Evgeniy Gabrilovich

Profile

Evgeniy Gabrilovich is a Senior Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research. His research interests include information retrieval, machine learning, and computational linguistics. Recently, he co-organized a workshop on the synergy between Wikipedia and research in AI at AAAI 2008, as well as co-presented a tutorial on computation advertising at ACL 2008 and EC 2008. He served on the program committees of ACL-08:HLT, AAAI 2008, WWW 2008, CIKM 2008, JCDL 2008, AAAI 2007, EMNLP-CoNLL 2007, and COLING-ACL 2006, as well as reviewed papers for the ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Information Processing and Management Journal, Journal of Natural Language Engineering (JNLE), and Communications of the ACM. Evgeniy earned his MSc ad PhD degrees in Computer Science from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. In his Ph.D. thesis, Evgeniy developed a methodology for using large scale repositories of world knowledge (e.g., all the knowledge available in Wikipedia) in order to enhance text representation beyond the bag of words.

Recent Publications, Projects and News

  • Match Game - Imagine reading an ESPN blog post about pro golfer Tiger Woods and seeing a short ad for the San Francisco Zoo displayed on the same page. Or imagine the horror of reading a lurid news item about a headless body found in a suitcase—and then seeing an advertisement for a leading luggage manufacturer. Not the best way to win friends and influence sponsors.
  • Query the Obscure - Gaining a better understanding of queries is a top priority of the search industry. Why? Because knowing that the query “SD450” is about cameras while “NC4200” is about laptops can lead to improved search results, more focused advertisements, and a better user experience.
  • Yahoo! at SIGIR 2008 - The 31st Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) brought together a diverse group of over 500 attendees from academia and industry to the exotic island-nation of Singapore. Yahoo! was in the spotlight once again, snapping up three slots on the list of fully accepted papers, and six posters.
  • Ron Brachman Honored at AAAI-08 - Brachman, who is a founding fellow of AAAI, was honored for his extraordinary service to the AI community.
  • 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.
  • Yahoo! Research's Big Impact at SIGIR - Search experts from around the world, including more than a dozen representatives from Yahoo! Research, descended on Amsterdam late last month for the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference.