2024 The ACM Web Conference (TheWebConf)*

The ACM Web Conference (TheWebConf)*

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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:

TheWebConf2025, Sydney, Australia
(Organizer: School of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and IT, University Technology Sydney; School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University)

Conference program TBD

TheWebConf2024, May 13 – 17, 2024, Singapore
(Organizer: School of Computing, National Singapore University; Human-Machine Collaborative Systems Cluster, School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University)

Conference program TBD

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 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
(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

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

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, 13-17 May 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA
(30th years of the web)
Host: Web4Good

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, 23-27 April 2018, Lyon, France
Host: Université de Lyon

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

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

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

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
Hosts: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and Korean Agency for Technology and Standards

Tutorials: ?

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

WWW2013 May 13-17, 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Hosts: Brazilian Internet Steering Committee, and Brazilian Network Information Center

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

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

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
Hosts: North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Tutorials: —

Workshops: —

WWW2009, April 20-24, 2009, Madrid, Spain
Host: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

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

Workshops: —

WWW2008, April 21-25, 2008, Beijing, China
Host: Beihang University

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

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

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

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

Tutorials: —

Workshops: Weblogging Ecosystem: Aggregation, Analysis and Dynamics

WWW2003, May 20-24, 2003, Budapest, Hungary
Host: Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Tutorials: —

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

WWW2002, May 6-11, 2002, Honolulu, HI, USA
Hosts: University of Hawaii, and the Pacific Telecom Council (PTC)

Tutorials: —

Workshops: Semantic Web Workshop

WWW10, May 1-5, 2001, Hong Kong, China
Hosts: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, et al.

Tutorials: —

Workshops: Semantic Web Workshop

WWW9, May 15-19, 2000, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Host: National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science

Tutorials: —

Workshops: —

WWW8, May 11-14, 1999, Toronto, Canada
Host: University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science

Tutorials: Information Retrieval and Web Search Engines

Workshops: —

WWW7, April 14-18, 1998, Brisbane, Australia
Host: Charles Sturt University, the Distributed Systems Technology Centre, the Prentice Centre, the Information Industries Branch (Queensland) and Southern Cross University

Tutorials: ?

Workshops: —

WWW6, April 7-11, 1997, Santa Clara, CA, USA
(Everyone – Everything – Connected)
Hosts: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and Stanford University

Tutorials: ?

Workshops: ?

WWW5, May 6-10, 1996, Paris, France
Host: Institut National pour la Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA); uropean Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics

Tutorials: —

Workshops: —

WWW4, December 11-14, 1995, Boston, MA, USA
(The Web Revolution)
Host: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science; OSF Research Institute

Tutorials: —

Workshops: —

Panels: Knowledge Representation and the Web

Asia Pacific World Wide Web Regional Conference, September 18-21, 1995, Sydney, NSW, Australia
(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
(Technology, Tools and Applications)
Hosts: Institute for Graphic Design (FhG/IGD), Technical University of Darmstadt

Tutorials: —

Workshops: —

WWW2, October 17-20, 1994, Chicago, IL, USA
(Mosaic and the Web)
Host: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

Tutorials: —

Workshops: no

WWW1, May 25-27, 1994, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
(Woodstock of the Web)
Host: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics; Co-organizer: Université de Genève, Centre Universitaire d’Informatique

Tutorials: no

Workshops: —