Carl Smith Student Award

The Carl Smith Award Winner of DS-2007 is Kazuyuki Narisawa for his paper "Unsupervised Spam Detection based on String Aliennes Measures" co-authered by Hideo Bannai, Kohei Hatano, and Masayuki Takeda.

Award Committee: Achim G. Hoffmann, Ljupco Todorovski, and Vincent Corruble.

Process:

1. The PC Chairs identified 11 long papers eligible for the award because each of them has at least one student as its author.
2. Among the 11 papers, the Steering Committee Chair has decided that 5 papers will be reviewed by the award committee due to their higher average scores for overall recommendation.
3. The Steering Committee Chair has nominated Achim, Ljupco, and Vincent as the Award Committee Members because they have served or is serving as a PC Chair of DS in 2005, 2006, and 2007, respectively; and they have no conflict of interest with the authors of the 5 nominated papers. The Award Committee consists of the 3 persons.
4. After a rigorous process, Achim reported the decision.