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Yahoo! JAPAN was the cosponsor of WebDB Forum 2015

November 25, 2015

Yahoo! JAPAN was the cosponsor of the WebDB Forum 2015 (8th forum on the web and databases) (external link)held on November 24-25, 2015 at the Shibaura Institute of Technology.

Our contributions:

◆Lectures at technical report sessions:

・広告配信のための高速疎ベクトル検索エンジンの開発
 Shuhei Uno

・データサイエンスを支える基盤とそのテクノロジー
 Naoya Kobayashi

◆In the poster presentations, we introduced machine learning for services and showed examples of language processing:

・スマートフォン版Yahoo! JAPANトップページ編集における機械学習の活用事例
 Makoto Murao

・インターネットオークションの特性を考慮した検索ランキング手法の開発
 Katsushi Yamashita

◆We set up a corporate booth:

Thanks to everyone who stopped by!

◆We presented our company award to Osaka University’s Mr. Yokoyama for:

・モバイルセンサデータベースにおける効率的なTop-k検索結果の多様化について

 Masahiro Yokoyama (Osaka Univ.), Takahiro Hara (Osaka Univ.), Shojiro Nishio(OsakaUniv.)

We’re very interested in the topics of how best to utilize location data, how to effectively extract data with the highest scores from large amounts of data (top-k), and how to ensure data diversity. So we have high hopes for further development in these areas.

Congratulations, Mr. Yokoyama!