Our current research interests include
- Social Web search and personalization
- Temporal analysis of web search results
- Efficiency and scalability issues for Web-IR
- Domain-specific (a.k.a. topical/vertical) search engines
- Web information extraction
- Metadata based modeling and querying of Web resources
- XML keyword search
28.03.2013 We are looking for highly-motivated and hard-working GRADUATE and UNDERGRADUATE students for research projects. If you feel like interested, please drop an email to oulusoy@cs.bilkent.edu.tr
15.03.2013 Our project proposal entitled "Optimization of Search Technologies for Students at Primary and Secondary Schools" for TUBITAK-1003 program is accepted.
01.03.2013 Our article entitled "Cluster searching strategies for collaborative recommendation systems" is published in the Elsevier Information Processing & Management (IPM) journal (Volume 49 Issue 3, May 2013).01.12.2012 Our article entitled "Cache-Based Query Processing for Search Engines" is published in the ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB) journal (Volume 6 Issue 4, November 2012).
01.11.2012 Our article entitled "Five-level Static Cache Architecture for Web Search Engines" is published in the Elsevier Information Processing & Management (IPM) journal (Volume 48 Issue 5, Sept 2012).
01.10.2012 Our work entitled "Characterizing Web Search Queries that Match Very Few or No Results" is accepted for the ACM 21st Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'12).01.02.2012 Our article entitled "Static index pruning in web search engines: Combining term and document popularities with query views" is published in the first issue of ACM Transactions on Information Systems journal.
01.02.2012 Our 3 works appear in ECIR 2012:
- Adaptive Time-to-Live Strategies for Query Result Caching in Web Search Engines
- In Praise of Laziness: A Lazy Strategy for Web Information Extraction
- On the Size of Full Element-Indexes for XML Keyword Search