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Search technologies are an international team of experts in search, algorithms, data mining, natural language, and data processing. Together, we build systems and algorithms to analyze user needs, then synthesize and deliver the right responses from data sources around the globe.

Recent Publications

Anonymizing Moving Objects: How to Hide a MOB in a Crowd? Roman Yarovoy; Francesco Bonchi; Laks V. S. Lakshmanan; Wendy Hui Wang, 12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2009), 2009 [view abstract]
Classifying Tags using Open Content Resources Overell, Simon; Sigurbjornsson, Borkur;van Zwol, Roelof, Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2009), ACM, 2009 [view abstract]
Combinatorial Algorithms for Nearest Neighbors, Ner-Duplicates and Small World Design Yury Lifshits; Shengyu Zhang, SODA 2009, 2009
Optimal segmentation using tree models Robert Gwadera; Aristides Gionis; Heikki Mannila, Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), 2008, 3 [view abstract]
The Discrete Basis Problem Pauli Miettinen; Taneli Mielikäinen; Aristides Gionis; Gautam Das; Heikki Mannila, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2008, 10 [view abstract]
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
Clique Analysis of Query Log Graphs Alexandre Francisco; Ricardo Baeza-Yates; Arlindo Oliveira, SPIRE, Springer, 2008 [view abstract]
The Anatomy of a Large Query Graph Ricardo Baeza-Yates; Alessandro Tiberi, Journal of Physics A, 2008, 22 [view abstract]
Search, Web 2.0, and the Semantic Web Ricardo Baeza-Yates; Peter Mika; Hugo Zaragoza, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2008, 1
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]
Diversifying Image Search with User Generated Content Roelof vanZwol; Vanessa Murdock; Lluis Garcia Pueyo; Georgina Ramirez, Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval, 2008 [view abstract]
Statistical Properties of Community Structure in Large Social and Information Networks Jure Leskovec;Kevin Lang;Anirban Dasgupta;Michael Mahoney, WWW, 2008 [view abstract]
Mortal Multi-Armed Bandits D. Chakrabarti; R. Kumar; F. Radlinski; E. Upfal, NIPS, 2008
Generating Succinct Titles for Web URLs D. Chakrabarti; R. Kumar; K. Punera, KDD, 2008
A Graph-Theoretic Approach to Webpage Segmentation D. Chakrabarti; R. Kumar; K. Punera, WWW, 2008
Semantic Associations for Contextual Advertising Ciaramita, Massimiliano ; Murdock, Vanessa ; Plachouras, Vassilis, Journal of Electronic Commerce Research Special Issue on Online Advertising and Sponsored Search, 2008, 1 [view abstract]

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