A Selection of Research Papers from Yahoo Research: From Web Links and Trade Relationships to Automated Classification

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+ Relationship Between Web Links and Trade
Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Carlos Castillo. 2006.
We report on observations on Web characterization studies that suggest that the amount of Web links among sites under different country-code top-level domains is related to the amount of trade between the corresponding countries.

+ New Metrics for Reputation Management in P2P Networks.
by Debora Donato, Mario Paniccia, Maddalena Selis, Carlos Castillo, Giovanni Cortese, Stefano Leonardi. 2007

World Knowledge in Broad-Coverage Information Filtering
by B. Hagedorn, M. Ciaramita and J. Atserias. 2007.
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+ Computing Trusted Authority Scores in Peer-to-Peer Networks
Josiane-Xavier Parreira, Debora Donato, Carlos Castillo, Gerhard Weikum. 2007.

+ Robust Classification of Rare Queries Using Web Knowledge. In The 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (Amsterdam)
by Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Andrei Broder, Marcus Fontoura, Amruta Joshi, Vanja Josifovski, Tong Zhang. 2007.
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by Evgeniy Gabrilovich

+ Anchor-based proximity measures
by Amruta Joshi, Ravi Kumar, Benjamin Reed, Andrew Tomkins. 2007

+ Semantic Associations for Contextual Advertising
by Massimiliano Ciaramita and Vanessa Murdock and Vassilis Plachouras

+ Web Search Engine Evaluation Using Click-Through Data and a User Model
by Georges Dupret, Vanessa Murdock and Benjamin Piwowarski. 2007.