Apr 10 00:07

Join Us

We are looking for a talented Ph.D. student to join our lab to work on text mining and information extraction. Click here for more information about applying to the Emory Ph.D. Program. You may also contact Eugene with questions about our research.

Apr 30 23:26

Our work on mining social media appears in a series of papers in WWW, SIGIR, and ACL

Oct 24 13:20

CIKM 2008 Workshop on Searching Social Media (SSM 2008): Less than 1 week away

Our workshop on searching social media (SSM 2008), at CIKM 2008 in Napa Valley, CA is shaping up to be very interesting. Do stop by on Thursday, October 30th. The keynote speaker is Andrew Tomkins of Yahoo!, talk starts 9am sharp.

Apr 17 10:16

Qi Guo and Yandong Liu win Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenge Awards!

 

Lab members Qi Guo and Yandong Liu win Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenge Awards!


Qi and Yandong are are among the elite 20 Computer Science graduate students that were selected nationwide. Both Qi and Yandong are 2nd-year PhD students in the Emory Mathematics and Computer Science department and are advised by Prof. Eugene Agichtein. Qi is working on improving web search and advertising by inferring searcher intent. Yandong is working on community question answering.