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Research Area: Search Technologies |
Profile
My research focuses on retrieval of short texts, such as the meta-data associated with images and video, as well as sponsored search and contextual advertising. Currently I am working on an online learning approach to sponsored search which utilizes click data, as well as developing retrieval models for image and video that encourage diversity as well as relevance. I am also involved in a joint project with Y! Geo to evaluate and improve the identification of places in queries and free text.
Recent Publications, Projects and News
- To Swing or not to Swing: Learning when (not) to Advertise Andrei Broder; Massimiliano Ciaramita; Marcus Fontoura; Evgeniy Gabrilovich; Vanja Josifovski; Donald Metzler; Vanessa Murdock; Vassilis Plachouras, ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2008 [view abstract]
- Diversifying Image Search with User Generated Content Roelof vanZwol; Vanessa Murdock; Lluis Garcia Pueyo; Georgina Ramirez, Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval, 2008
- Improved Query Difficulty Prediction for the Web Claudia Hauff; Vanessa Murdock; Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Conference on Information Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2008
- Using Interactions to Improve Translation Dictionaries: UNC, Yahoo! and ciQA Diane Kelly; Vanessa Murdock; Xin Fu, Proceedings of the Sixteenth Text Retrieval Conference, National Institute for Standards and Technology, 2008 [view abstract]
- Semantic Associations for Contextual Advertising Ciaramita, Massimiliano ; Murdock, Vanessa ; Plachouras, Vassilis, International Journal of Electronic Commerce Research - Special Issue on Online Advertising and Sponsored Search, 2008
- "Ellen Voorhees and Donna Harman (eds): TREC Experiment and Evaluation in Information Retrieval" Vanessa Murdock, Journal of Information Retrieval, 2008, 5
- Exploring Sentence Retrieval Vanessa Murdock, VDM Verlag, 2008
- Online Learning from Click Data for Sponsored Search Massimiliano Ciaramita; Vanessa Murdock; Vassilis Plachouras, The 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2008 [view abstract]
- Design trade-offs for search engine caching Ricardo Baeza-Yates; Aristides Gionis; Flavio Junqueira; Vanessa Murdock; Vassilis Plachouras; Fabrizio Silvestri, Transactions on the Web (TWEB), accepted for publication, 2008
- A Noisy-Channel Approach to Contextual Advertising Murdock, V. ; Ciaramita, M. ; Plachouras, V., Proceedings of the Workshop on Data Mining and Audience Intelligence for Advertising (ADKDD), 2007
- Identifying and Answering Procedural Questions Murdock, Vanessa ; Kelly, Diane ; Croft, W. Bruce ; Belkin, Nicholas ; Yuan, Xiaojun, Information Processing and Management, 2007
- The Impact of Caching on Search Engines Baeza-Yates, Ricardo ; Gionis, Aristides ; Junqueira, Flavio ; Murdock, Vanessa ; Plachouras, Vassilis ; Sylvestri, Fabrizio, Proceedings of the Thirtieth International ACM SIGIR Conference, 2007
- Web Search Engine Evaluation using Clickthrough Data and a User Model Dupret, Georges ; Murdock, Vanessa ; Piwowarski, Benjamin, Proceedings of the Workshop on Query Log Analysis (WWW), 2007
- A Bayesian Model of Query Log Generation Dupret, Georges ; Piwowarski, Benjamin ; Murdock, Vanessa, 2007