Publications
- Hila Becker, Andrei Broder, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Vanja
Josifovski, Bo Pang, "What Happens after an Ad Click? Quantifying the Impact of Landing Pages in Web Advertising",
to appear in Proceedings of the 2009 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '09). pdf
- Hila Becker, Andrei Broder, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Vanja
Josifovski, Bo Pang, "Context Transfer in Search Advertising", in Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference
on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '09), 656-657.pdf
- Hila Becker, Mor Naaman, Luis Gravano , "Event
Identification in Social Media", in Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD
Workshop on
the Web and Databases (WebDB '09), 2009. pdf,
ppt
- Hila Becker, Marta Arias, "Real-time ranking with concept drift
using
expert advice", in Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM SIGKDD International
Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD '07), 86-94. pdf
- Hila Becker, Christopher Meek, David Maxwell Chickering, "Modeling Contextual
Factors of Click Rates",in Proceedings of the Twenty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '07), 1310-1315. pdf
- Hila Becker, Marta Arias, "Real-time Ranking of Electrical Feeders using
Expert Advice", European Workshop on Data Stream Analysis 2007
- Hila Becker, Marta Arias, "An Online Learning System for the Prediction
of Electricity Distribution Feeder Failures", WIML 2006 and NYAS Machine
Learning Symposium 2006
- Suhit Gupta, Hila Becker, Gail E Kaiser, Salvatore Stolfo, "Verifying
genre-based clustering approach to content extraction", WWW2006
- Suhit Gupta, Gail E Kaiser, Salvatore Stolfo, Hila Becker, "Genre Classification
of Websites Using Search Engine Snippets for Content Extraction", Technical
Report cucs-004-05
Project Reports
- Computational Learning Theory - Limits on Exact Learning from Membership
and Equivalence Queries. pdf
- Coding Theory - Expander Graphs and the Zig-Zag Product. pdf
- Advanced Computational Learning Theory - A Survey of Correlation Clustering.
pdf

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