The 3rd Open Interdisciplinary MUMIA Conference and 7th Information Retrieval Facility Conference (IRFC’2014) was held at Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark on 11-12 November 2014. The conference is a continuation of the symposia and conferences of the former Information Retrieval Facility and has since 2012 been co-organised with the IC1002 MUMIA COST action on Multilingual and… Continue reading Conference Review: IRFC’2014 and 3rd Open Interdisciplinary MUMIA Conference
Conference Review: Digital Libraries 2014
The joint conference on Digital Libraries 2014 – ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2014) and the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries Conference(TPDL 2014). The conference was held between 8th and 12th September 2014 at Milton Court in the Barbican Centre (main conference) and City University London (tutorials, workshops and doctorial consortium). We… Continue reading Conference Review: Digital Libraries 2014
Conference Review: Information Foraging and Retrieval Autumn School
Following the tradition of past successful Information Foraging Summer Schools and the German Information Retrieval Autumn School, the Autumn School 2014 for Information Foraging and Retrieval took place from September 21-26, 2014, at Schloss Dagstuhl in Germany. It was co-organized by the German Information Retrieval Specialist Group and Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. The… Continue reading Conference Review: Information Foraging and Retrieval Autumn School
Events Winter 2015
Conferences/Workshops IKDD CODS 2015: ACM India SIGKDD Conference on Data Sciences. A general conference on big data of interest to members working in the area of big data and search. 18-21 March 2015, Bangalore, India. http://ikdd.acm.org/Site/CoDS2015/ iConference 2015. The iSchools conference of with themes on many aspects of IR. 24-27 March 2015, Newport Beach, CA… Continue reading Events Winter 2015
Editorial
Welcome to the autumn edition of Informer! For those of you who don’t know, Informer is the newsroom of the Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG) of the British Computer Society. We spare no effort in getting the hottest pieces of (IRSG) news, getting the best contributors and compiling the most up-to-date list of IR-related events.… Continue reading Editorial
Mining search logs for usage patterns (pt 2)
In a previous post I discussed some initial investigations into the use of unsupervised learning techniques (i.e. clustering) to identify usage patterns in web search logs. As you may recall, we had some initial success in finding interesting patterns of user behaviour in the AOL log, but when we tried to extend this and replicate… Continue reading Mining search logs for usage patterns (pt 2)
Applied Research at the Knowledge Discovery research area of the Know-Center in Graz
The Know-Center is Austria’s leading research centre for data-driven business and big data analytics, with the purpose to bridge the gap between industry and academia. Therefore, the state-of-the-art in science is applied to problem setting within the industry to stir innovation, and to actively research in areas not being covered currently by the research community.
Music Information Retrieval at JKU Linz
The Department of Computational Perception at the Johannes Kepler University Linz was founded in October 2004, with the appointment of Prof. Gerhard Widmer. Its mission is to develop computational models and algorithms that permit computers to perceive and “understand” aspects of the external world, where we interpret “perception” in the widest sense of the word,… Continue reading Music Information Retrieval at JKU Linz
Book Review: Graph-Based Clustering and Data Visualization Algorithms
Graph-Based Clustering and Data Visualization Algorithms: A review by Song Chen ISBN: 978-1-4471-5157-9 (Print) – 978-1-4471-5158-6 (Online) The book, authored by Ágnes Vathy-Fogarassy and Janos Abonyi presents the topic of graph-based clustering and presents several algorithms. Besides introducing several related methods in representing and clustering a network, the authors also proposed a novel clustering algorithm to… Continue reading Book Review: Graph-Based Clustering and Data Visualization Algorithms
Events Autumn 2014
One day events Search Solutions 2014. Our annual one day practioner focused event, with a tutorial day. 26, 27 November 2014. https://irsg.bcs.org/SearchSolutions/2014/sse2014.php