The WSDM 2027 @ Hong Kong
The 20th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
Date: February 15th - 19th, 2027
Location: Cordis, Hong Kong, 555 Shanghai St, Mong Kok
Contact: wsdm2027@gmail.com
WSDM (pronounced "wisdom") is one of the premier conferences on web-inspired research involving search and data mining. WSDM is a highly selective conference that includes invited talks, as well as refereed full papers. WSDM publishes original, high-quality papers related to search and data mining on the Web and the Social Web, with an emphasis on practical yet principled novel models of search and data mining, algorithm design and analysis, economic implications, and in-depth experimental analysis of accuracy and performance.
Keynote Speakers
Bowen Zhou
Director & Chief Scientist of Shanghai AI Lab, Chair Professor at Tsinghua University
Lars Backstrom
Vice President of Meta
Jimmy Huang
Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering; Tier 1 York Research Chair Professor, York University
Call for Papers
WSDM serves as an international forum for presenting and discussing research in search and data mining on the Web and the Social Web, with an emphasis on practical yet principled novel models of search and data mining, algorithm design and analysis, economic implications, and in-depth experimental analysis of accuracy and performance. The conference aims to address challenging issues in the development of future web and information systems and to guide forthcoming research directions by reviewing high-quality applied and theoretical research outcomes. In addition to the main conference track, WSDM 2027 will include a Findings track. This track aims to provide a venue for disseminating solid, well-executed research that may not meet the selectivity criteria of the main conference but is nonetheless valuable to the community. Papers submitted to the main track will be considered for the Findings track through the standard review process. Authors do not need to submit separately to this track.
Aug 11, 2026
Abstract deadline
Aug 18, 2026
Papers Due
Oct 27, 2026
Notifications
TBD
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Feb 15-19, 2027
Conference
All deadlines are 11:59 pm anywhere on earth.
List of Topics
WSDM proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library. We invite papers in the areas below.
- Web Search
- Web Mining and Content Analysis
- Foundation Models and Agentic Systems
- Web of Things, Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing
- Privacy, Fairness, Interpretability
- Social Networks
- Intelligent Assistants
- Crowdsourcing and Human Computation
- Information Integrity
- Emerging and Creative Applications
General Chairs
Xiao Huang
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hongxia Yang
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Yang Song
Meta
Program Chairs
Xia Hu
Shanghai AI Lab
James Caverlee
Texas A&M University
Yi Chang
Jilin University
If you have any questions,
please don't hesitate to contact us!