Aya Soffer 
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Vice President, AI Technologies; Director, IBM Research - HaifaHaifa Research Lab, Haifa, Israel
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When Watson Went to Work: Leveraging Cognitive Computing in the Real World
Soffer, Aya and Konopnicki, David and Roitman, Haggai
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 455--456, 2016
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Soffer, Aya and Konopnicki, David and Roitman, Haggai
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 455--456, 2016
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2015
Preface: Multimedia and visual analytics
Soffer, Aya and Su, Hui
IBM Journal of Research and Development 59(2/3), 1--5, IBM, 2015
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Soffer, Aya and Su, Hui
IBM Journal of Research and Development 59(2/3), 1--5, IBM, 2015
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2014
Measuring the effectiveness of multi-channel marketing campaigns using online chatter
Roitman, Haggai and Barkai, Gilad and Konopnicki, David and Soffer, Aya
Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web, pp. 143--146, 2014
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Roitman, Haggai and Barkai, Gilad and Konopnicki, David and Soffer, Aya
Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web, pp. 143--146, 2014
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2013
IBM Journal of Research and Development Volume 57 Issue 3-4
Soffer, Aya
2013 - dl.acm.org, IBM Corp.
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Soffer, Aya
2013 - dl.acm.org, IBM Corp.
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Preface: Massive-scale analytics
Soffer, Aya
IBM Journal of Research and Development 57(3/4), 0--1, IBM, 2013
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Soffer, Aya
IBM Journal of Research and Development 57(3/4), 0--1, IBM, 2013
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2009
New challenges in information integration
Haas, Laura M and Soffer, Aya
International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, pp. 1--8, 2009
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Haas, Laura M and Soffer, Aya
International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, pp. 1--8, 2009
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Social search and discovery using a unified approach
Har'El, S Ofek
Koifman, A Soffer, S Yogev, N … - Proceedings of the 18th international conference on …, 2009 - portal.acm.org
Har'El, S Ofek
Koifman, A Soffer, S Yogev, N … - Proceedings of the 18th international conference on …, 2009 - portal.acm.org
2006
Automatic analysis of call-center conversations
G Zweig, O Shiohan, G Saon, B Ramabhadran, D Povey, L Mangu, B Kingsbury
Proceedings of IEEE Internatinal Conference of Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 589--592, 2006
G Zweig, O Shiohan, G Saon, B Ramabhadran, D Povey, L Mangu, B Kingsbury
Proceedings of IEEE Internatinal Conference of Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 589--592, 2006
2004
Finding the geographic focus of web-pages
E Amitay, N Har-El, R Sivian, A Soffer
Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, SIGIR, 2004
E Amitay, N Har-El, R Sivian, A Soffer
Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, SIGIR, 2004
Web-awhere: geotagging web content
E Amitay, N HarEl, R Sivan, A Soffer
27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, Sheffield, …, 2004
E Amitay, N HarEl, R Sivan, A Soffer
27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, Sheffield, …, 2004
Scaling IR-system evaluation using term relevance sets
E Amitay, D Carmel, R Lempel, A Soffer
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR …, 2004 - portal.acm.org
E Amitay, D Carmel, R Lempel, A Soffer
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR …, 2004 - portal.acm.org
Web-a-where: geotagging web content
E Amitay, N Har'El, R Sivan, A Soffer
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR …, 2004 - portal.acm.org
E Amitay, N Har'El, R Sivan, A Soffer
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR …, 2004 - portal.acm.org
Juru at TREC 2003-Topic Distillation using Query-Sensitive Tuning and Cohesiveness Filtering
M Herscovici, R Lempel, A Soffer, R Kraft, J …
Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) 2003 Proceedings, 2004 - www-nlpir.nist.gov
M Herscovici, R Lempel, A Soffer, R Kraft, J …
Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) 2003 Proceedings, 2004 - www-nlpir.nist.gov
Trend Detection Through Temporal Link Analysis
Amitay, D Carmel, M Herscovici, R Lempel, A Soffer
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and …, 2004 - doi.wiley.com
Amitay, D Carmel, M Herscovici, R Lempel, A Soffer
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and …, 2004 - doi.wiley.com
Text analytics for life science using the unstructured information management architecture
R Mack, Sougata Mukherjea, Aya Soffer, Naohiko Uramoto, E Brown, Anni Coden, J Cooper, Akihiro Inokuchi, Bhavani Iyer, Yosi Mass, others
IBM Systems Journal 43(3), 490--515, IBM, 2004
R Mack, Sougata Mukherjea, Aya Soffer, Naohiko Uramoto, E Brown, Anni Coden, J Cooper, Akihiro Inokuchi, Bhavani Iyer, Yosi Mass, others
IBM Systems Journal 43(3), 490--515, IBM, 2004
2003
2630 August 2003. The connectivity sonar: detecting site functionality by structural patterns
E Amitay, D Carmel, A Darlow, R Lempel, A Soffer
2003 - Hypertext
E Amitay, D Carmel, A Darlow, R Lempel, A Soffer
2003 - Hypertext
The Connectivity Sonar: Detecting Site Functionality by Structure Patterns, Actes de
E Amitay, D Carmel, A Darlow, R Lempel, A Soffer
Fourteenth conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext …, 2003
E Amitay, D Carmel, A Darlow, R Lempel, A Soffer
Fourteenth conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext …, 2003
The connectivity sonar: detecting site functionality by structural patterns. HYPERTEXT03
E Amitay, D Carmel, A Darlow, R Lempel, A Soffer
Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM conference on Hypertext …, 2003
E Amitay, D Carmel, A Darlow, R Lempel, A Soffer
Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM conference on Hypertext …, 2003
Leveraging Web services for information discovery
M Herscovici, YS Maarek, N Meshulam, A Soffer, V …
Software: Science, Technology and Engineering, 2003. SwSTE' …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
M Herscovici, YS Maarek, N Meshulam, A Soffer, V …
Software: Science, Technology and Engineering, 2003. SwSTE' …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-resolution disambiguation of term occurrences
E Amitay, R Nelken, W Niblack, R Sivan, A Soffer
Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on …, 2003 - portal.acm.org
E Amitay, R Nelken, W Niblack, R Sivan, A Soffer
Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on …, 2003 - portal.acm.org
Efficient query evaluation using a two-level retrieval process
AZ Broder, D Carmel, M Herscovici, A Soffer, J …
Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on …, 2003 - portal.acm.org
AZ Broder, D Carmel, M Herscovici, A Soffer, J …
Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on …, 2003 - portal.acm.org
Topic Distillation with Knowledge Agents
E Amitay, D Carmel, A Darlow, R Lempel, A Soffer, …
NIST SPECIAL PUBLICATION SP, 2003 - trec.nist.gov
E Amitay, D Carmel, A Darlow, R Lempel, A Soffer, …
NIST SPECIAL PUBLICATION SP, 2003 - trec.nist.gov
The connectivity sonar: detecting site functionality by structural patterns
E Amitay, D Carmel, A Darlow, R Lempel, A Soffer
Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM conference on Hypertext …, 2003 - portal.acm.org
E Amitay, D Carmel, A Darlow, R Lempel, A Soffer
Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM conference on Hypertext …, 2003 - portal.acm.org
Searching XML documents via XML fragments
Carmel, YS Maarek, M Mandelbrod, Y Mass, A Soffer
Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR …, 2003 - portal.acm.org
Carmel, YS Maarek, M Mandelbrod, Y Mass, A Soffer
Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR …, 2003 - portal.acm.org
2002
JuruXML: An XML retrieval system
Y Mass, M Mandelbrod, E Amitay, Y Maarek, A Soffer
INEX Workshop, 2002
Y Mass, M Mandelbrod, E Amitay, Y Maarek, A Soffer
INEX Workshop, 2002
JuruXMLan XML retrieval system at INEX02
Y Mass, M Mandelbrod, E Amitay, D Carmel, Y Maarek …
Fuhr et al. - einat.webir.org, 2002
Y Mass, M Mandelbrod, E Amitay, D Carmel, Y Maarek …
Fuhr et al. - einat.webir.org, 2002
Integration of local and global shape analysis for logo classification
J Neumann, H Samet, A Soffer
Pattern Recognition Letters, 2002 - Elsevier
J Neumann, H Samet, A Soffer
Pattern Recognition Letters, 2002 - Elsevier
Knowledge Encapsulation for Focused Search from Pervasive Devices
Y ARIDOR, D CARMEL, YS MAAREK, AYA SOFFER, R …
ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2002 - portal.acm.org
Y ARIDOR, D CARMEL, YS MAAREK, AYA SOFFER, R …
ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2002 - portal.acm.org
Temporal link analysis
Amitay, D Carmel, M Hersovici, R Lempel, A Soffer …
Technical Report, IBM Research Lab Haifa, 2002
Amitay, D Carmel, M Hersovici, R Lempel, A Soffer …
Technical Report, IBM Research Lab Haifa, 2002
Personalized pocket directories for mobile devices
M Herscovici, Y Petruschka, YS Maarek, A Soffer
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on World …, 2002 - portal.acm.org
M Herscovici, Y Petruschka, YS Maarek, A Soffer
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on World …, 2002 - portal.acm.org
Automatic query wefinement using lexical affinities with maximal information gain
D Carmel, E Farchi, Y Petruschka, A Soffer
Proceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, pp. 283--290, 2002
D Carmel, E Farchi, Y Petruschka, A Soffer
Proceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, pp. 283--290, 2002
Juru at TREC 10--Experiments with Index Pruning
M Herscovici, Y Maarek, Y Petruschka, A Soffer
NIST SPECIAL PUBLICATION SP, 2002 - www-nlpir.nist.gov
M Herscovici, Y Maarek, Y Petruschka, A Soffer
NIST SPECIAL PUBLICATION SP, 2002 - www-nlpir.nist.gov
2001
Static index pruning for information retrieval systems
D Carmel, D Cohen, R Fagin, E Farchi, M Herscovici, Y S Maarek, A Soffer
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, pp. 43--50, 2001
D Carmel, D Cohen, R Fagin, E Farchi, M Herscovici, Y S Maarek, A Soffer
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, pp. 43--50, 2001
PicASHOW: pictorial authority search by hyperlinks on the Web
R Lempel, A Soffer
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on World …, 2001 - portal.acm.org
R Lempel, A Soffer
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on World …, 2001 - portal.acm.org
2000
Processing pictorial queries with multiple instances usingisomorphic subgraphs
A Folkers, H Samet, A Soffer
Pattern Recognition, 2000. Proceedings. 15th International …, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A Folkers, H Samet, A Soffer
Pattern Recognition, 2000. Proceedings. 15th International …, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
eResponder: Electronic Question Responder
D Carmel, M Shtalhaim, A Soffer
LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, 2000 - Springer
D Carmel, M Shtalhaim, A Soffer
LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, 2000 - Springer
Knowledge Agents on the Web
Y Aridor, D Carmel, R Lempel, A Soffer, YS Maarek
LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, 2000 - Springer
Y Aridor, D Carmel, R Lempel, A Soffer, YS Maarek
LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, 2000 - Springer
XML and information retrieval: a SIGIR 2000 workshop
D Carmel, Y Maarek, A Soffer
ACM SIGIR Forum, 2000 - portal.acm.org
D Carmel, Y Maarek, A Soffer
ACM SIGIR Forum, 2000 - portal.acm.org
1998
MAGELLAN : Map Acquisition of GEographic Labels by Legend ANalysis
H Samet, A Soffer
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, 1998 - Springer
H Samet, A Soffer
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, 1998 - Springer
Pictorial Query Specification for Browsing Through Spatially Referenced Image Databases
AYA SOFFER, H SAMET
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 1998 - Elsevier
AYA SOFFER, H SAMET
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 1998 - Elsevier
Using Negative Shape Features for Logo Similarity Matching
A Soffer, H Samet
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PATTERN RECOGNITION, 1998 - doi.ieeecs.org
A Soffer, H Samet
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PATTERN RECOGNITION, 1998 - doi.ieeecs.org
Integrating symbolic images into a multimedia database system using classification and abstraction …
A Soffer, H Samet
The VLDB Journal The International Journal on Very Large …, 1998 - Springer
A Soffer, H Samet
The VLDB Journal The International Journal on Very Large …, 1998 - Springer
1997
Image Categorization Using Texture Features
A Soffer
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Document …, 1997 - doi.ieeecs.org
A Soffer
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Document …, 1997 - doi.ieeecs.org
1996
MARCO: MAp retrieval by COntent
H Samet, A Soffer
Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions …, 1996 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
H Samet, A Soffer
Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions …, 1996 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pictorial queries by image similarity
A Soffer, H Samet
Proc. of ICPR, 1996 - doi.ieeecomputersociety.org
A Soffer, H Samet
Proc. of ICPR, 1996 - doi.ieeecomputersociety.org
1995
A map acquisition, storage, indexing, and retrieval system
H Samet, A Soffer
Proceedings of the International Conference on Document …, 1995 - doi.ieeecs.org
H Samet, A Soffer
Proceedings of the International Conference on Document …, 1995 - doi.ieeecs.org
1994
A legend-driven geographic symbol recognition system
H Samet, A Soffer
Pattern Recognition, 1994. Vol. 2-Conference B: Computer …, 1994 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
H Samet, A Soffer
Pattern Recognition, 1994. Vol. 2-Conference B: Computer …, 1994 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integrating Images Into a Relational Database System
H Samet, A Soffer, Computer Vision Laboratory, …
1994 - cfar.umd.edu
H Samet, A Soffer, Computer Vision Laboratory, …
1994 - cfar.umd.edu
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Software Summit, SWSTE 2014
Steiner, Michael and Berry, Orna and Itzkovitz, Ayal and Rodeh, Michael and Yehudai, Amiram and Yellin, Daniel M and Goldin, Leah and Berry, Daniel M and Kraus, Sarit and Dolev, Shlomi and others
ieeexplore.ieee.org, 0
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Steiner, Michael and Berry, Orna and Itzkovitz, Ayal and Rodeh, Michael and Yehudai, Amiram and Yellin, Daniel M and Goldin, Leah and Berry, Daniel M and Kraus, Sarit and Dolev, Shlomi and others
ieeexplore.ieee.org, 0
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