CIKM Test of Time Award

The Test of Time Award is given for CIKM papers published at least ten years ago, and that have had an important and sustained impact on the research community.

CIKM 2023

At CIKM 2023 in Birmingham, the CIKM Test of Time Award was given to:

Paolo Ferragina and Ugo Scaiella, "TAGME: on-the-fly annotation of short text fragments (by Wikipedia entities)", CIKM 2010

The CIKM Test of Time award committee for 2023:

• Non-voting chair of CIKM 2022Test of Time Award Committee: James G. Shanahan
• TOTA committee members: 
• Ken Church, Ying Ding, Qi He,  Jussi Karlgren, and Marianne Winslett.
  

CIKM 2022

At CIKM 2022 in Atlanta, the CIKM Test of Time Award was given to:

David Liben-Nowell and Jon Kleinberg, The link prediction problem for social networks, CIKM 2003.

The CIKM Test of Time award committee for 2022:

• Non-voting chair of CIKM 2022Test of Time Award Committee: James G. Shanahan
• TOTA committee members: 
• Qi He,  Jussi Karlgren, Marianne Winslett, and Yi Zhang. 

CIKM 2021

The  CIKM 2021 Test of Time Award committee members were:

• Non-voting chair of CIKM 2021Test of Time Award Committee: James G. Shanahan
• TOTA committee members: 
• Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Qi He,  Mounia Lalmas, Hang Li, Jie Tang, and Gerhard Weikum. 

CIKM 2020

At CIKM 2020 in Galway, the Test of Time Award was given to two papers:

You are where you tweet: a content-based approach to geo-locating twitter users, Zhiyuan Cheng, James A Caverlee and Kyumin  Lee, CIKM 2010

Joint sentiment/topic model for sentiment analysis, Chenghua Lin and Yuxiong He, CIKM 2009

The Test of Time Award Committee members for 2020 were:

• Chair: Nick Craswell, Microsoft, USA (non-voting member)
• Mounia Lalmas, Spotify, UK
• Hang Li, Bytedance, China
• Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China
• Gerhard Weikum, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany

CIKM 2019

At CIKM 2019 in Beijing, the Test of Time Award was given to two papers:

Rada Mihalcea, and Andras Csomai, Wikify!: Linking Documents to Encyclopedic Knowledge, presented at CIKM 2007, and

Hao Ma, Haixuan Yang, Michael R. Lyu, and Irwin King, SoRec: Social Recommendation Using Probabilistic Matrix Factorization, presented at CIKM 2008

The CIKM2019 Test of Time award committee members are:

• Chair: Nick Craswell, Microsoft, USA (non-voting member)
• Ricardo Baeza-Yates, NTENT, USA
• Mounia Lalmas, Spotify, UK
• Hang Li, Bytedance, China
• Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China
• Gerhard Weikum, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany

CIKM 2018

At CIKM 2018 in Turin, the CIKM Test of Time Award was given to two papers:

T. Finin, R. Fritzson, D. McKay, R. McEntire. KQML as an agent communication language, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '94), and

D. Milne, I.H. Witten. Learning to link with Wikipedia, Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '08)

The CIKM Test of Time award committee for 2018:

• Chair: Nick Craswell, Microsoft, USA (non-voting member)
• Ricardo Baeza-Yates, NTENT, USA
• Tanya Berger-Wolf, University of Illinois, USA
• Gerhard Weikum, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany
• Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China

CIKM 2017

At CIKM 2017 in Singapore, the Inaugural CIKM Test of Time Award was given to:

Sue Dumais, John Platt, David Heckerman, Mehran Sahami, “Inductive Learning Algorithms and Representations for Text Categorization”, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '98) pages 148-155.

The CIKM Test of Time award committee for 2017:

• Chair: Nick Craswell, Microsoft, USA (non-voting member)
• Ricardo Baeza-Yates, NTENT, USA
• Sihem Amer-Yahia, CNRS, France
• Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China

This page updated on October 11, 2022, by Charles Nicholas

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