Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Ph.D. Yahoo! Research 4301 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA Email: gabr AT yahoo DASH inc DOT com

Short bio

Full curriculum vitae

Research

I am interested in advancing the state of the art in information retrieval and natural language processing at Web scale. I have worked extensively on computational advertising, namely, designing systems that select contextually relevant ads in sponsored search and content match. More recently, I have been working on contextual app recommendation in Web search. I am also interested in using large-scale repositories of collaboratively-generated content (e.g., all of Wikipedia) for improving text processing methods.

Publications

Most of my publications are available online here (sorted by date or by publication type).

My Erdos number is 3

• Evgeniy Gabrilovich -> Andrei Broder -> {Bela Bollobas, Nathan Linial, Stephen Suen} -> Paul Erdös
• Evgeniy Gabrilovich -> Nissim Francez -> Shmuel Zaks -> Paul Erdös
• Evgeniy Gabrilovich -> Yossi Matias -> Noga Alon -> Paul Erdös

Recent events

• WWW 2012 Workshop on Appification of the Web
• WSDM 2012 Tutorial on Mining, Searching and Exploiting Collaboratively Generated Content on the Web
• "Advancing Natural Language Understanding with Collaboratively Generated Content"
  • Invited talk at the 2011 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, organized by the National Academy of Engineering, September 2011 (Watch on YouTube)

Older stuff

• My Ph.D. thesis entitled "Feature Generation for Textual Information Retrieval Using World Knowledge" is available online

Professional affiliations

Association for Computing Machinery

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Senior Member)

Awards and honors

• Recipient of the BCS IRSG Karen Sparck Jones Award (2010)
• Invited participant at the First EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (2010), organized by the National Academy of Engineering and the European Council of Applied Sciences and Engineering
• Invited participant at the 2009 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, organized by the National Academy of Engineering
• Outstanding reviewer, COLING-ACL 2006 (Joint Conference of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the Association for Computational Linguistics)

Professional activities

• Journal editorial board member
  • ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)
• Senior program committee member / area chair / vice chair
  • ACL 2012 (Area Chair for "Lexical Semantics")
  • WWW 2012 (Track Chair for "Web Mining")
  • WSDM 2012 (Senior PC)
  • ICDM 2011 (Vice Chair)
  • SIGIR 2011 (Area Chair for "Query Analysis")
  • AAAI 2011 (Senior PC)
  • IJCAI 2011 (Senior PC for the "Integrated and Embedded AI" track)
  • EMNLP 2010 (Area Chair for "NLP for the Web")
  • ICWSM 2010 (Senior PC)
• Workshop chair
  • WSDM 2011
• Poster chair
  • KDD 2010
• Journal guest editorial
  • Special issue of the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology on Computational Models of Collective Intelligence in the Social Web
• Journal reviewer
  • ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
  • ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
  • ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
  • Communications of the ACM
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
  • Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  • Information Processing and Management
  • Journal of Natural Language Engineering
• Tutorial instructor
  • "Information Organization and Retrieval with Collaboratively Generated Content" at AAAI 2011
  • "Information Organization and Retrieval with Collaboratively Generated Content" at SIGIR 2011
  • "Information Retrieval Challenges in Computational Advertising" at CIKM 2011, SIGIR 2010
  • "Introduction to Computational Advertising" at CIKM 2009, IJCAI 2009, EC 2008, ACL-HLT 2008
• Workshop organizer
  • Workshop on Feature Generation and Selection for Information Retrieval at SIGIR 2010
  • Workshop on Information Retrieval and Advertising at SIGIR 2009
  • Workshop on User-Contributed Knowledge and Artificial Intelligence (WikiAI) at IJCAI 2009
  • Workshop on Information Retrieval for Advertising at SIGIR 2008
  • Workshop on Wikipedia and Artificial Intelligence (WikiAI) at AAAI 2008
• Invited panelist
  • Industry Day, 33rd European Conference on IR Research (ECIR 2011)
  • Web N-gram Workshop, 33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2010)
• Program committee member (conferences)
  • SIGIR 2010, 2009; ACL 2011, 2010; COLING 2010; WSDM 2010; IJCAI 2011; EMNLP 2009; ACL-IJCNLP 2009; WWW 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008; CIKM 2008; ACL-HLT 2008; AAAI 2008, 2007; JCDL 2008; EMNLP-CoNLL 2007; COLING-ACL 2006
• Program committee member (workshops and symposia)
  • Workshop on Next-Generation Test Collections, 33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2010)
  • Workshop on Query Representation and Understanding, 33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2010)
  • Workshop on Collaboratively-built Knowledge Sources and Artificial Intelligence (WikiAI), 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2010)
  • Graduate Students Symposium, Canadian AI 2010
  • Collaborative Web Tagging Workshop, 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2006)
• Tutorial committee member
  • WI'09/IAT'09
• Conference reviewer
  • AAAI 2010, 2006, 2005; Dialogue 2009; KDD 2008; CIKM 2007; WWW 2006, 2003; AAMAS 2004
• Grant reviewer
  • Yahoo! Faculty Research Grant (2009-2011)
  • Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Program (2009-2011) – served on the Advisory Committee for the Search, Information Retrieval, and Data Mining area
  • Internet Mathematics grant program by Yandex.Ru (2007)
• Mentor for conference paper submissions
  • SIGIR 2009, 2007

Selected talks

• "Advancing Natural Language Understanding with Collaboratively Generated Content"
  • Invited talk at the 2011 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, organized by the National Academy of Engineering, Mountain View, CA, September 19, 2011
• "Time-aware models for NLP and IR applications"
  • Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China, August 2, 2011
  • Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, August 1, 2011
• "Design and Analysis of Textual Advertising Systems"
  • Yahoo! Labs, Beijing, China, July 29, 2011
• "From Information Needs to Action Needs: Towards Contextual App Search and Recommendation"
  • Invited talk at the SIGIR 2011 Industry Track, Beijing, China, July 27, 2011
• "Ad Retrieval Systems in vitro and in vivo: Knowledge-Based Approaches to Computational Advertising" (slides)
  • Invited keynote talk (Karen Sparck Jones Award Lecture) at the 33rd European Conference on IR Research (ECIR), Dublin, Ireland, April 20, 2011
• "Machine Learning in Computational Advertising: Algorithms and Applications"
  • Invited talk at SDForum, Palo Alto, CA, November 3, 2010
• "Recent advances in computational advertising: design and analysis of ad retrieval systems"
  • Invited talk at Yandex, Moscow, Russia, July 28, 2010
• "Algorithmic Approaches to Computational Advertising"
  • Invited guest lecture in the Information Retrieval course (ISM260), University of California, Santa Cruz, November 23, 2009
• "Social Web as a Source of World Knowledge"
  • Invited keynote talk at the Workshop on Social Web Search and Mining (SWSM 2009), held in conjunction with the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Hong Kong, China, November 2, 2009
• "The evolution of computational advertising: from heuristic ad matching to knowledge-based ad retrieval"
  • College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, April 26, 2010
  • Computer Science Department, Rutgers University, February 3, 2010
  • Computer Science and Engineering Department, Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly), February 2, 2010
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), November 9, 2009
  • Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin – Madison, October 1, 2009
  • CS Department Colloquium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 29, 2009
• "AI in Web advertising: picking the right ad ten thousand times a second"
  • Invited keynote talk at Canadian AI 2009, Kelowna, BC, Canada, May 26, 2009
• "Algorithmic Aspects of Computational Advertising"
  • HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA, USA, January 28, 2009
  • Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA, November 5, 2008
  • Computer Science and Engineering Colloquium, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, November 4, 2008
  • Google, Zurich, Switzerland, October 2, 2008
• "An Overview of Computational Advertising"
  • National University of Singapore, July 25, 2008
• "Towards Better Contextual Advertising"
  • Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain, November 13, 2007
• "Enhancing Text Representation Through Knowledge-Based Feature Generation"
  • Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA, June 15, 2006

Resources

I used to maintain a (somewhat dated now) collection of resources in a variety of fields related to text, speech and language processing. These include computational linguistics, information retrieval and machine learning. Here you can find pointers to useful Web sites, as well as lists of relevant books, newsgroups and mailing lists, and much more.

• Explicit Semantic Analysis (ESA)
• WikiPrep (a Perl tool for preprocessing Wikipedia XML dumps)
• Bibliography on Automated Text Categorization
• TechTC - Technion Repository of Text Categorization Datasets

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Last updated on November 28, 2011