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Research Area: Search Technologies |
Profile
I joined Yahoo! Research in January 2011, where I work on network-wide, affect- and attention-based models and measures of user engagement. Prior to come here, I was a Microsoft Research/RAEng Research Professor at the University of Glasgow, working on applying quantum theory to model information retrieval. Between 2002 to 2007, I co-led the Evaluation Initiative for XML Retrieval (INEX), a large-scale international project, responsible for defining the nature of XML retrieval, and how it should be evaluated.
Recent Publications, Projects and News
- User Engagement – A Scientific Challenge M Lalmas, Yahoo! Research Seminar Series Barcelona, 01 March 2012, 2012 [view abstract]
- The Effect of Links on Networked User Engagement E. Yom-Tov; M. Lalmas; G. Dupret; R. Baeza-Yates; P. Donmez; J. Lehmann, World Wide Web Conference (WWW) - Poster, 2012 [view abstract]
- On using a Quantum Physics formalism for Multi-document Summarisation B. Piwowarski; M.R. Amini; M. Lalmas, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 2012 [view abstract]
- On Saliency, Affect and Focused Attention L. McCay-Peet; M. Lalmas; V. Navalpakkam, ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2012 [view abstract]
- Evaluating Large-Scale Distributed Vertical Search K. Zhou; R. Cummins; M. Lalmas; J. Jose, CIKM 2011 Workshop on Large-Scale and Distributed Information Retrieval (LSDS-IR 2011), ACM, 2011 [view abstract]
- Please call ME.N.U.4EVER: Designing for ‘Callback’ in Rural Africa NJ Bidwell; M Lalmas; G Marsden; B Dlutu; S Ntlangano; A Manjingolo; WD Tucker; M Jones; S Robinson; E Vartiainen; I Klampanos, International Workshop on Internationalisation of Products and Systems (IWIPS 2011), 2011 [view abstract]
- Towards a science of user engagement (Position Paper) S. Attfield; G. Kazai; M. Lalmas; B. Piwowarski, WSDM Workshop on User Modelling for Web Applications, 2011 [view abstract]