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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

Boosting image retrieval through aggregating search results based on visual annotations X. Olivares; M. Ciaramita; R. van Zwol, ACM Multimedia, ACM, 2008 [view abstract]
Video Tag Game van Zwol, Roelof ; Lluis Garcia ; Georgina Ramirez ; Borkur Sigurbjornsson ; Marcos Labad, 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW developer track), ACM Press, 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
Connectivity structure of bipartite graphs via the knc-plot Ravi Kumar; A. Tomkins; Erik Vee, WSDM, 2008
On the feasibility of geographically distributed Web crawling B.B. Cambazoglu; F. Junqueira; V. Plachouras; L. Telloli, Proceedings of the Third International ICST Conference on Scalable Information Systems, ICST, 2008 [view abstract]
Recrawl Scheduling Based on Information Longevity C. Olston; S. Pandey, International World Wide Web Conference, 2008
Crawl Ordering by Search Impact S. Pandey; C. Olston, ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2008
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
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, 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), 2008 [view abstract]
Searching the Wikipedia with contextual information Antti Ukkonen; Carlos Castillo; Debora Donato; Aristides Gionis, Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2008
Dr. Searcher and Mr. Browser: a unified hyperlink-click graph Barbara Poblete; Carlos Castillo; Aristides Gionis, Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2008 [view abstract]
Machine Learned Sentence Selection Strategies for Query-Biased Summarization Donald Metzler; Tapas Kanungo, SIGIR Learning to Rank Workshop, 2008 [view abstract]
A Statistical View of Binned Retrieval Models Donald Metzler; Trevor Strohman; Bruce Croft, European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), 2008 [view abstract]
Generalized Inverse Document Frequency Donald Metzler, ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2008 [view abstract]
Relaxation in Text Search using Taxonomies M. Fontoura; V. Josifovski; R. Kumar; C. Olston; A. Tomkins; S. Vassilvitskii, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, 2008
Sequence Mining Automata: a New Technique for Mining Frequent Sequences Under Regular Expressions Roberto Trasarti; Francesco Bonchi; Bart Goethals, The 8th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2008), 2008 [view abstract]
Efficient Network-aware Search in Collaborative Tagging Sites Sihem Amer-Yahia, Michael Benedikt, Laks Lakshmanan, Julia Stoyanovich, VLDB 2008, 2008
Mining large networks with subgraph counting Ilaria Bordino; Debora Donato; Aristides Gionis; Stefano Leonardi, International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2008

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