David Carmel Publications

2007
Doron Cohen, David Carmel, Einat Amitay: Lucene and Juru at Trec 2007: 1Million Queries Track. TREC 2007

2006
David Carmel, Elad Yom-Tov, Adam Darlow, Dan Pelleg: What makes a query difficult?. SIGIR 2006: 390-397

Jonathan Mamou, David Carmel, Ron Hoory: Spoken document retrieval from call-center conversations. SIGIR 2006: 51-58

David Carmel, Einat Amitay: Juru at TREC 2006: TAAT versus DAAT in the Terabyte Track. TREC 2006

Aris Anagnostopoulos, Andrei Z. Broder, David Carmel: Sampling Search-Engine Results. World Wide Web 9(4): 397-429 (2006)

2005
Gilad Mishne, David Carmel, Ronny Lempel: JBlocking Blog Spam with Language Model Disagreement. AIRWeb 2005: 1-6

Aris Anagnostopoulos, Andrei Z. Broder, David Carmel: Sampling search-engine results. WWW 2005: 245-256, 2005

Elad Yom-Tov and Shai Fine and David Carmel and Adam Darlow: Learning to estimate query difficulty: including applications to missing content detection and distributed information retrieval. SIGIR 2005: 512-519

Gilad Mishne, David Carmel, Ron Hoory, Alexey Roytman, Aya Soffer: Automatic analysis of call-center conversations. CIKM 2005: 453-459

David Carmel, Elad Yom-Tov, Ian Soboroff: SIGIR workshop report: predicting query difficulty - methods and applications. SIGIR Forum 39(2): 25-28 (2005)

Elad Yom-Tov, David Carmel, Adam Darlow,
Dan Pelleg, Shai Errera-Yaakov, Shai Fine: Juru at TREC 2005: Query Prediction in the Terabyte and the Robust tracks. TREC 2005.


2004
Einat Amitay, David Carmel, Ronny Lempel, Aya Soffer: Scaling IR-system evaluation using term relevance sets. SIGIR 2004: 10-17

Einat Amitay, David Carmel, Michael Herscovici, Ronny Lempel, Aya Soffer: Trend detection through temporal link analysis. JASIST 55(14): 1270-1281 (2004)

Elad Yom-Tov, Shai Fine, David Carmel, Adam Darlow, Einat Amitay: Juru at TREC 2004: Experiments with Prediction of Query Difficulty. TREC 2004.

2003
Andrei Z. Broder, David Carmel, Michael Herscovici, Aya Soffer, Jason Y. Zien: Efficient query evaluation using a two-level retrieval process. CIKM 2003: 426-434

Einat Amitay, David Carmel, Adam Darlow, Ronny Lempel, Aya Soffer: The connectivity sonar: detecting site functionality by structural patterns. Hypertext 2003: 38-47: J. Digit. Inf. 4(3): (2003)

David Carmel, Yoelle S. Maarek, Matan Mandelbrod, Yosi Mass, Aya Soffer: Searching XML documents via XML fragments. SIGIR 2003: 151-158

Einat Amitay, David Carmel, Adam Darlow, Michael Herscovici, Ronny Lempel, Aya Soffer, Reiner Kraft, Jason Y. Zien: Juru at TREC 2003 - Topic Distillation using Query-Sensitive Tuning and Cohesiveness Filtering. TREC 2003: 276-282

2002
Yosi Mass, Matan Mandelbrod, Einat Amitay, David Carmel, Yoelle S. Maarek, Aya Soffer: JuruXML - an XML Retrieval System at INEX'02. INEX Workshop 2002: 73-80

David Carmel, Eitan Farchi, Yael Petruschka, Aya Soffer: Automatic query refinement using lexical affinities with maximal information gain. SIGIR 2002: 283-290

Einat Amitay, David Carmel, Adam Darlow, Ronny Lempel, Aya Soffer: Topic Distillation with Knowledge Agents. TREC 2002

Yariv Aridor, David Carmel, Yoelle S. Maarek, Aya Soffer, Ronny Lempel: Knowledge encapsulation for focused search from pervasive devices. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 20(1): 25-46 (2002)

Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, David Carmel, Yoelle S. Maarek, Aya Soffer: Preface. JASIST 53(6): 413-414 (2002)

2001

Aya Soffer, David Carmel, Doron Cohen, Ronald Fagin, Eitan Farchi, Michael Herscovici, Yoelle S. Maarek: Static Index Pruning for Information Retrieval Systems. SIGIR 2001: 43-50

David Carmel, Einat Amitay, Michael Herscovici, Yoelle S. Maarek, Yael Petruschka, Aya Soffer: Juru at TREC 10 - Experiments with Index Pruning. TREC 2001

Yariv Aridor, David Carmel, Yoelle S. Maarek, Aya Soffer, Ronny Lempel: Knowledge encapsulation for focused search from pervasive devices. WWW 2001: 754-764

David Carmel, Yoelle S. Maarek, Aya Soffer: XML and Information Retrieval: a SIGIR 2000 Workshop. SIGMOD Record 30(1): 62-65 (2001)

Special JASIST issue on XML and IR, 53(6): 2002. (Edited by Ricardo Baeza-Yates, David Carmel, Yoelle, Maarek, and Aya Soffer).

2000
Yariv Aridor, David Carmel, Ronny Lempel, Aya Soffer, Yoelle S. Maarek: Knowledge Agents on the Web. CIA 2000: 15-26

David Carmel, Menachem Shtalhaim, Aya Soffer: eResponder: Electronic Question Responder. CoopIS 2000: 150-161

David Carmel, Yoelle S. Maarek, Aya Soffer: XML and Information Retrieval: a SIGIR 2000 Workshop. SIGIR Forum 34(1): 31-36 (2000)

1999
David Carmel, Yoelle S. Maarek: Morphological Disambiguation for Hebrew Search Systems. NGITS 1999: 312-326

David Carmel, Shaul Markovitch: Exploration Strategies for Model-based Learning in Multi-agent Systems: Exploration Strategies. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 2(2): 141-172 (1999)

1998
David Carmel, Shaul Markovitch: How to Explore your Opponent's Strategy (almost) Optimally. ICMAS 1998: 64-71

David Carmel, Shaul Markovitch: Pruning Algorithms for Multi-Model Adversary Search. Artif. Intell. 99(2): 325-355 (1998)

David Carmel, Shaul Markovitch: Model-based learning of interaction strategies in multi-agent systems. J. Exp. Theor. Artif. Intell. 10(3): 309-332 (1998)

1997
David Carmel, Shaul Markovitch: Exploration and Adaptation in Multiagent Systems: A Model-based Approach. IJCAI (1) 1997: 606-611

1996
David Carmel, Shaul Markovitch: Incorporating Opponent Models into Adversary Search. AAAI/IAAI, Vol. 1 1996: 120-125

David Carmel, Shaul Markovitch: Learning Models of Intelligent Agents. AAAI/IAAI, Vol. 1 1996: 62-67

1995
David Carmel, Shaul Markovitch: Opponent Modeling in Multi-Agent Systems. Adaption and Learning in Multi-Agent Systems 1995: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence1042: 40-52