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Research Area: Econ and Social Sys |
Profile
Sihem focuses on data management and query processing in search, recommendations and advertising. She is part of SocialScope and LeSouk which combine search with social behavior to serve relevant content on the Web.
Chairing: SIGMOD 2009 Tutorials, VLDB 2009 Industrial track, the Social Networks and Personal Information track at ICDE 2010 and the Structured and Unstructured Data Track at WWW10.
Sihem joined Y! in May 2006 after 7 years at AT&T Labs. She received her Ph.D. in CS from U. Paris-Orsay and INRIA, France.
Recent Publications, Projects and News
- Recommendation Diversification Using Explanations Cong Yu; Laks Lakshmanan; Sihem Amer-Yahia, ICDE, 2009
- Getting Recommender Systems to Think Outside the Box Zeinab Abbassi; Sihem Amer-Yahia; Laks Lakshmanan; Sergei Vassilvitskii; Cong Yu, RecSys, 2009
- Group Recommendation: Semantics and Efficiency Sihem Amer-Yahia; Senjuti Basu-Roy; Ashish Chawla; Gautam Das; Cong Yu, VLDB, 2009
- SocialScope: Enabling Information Discovery on Social Content Sites Sihem Amer-Yahia; Laks Lakshmanan; Cong Yu, CIDR, 2009
- It Takes Variety to Make a World: Diversification in Recommender Systems Cong Yu; Laks Lakshmanan; Sihem Amer-Yahia, EDBT, 2009
- Building Community-Centric Information Exploration Applications on Social Content Sites Sihem Amer-Yahia; Jian Huang; Cong Yu, SIGMOD, 2009
- Efficient Top-K Processing over Query-Dependent Functions Lin Guo; Sihem Amer-Yahia; Raghu Ramakrishnan; Jayavel Shanmugasundaram; Utkarsh Srivastava; Erik Vee, VLDB, 2008
- Efficient Computation of Diverse Query Results Erik Vee; Utkarsh Srivastava; Jayavel Shanmugasundaram; Prashanth Bhat; Sihem Amer-Yahia, ICDE, 2008
- Efficient Network-aware Search in Collaborative Tagging Sites Sihem Amer-Yahia, Michael Benedikt, Laks Lakshmanan, Julia Stoyanovich, VLDB 2008, 2008