Bo Pang

Research Area: Search Technologies
Location: Yahoo! Research Silicon Valley

Profile

Bo Pang joined Yahoo! Research in August 2006. Her primary research interests are natural language processing and machine learning. Her past work include automatic analysis of sentiment in text and paraphrase extraction and generation in the context of machine translation. She obtained her PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University.

Email: bopang AT yahoo-inc DOT com

Recent Publications, Projects and News

  • Building Better Online Communities - The Web is teeming with communities, each with its own set of interests and personalities. There are communities for video game addicts, tennis enthusiasts, academic researchers, and coin collectors, to name just a few.
  • Yahoo! Research Takes Top Prize at EC’08 - Yahoo! Research took center stage at the Ninth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC’08), held July 8 to 12 in Chicago, winning the Outstanding Paper Award and having a total of seven research papers selected for the event -- more than any other organization.