Ricardo Baeza-Yates
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Ricardo Baeza-Yates is a Chilean researcher and director of the Yahoo! Research labs at Barcelona, Spain and Santiago, Chile.
His research interests include:
- algorithms and data structures -- his contributions include algorithms for string search such as the Shift Or Algorithm, and algorithms for Fuzzy string searching, inspiring also the Bitap algorithm; co-author of the Handbook of Algorithms and Data Structures ISBN 0-201-14218-X with his former Ph.D. advisor Gaston Gonnet,
- information retrieval -- co-author of Modern Information Retrieval ISBN 0-201-39829-X,
- web retrieval and mining -- funded in 2002 and directed until 2005 the Center for Web Research in the Dept. of Computer Science of the University of Chile,
- text and multimedia databases,
- and information visualization.
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