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Research Area: Search Technologies |
Profile
Idan Szpektor is a research scientist in Yahoo! Research, Haifa. He received his Ph.D from the Computer Science department of Bar-Ilan University in 2010. His research interests include natural language proecessing and data mining/analysis.
Recent Publications, Projects and News
- I want to answer; who has a question?: Yahoo! answers recommender system Gideon Dror;Yehuda Koren;Yoelle Maarek;Idan Szpektor, KDD, 2011
- Improving recommendation for long-tail queries via templates Idan Szpektor; Aris Gionis; Yoelle Maarek, WWW'2011, ACM, 2011 [view abstract]
- Classification-based Contextual Preferences Shachar Mirkin;Ido Dagan;Lili Kotlerman;Idan Szpektor, TextInfer, 2011
- Predicting Web Searcher Satisfaction with Existing Community-based Answers Qiaoling Liu;Eugene Agichtein;Gideon Dror;Evgeniy Gabrilovich;Yoelle Maarek;Dan Pelleg;Idan Szpektor, SIGIR, 2011
- Directional distributional similarity for lexical inference Lili Kotlerman;Ido Dagan;Idan Szpektor;Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Natural Language Engineering, Cambridge University Press, 2010, 4 [view abstract]
- Generating Entailment Rules from FrameNet Roni Ben Aharon;Idan Szpektor;Ido Dagan, ACL 2010 Conference Short Papers, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2010 [view abstract]
- Entailment Rules for Predicates: Representation, Learning, Application and Evaluation Idan Szpektor, Department of Computer Science, Bar Ilan University, 2009 [view abstract]