#academic relations

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Faculty Research And Engagement Program 2015 Recipients Selected

It is in the spirit of collaboration and desire to discover answers to complex problems that we are excited to announce the recipients of the 2015 Yahoo Faculty Research and Engagement Program (FREP) award. This academic outreach initiative is designed to produce the highest quality scientific collaborations and outcomes by engaging with faculty and students conducting research in areas of mutual interest. The FREP awards hundreds of thousands of dollars in unrestricted gifts to support new, exciting Internet research studies and experiments between academics across the globe and their Yahoo Research Scientist counterparts.

Over the course of the next year and beyond, FREP award recipients and Yahoo Labs scientists will work closely to further research in their mutual areas of interest. We were extremely impressed with all of the program submissions and would like to thank each professor who applied. Congratulations to the following recipients of the Yahoo 2015 Faculty Research and Engagement Program:

Chengxiang Zhai

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Christian Bizer

University of Mannheim

Dafna Shahaf

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Debmalya Panigrahi

Duke University

Dimitrios Gunopulos

National and Kapodistrian University of Athenss

Dimitry Gorinevsky

Stanford University

Eugene Agichtein

Emory University

Fil Menczer

Indiana University-Bloomington

Giuseppe Carenini

University of British Columbia

Jaime Valls Miro

University of Technology Sydney

Jennifer Preece

University of Maryland, College Park

Jian Pei

Simon Fraser University

Jiebo Luo

University of Rochester

John Canny

University of California, Berkeley

John Shawe-Taylor

University College London

Liang Huang

Oregon State University

Munmun De Choudhury

Georgia Institute of Technology

Oren Kurland

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

Steven Swanson

University of California, San Diego

Theophilus Benson

Duke University

Tsachy Weissman

Stanford University

Yan Liu

University of Southern California

Yiqun Liu

Tsinghua University

Yvette Wohn

New Jersey Institute of Technology

At Yahoo Labs, we’re committed to forging strong alliances with top faculty by collaborating on cutting-edge research to advance Web Science. These collaborations will solve shared problems with measurable outcomes such as joint papers, advances in algorithm design, systems research, digital media studies, and marketplace design. FREP supports all areas of research at Yahoo Labs.

If you have questions about the Faculty Research and Engagement Program, please contact Kim Capps.

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Faculty Research And Engagement Program 2014 Recipients Selected

It is in the spirit of collaboration and desire to discover answers to complex problems that we are excited to announce the recipients of the 2014 Yahoo Faculty Research and Engagement Program (FREP) award. This academic outreach initiative is designed to produce the highest quality scientific collaborations and outcomes by engaging with faculty and students conducting research in areas of mutual interest. The FREP awards hundreds of thousands of dollars in unrestricted gifts to support new, exciting Internet research studies and experiments between academics across the globe and their Yahoo research scientist counterparts.

Over the course of the next year and beyond, FREP award recipients and Yahoo Labs scientists will work closely to further research in their mutual areas of interest. Yahoo Labs Research Scientist Mihajlo Grbovic will be working with Stanford University Assistant Professor Jure Leskovec on the network-based detection of potentially compromised accounts in Yahoo Mail and Tumblr. Mihajlo and Jure further discuss their research and the FREP award here:

We were extremely impressed with all of the submissions and would like to thank each professor who applied. Congratulations to the following recipients of the Yahoo 2014 Faculty Research and Engagement Program:

At Yahoo Labs, we’re committed to forging strong alliances with top faculty by collaborating on cutting edge research to advance Web Science. These collaborations will solve shared problems with measurable outcomes such as joint papers, advances in algorithm design, systems research, digital media studies, and marketplace design. FREP supports all areas of Yahoo Labs research.

If you have questions about the Faculty Research and Engagement Program, please contact Kim Capps.

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Welcome to Webscope

Are you an academic in need of data for your research? How about a LOT of data? If your answer is ‘yes’ (and ‘yes’), then you’ve come to the right place.

Yahoo is one of the largest Internet destinations on the planet. So it goes without saying that we have an immense amount of varied data. At Yahoo Labs, we constantly strive to advance the state of knowledge and understanding in web sciences. We very much believe that one of the best ways to progress is by being collaborative and open. That is why we are very pleased to now share our 50th dataset in our Webscope program.

The Yahoo Webscope Program is a reference library of interesting and scientifically useful datasets for non-commercial use by academics and other scientists. All datasets have been reviewed to conform to Yahoo’s data protection standards, including strict controls on privacy. We offer data in the following categories: Graph and Social Data, Ratings and Classification Data, Advertising and Market Data, Competition Data, Computing Systems Data, Image Data, and Language Data.

Our newest dataset is Yahoo Search Query Log To Entities. With this dataset you can train, test, and benchmark entity linking systems on the task of linking web search queries – within the context of a search session – to entities. Entities are a key enabling component for semantic search, as many information needs can be answered by returning a list of entities, their properties, and/or their relations. A first step in any such scenario is to determine which entities appear in a query – a process commonly referred to as named entity resolution, named entity disambiguation, or semantic linking. 

The Yahoo Search Query Log To Entities dataset allows researchers and other practitioners to evaluate their systems for linking web search engine queries to entities. The dataset contains manually identified links to entities in the form of Wikipedia articles and provides the means to train, test, and benchmark such systems using manually created, gold standard data. By releasing this dataset publicly, we aim to foster research into entity linking systems for web search queries.

To date, we have accommodated nearly 12,000 requests for datasets at over 1,300 universities in 94 countries. You can learn more about Webscope and request our datasets here. We hope you find this resource useful.

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Yahoo Academic Relations Joins Yahoo Labs on Tumblr

After two years of posting Academic Relations news on our Yahoo On Campus Blog, we’re happy to share upcoming academic-related posts with Yahoo Labs on Tumblr. All of our previous content is still on the old blog, so if you’re feeling nostalgic, you can always visit. But from now on, we’ll bring you the latest on our campus connections here. 

So keep this page bookmarked — we’ll be bringing you lots of good stuff soon!