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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

Learning to Rank Answers on Large Online QA Collections Mihai Surdeanu; Massimiliano Ciaramita; Hugo Zaragoza, 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-HLT), 2008 [view abstract]
Flickr Tag Recommendation based on Collective Knowledge Borkur Sigurbjornsson ; van Zwol, Roelof, 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), ACM Press, 2008 [view abstract]
Video Tag Game van Zwol, Roelof ; Lluis Garcia ; Georgina Ramirez ; Borkur Sigurbjornsson ; Marcos Labad, 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 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]
Webspam Identification Through Content and Hyperlinks Jacob Abernethy; Olivier Chapelle; Carlos Castillo, Fourth International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web, ACM Press, 2008 [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]
Semantic Associations for Contextual Advertising Ciaramita, M. ; Murdock, V. ; Plachouras, V., Journal of Electronic Commerce Research: Special Issue on Online Advertising and Sponsored Search, 2008, 1
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]
Approximation Algorithms for Co-Clustering Aris Anagnostopoulos; Anirban Dasgupta; Ravi Kumar, PODS, 2008 [view abstract]
A graph-theoretic approach to webpage segmentation Deepayan Chakrabarti; Ravi Kumar; Kunal Punera, 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2008 [view abstract]
Consistent annotation of EuroWordNet with the Top Concept Ontology J. Álvez;J. Atserias; J. Carrera; S. Climent; A. Oliver; G. Rigau, Proceedings of the 4th Global WordNet Conference, 2008
Multimeida Information Retrieval: ”New Challenges in Audio Visual search” van Zwol, Roelof ; Rueger, Stefan ; Sanderson, Mark ; Mass, Yosi, SIGIR Forum, ACN Press, 2007, 2 [view abstract]
New challenges in audio visual search van Zwol, Roelof ; Rueger, Stefan ; Sanderson, Mark ; Mass, Yosi, ﬁfth international workshop on multimedia information retrieval, held in conjunction with the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference, ACM Press, 2007, 5
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]
Semantically Annotated Snapshot of the English Wikipedia v.0 (SW0) Zaragoza, H. ; Atserias, J. ; Ciaramita, M. ; Attardi, G., 2007
Page-Level Template Detection via Isotonic Smoothing Deepayan Chakrabarti; Ravi Kumar; Kunal Punera, 16th International World Wide Web Conference, 2007 [view abstract]
Estimating Rates of Rare Events at Multiple Resolutions D. Agarwal; A. Broder; D. Chakrabarti; D. Diklic; V. Josifovski; M. Sayyadian, KDD, 2007
Ranking very many typed entities on wikipedia Hugo Zaragoza; Henning Rode; Peter Mika; Jordi Atserias; Massimiliano Ciaramita; Giuseppe Attardi, Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2007, 2007
PoS Tagging with a Named Entity Tagger M. Ciaramita; J. Atserias., Intelligenza Artificiale, 2007, 2
Named Entity Tagging with a PoS Tagger M. Ciaramita; J. Atserias, Intelligenza Artificiale, 2007, 2

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