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Research Area: Search Technologies, Computational Advertising |
Profile
Donald Metzler is currently a Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research in Santa Clara, CA. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2007. His research interests include information retrieval, machine learning, and their intersection.
He is the co-author of Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice.
Further information can be found at:
http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/~metzler
Recent Publications, Projects and News
- Of Ivory and Smurfs: Loxodontan MapReduce Experiments for Web Search Jimmy Lin; Donald Metzler; Tamer Elsayed; Lidan Wang, Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), 2010 [view abstract]
- Learning Concept Importance Using a Weighted Dependence Model Michael Bendersky; Donald Metzler; W. Bruce Croft, Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2010 [view abstract]
- Measuring the Reusability of Test Collections Ben Carterette; Evgeniy Gabrilovich; Vanja Josifovski; Donald Metzler, WSDM, 2010 [view abstract]
- Expected Reciprocal Rank for Graded Relevance Olivier Chapelle; Donald Metzler; Ya Zhang; Pierre Grinspan, Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2009 [view abstract]
- Semi-Parametric and Non-parametric Term Weighting for Information Retrieval Donald Metzler; Hugo Zaragoza, International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR), 2009 [view abstract]
- Building Enriched Document Representations using Aggregated Anchor Text Donald Metzler; Jasmine Novak; Hang Cui; Srihari Reddy, SIGIR, 2009 [view abstract]
- Improving Search Relevance for Implicitly Temporal Queries Donald Metzler; Rosie Jones; Fuchun Peng; Ruiqiang Zhang, SIGIR, 2009 [view abstract]
- Search Result Re-ranking by Feedback Control Adjustment for Time-Sensitive Query Ruiqiang Zhang; Yi Chang; Zhaohui Zheng; Donald Metzler; Jian-yun Nie, North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT), 2009 [view abstract]
- Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice Bruce Croft; Donald Metzler; Trevor Strohman, Addison Wesley, 2009 [view abstract]
- Online Expansion of Rare Queries for Sponsored Search Andrei Broder; Peter Ciccolo; Evgeniy Gabrilovich; Vanja Josifovski; Donald Metzler; Lance Riedel; Jeffrey Yuan, ACM Conference on the World Wide Web (WWW), 2009 [view abstract]
- To Swing or not to Swing: Learning when (not) to Advertise Andrei Broder; Massimiliano Ciaramita; Marcus Fontoura; Evgeniy Gabrilovich; Vanja Josifovski; Donald Metzler; Vanessa Murdock; Vassilis Plachouras, ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2008 [view abstract]
- Machine Learned Sentence Selection Strategies for Query-Biased Summarization Donald Metzler; Tapas Kanungo, SIGIR Learning to Rank Workshop, 2008 [view abstract]
- A Statistical View of Binned Retrieval Models Donald Metzler; Trevor Strohman; Bruce Croft, European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), 2008 [view abstract]
- Generalized Inverse Document Frequency Donald Metzler, ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2008 [view abstract]
- CIIR Experiments for TREC Legal 2007 Howard Turtle; Donald Metzler, Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), 2007 [view abstract]