Tomasz Imielinski, Professor

Tomasz Imielinski


Interests: Data mining, search technology, question answering


Teaching

Spring 2010 I am teaching  Data Mining -Searching for gold in massive data sets

Research

Here is the list of my papers   at Google Scholar

I am currently working on semantic search engines. The link below describes some massive experiments evaluating semanticity of a search engine.

Paraphrasing Invariance Search Engine Evaluation 

Awards:

2003 - 10 year Test of Time SIGMOD Award  Test of time

2002 -  10 year VLDB Best Paper Award  VLDB Award  

The paper Mining association rules between sets of items in large databases] by R Agrawal, T Imieliński, A Swami - ACM SIGMOD  1993 - is one of the top 20 cited papers in all computer science   top 20 all computer science
with over 7500 citations according to Google Scholar.

Ask.com

Here are some interviews and blogs in my capacity as Executive Vice President of Ask.com. All from 2009 - discussing semantic search, question answering and answer farms - the largest index of question answer pairs which we have built at Ask.
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How smart is search engine  (June 2009), SemTech panel 2009 and article and radio interview at Bruce Clay blog Bruce Clay article.   Other blog posts from 2009:   what makes search engine semantic.
Answer Farm technology  and CNET 2009 article summarizing the panel on semantic search.

Music

System Crash, System Crash Band