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--></style></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white'>===========================================================</span></b></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Call for Participation</span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>WSDM SUM20: Workshop on State-based User Modelling</span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white'>Houston, Texas - February 7, 2020</span></b></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><a href="https://www.k4all.org/event/wsdmsum20/"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC'>https://www.k4all.org/event/wsdmsum20/</span></a><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC;background:white'> </span></b></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white'>===========================================================</span></b></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Dear WSDM Attendees, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>The State-based User Modelling Workshop at WSDM 2020 (SUM ’20) welcomes participation of researchers and stakeholders to explore techniques for state-based user modelling, and their applications, such as:</span></p><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Conversational systems<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>User representation and recommender systems<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Task understanding and supporting user tasks<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Task-based information retrieval<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>State-aware evaluation<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Human in the loop<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>User-aware systems<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Personalisation ML algorithms<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Cognitive/contextual user understanding<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>State-aware ML algorithms<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>The full-day programme consisting of invited talks and contributed talks can be found at the workshop website at: </span><a href="https://www.k4all.org/event/wsdmsum20/"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC'>https://www.k4all.org/event/wsdmsum20/</span></a><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC;background:white'> </span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Invited Speakers</span></b></p><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Mounia Lalmas</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>, Director of Research and Head of Research in Personalization, Spotify<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Ahmed Awadallah</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>, Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Emine Yilmaz</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>, Professor, University College London<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>The final agenda of the programme is as follows:</span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>08:30 - Welcoming Remarks and Introduction</span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>09:00 - Invited Talk - Mounia Lalmas (Director of Research at Spotify)<b> </b></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>10:00 - Coffee Break</span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>10:30 - Contributed Talk - Fatigue-Aware Ad Creative Selection</span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>11:00 - Contributed Talk - SAGE: Interactive State-aware Point-of-Interest Recommendation</span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>11:30 - Contributed Talk - Scalable Psychological Momentum Estimation in Esports</span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>12:00 - Lunch</span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>14:00 - Invited Talk - Ahmed Hassan Awadallah (Principal Research Manager at Microsoft)</span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>15:00 - Coffee Break </span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>15:30 - Invited Talk - Emine Yilmaz (Professor at University College London)</span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>16:30 - Closing Remarks</span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>17:00 - Optional drinks and dinner</span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Please find further details of the workshops in the workshop website at </span><a href="https://www.k4all.org/event/wsdmsum20/"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC'>https://www.k4all.org/event/wsdmsum20</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Hoping to see you at the workshop. </span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Kind Regards, </span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Sahan Bulathwela, Maria Perez-Ortiz, Rishabh Mehrotra, Davor Orlic, Colin de la Higuera, John Shawe-Taylor and Emine Yilmaz</span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>