Marcin Sydow: research
Particular Topics of Interest: diversification in search, semantic search, RDF-graph summarisation, query suggestion, link-based ranking algorithms, automatic web spam detection, web crawling, computational advertising, query log analysis, web graph analysis, text classification and reference matching in highly inflective languages.
Selected Research Stays:
> Yahoo! Research Barcelona (Data Mining Group), topic: "Topical Query Decomposition", autumn 2008
> MPII (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbruecken), D5 (Databases and Information Systems Department), Prof. Gerhard Weikum, topic: "Semantic Search", spring 2009
> MPII (D5, Prof. G. Weikum), topic: "Semantic RDF-graph Summarisation", summer 2010
> MPII (D5, Prof. G. Weikum), topic: "Similar entity search in Semantic Graphs", March 2013
> Big Data Institute, Dalhousie University, Canada, topic: "Applications of Diversity in Web Search", June 2014
> School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide, Australia, topic: "Diversity in Graph Matching and Service Recommendation", September 2014
Participation in Research Projects:
> NEKST (EU funded, at ICS PAS, since 2010), intelligent search engine for Polish
> SidSis (Polish State grant no: N N516 443038, at ICS PAS, since 2010), social network analysis
> uTrust (Polish State grant no: N N516 4307 33, at PJIIT, 2008-2010), trust management
Own research projects in collaboration with industry and other institutes:
| title/topic: | grant/year | collaboration with: |
| "DISQUSS" (at ICS PAS, Polish NSC grant, ongoing) | 2013-2015 | Yahoo! Research Barcelona |
| "DIVERSUM" (Polish National Science Centre grant) | N516 481940 | MPII, Saarbruecken |
| Intelligent WWW content prediction | ST/SI/02/2011 | ICS PAS, Warsaw |
| Semantic Summarisation in RDF-graphs | BW/SI/02/2010 | MPII, Saarbruecken |
| Web Mining in Internet Advertising | ST/SI/04/2009 | AdOcean Sp. z o.o. |
| Simple Focused Web Crawler | BW/SI/O3/2009 | ICS PAS, Warsaw |
| Web user behaviour analysis | ST/SI/03/2008 | Gemius S.A., PUT Poznań |
| Automatic methods for search engine spam detection | ST/SI/06/2007 | Yahoo! Research Barcelona, JRC Ispra, PUT Poznań |
| Analysis of search engine query logs | ST/SI/06/2006 | NetSprint.pl |
| Evaluation of the novel link-based RBS ranking algorithm | BW/AI/03/2005 | Gemius S.A. and NetSprint.pl |
| Crawling large collections of Web documents | ST/AI/03/2005 | |
| Automatic content classification of Web documents | ST/AI/03/2004 | |
| Analysis of the methods of ranking Web documents | BW/AI/01/2004 | |
| Measurements and models of the Web graph | PJ/AI/03/03 | Inst. of CS, PAS, Warsaw |
Last updated: Oct 24, 2014