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

Bowen Zhou

Director & Chief Scientist of Shanghai AI Lab, Chair Professor at Tsinghua University

Lars Backstrom

Lars Backstrom

Vice President of Meta

Jimmy Huang

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

Xiao Huang

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Hongxia Yang

Hongxia Yang

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Yang Song

Yang Song

Meta

Program Chairs

Xia Hu

Xia Hu

Shanghai AI Lab

James Caverlee

James Caverlee

Texas A&M University

Yi Chang

Yi Chang

Jilin University

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