2009-07-07: Hypertext 2009
From June 30th through July 1st I attended Hypertext 2009 ( HT 2009 ) in Torino Italy . The conference saw a 70% increase in submissions (117 total) compared to last year but due to the equally increased number of accepted papers (26 long and 11 short) and posters maintain last years acceptance rate of roughly 32%. HT 2009 also had a record of 150 registered attendees. I presented our paper titled " Comparing the Performance of US College Football Teams in the Web and on the Field " ( DOI ) which was joint work with Olena Hunsicker under the supervision of Michael L. Nelson . The paper describes an extensive study on the correlation of expert rankings of real world entities and search engine rankings of their representative resources on the web. Comparing the Performance of US College Football Teams in the Web and on the Field from Martin Klein We published a poster, " Correlation of Music Charts and Search Engine Rankings " ( DOI ), with the resu...