Einat Amitay's Publications

2009
Amitay, E., Carmel D., Har'El N., Golbandi N., Ofek-Koifman S., Soffer A., Yogev S. (2009). Social Search and Discovery using a Unified Approach. ACM Hypertext 2009.

2008
Amitay, E., Broder, A. (2008). Introduction to special issue on query log analysis: Technology and ethics. ACM Transactions on the Web (TWeb), 2(4):Article No. 18 (Oct. 2008).
Amitay E., Carmel D., Golbandi N., Har’El N., Ofek-Koifman S., Yogev S. (2008). Finding People and Documents, Using Web 2.0 Data. ACM SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Future Challenges in Expertise Retrieval, 24 July 2008, Singapore.

2007
Amitay E., Yogev S., Yom-Tov E. (2007). Serial Sharers: Detecting Split Identities of Web Authors. ACM SIGIR 2007 Workshop on Plagiarism Analysis, Authorship Identification, and Near-Duplicate Detection.

2006
Carmel D., Amitay E. (2006). Juru at TREC 2006: TAAT versus DAAT in the Terabyte Track. TREC 2006.

2005
Amitay E., Darlow A., Konopnicki D., Weiss U. (2005). Queries as Anchors: Selection by Association. ACM Hypertext 2005.

2004
Amitay E., Carmel D., Herscovici M., Lempel R., Soffer A. (2004) Trend Detection through Temporal Link Analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (JASIST).
Amitay E., Carmel D., Lempel R., Soffer A. (2004). Scaling IR-System Evaluation using Term Relevance Sets. ACM SIGIR 2004.
Amitay E., Har'El N., Sivan R., Soffer A. (2004). Web-a-where: Geotagging Web Content. ACM SIGIR 2004.
Yom-Tov E., Fine S., Carmel D., Darlow A., Amitay E. (2004). Improving document retrieval according to prediction of query difficulty. TREC 2004. NIST Publications.

2003
Amitay E., Carmel D., Darlow A., Lempel R., Soffer A. (2003). The Connectivity Sonar: Detecting Site Functionality by Structural Patterns. ACM Hypertext 2003. Winner of the Ted Nelson Award. Also: Journal of Digital Information (JoDI), 4(3):Article No. 238, 2003-11-19. (Invited Award winning Paper).
Amitay E., Nelken R., Niblack W., Sivan R., Soffer A. (2003). Multi-Resolution Disambiguation of Term Occurrence. ACM CIKM 2003.
Amitay E., Carmel D., Darlow A., Soffer A., Lempel R. (2003). Juru at TREC 2003 - Topic Distillation using Query-type classification. TREC 2003. NIST publications.
Amitay E., Nelken R., Soffer A., Niblack W., Smith D.C. (2003). Disambiguation for Text Mining on the Web. WWW03 (poster).

2002
Amitay E., Carmel D., Darlow A., Soffer A., Lempel R. (2002). Topic Distillation with Knowledge Agents. TREC 2002. NIST publications.
Mass Y., Mandelbrod M., Amitay E., Soffer A. (2002). JuruXML - an XML retrieval system at INEX'02. INEX 2002 Workshop.

2001
Amitay E. (2001). Trends, Fashions, Patterns, Norms, Conventions... and Hypertext Too. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (JASIST). (Special Issue on Information Science at the Millennium), 52:1:36-43.
Amitay E. (2001). What Lays in the Layout: Using anchor-paragraph arrangements to extract descriptions of Web documents. PhD Thesis, Macquarie University, February, 2001.
Carmel D., Amitay E., Herscovici M., Maarek Y.S., Petruschka Y., Soffer A. (2001). Juru at TREC 10 - Experiments with Index Pruning. TREC 2001. NIST publications.

2000
Amitay E., Paris C. (2000). Automatically Summarising Web Sites - Is There A Way Around It? ACM CIKM, pp. 173-179.
Amitay E. (2000). InCommonSense - Rethinking Web Search Results. IEEE ICME, pp. 1705-1708.
Amitay E. (2000). Workshop Report: "Information Doors -- Where Information Search and Hypertext Link". ACM SIGWEB Newsletter, February 2000, Volume 9, Issue 1.
Amitay E., Editor, Information Doors: Where Information Search and Hypertext Link. ACM Hypertext 2000 Workshop Proceedings.

1999
Amitay E. (1999). Anchors in context. in Words on the Web - Computer Mediated Communication. Lynn Pemberton & Simon Shurville eds., Intellect Books, UK.

1998
Amitay E. (1998). Using common hypertext links to identify the best phrasal description of target Web documents. in proceedings of the SIGIR'98 Workshop on Hypertext Information Retrieval for the Web, Melbourne, Australia.

1997
Richmond K., Smith A., Amitay E.(1997). Detecting Subject Boundaries Within Text: A Language Independent Statistical Approach. In proceedings of The Second Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing - EMNLP-2. Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Amitay E., Oberlander J.(1997). <a href="">Convention </a > Says... In proceedings of the Flexible Hypertext Workshop held in conjunction with The Eighth ACM International Hypertext Conference (Hypertext'97).
Amitay E. (1997). Hypertext - The importance of being different. MSc Dissertation, Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland. Also Technical Report No. HCRC/RP-94.
   

Einat Amitay's Patents

U.S Patent 7260571. Disambiguation of term occurrences.
U.S Patent 7269787. Multi-Document Context Aware Annotation System.

Einat Amitay's Patent applications (already listed)

Temporal link analysis of linked entities, Filing date: Dec 31, 2002
Personal index of items in physical proximity to a user, Filing date: Sep 30, 2003
Document enhancement method, Filing date: Dec 22, 2003
Detecting content-rich text, Filing date: Jan 19, 2005
Search Performance and User Interaction Monitoring of Search Engines, Filing date: May 15, 2006
Method and system for determining the focus of a document, Filing date: Jun 23, 2005
Method and system for assessing quality of search engines, Filing date: Mar 17, 2005
Method and system for detection of authors, Filing date: April, 2007