a premier forum for discussion and debate about the evolution of the Web, the standardization of its associated technologies, and the impact of those technologies on society and culture. The conferences bring together researchers, developers, users and commercial ventures – indeed all who are passionate about the Web and what it has to offer.

Since 2022 the conference is organized by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia and the Web (ACM SIGWEB).

Conference History:

TheWebConf 2027 will be held in Dublin, Ireland
(Organizer: Head of AI Discipline, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin; ADAPT Centre, School of Computing, Dublin City University)

TheWebConf 2026 will take place in Dubai, UAE
(Organizer: Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE & Israel)

TheWebConf2025, 28 April – 2 May 2025, Sydney, Australia

(Organizer: School of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney; School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University)

    Conference program TBD

    Pre-conference Workshops:
    AI Agent for Information Retrieval: Generating and Ranking
    Web and the City: 11th WebAndTheCity: The Responsible Web and AI for Smart Cities
    Optimal Transport for Structured Data Modeling and Generation
    The 1st EReL@MIR Workshop on Efficient Representation Learning for Multimodal Information Retrieval
    The International Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Data Mining from the Web
    Workshop on Resource-Efficient Learning for the Web
    4th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Knowledge Graph Construction (NLP4KGC 2025)

TheWebConf2024, May 13-17, 2024, Singapore

(Organizer: School of Computing, National University of Singapore; Human-Machine Collaborative Systems Cluster, School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University)

    Pre-conference Workshops:
    Information Retrieval Meets Large Language Models
    DCAI: Data-centric Artificial Intelligence
    Graph Foundation Models
    10th WebAndTheCity –The Web and Smart Cities
    2nd Workshop on Recommendation with Generative Models
    1st Workshop on Decentralised Search and Recommendation
    12th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media (SocialNLP 2024)
    TrustLOG: The Second Workshop on Trustworthy Learning on Graphs
    Large Language Models for Graph Learning

    Pre-conference Tutorials:
    Data Augmentation for Conversational AI
    New Frontiers of Knowledge Graph Reasoning: Recent Advances and Future Trends
    Large Language Models for Graphs: Progresses and Directions
    Mining Temporal Networks
    Large Language Models for Recommendation: Progresses and Future Directions
    Text-Attributed Graph Representation Learning: Methods, Applications, and Challenges

    Research Tracks:
    Graph
    Semantics
    Mining
    RecSys
    Search

TheWebConf2023, April 30 – May 4, 2023, Austin, TX, USA

Conference Theme: Web Research with Openness, Fairness and Reproducibility
(Organizer: School of Information, University of Texas at Austin; data.world)

    Pre-conference Workshops:
    Trusting Decentralised Knowledge Graphs and Web Data (TrusDeKW)
    First workshop on Semantics in Dataspaces (SDS 2023)
    2nd International Workshop on Multisensory Data and Knowledge (MDK)
    Beyond Facts: 3d International Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Online Discourse Analysis
    9th WebAndTheCity –The Web and Smart Cities
    Workshop proposal: Knowledge Graphs for Sustainability – KG4S
    Personalization and Recommendations in Search (PARIS)
    Machine Learning for Streaming Media
    2nd Workshop on Interactive and Scalable Information Retrieval Methods for eCommerce (ISIR-eCom)
    Workshop on Decision Making for Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems
    3rd International Workshop on Deep Learning for the Web of Things
    11th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media (SocialNLP 2023)
    NLP4KGC: Natural Language Processing for Knowledge Graph Construction
    1st Workshop on Federated Learning Technologies
    3rd International Workshop on Scientific Knowledge Representation, Discovery, and Assessment (Sci-K 2023)

    Pre-conference Tutorials:
    Trustworthy Recommender Systems
    Data-Informed Interaction Learning
    Graph Neural Networks: Foundation, Frontiers and Applications
    Mining of Real-world Hypergraphs: Patterns, Tools, and Generators
    Same Data, Different Model: Choosing an Ontology Modeling Methodology
    Graph Neural Networks for Tabular Data Learning
    Conversational Information Seeking: Theory and Application
    Turning Web-Scale Texts to Knowledge: Transferring Pretrained Representations to Text Mining Applications
    Continual Graph Learning
    Never-Ending Learning, Lifelong Learning and Continual Learning in the Era of Large Pre-Trained Language Models
    Multi-Modal Recommender Systems: Towards Addressing Sparsity, Comparability, and Explainability
    Lifelong Learning Cross-domain Recommender Systems
    Towards Out-of-Distribution Generalization on Graphs
    Self-supervised Learning and Pre-training on Graphs
    When Sparse Meets Dense: Learning Advanced Graph Neural Networks with DGL-Sparse Package

    Special Days:
    Knowledge Graph Day, May 1

    Reserarch Tracks:
    Search
    Semantics and Knowledge
    Social Network Analysis and Graph Algorithms
    Web Mining and Content Analysis

TheWebConf2022, April 25-29, 2022, Lyon, France Virtual venue

Conference Theme: Let’s make the Web Better, Faster, Stronger
(Host: Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, Université de Lyon)

    Note: The conference was originally scheduled for May 16-20, 2022

    Conference Tracks: Research Track (Search; Semantics and Knowledge; Social Network Analysis and Graph Algorithms; Social Web; Web Mining and Content Analysis); Special tracks: —

    Pre-conference Workshops:
    3rd International Workshop on Data Literacy
    KnOD: 2nd International Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Online Discourse Analysis
    EMDC: 2nd International Workshop on the Efficiency of Modern Datacenters
    GLB 2022: 2nd International Workshop on Graph Learning Benchmark
    Sci-K: 2nd International Workshop on Scientific Knowledge Representation, Discovery, and Assessment
    SeBiLAn: International Workshop on Semantics-enabled Biomedical Literature Analytics
    SocialNLP: 10th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media
    The 2nd International Workshop on Deep Learning for the Web of Things
    The First International Workshop on Graph Learning
    Organizers: Charu Aggarwal, Renaud Lambiotte, Feng Xia
    UserNLP: International Workshop on User-centered Natural Language Processing
    WebAndTheCity: 8th International Workshop on Web and Smart Cities
    Wiki: 9th International Wiki Workshop

    Pre-conference Tutorials:
    Assessing Research Impact by Leveraging Open Scholarly Knowledge Graphs
    Automated Machine Learning for Recommendations: Fundamentals and Advances
    Completeness, Recall, and Negation in Open-World Knowledge Bases
    Data Democratisation with Deep Learning: An Analysis of Text-to-SQL Systems
    DBpedia Knowledge Graph Tutorial
    Modern Natural Language Processing Techniques for Scientific Web Mining: Tasks, Data, and Tools
    Self-Supervised Learning in Recommendation: Fundamentals and Advances
    Deep Learning on Graphs for Natural Language Processing
    KGTK: Tools for Creating and Exploiting Large Knowledge Graphs

TheWebConf2021, April 19-23, 2021, Ljubljana, Slovenia Virtual venue

(Host: Jozef Stefan Institute)

    Conference Tracks (Apr 19-23):
    Semantics and Knowledge; Social Network Analysis and Graph Algorithms

    Pre-conference Workshops (Apr 12-16):
    8th Wiki Workshop; 1st International Workshop on Scientific Knowledge Representation, Discovery, and Assessment (Sci-K); 1st International Workshop on Deep Learning for the Web of Things; 2nd Workshop on Deep Reinforcement Learning for Knowledge Discovery; Beyond Facts: 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Online Discourse Analysis (KnOD); International Workshop on AI in Health: Transferring and Integrating Knowledge for Better Health; PKG4Ecommerce: Product Knowledge Graph for E-Commerce Workshop 2021 (Knowledge Management in e-Commerce); International Workshop on Self-Supervised Learning for the Web (S2L@WWW 2021); 3rd Innovation Workshop on Transforming Big Data into Actionable Knowledge (BiDAW)

    Pre-conference Tutorials (Apr 12-16):
    Large Scale Graph Mining: Visualization, Exploration, and Analysis; Information Extraction from Social Media: Tasks, Data, and Open-Source Tools; Advanced Deep Graph Learning: Deeper, Faster, Robuster, Unsupervised; Deep Learning with PyTorch; Machine Learning-Driven Ad Blocking: From Data Collection to Deployment; Learning from Graphs: From Mathematical Principles to Practical Tools; Neural Structured Learning; Graph Mining and Multi-Relational Learning: Tools and Applications; Learning from Comparisons

TheWebConf2020, April 20–24, 2020, Taipei, Taiwan Virtual venue

Conference Theme: Looking into the future of the Web
(Host: Academia Sinica, Tunghai University)

    Tracks:
    Semantics and Knowledge; Social Network Analysis and Graph Algorythms

    Workshops:
    7th Wiki Workshop, 5th International Workshop on Deep Learning for Graphs (DL4G 2020)

    Tutorials:
    Entity Summarization in Knowledge Graphs: Algorithms, Evaluation, and Applications; Constructing Knowledge Graph for Social Networks in A Deep and Holistic Way; Deep Transfer Learning for Search and Recommendation

TheWebConf2019, May 13-17, 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA

Conference Theme: 30th years of the web
(Host: Web4Good)

    Tracks:
    Semantics and Knowledge; Social Network Analysis and Graph Algorythms

    Workshops:
    6th Wiki Workshop; Workshop on Knowledge Graph Technology and Applications

    Tutorials:
    From Research Articles to Knowledge Graphs: Methods for ontology-driven knowledge base creation from text

TheWebConf2018, April 23-27, 2018, Lyon, France

(Host: Université de Lyon)

    Tracks:
    Web Content Analysis, Semantics, and Knowledge; MOOC track; PHD symposium

    Tutorials:
    Building AI Applications using Knowledge Graphs; Knowledge Graph Completion

    Workshops:
    Educational Knowledge Management workshop; Latent Semantics for the Web; 5th Wiki Workshop

WWW2017, April 3-7, 2017, Perth, Western Australia

(Host: Murdoch University, Graduate School of Public Policy and International Affairs; Curtin University, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry)

    Tracks:
    Semantics and Knowledge; Social Network Analysis and Computational Social Science

    Tutorials:
    Computational Models for Social Network Analysis; Towards Semantic Applications: from Knowledge Management to Data Publishing on the Web; Semantic Data Management in Practice; Semantic Web meets Internet of Things and Web of Things

    Workshops:
    4th Wiki Workshop

WWW2016, April 11-15, 2016, Montreal, Canada

(Host: Université du Québec à Montréal)

    Tracks:
    Semantics and Big Data; Social Networks and Graph Analysis

    Tutorials:

    Workshops:
    Web Intelligence and Communities Workshop; 3th Wiki Workshop

WWW2015, May 18-22, 2015, Florence, Italy

(Host: Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences)

    Tracks:
    Social Networks 1-4; Ph.D. Symposium

    Tutorials:
    Knowledge Bases for Web Content Analytics

    Workshops:
    Web Intelligence and Communities Workshop; Knowledge Extraction from Text

WWW2014, May 7-11, 2014, Seoul, South Korea

(Host: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; Korean Agency for Technology and Standards)

    Tracks:
    Social Networks 1-3; Semantic Web 1-2; Ph.D. Symposium

    Tutorials:
    ?

    Workshops:
    Web Intelligence and Communities Workshop; Large Scale Network Anaysis

WWW2013, May 13-17, 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

(Host: Brazilian Internet Steering Committee; Brazilian Network Information Center)

    Tracks:
    Social Networks; Trust and Enterprise Social Networks; Doctoral Consortium

    Tutorials:
    Measuring user engagement; An introduction to Semantic Web and Linked Data; Information Network Analysis and Extraction on the World Wide Web; Graph Mining Tools for Community Detection and Evaluation in Social Networks and the Web

    Workshops:
    International Workshop on Mining Social Network Dynamics; Web Intelligence and Communities Workshop; International Workshop on Large Scale Network Analysis

WWW2012, April 16-20, 2012, Lyon, France

(Host: Université de Lyon)

    Tracks:
    Semantic Web; PhD Symposium

    Tutorials:
    Location-Based Social Networks

    Workshops:
    Workshop on Mining Social Networks Dynamics; Large Scale Network Analysis; Web Intelligence and Communities Workshop; Semantic Web Collaborative Spaces; Community Question Answering on the Web

WWW2011, March 28 – April 1, 2011, Hyderabad, India

(Host: International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore)

    Tracks:
    Semantic Web; PhD Symposium

    Tutorials:
    ?

    Workshops:
    International Workshop on Knowledge Diversity on the Web; International Workshop on Games for Knowledge Acquisition (CANCELLED)

WWW2010, April 26-30, 2010, Raleigh, NC, USA

(Host: North Carolina State University; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

    Tracks:
    Social Networks

    Tutorials:

    Workshops:

WWW2009, April 20-24, 2009, Madrid, Spain

(Host: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)

    Tracks:
    Social Networks

    Tutorials:
    Introduction to Social Computing; Detecting, Understanding and Exploiting Web communities

    Workshops:

WWW2008, April 21-25, 2008, Beijing, China

(Host: Beihang University)

    Tracks:
    Semantic Web I-III; Social Networks: Analysis of Social Networks and Online Interaction Spaces; Social Networks: Discovery and Evolution of Communities; Social Networks: Applications and Infrastructures for Web 2.0

    Tutorials:
    Interlinking Online Communities and Enriching Social Software with the Semantic Web

    Workshops:
    WS10A – Workshop on Social Web and Knowledge Management (SWKM2008)

WWW2007, May 8-12, 2007, Banff, Canada

(Host: University of Calgary)

    Tracks:

    Tutorials:
    Deploying Web-scale Mash-ups by Linking Microformats and the Semantic Web; Semantic Web: Technologies and Applications for the Real-World; Semantic Digital Libraries; Model Driven Semantic Web Engineering

    Workshops:
    I3: Identity, Identifiers, Identifications — Entity-Centric Approaches to Information and Knowledge Management on the Web; Social and Collaborative Construction of Structured Knowledge; Tagging and Metadata for Social Information Organization

WWW2006, May 22-26, 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland (UK)

(Host: University of Southampton, School of Electronics and Computer Science)

    Tracks:
    E-Communities; Semantic Tagging Social Networks

    Tutorials:
    Introduction to the Semantic Web

    Workshops:
    Collaborative Web Tagging; Semantic Web Annotations for Multimedia (SWAMM); Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem: Aggregation, Analysis and Dynamics

WWW2005, May 10-14, 2005, Chiba, Japan

(Host: Keio University)

    Tracks:
    Semantic Web

    Tutorials:
    Web-based Interactive Collaboration using Semantic Web Technology -Introduction of the Annotea and its Comparison to the Blog (CANCELLED)

    Workshops:
    The Semantic Computing Initiative – From Semantic Web to Semantic World; Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem – Aggregation, Analysis and Dynamics

WWW2004, May 17-22, 2004, New York, NY, USA

(Host: New York University, Center for Advanced Technology)

    Tracks:
    Information Extraction; Web of Communities

    Tutorials:

    Workshops:
    Weblogging Ecosystem: Aggregation, Analysis and Dynamics

WWW2003, May 20-24, 2003, Budapest, Hungary

(Host: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Computer and Automation Research Institute)

    Tracks:
    Semantic Web

    Tutorials:

    Workshops:
    (Virtual) Community Informatics: Support for Local and Virtual Communities

WWW2002, May 6-11, 2002, Honolulu, HI, USA

(Host: University of Hawaii; Pacific Telecom Council)

    Tracks:
    Semantic Web Services

    Tutorials:

    Workshops:
    Semantic Web Workshop

WWW10, May 1-5, 2001, Hong Kong, China

(Host: Chinese University of Hong Kong; University of Hong Kong; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; et al.)

    Tracks:

    Tutorials:

    Workshops:
    Semantic Web Workshop

WWW9, May 15-19, 2000, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

(Host: National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science)

    Tracks:

    Tutorials:

    Workshops:

WWW8, May 11-14, 1999, Toronto, Canada

(Host: University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science)

    Tracks:

    Tutorials:
    Information Retrieval and Web Search Engines

    Workshops:

WWW7, April 14-18, 1998, Brisbane, Australia

(Host: Charles Sturt University, Distributed Systems Technology Centre, Prentice Centre, and Information Industries Branch (Queensland); Southern Cross University)

    Tracks:
    Information Retrieval and Modelling; Computer Supported Cooperative Work

    Tutorials:
    ?

    Workshops:

WWW6, April 7-11, 1997, Santa Clara, CA, USA

Conference Theme: Everyone – Everything – Connected
(Hosts: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; Stanford University)

    Tracks:
    ?

    Tutorials:
    ?

    Workshops:
    ?

WWW5, May 6-10, 1996, Paris, France

(Host: Institut National pour la Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique; European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics)

    Tracks:
    Support for Cooperation, Cooperation

    Tutorials:

    Workshops:

WWW4, December 11-14, 1995, Boston, MA, USA

Conference Theme: The Web Revolution
(Host: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science; OSF Research Institute)

    Tracks:
    Collaborative Systems; Resource Discovery

    Tutorials:

    Workshops:

    Panels:
    Knowledge Representation and the Web

Asia Pacific World Wide Web Regional Conference, September 18-21, 1995, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Conference Theme: Collaboration via the Virtual Orient Express
(Host: Charles Sturt University, Center for Intelligent Information Management)

    Tracks:
    ?

    Tutorials:

    Workshops:
    no

WWW3, April 10-14, 1995, Darmstadt, Germany

Conference Theme: Technology, Tools and Applications
(Hosts: Institute for Graphic Design (FhG/IGD), Technical University of Darmstadt)

    Tracks:
    Resource Discovery and Retrieval

    Tutorials:

    Workshops:

WWW2, October 17-20, 1994, Chicago, IL, USA

Conference Theme: Mosaic and the Web
(Host: National Center for Supercomputing Applications)

    Tracks:

    Tutorials:

    Workshops:
    no

WWW1, May 25-27, 1994, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Conference Theme: Woodstock of the Web
(Host: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics; Co-organizer: Université de Genève, Centre Universitaire d’Informatique)

    Tracks:
    ?

    Tutorials:
    no

    Workshops:

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