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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

The Geographical Life of Information Ricardo Baeza-Yates; Christian Middleton; Carlos Castillo, Web Intelligence, IEEE, 2009 [view abstract]
From 'dango' to 'japanese cakes': Query Reformulation Models and Patterns Paolo Boldi; Francesco Bonchi; Carlos Castillo; Sebastiano Vigna, Web Intelligence, IEEE, 2009 [view abstract]
Taxonomy-driven lumping for sequence mining Francesco Bonchi; Carlos Castillo; Debora Donato; Aristides Gionis, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Journal, Springer, 2009 [view abstract]
Semi-Parametric and Non-parametric Term Weighting for Information Retrieval Donald Metzler; Hugo Zaragoza, International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR), 2009 [view abstract]
Building Enriched Document Representations using Aggregated Anchor Text Donald Metzler; Jasmine Novak; Hang Cui; Srihari Reddy, SIGIR, 2009 [view abstract]
Improving Search Relevance for Implicitly Temporal Queries Donald Metzler; Rosie Jones; Fuchun Peng; Ruiqiang Zhang, SIGIR, 2009 [view abstract]
Mining Broad Latent Query Aspects from Search Sessions Xuanhui Wang;Deepayan Chakrabarti;Kunal Punera, Fifteenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2009 [view abstract]
Quicklink Selection for Navigational Query Results Deepayan Chakrabarti;Ravi Kumar;Kunal Punera, Eighteenth International World Wide Web Conference, 2009 [view abstract]
Top-k Aggregation Using Intersections of Ranked Inputs Ravi Kumar; Kunal Punera; Torsten Suel; Sergei Vassilvitskii, Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2009 [view abstract]
The Load-Distance Balancing Problem E. Bortnikov; S. Khuller; I. Mansour; S. Naor, Internation Network Optimization Conference (INOC), 2009 [view abstract]
Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Data C. Olston; E. Bortnikov; K. Emeleegy; F. Junqueira; B. Reed, CIDR, 2009 [view abstract]
Algorithms and Models for the Web-Graph Konstantin Avrachenkov, Debora Donato, Nelly Litvak, Algorithms and Models for the Web-Graph, 6th International Workshop, WAW 2009, Springer 2009, 2009
Next Generation Search Debora Donato; Aristides Gionis; G. Cormode, M. Thottan, Algorithms for Next Generation Networks, 2009, Springer [view abstract]
Generating Example Data for Dataflow Programs C. Olston; S. Chopra; U. Srivastava, SIGMOD Conference, 2009
Optimising topical query decomposition Marcin Sydow; Francesco Bonchi; Carlos Castillo; Debora Donato, Workshop on Web Search Click Data, ACM, 2009 [view abstract]
Query Suggestions Using Query-Flow Graphs Paolo Boldi; Francesco Bonchi; Carlos Castillo; Debora Donato; Sebastiano Vigna, Workshop on Web Search Click Data, ACM, 2009 [view abstract]
For a few dollars less: Identifying review pages sans human labels Luciano Barbosa; Ravi Kumar; Bo Pang; A. Tomkins, NAACL, 2009 [view abstract]
Search Result Re-ranking by Feedback Control Adjustment for Time-Sensitive Query Ruiqiang Zhang; Yi Chang; Zhaohui Zheng; Donald Metzler; Jian-yun Nie, North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT), 2009 [view abstract]
Efficient Keyword Search over Virtual XML Views Feng Shao; Lin Guo; Chavdar Botev; Anand Bhaskar; Muthiah Chettiar; Fan Yang; Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, VLDB Journal, 2009, 2
Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice Bruce Croft; Donald Metzler; Trevor Strohman, Addison Wesley, 2009 [view abstract]

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