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JOURNAL PAPERS AND BOOK CHAPTERS  

  1. R. Baeza-Yates, A. Broder and Y. Maarek, The new frontier of Web Search Technology: Seven challenges. In Search and Computing, Trends and Development, S. Ceri and M. Brambilla (eds). LNCS 6585, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2011.
  2. R. Baeza-Yates and Y. Maarek, Web Retrieval chapter. In  "Modern Information Retrieval, 2nd edition", Baeza-Yates and Ribeiro-Neto eds., Addison-Wesley, February 2011. Chapter can be downloaded from the book site
  3. M. Sifer, F. Dau, H. Hasan, K. Crawford, Y.Peres and Y. Maarek, "Xeena for schema: creating XML documents with a coordinated grammar tree", Int. J. Computational Science and Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 2,
    pp.127–146, 2010.
  4. G. León, Y. Maarek, W. Nejdl and J. Quemada  eds, Proceedings of the WWW'2009 Conference, Madrid, Spain, April 2009.
  5. Z. Bar-Yossef, I. Guy, R. Lempel, Y.S. Maarek, and V. Soroka, Cluster Ranking with an Application to Mining Mailbox Networks. Knowledge and Information Systems, Vol 15, Issue 1, December 2007. A previous version appeared at ICDM 2006 and received an Honorable mention for best application paper award.
  6. E. Brown, D. Carmel, M. Franz, A. Ittycheriah, T. Kanungo, Y. Maarek, J. Scott McCarley, R. Mack, J. Prager, J. Smith, A. Soffer and J.  Zien, IBM Research Activities at TREC. In TREC Experiment and Evaluation in Information Retrieval. Ellen M. Voorhees and Donna K. Harman edtors, MIT Press, 2006.
  7. V. Soroka, M. Jacovi and Y. Maarek, Let me know what you know. In "Peer-to-peer computing: The evolution of a disruptive technology", R. Subramanian and B. Goodman eds. 2005
  8.  R. Baeza-Yates, Y. S. Maarek, T. Roelleke and A.P. de Vries, Third Edition of the XML and IR Workshop/First Workshop on Integration of IR and DB. In SIGIR Forum, Volume 38, Number 2. December 2004.
  9. R. Baeza-Yates, N. Fuhr and Y. Maarek, Second Edition of the XML and IR Workshop, in SIGIR Forum, Volume 36, Number 2, Fall 2002
  10. D. Cohen, M. Jacovi, Y. S. Maarek and V. Soroka, Collection Awareness on the Web via Livemaps. In the International Journal of Hypertext Systems, 2002. An earlier version appeared In Proceedings of the CSCW'2000 Workshop on Awareness and the WWW, Philadelphia, PA, 2-6 Dec 2000
  11. A. Azagury, M. Factor, Y.S. Maarek and B. Mander, A Novel Navigation Paradigm for XML Repositories. JASIST Special Issue on XML and IR, 53:6, 2002.
  12. Y. Aridor, D. Carmel, R. Lempel, Y. S. Maarek and A. Soffer, Knowledge Encapsulation for Focused Search on Pervasive Devices. In ACM Transaction on Information Systems, 20:1, Jan 2002
  13. D. Carmel, Y. Maarek and A. Soffer, XML and Information Retrieval, Worskhop Report. In SIGIR Forum, Fall 2000, Volume 34 Number 1. Also in SIGMOD Record: Volume 30, No 1, March 2001
  14. I. Ben-Shaul, M. Hersovici, M. Jacovi, Y.S. Maarek, D. Pelleg, M. Shtalhaim, V. Soroka and S. Ur. Adding Support for Dynamic and Focused Search with Fetuccino, Journal of Computer Networks, 1999. An earlier version appeared in the Proceedings of the WWW8 Conference, Toronto, Canada, May 1999 
  15. M. Hersovici, M. Jacovi, Y.S. Maarek, D. Pelleg, M. Shtalhaim and S. Ur. The Shark-Search Algorithm: An Application Web Site Mapping. In Journal of Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Elsevier, 1998. An earlier version appeared in the Proceedings of the WWW7 Conference, Brisbane, Australia, April 1998
  16. Yoelle S. Maarek, Michal Jacovi, Menachem Shtalhaim, Sigalit Ur, Dror Zernik and Israel Z. Ben Shaul, WebCutter: A System for Dynamic and Tailorable Site Mapping. In Journal of Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Elsevier, 1997. An earlier version appeared in the Proceedings of the WWW6 Conference, Santa-Clara, CA, April 1997
  17. Yoelle S. Maarek and Israel Z. Ben Shaul. Automatically Organizing Bookmarks per Contents, Journal of Computer Networks and ISDN Systems 28, Elsevier, 1996. An earlier version appeared in the Proceedings of the WWW5 Conference, Paris, France, May 1996. 
  18. Yoelle S. Maarek. Organizing documents to support browsing in Digital Libraries. In SIGOIS Bulletin, Special Issue on Digital Libraries, Guest Editor: Ann P. Bishop, Volume 16, Number 2, December 1995, 2-44. 
  19. Yoelle S. Maarek, Daniel M. Berry, and Gail E. Kaiser, GURU: Information Retrieval for Reuse. In "Landmark Contributions in Software Reuse and Reverse Engineering" edited by P. Hall, Unicom Seminars, Ltd., 1994. 
  20. Yoelle S. Maarek, Introduction to Information Retrieval for Software Reuse. In “Advances in Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering Volume II”. V.Ambriola and G.Tortora eds, World Scientific Publishing Company, New Jersey, 1993 
  21. Yoelle S. Maarek, Automatically Constructing Simple Help Systems From Natural Language Documentation. In “Text-Based Intelligent Systems: Current Research and Practice in Information Extraction and Retrieval”'. Paul S. Jacobs, editor.   Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1992 
  22. Yoelle S. Maarek, Software library construction from an IR perspective. In SIGIR Forum, 25:2, Fall 1991, pp 8-18
  23. Yoelle S. Maarek, D. M. Berry and G. E. Kaiser, An Information Retrieval Approach for Automatically Constructing Software Libraries. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 17:8, August 1991
  24. Simon M. Kaplan and Yoelle S. Maarek, Incremental Maintenance of Semantic Links in Dynamically Changing Hypertext Systems. Interacting with Computers, 2(3), December 1990
  25. Yoelle S. Maarek, GCC: An Incremental Conceptual Clustering Algorithm with Input-Ordering Bias Correction. In Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language and Knowledge Base Systems, M.C. Golumbic ed., Springer Verlag, New York, 1990

PUBLICATIONS IN CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

  1. Anna Shtok, Gideon Dror, Yoelle Maarek and  Idan Szpektor, Learning from the Past: Answering New Questions with Past Answers. In Proceedings of WWW'2012, Lyon, France, April 2012.
  2. Yehuda Koren, Edo Liberty, Yoelle Maarek and Roman Sandler, Automatically Tagging Email by Leveraging Other Users' Folders , KDD 2011, San-Diego, CA, Aug 2011
  3. Gideon Dror, Yehuda Koren, Yoelle Maarek, Idan Szpektor, I Want to Answer, Who Has a Question? Yahoo! Answers Recommender System , KDD 2011, San-Diego, CA, Aug 2011
  4. Q. Liu, E. Agichtein, G. Dror, E. Gabrilovich, Y. Maarek, D. Pelleg and I. Szpektor, Predicting Web Searcher Satisfaction with Existing Community-based Answers. In Proceedings of SIGIR'2011, Beijing, China, July 2011
  5. I. Szpektor, A. Gionis and Y. Maarek, Improving recommendation for long-tail queries via templates. In Proceedings of WWW'2011, Hyderabad, India, April 2011.
  6. R. Baeza-Yates and Y. Maarek, Web Retrieval: the role of users. Tutorial in the Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2010. Two more recent versions of the tutorial were presented at WSDM'2011, Hong-Kong, China, February 2011 and at ECIR'2011, Dublin, Ireland, April 2011.
  7. D. Donato, F. Bonchi, T. Chi and Y. Maarek, Do you want to take notes?: identifying research missions in Yahoo! Search Pad. In Proceedings of WWW'2010, Raleigh, NC, USA, May 2010- Featured paper.
  8. A. Broder, Y. Maarek, K. Bharat, S. Dumais, S. Papa, J. Pedersen and P. Raghavan, Currents Trends in the Integration of Searching and Browsing. In Proceedings of Special interest tracks and posters of the WWW'2005, May 2005, p 793.
  9. A. Broder, Y.S. Maarek, Y. Mass and M. Mandelbrod, “Extending the XML Fragment Model to Support Querying over Annotated text”. Third Edition of XML and IR Workshop, SIGIR 2004,  Sheffield, UK, July 2004.
  10. A. Broder, Y. Maarek, M. Mandelbrod and Y. Mass, Using XML to Query XML. In the Proceedings of RIAO'04, Avignon, France, April 2004.
  11. D. Cohen, M. Jacovi, M. Herscovici, Y.S. Maarek, N. Meshulam, A. Soffer and V. Soroka, Leveraging Web Services for Information Discovery. In the Proceedings of SwSTE'03, IEEE International Conference on Software Science Technology and Engineering, Herzliya, Israel, Dec 2003. Best paper award.
  12. M. Sifer, Y. Peres and Y.S. Maarek, Browsing and Editing XML Schema Documents with an Interactive Editor. In the Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Databases in Networked Information Systems, DNIS'03, Aizu, Japan, Sept 2003.
  13. D. Carmel, Y. S. Maarek, M. Mandelbrod, Y. Mass and A. Soffer, Searching XML Documents via XML Fragments.  In the Proceedings of SIGIR’03, Toronto, CA Aug 2003
  14. Y. Mass, M. Mandelbrod, E. Amitay, D. Carmel, Y. Maarek and A. Soffer, JuruXML and XML Retrieval System at INEX. In the Proceedings of INEX, 2003.
  15. M. Sifer, Y. Peres and Y. Maarek, Xeena for Schema: creating XML data with an interactive editor. In  the Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Databases in Networked Information Systems (DNIS'02), Aizu, Japan, Dec. 2002
  16. D. Carmel, N. Efraty, G. Landau, Y. Maarek and Y. Mass, An Extension of the Vector Space Model for Querying XML Documents via XML Fragments. In the Workshop Notes of the ACM SIGIR’2002 Workshop on XML and IR, Aug 2002, Tampere, Finland.
  17. D. Cohen, M. Herscovici, Y.S. Maarek, Y. Petruschka and A. Soffer, Personalized Pocket Directories for Mobile Devices, In Proceedings of WWW2002, Honolulu, HI, May 2002.
  18. M. Sifer, Y. Peres and Y. Maarek, A grammar view for editing structured documents. In Proceedings of VIP 2001, Pan-Sydney Area Workshop on Visual Information Processing, Sydney, December 5, 2001
  19. D. Carmel, E. Amitay, M. Herscovici, Y. Maarek, Y. Petruschka and A. Soffer, Juru at TREC 10 - Experiments with Index Pruning, In Proceedings of NIST TREC 10, Nov 2001.
  20. D. Carmel, D. Cohen, R. Fagin, E. Farhi, M. Herscovici, Y. Maarek and A. Soffer, Static Index Pruning for Information Retrieval Systems. In Proceedings of the SIGIR 2001, New Orleans, LA, Sept. 2001
  21. Y. Aridor, D. Carmel, R. Lempel, Y. S. Maarek and A. Soffer, Knowledge Encapsulation for Focused Search on Pervasive Devices. In Proceedings of the WWW10 Conference, Hong-Kong, May 2001.
  22. Ronald Fagin and Yoelle S Maarek, Allowing users to weight search terms. In Proceedings of RIAO'2000, Paris, France, Apr. 2000.
  23. Yariv Aridor, David Carmel, Ronny Lempel, Aya Soffer and Yoelle S. Maarek, Knowledge Agents on the Web. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents CIA'2000, Boston, MA, July 7-9, 2000. Also appeared in ``Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence'' 1860, Klush and Kerschberg eds., Springer, July 2000, pp 15-26.
  24. David Carmel and Yoelle Maarek, Morphological Disambiguation for Hebrew Search Systems. In Proceedings of NGITS'99, Zikhron-Yaakov, Israel, Springer-Verlag, July 1999.
  25. Yoelle S. Maarek, Michal Jacovi, Menachem Shtalhaim, Sigalit Ur, Dror Zernik and Israel Z. Ben Shaul, Coping with Java Security Restrictions in WebCutter, MASCOTS 97, Java Workshop, Eilat, Jan 1997.
  26. Yoelle S. Maarek and Alan J. Wecker,  The Librarian's Assistant: Automatically Assembling Books into Dynamic Bookshelves. In Proceedings of RIAO'94, Intelligent Multimedia, Information Retrieval Systems and Management, New York, NY 1994.
  27. William H. Harrison and Yoelle S. Maarek,  Using Natural Language Comments in a Structured Programming Environment to Increase  Program Understanding, AAAI Workshop on AI  and Automated Program Understanding, San Diego, CA, July 1992.
  28. Richard Helm and Yoelle S. Maarek, Integrating Information Retrieval and Domain Specific Approaches for Browsing and Retrieval in Object Oriented Class Libraries. In Proceedings of OOPSLA'91, Phoenix, AZ, Oct 1991
  29. Yoelle S. Maarek,  An Information Retrieval Approach for Building Reuse Libraries, First International Workshop on Software Reusability, Dortmund, Germany, July 1991.
  30. Yoelle S. Maarek and Mark T. Kennedy,  A Text-Based Reuse System for UNIX Environments, In the Proceedings of the Usenix Workshop on Unix-Based Software Development Environments,  Dallas, TX, Jan 1991
  31. Yoelle S. Maarek, Indexing Software Components for Reuse by Using Natural Language Documentation. In Proceedings of the Third Annual Workshop: Methods and Tools for Reuse, Syracuse, NY, June 1990
  32. Yoelle S. Maarek, Automatically Generating Natural Language Help Systems From Free-Style Textual Documentation. In Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium Series: Text-Based Intelligent Systems, pp 66-69, Stanford University, March 1990
  33. Yoelle S. Maarek and Frank A. Smadja, Full Text Indexing Based on Lexical Relations. An application: Software Libraries. In  Proceedings of SIGIR'89, 12th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 198-206, Cambridge, MA, June 1989
  34. Yoelle S. Maarek and Daniel M. Berry, The Use of Lexical Affinities in Requirements Extraction. In the Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Software Specification and Design, pp. 196-202,  Pittsburgh, PA, May 19-20 1989
  35. Yoelle S. Maarek, Using Cluster Analysis for Assisting Maintenance of Large Software Systems. In Proceedings of the IEEE Israel Conference on Computer Systems and Software Engineering,  pp. 178-186, Tel Aviv, Israel, June 1988
  36. Yoelle S. Maarek and Gail E. Kaiser, Change Management in Very Large Software Systems. In the Proceedings of the IEEE Phoenix Conference on Computer Systems and Communications, pp. 280-285, Scottsdale, AZ, March 1988
  37. Yoelle S. Maarek and Gail E. Kaiser, On the Use of Conceptual Clustering for Classifying Reusable Ada Code. In the Proceedings of the ACM  SIGAda International Conference, Boston, MA, December 1987
 

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