Evgeniy Gabrilovich is a prominent Computer Scientist at Yahoo!

Yahoo!

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 Research, specializing in Information Retrieval, Machine Learning

Machine learning

Machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, is a scientific discipline concerned with the design and development of algorithms that allow computers to evolve behaviors based on empirical data, such as from sensor data or databases...

, and Computational Linguistics

Computational linguistics

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, and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Career

In 2002, Gabrilovich published a research paper documenting the possibility of an IDN homograph attack

IDN homograph attack

The internationalized domain name homograph attack is a way a malicious party may deceive computer users about what remote system they are communicating with, by exploiting the fact that many different characters look alike,...

, with fellow researcher Alex Gontmakher.

In 2005, Gabrilovich earned his PhD degree in Computer Science from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. In his Ph.D. thesis, he developed a methodology for using large scale repositories of world knowledge, such as Wikipedia

Wikipedia

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, as a basis for improvement of text representations.

On November 6, 2007, Gabrilovich was granted a US patent

Patent

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 for a new method for personalizing newsfeeds, via an analysis of information novelty and dynamics. Later that year, Gabrilovich also published, together with Prof. Shaul Markovitch, a series of articles suggesting a possible synergy between Wikipedia and Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...

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Publications

• “Computing Semantic Relatedness using Wikipedia-based Explicit Semantic Analysis”, The 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pp. 1606-1611, Evgeniy Gabrilovich and Shaul Markovitch, Hyderabad, India, January 2007

• “Harnessing the Expertise of 70,000 Human Editors: Knowledge-Based Feature Generation for Text Categorization”, Evgeniy Gabrilovich and Shaul Markovitch, Journal of Machine Learning Research 8 (Oct), pp. 2297-2345, 2007

• “Robust Classification of Rare Queries Using Web Knowledge”, The 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2007
• The Homograph Attack, Evgeniy Gabrilovich and Alex Gontmakher, Communications of the ACM, 45(2):128, February 2002