News

• I'm hiring! Research Scientist positions in Boston, MA
• New paper: "An Information Nutrition Label for Online Documents" to appear in SIGIR Forum, December 2017.
• New paper: "A Retrospective on Mutual Bootstrapping", to appear in AI Magazine , 2017
• Older:
• New patent awarded: System and method of geo-based prediction in search result selection Rosie Jones, Fernando Diaz and Ahmed Hassan Awadallah (US Patent no: 8,352,466, awarded January 2013)
• I gave an invited talk at the NYU Poly CRISSP Summer Workshop 2012
• I gave an invited talk at the Time-Aware Information Access Workshop at SIGIR 2012
• Patent issued: System for Biasing Search Results for Topic Familiarity
• I gave the machine learning seminar at eHarmony
• I was the invited speaker at the ECIR Workshop on Information Retrieval over Query Sessions
• Patent awarded: Segmentation of search topics in query logs
• Patent awarded: System and method for generating substitutable queries on the basis of one or more features by Rosie Jones, Benjamin rey and Marco Zagha (US patent no: 7,739,264) awarded June 15th, 2010
• Tutorial at WWW 2010: "Open Search Tools" by Rosie Jones and Ted Drake (slides now available online)
• Patent awarded: System and method for query expansion by Soren Riise, Devesh Patel, Bruce Campbell), David Richardson-Bunbury, Eugene Stipp and Rosie Jones (US patent no: 7,685,119) awarded March 23, 2010
• Patent awarded: System and method for identifying related queries for languages with multiple writing systems by Rosie Jones, Kevin Bartz and Benjamin Rey (US patent no: 7,689,554)
• Patent awarded: System and method for determining alternate search queries by Tina Weyand, Rosie Jones and Benjamin Rey (US patent no: 7,634,462) awarded December 15th, 2009
• I gave an invited talk at ECML/PKDD 2009 on Privacy in Web Search Query Logs
• Rosie Jones and Fernando Diaz had a patent awarded: "System and method for providing temporal search results in response to a search query"
• Along with Vik Singh, I gave a SIGIR 2009 tutorial on IR Prototypes and Web Search Hacks with Open Source Tools
• Along with Nick Craswell, Georges Dupret and Evelyne Viegas, I co-organized the WSDM 2009 workshop on web search click data WSCD09
• I am now a Senior Member of the ACM.
• Patent issued: System and methods for ranking the relative value of terms in a multi-term search query using deletion prediction