Exploiting Information Extraction and
        the Semantic Web at Yahoo Search
                    (Invited talk)

                                    Peter Mika

                                Yahoo! Research
                                 Diagonal 177
                                Barcelona, Spain
                             pmika@yahoo-inc.com



Abstract. From the perspective of a search engine, Information Extraction and the
Semantic Web are complimentary ways toward achieving the same goal: helping
the search engine to understand the content on the Web and the possible intents
of the users trying to retrieve it. In this talk, we will discuss some of the ways in
which methods of Information Extraction as well as explicit metadata on the Web
are exploited at Yahoo Search.