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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2011 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the development of computer science
  • 2009 - ACM Fellow For contributions to the development of algorithms and information retrieval techniques.

Overview

Ricardo Baeza-Yates is affiliated with Northeastern University in the United States. Their research spans primarily across the fields of Computer Science and Social Sciences, with a substantial focus on Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, and Communication. Other significant subfields include Safety Research and Sociology and Political Science.

Their scholarly output includes extensive work on key topics such as:

  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Mental Health via Writing
  • Topic Modeling
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Wikis in Education and Collaboration
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Web Data Mining and Analysis

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Baeza-Yates demonstrate a multidisciplinary approach, featuring:

  • Detection of Suicidal Ideation on Social Media: Multimodal, Relational, and Behavioral Analysis, 2020, Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Predicting Risk of Dyslexia with an Online Gamified Test, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Fair Top-k Ranking with Multiple Protected Groups, 2021, Information Processing & Management
  • How Are AI Assistants Changing Higher Education?, 2023, Frontiers in Computer Science
  • Towards Intellectual Freedom in an AI Ethics Global Community, 2021, AI and Ethics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Baeza-Yates include Ana Freire, Diana Ramírez-Cifuentes, Marc Spaniol, Luz Rello, and Maria Rauschenberger. The recurring partnerships suggest ongoing research collaborations across various topics related to AI and social computing.

Their publications appear frequently in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • ACM SIGIR Forum
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Ethics and Information Technology

Baeza-Yates has been recognized with awards including becoming an IEEE Fellow in 2011 for contributions to computer science development and an ACM Fellow in 2009 for work on algorithms and information retrieval techniques.

Best Publications

  • Modern Information Retrieval

    Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates;Berthier Ribeiro-Neto

  • Information Retrieval: Data Structures and Algorithms

    William B. Frakes;Ricardo Baeza-Yates

  • Searching in metric spaces

    Edgar Chávez;Gonzalo Navarro;Ricardo Baeza-Yates;José Luis Marroquín

  • A new approach to text searching

    Ricardo Baeza-Yates;Gaston H. Gonnet

  • Handbook of algorithms and data structures : in Pascal and C

    G. H. Gonnet;R. Baeza-Yates

  • Query recommendation using query logs in search engines

    Ricardo Baeza-Yates;Carlos Hurtado;Marcelo Mendoza

  • Modern Information Retrieval: The Concepts and Technology Behind Search

    Ricardo Baeza-Yates;Berthier Ribeiro-Neto

  • Searching in the Plane

    R.A. Baezayates;J.C. Culberson;G.J.E. Rawlins

  • FA*IR: A Fair Top-k Ranking Algorithm

    Meike Zehlike;Francesco Bonchi;Carlos Castillo;Sara Hajian

  • Inverted files

    Donna Harman;R. Baeza-Yates;Edward Fox;W. Lee

  • New indices for text: PAT Trees and PAT arrays

    Gaston H. Gonnet;Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates;Tim Snider

  • Bias on the web

    Ricardo Baeza-Yates

  • Extracting semantic relations from query logs

    Ricardo Baeza-Yates;Alessandro Tiberi

  • Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

    Ricardo Baeza-Yates;Mounia Lalmas;Alistair Moffat;Berthier Ribeiro-Neto

  • Fast and flexible word searching on compressed text

    Edleno Silva de Moura;Gonzalo Navarro;Nivio Ziviani;Ricardo Baeza-Yates

  • Indexing methods for approximate string matching

    Gonzalo Navarro;Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates;Erkki Sutinen;Jorma Tarhio

  • Proximity Matching Using Fixed-Queries Trees

    Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates;Walter Cunto;Udi Manber;Sun Wu

  • Good fonts for dyslexia

    Luz Rello;Ricardo Baeza-Yates

  • The impact of caching on search engines

    Ricardo Baeza-Yates;Aristides Gionis;Flavio Junqueira;Vanessa Murdock

  • The intention behind web queries

    Ricardo Baeza-Yates;Liliana Calderón-Benavides;Cristina González-Caro

  • Proximal nodes: a model to query document databases by content and structure

    Gonzalo Navarro;Ricardo Baeza-Yates

  • Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Big Data

    Xiaohua Hu;Tsau Young Lin;Vijay Raghavan;Benjamin Wah

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlos Castillo
Carlos Castillo Pompeu Fabra University
Nivio Ziviani
Nivio Ziviani Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Fabrizio Silvestri
Fabrizio Silvestri Sapienza University of Rome
Yoelle Maarek
Yoelle Maarek Amazon (United States)
Horacio Saggion
Horacio Saggion Pompeu Fabra University
Alistair Moffat
Alistair Moffat University of Melbourne
Berthier Ribeiro-Neto
Berthier Ribeiro-Neto Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Vanessa Murdock
Vanessa Murdock Amazon (United States)

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