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wsdm-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a project belongs at WSDM or a neighbor - tests for the web/social-data core and the practical-yet-principled bar, scope coverage from web search and recommendation to social networks and responsible web AI, routing against SIGIR, KDD, WWW, CIKM, RecSys, and ICWSM, and long-versus-short-track fit.
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# WSDM Topic Selection
Decide if a project is WSDM-shaped before anyone formats a page. WSDM
(pronounced "wisdom") is deliberately narrow: search and data mining **on the
Web and the Social Web**, run as a small, highly selective, traditionally
single-track winter meeting jointly sponsored by four ACM SIGs (SIGIR, SIGKDD,
SIGMOD, SIGWEB). The sponsorship list is the scope diagram - the venue lives at
the intersection of retrieval, mining, data management, and the web itself.
## The two-gate test
**Gate 1 - the data gate.** Is the primary object of study web or social-web
data: queries and clicks, documents and links, user-item interactions, social
graphs, ads, reviews, conversational sessions? A method paper whose experiments