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Research Area: Search Technologies |
Profile
Debora Donato is currently resercher at Yahoo! Research in Barcelona. She obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering in 2005 from the University of Rome "La Sapienza". She has been a visiting scientist at Basic Research Unit of the University of Helsinki, Finland, and at the Max Planck Insitut fur Informatik, Saarbrucken, Germany. Her research interests include Web Information Retrieval, Link Analysis, Algorithms for the Characterization of the Web, Complex Networks, Social networks and P2P networks.
Recent Publications, Projects and News
- Searching the Wikipedia with contextual information Antti Ukkonen; Carlos Castillo; Debora Donato; Aristides Gionis, Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2008
- Query log mining for detecting polysemy and spam Carlos Castillo; Claudio Corsi; Debora Donato; Paolo Ferragina; Aristides Gionis, KDD Workshop on Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis (WebKDD), Springer, 2008 [view abstract]
- The query-flow graph: model and applications Paolo Boldi; Francesco Bonchi; Carlos Castillo; Debora Donato; Aristides Gionis; Sebastiano Vigna, Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), ACM Press, 2008 [view abstract]
- The Juxtaposed approximate PageRank method for robust PageRank approximation in a peer-to-peer web search network Josiane Xavier Parreira; Carlos Castillo; Debora Donato; Sebastian Michel ; Weikum, Gerhard, VLDB Journal, 2008, 2
- Mining The Inner Structure of the Web Graph Debora Donato; Stefano Leonardi; Stefano Millozzi; Panayiotis Tsaparas, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor, 2008, 224017
- Topical query decomposition Francesco Bonchi; Carlos Castillo; Debora Donato; Aristides Gionis, ACM KDD, ACM Press, 2008 [view abstract]
- Link Analysis for Web Spam Detection Luca Becchetti; Carlos Castillo; Debora Donato; Ricardo Baeza-Yates; Stefano Leonardi, ACM Transactions on the Web, 2008, 1 [view abstract]
- Query-log mining for detecting spam Carlos Castillo; Claudio Corsi; Debora Donato; Paolo Ferragina; Aristides Gionis, Fourth International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web, ACM Press, 2008 [view abstract]
- Determining factors behind the PageRank log-log plot Yana Volkovich, Nelly Litvak ; Donato, Debora; Springer, The 5th Workshop On Algorithms And Models For The Web-Graph WAW, 2007
- Finding high quality content in social media, with an application to community-based question answering Eugene Agichtein; Carlos Castillo; Debora Donato; Aristides Gionis; Gilad Mishne, Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), ACM Press, 2007 [view abstract]
- The Web as a graph: How far we are Donato, Debora ; Laura, Luigi ; Leonardi, Stefano ; Millozzi, Stefano, ACM Transaction on Internet Technology (TOIT), ACM Press, 2007
- Know your Neighbors: Web Spam Detection using the Web Topology Castillo, Carlos ; Donato, Debora ; Gionis, Aristides ; Murdock, Vanessa ; Silvestri, Fabrizio, Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR), ACM Press, 2007
- Computing Trusted Authority Scores in Peer-to-Peer Networks Josiane-Xavier Parreira, Gerhard Weikum, Proceedings of of the 3rd international workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb), 2007
- A Reference Collection for Web Spam Carlos Castillo; Debora Donato; Luca Becchetti; Paolo Boldi; Stefano Leonardi; Massimo Santini; Sebastiano Vigna, SIGIR Forum, 2006