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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
- 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
- Anatomy of a SearchMonkey Peter Mika, 2008
- AI's 10 to Watch James Hendler;Philipp Cimiano;Dmitri Dolgov;Anat Levin;Peter Mika;Brian Milch;Louis-Philippe Morency;Boris Motik;Jennifer Neville;Erik B. Sudderth;Luis von Ahn, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2008, 3
- Microsearch: An Interface for Semantic Search Peter Mika, First Workshop on Semantic Search, 2008 [view abstract]
- Introduction to the special issue on the Semantic Web Challenge 2006 and 2007 Jennifer Golbeck; Peter Mika; Michael Uschold, Journal of Web Semantics, 2008, 4
- Web Semantics in the Clouds Peter Mika; Giovanni Tummarello, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2008, 5 [view abstract]
- Learning to Tag and Tagging to Learn: A Case Study on Wikipedia Peter Mika; Massimiliano Ciaramita; Hugo Zaragoza; Jordi Atserias, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2008, 5 [view abstract]
- Ontologies are us: A unified model of social networks and semantics Mika, Peter, Journal of Web Semantics, Elsevier, 2007
- Ranking very many typed entities on wikipedia Hugo Zaragoza; Henning Rode; Peter Mika; Jordi Atserias; Massimiliano Ciaramita; Giuseppe Attardi, Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2007, 2007