Search & Web Mining | Yahoo! Research

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

Location Cache for Web Queries Mauricio Marin; Flavio Ferrarotti; Marcelo Mendoza; Carlos Gomez; Veronica Gil-Costa, ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2009
Building decision trees to identify the intent of a user query Marcelo Mendoza; Juan Zamora, Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, 2009
A Last-Resort Semantic Cache for Web Queries Marcelo Mendoza; Flavio Ferrarotti; Mauricio Marin, String Processing and Information Retrieval, Springer, 2009
Identifying the intent of a user query using support vector machines Marcelo Mendoza; Juan Zamora, String Processing and Information Retrieval, Springer, 2009
Fast shortest path distance estimation in large networks Michalis Potamias; Francesco Bonchi; Carlos Castillo; Aristides Gionis, Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2009 [view abstract]
The Geographical Life of Information Ricardo Baeza-Yates; Christian Middleton; Carlos Castillo, Web Intelligence, IEEE, 2009 [view abstract]
Voting in Social Networks Paolo Boldi; Francesco Bonchi; Carlos Castillo; Sebastiano Vigna, Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), ACM Press, 2009 [view abstract]
Aging effects on Query Flow Graph for Query Suggestion Franco Maria Nardini; Raffaele Perego; Fabrizio Silvestri; Carlos Castillo; Debora Donato; Ranieri Baraglia, Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), ACM Press, 2009 [view abstract]
From 'dango' to 'japanese cakes': Query Reformulation Models and Patterns Paolo Boldi; Francesco Bonchi; Carlos Castillo; Sebastiano Vigna, Web Intelligence, IEEE Cs Press, 2009 [view abstract]
Dynamic characterization of a large Web graph Ilaria Bordino; Debora Donato, Procs. of the 1st Web Science Conference (short paper), 2009 [view abstract]
Graph Mining for the Web Debora Donato; Aristides Gionis; H. Wang and C.Aggarwal, Managing and mining graph data, Springer, 2009 [view abstract]
Taxonomy-driven lumping for sequence mining Francesco Bonchi; Carlos Castillo; Debora Donato; Aristides Gionis, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Springer, 2009, 2 [view abstract]
Robust Cross-Language Query Classification with External Web Evidence Xuerui Wang;Andrei Broder;Evgeniy Gabrilovich; Vanja Josifovski; Bo Pang, Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2009
Classifying Search Queries Using the Web as a Source of Knowledge Evgeniy Gabrilovich; Andrei Broder; Marcus Fontoura; Amruta Joshi; Vanja Josifovski; Lance Riedel; Tong Zhang, ACM Transactions on the Web, 2009, 2
Wikipedia-based Semantic Interpretation for Natural Language Processing Evgeniy Gabrilovich; Shaul Markovitch, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 2009
The Social Future of Web Search: Modeling, Exploiting, and Searching Collaboratively Generated Content Eugene Agichtein; Evgeniy Gabrilovich; Hongyuan Zha, IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 2009, 2
On the Feasibility of Multi-Site Web Search Engines Ricardo Baeza-Yates; Aristides Gionis; Flavio Junqueira; Vassilis Plachouras; Luca Telloli, CIKM, 2009 [view abstract]
Mining graph evolution rules Michele Berlingerio; Francesco Bonchi; Bjorn Bringmann; Aristides Gionis, ECML/PKDD, 2009 [view abstract]
Semi-Parametric and Non-parametric Term Weighting for Information Retrieval Donald Metzler; Hugo Zaragoza, International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR), 2009 [view abstract]
Building Enriched Document Representations using Aggregated Anchor Text Donald Metzler; Jasmine Novak; Hang Cui; Srihari Reddy, SIGIR, 2009 [view abstract]

Featured Project

Team

Recent Publications