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Research Area: Search Technologies |
Profile
Peter is a researcher working on the topic of semantic search at Yahoo Research in Barcelona, Spain. Peter also serves as a Data Architect for Yahoo Search, advising the team on issues related to knowledge representation.
Peter is a frequent speaker at events, a regular contributor to the Semantic Web Gang podcast series and a blogger at tripletalk.wordpress.com.
Background:
Peter received his Ph.D. degree (cum laude) at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. His interdisciplinary work in the field of Social Networks and the Semantic Web earned a Best Paper Award at the International Semantic Web Conference in Galway, 2006 and a First Prize at the Semantic Web Challenge of 2005.
He is also author of the book “Social Networks and the Semantic Web”, published in 2007 by Springer Verlag.
Peter is also the youngest elected member of the board of the Journal of Web Semantics.
From November, 2005 he was the co-chair of the Semantic Web Challenge, together with Michael Uschold (2005), Jennifer Golbeck (2006), Jim Hendler (2007) and Chris Bizer (2008).
Recent Publications, Projects and News
- Effective and Efficient Entity Search in RDF data Roi Blanco; Peter Mika; Sebastiano Vigna, ISWC 2011, 2011 [view abstract]
- Coreference Aware Web Object Retrieval Jeffrey Dalton; Roi Blanco; Peter Mika, CIKM '11, 2011 [view abstract]
- Entity Search Evaluation over Structured Web Data Roi Blanco; Harry Halpin; Daniel Herzig; Peter Mika; Jeffrey Pound; Henry Thompson; Tran Than Duc, Entity Oriented Search Workshop, 2011 [view abstract]
- Enhanced Results for Web Search K. Haas; P. Mika; P.Tarjan; R. Blanco, SIGIR, 2011 [view abstract]
- Repeatable and Reliable Search System Evaluation using Crowd-Sourcing R. Blanco; H. Halpin; D. Herzig; P. Mika; J. Pound; H.Thompson; T. D. Tran, SIGIR, 2011 [view abstract]
- Evaluating Ad-Hoc Ob ject Retrieval H. Halpin; D. M. Herzing; P. Mika; R. Blanco; J. Pound; H. S. Thompson; T. T. Duc, IWEST, 2010 [view abstract]
- Searching through time in the New York Times Michael Matthews; Pancho Tolchinsky; Roi Blanco; Jordi Atserias; Peter Mika; Hugo Zaragoza, HCIR 2010, 2010 [view abstract]
- Making sense of Twitter David Laniado; Peter Mika, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2010
- Ad-hoc Object Ranking in the Web of Data Jeffrey Pound; Peter Mika; Hugo Zaragoza, World Wide Web Conference, ACM, 2010
- The Semantic Web Challenge, 2008 Peter Mika; Jim Hendler, Journal of Web Semantics, Elsevier, 2009, 4
- An evaluation of entity and frequency based query completion methods Edgar Meij; Peter Mika; Hugo Zaragoza, 32nd International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, ACM, 2009
- Investigating the Demand Side of Semantic Search through Query Log Analysis Edgar Meij; Peter Mika; Hugo Zaragoza, Semantic Search 2009, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2009
- Investigating the Semantic Gap through Query Log Analysis Peter Mika; Edgar Meij; Hugo Zaragoza, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC09), Springer, 2009
- Semantic Web and Web 2.0 Mark Greaves; Peter Mika, Journal of Web Semantics, Elsevier, 2008, 1
- Near-Term Prospects for Semantic Technologies V. Richard Benjamins; John Davies; Ricardo Baeza-Yates; Peter Mika; Hugo Zaragoza; Mark Greaves; Jose Manuel Gómez-Pérez; Jesús Contreras; John Domingue; Dieter Fensel, IEEE Intelligent Systems, IEEE, 2008, 1
- Towards Semantic Search Ricardo Baeza-Yates; Massimiliano Ciaramita; Peter Mika; Hugo Zaragoza, Natural Language and Information Systems (NLDB), 2008