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Research Area: Econ and Social Sys |
Profile
Sihem's research is at the intersection of databases, search, recommendations and advertising. She is part of Royal Jelly and LeSouk which combine search with shared social behavior to serve relevant content to users.
Chairing: Web 2.0 track at ICDE 2008, CIKM 2008 DB track, VLDB 2009 Industrial track, SIGMOD 2009 Tutorials and the Social Networks and Personal Information track at ICDE 2010.
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
- 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
- Challenges in Searching Online Communities. Amer-Yahia, Sihem ; Benedikt, Michael ; Bohannon, Philip, IEEE Data Eng. Bull., 2007
- Personalizing XML Search in PIMENTO. Amer-Yahia, Sihem ; Fundulaki, Irini ; Lakshmanan, Laks V. S., ICDE, 2007
- Eigth ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM 2006), Arlington, Virginia, USA, November 10, 2006 , WIDM, ACM, 2006
- The power of structured data on the web. Amer-Yahia, Sihem, WIDM, 2006
- Advances in Database Technology - EDBT 2006, 10th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Munich, Germany, March 26-31, 2006, Proceedings , Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2006
- XML search: languages, INEX and scoring. Amer-Yahia, Sihem ; Lalmas, Mounia, SIGMOD Record, 2006
- Flexible and efficient XML search with complex full-text predicates. Amer-Yahia, Sihem ; Curtmola, Emiran ; Deutsch, Alin, SIGMOD Conference, 2006
- Database and XML Technologies, 4th International XML Database Symposium,XSym 2006, Seoul, Korea, September 10-11, 2006, Proceedings , Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2006
- GalaTex: a conformant implementation of the XQuery full-text language. Curtmola, Emiran ; Amer-Yahia, Sihem ; Brown, Philip ; Fern\'andez, Mary F., WWW (Special interest tracks and posters), 2005
- Structure and Content Scoring for XML. Amer-Yahia, Sihem ; Koudas, Nick ; Marian, Am\'elie ; Srivastava, Divesh ; Toman, David, VLDB, 2005
- XML Full-Text Search: Challenges and Opportunities. Amer-Yahia, Sihem ; Shanmugasundaram, Jayavel, VLDB, 2005
- Personalizing XML Text Search in PimenT. Amer-Yahia, Sihem ; Fundulaki, Irini ; Jain, Prateek ; Lakshmanan, Laks V. S., VLDB, 2005
- Adaptive Processing of Top-K Queries in XML. Marian, Am\'elie ; Amer-Yahia, Sihem ; Koudas, Nick ; Srivastava, Divesh, ICDE, 2005
- Report on the DB/IR panel at SIGMOD 2005. Amer-Yahia, Sihem ; Case, Pat ; R\"olleke, Thomas ; Shanmugasundaram, Jayavel ; Weikum, Gerhard, SIGMOD Record, 2005
- Web-Services Architecture for Efficient XML Data Exchange. Amer-Yahia, Sihem ; Kotidis, Yannis, ICDE, 2004
- FleXPath: Flexible Structure and Full-Text Querying for XML. Amer-Yahia, Sihem ; Lakshmanan, Laks V. S. ; Pandit, Shashank, SIGMOD Conference, 2004
- A TeXQuery-Based XML Full-Text Search Engine. Botev, Chavdar ; Shanmugasundaram, Jayavel ; Amer-Yahia, Sihem, SIGMOD Conference, 2004