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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

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]
Answers, not Links -- Extracting Tips from Yahoo! Answers to Address How-To Web Queries Ingmar Weber; Antti Ukkonen; Aris Gionis, WSDM, 2012
Collaborative Personalized Top-k Processing Xiao Bai; Rachid Guerraoui; Anne-Marie Kermarrec; Vincent Leroy, ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), 2011, 4 [view abstract]
Discovering URLs through User Feedback Xiao Bai; B. Barla Cambazoglu; Flavio P. Junqueira, Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2011 [view abstract]
Predicting Web Search Satisfaction with Existing Community-based Answers Qiaoling Liu; Eugene Agichtein; Gideon Dror; Evgeniy Gabrilovich; Yoelle Maarek; Dan Pelleg; Idan Szpektor, SIGIR'2011, ACM, 2011 [view abstract]
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]
Keyword Search over RDF Graphs Shady Elbassuoni; Roi Blanco, 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]
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]
Assigning documents to master sites in distributed search R. Blanco; B. B. Cambazoglu; F. P. Junqueira; I. Kelly; V. Leroy, Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2011 [view abstract]
Hypergraph-theoretic partitioning models for parallel web crawling A. Turk; C. Aykanat; B. B. Cambazoglu, Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, 2011
Discovering URLs through user feedback Xiao Bai; B. Barla Cambazoglu; Flavio P. Junqueira, Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2011
Your Mileage May Vary: On the Limits of Social Media Vanessa Murdock, SIGSpatial Special, ACM SIGSpatial, 2011, 2 [view abstract]
"I'm Eating a Sandwich in Glasgow": Modeling Locations with Tweets Sheila Kinsella; Vanessa Murdock; Neil OHare, 2nd International Workshop on Search and Mining of User-generated Content (SMUC), 2011 [view abstract]
Mining Tags Using Social Endorsement Networks Theodoros Lappas;Kunal Punera;Tamas Sarlos, 33rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR, 2011 [view abstract]
Scalable clustering of news search results Srinivas Vadrevu;Choon Hui Teo;Suju Rajan;Kunal Punera;Byron Dom;Alexander J. Smola;Yi Chang;Zhaohui Zheng, 4th International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining, WSDM, 2011 [view abstract]
Improving recommendation for long-tail queries via templates Idan Szpektor; Aris Gionis; Yoelle Maarek, WWW'2011, ACM, 2011 [view abstract]
Identity Obfuscation in Graphs Through the Information Theoretic Lens Francesco Bonchi; Aristides Gionis; Tamir Tassa, International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2011 [view abstract]
Social Content Matching in MapReduce Gianmarco De Francisci Morales; Aristides Gionis; Mauro Sozio, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2011, 7 [view abstract]

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