News

• I gave the machine learning seminar at eHarmony
• I was the invited speaker at the ECIR Workshop on Information Retrieval over Query Sessions
• Patent awarded: Segmentation of search topics in query logs
• Patent awarded: System and method for generating substitutable queries on the basis of one or more features by Rosie Jones, Benjamin rey and Marco Zagha (US patent no: 7,739,264) awarded June 15th, 2010
• Tutorial at WWW 2010: "Open Search Tools" by Rosie Jones and Ted Drake (slides now available online)
• Patent awarded: System and method for query expansion by Soren Riise, Devesh Patel, Bruce Campbell), David Richardson-Bunbury, Eugene Stipp and Rosie Jones (US patent no: 7,685,119) awarded March 23, 2010
• Patent awarded: System and method for identifying related queries for languages with multiple writing systems by Rosie Jones, Kevin Bartz and Benjamin Rey (US patent no: 7,689,554)
• Patent awarded: System and method for determining alternate search queries by Tina Weyand, Rosie Jones and Benjamin Rey (US patent no: 7,634,462) awarded December 15th, 2009
• I gave an invited talk at ECML/PKDD 2009 on Privacy in Web Search Query Logs
• Rosie Jones and Fernando Diaz had a patent awarded: "System and method for providing temporal search results in response to a search query"
• Along with Vik Singh, I gave a SIGIR 2009 tutorial on IR Prototypes and Web Search Hacks with Open Source Tools
• Along with Nick Craswell, Georges Dupret and Evelyne Viegas, I co-organized the WSDM 2009 workshop on web search click data WSCD09
• I am now a Senior Member of the ACM.
• Patent issued: System and methods for ranking the relative value of terms in a multi-term search query using deletion prediction