The research programme is structured in three scientific work packages, along the three groups of research objectives: WP1-Applications; WP2-Methods; WP3-Models. The programme is implemented via 15 Early Stage Researcher (ESR) projects, each primarily in one WP, but collaborating on the other two WPs. 8 of the 15 projects clearly identify one of the three application areas (innovation [I], healthcare [H], law [L]) while the remaining 7 projects provide horizontal links across domains and contribute to the harmonization of observations, cross-fertilisation of ideas, and identification of synergies between research groups, domains, and topics. The table below shows the list of ESR projects, with a brief description for each of them.
Primary Focus: Applications |
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ESR |
Title |
Brief Description |
domain |
Supervisor |
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RSR |
Information extraction and assistance to the user for rapid understanding of difficult content and consequently rapid decision making towards systematic reviews of health documents. |
H |
Allan Hanbury (TUW) |
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AFS |
Devise solutions for a federated patent search system for professional searchers and the whole spectrum of users searching for innovation-related information. |
I |
Michail Salampasis (IHU) |
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AC |
Project 3: Augmenting Human Cognition Interfaces in the Workplace |
Provide specifications for support tools to aid the user in analysing search results. |
I |
Elaine Toms (USFD) |
IP |
Model information patterns and information flows in legal, intellectual property, and healthcare search, and use task contexts to correctly select and rank relevant entities and documents. |
IHL |
Allan Hanbury (TUW) |
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ES |
Project 5: Configurable, Exploratory Search Interfaces |
Provide support tools to aid the user in creating search and filtering pipelines for analysing results in the context of academic search. |
I |
Ian Ruthven (SUG) |
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GB |
Design, develop and evaluate graph browsing interfaces to browse through an organization’s knowledge graph and to cluster parts of the knowledge graph in coherent contexts and topics. |
L |
Suzan Verberne (ULEI) |
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Primary Focus: Methods |
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ESR |
Title |
Brief Description |
domain |
Supervisor |
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TUP |
Project 7: Transparent User Profiling for Professional Search |
Design and develop methods integrating models for user profiling and user behaviour based on the analysis of logs of search engine interactions. |
L |
Suzan Verberne (ULEI) |
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CIR |
Automatic or semi-automatic assessment of credibility of health-related user-generated content. |
H |
Marco Viviani (UMB) |
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EM |
Combine linked (open and closed) data, information extraction and dynamic workflows, to improve access to enterprise data in decision taking processes. |
I |
Arjen de Vries (SPQ) |
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TE |
Model work tasks to identify patterns of information need and use. |
IHL |
Elaine Toms (USFD) |
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MCC |
Project 11: Measuring and Modelling Cognitive Cost and Effort |
Capture and reliably interpret costs/effort from implicit user signals measured from a range of sensors during an information seeking process. |
IHL |
Martin Halvey (SUG) |
Primary Focus: Models |
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ESR |
Title |
Brief Description |
domain |
Supervisor |
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EMIS |
Project 12: Economic Models of Interactive Search |
Investigate and develop formal models for interactive Information Retrieval based on economic theory. |
IHL |
Leif Azzopardi (SUG) |
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KD |
Determine relevance based on the difference in knowledge rather than similarity of query to document. |
IHL |
Mihai Lupu (RSA) |
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DIR |
Model Information Retrieval through techniques inspired by decision theory. |
IHL |
Gabriella Pasi (UMB) |
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NNCS |
Analyse and evaluate representing the user and the user physical and cognitive context by neural network models |
IHL |
Gabriella Pasi (UMB) |
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