UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Computing at Glasgow University
 

Research groups

 

Information Retrieval

The group has a long and strong research history in the process of information retrieval as a whole from theoretical modelling of the retrieval process to large-scale text retrieval systems building and to the interactive evaluation of multimedia information retrieval systems. The research interests of the group include:

  • Theoretical modelling of IR systems
  • Probabilistic retrieval
  • Web information retrieval
  • Implementation of large-scale IR systems
  • Multimedia (Image, Video, Audio) information retrieval
  • Intranet/Enterprise and Blog search
  • Distributed and Peer-to-Peer retrieval
  • User Modelling and the development of novel adaptive interaction techniques
  • Evaluation of IR systems
  • Text mining and knowledge discovery
  • Multilingual information retrieval
  • Semantic Web and information retrieval

The group maintains strong links with researchers in Machine Learning and Human-Computer Interaction, as well as with industry through knowledge and technology transfer.

Keywords: Theoretical development of probabilistic and logic-based models; multimedia IR systems; information analysis and access across media; evaluation and usability of IR systems; data mining of large data sets; Web information retrieval; citation/link analysis; implementation and evaluation of large-scale IR systems; performance prediction and optimisation; information retrieval in context; multilingual retrieval; interaction techniques based on implicit relevance feedback and summarisation; adaptive information retrieval; Intranet/Enterprise and Blog search.

Academic Staff: Dr Leif Azzopardi, Prof Joemon M Jose, Prof Mounia Lalmas, Dr Iadh Ounis, Prof C J (Keith) van Rijsbergen.

Associated Links: Information Retrieval Group home pages, Terrier Information Retrieval platform, Talks and seminars

Research Fellows: Dr Sachi Arafat, Dr Ronan Cummins.

Research Assistants and Research Students: Mr Ali Azimi Bolourian, Mr Desmond Elliott, Dr Ingo Frommholz, Dr Richard Glassey, Mr Erik Graf, Mr David Hannah, Mr Frank Hopfgartner, Mr Alvaro Francisco Huertas-Rosero, Dr Iraklis Angelos Klampanos, Mr Teerapong Leelanupab, Dr Craig Macdonald, Mr Richard McCreadie, Mr Andrew McHugh, Mr Yashar Moshfeghi, Mr Jie Peng, Dr Benjamin Piwowarski, Mr Reede Ren, Mr Rodrygo Santos, Mr Vassilios Stathopoulos, Miss Shanu Sushmita, Dr Robert Villa, Mr Ke Zhou, Mr Guido Zuccon.

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