Vineeth Rakesh, Niranjan Jadhav, Alexander Kotov and Chandan Reddy, "Probabilistic Social Sequential Model for Tour Recommendation", full paper, In Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'17), pages 631-640 (acceptance rate 16%) [pdf, slides]
Zaihan Yang, Alexander Kotov, Aravind Mohan and Shiyong Lu, "Parametric and Non-parametric User-aware Sentiment Topic Models", In Proceedings of the 38th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'15), pages 413-422 (acceptance rate 20%) [pdf, slides]
Lijun Wang, Ming Dong, Alexander Kotov, "Multi-level Approximate Spectral Clustering", In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'15), pages 439-448 (acceptance rate 8.4%) [pdf]
Alexander Kotov, ChengXiang Zhai and Richard Sproat, "Mining Named Entities with Temporally Correlated Bursts from Multilingual Web News Streams", In Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'11), pages 237-246 (acceptance rate 8%) [pdf, slides]
Selected short papers
Jiaxing Tan, Alexander Kotov, Rojiar Pir Mohammadiani and Yumei Huo, "Sentence Retrieval with Sentiment-specific Topical Anchoring for Review Summarization", short paper, In Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'17), pages 2323-2326 (acceptance rate 30%) [pdf]
Mehedi Hasan, Alexander Kotov, Aravind Mohan, Shiyong Lu and Paul M. Stieg, "Feedback or Research: Separating Pre-purchase from Post-purchase Consumer Reviews", short paper, In Proceedings of the 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'16), pages 682-688 (acceptance rate 30%) [pdf]