- Evgeniy Gabrilovich
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name = Evgeniy Gabrilovich
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birth_place =Russia
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residence =United States
nationality =Israel
field =Computational Linguistics
work_institution =Yahoo! Research
alma_mater =Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
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known_for = discovery of theIDN homograph attack
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religion = Jewish
footnotes =Evgeniy Gabrilovich is a prominent Computer Scientist at
Yahoo! Research, specializing in Information Retrieval,Machine Learning , andComputational Linguistics , and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE ).In 2002, Gabrilovich published a research paper documenting the possibility of an
IDN homograph attack , with fellow researcherAlex Gontmakher .In 2005, Gabrilovich earned his PhD degree in Computer Science from the
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology . In his Ph.D. thesis, he developed a methodology for using large scale repositories of world knowledge, such asWikipedia , as a basis for improvement of text representations.On
November 6 ,2007 , Gabrilovich was granted a USpatent for a new method for personalizing newsfeeds, via an analysis of information novelty and dynamics. Later that year, Gabrilovich has also published, together with Prof.Shaul Markovitch , a series of articles suggesting a possible synergy betweenWikipedia andArtificial Intelligence .Publications
* “Computing Semantic Relatedness using Wikipedia-based Explicit Semantic Analysis”, The 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pp. 1606-1611, Evgeniy Gabrilovich and Shaul Markovitch, Hyderabad, India, January 2007
* “Harnessing the Expertise of 70,000 Human Editors: Knowledge-Based Feature Generation for Text Categorization”, Evgeniy Gabrilovich and Shaul Markovitch, Journal of Machine Learning Research 8 (Oct), pp. 2297-2345, 2007
* “Robust Classification of Rare Queries Using Web Knowledge”, The 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2007
* [http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gabr/papers/homograph_full.pdf The Homograph Attack] , Evgeniy Gabrilovich and Alex Gontmakher, "Communications of the ACM", 45(2):128, February 2002
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