RGIR Project Receives International Recognition
RGIR members Iris Xie and Pierre Tirilly presented “On the consistency and features of image similarity” at the IIiX 2012 | Fourth Information Interaction in Context Symposium in August. The paper, co-authored with SOIS PhD student Chunsheng Huang, Wooseob Jeong, Xiangming Mu [Read more ...]
Farewell, Pierre
After two years as a postdoctoral fellow with RGIR, we bid a fond farewell to Pierre Tirilly at the end of August. Pierre is now an assistant professor in computer science at the University of Lille 1, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France. All the [Read more ...]
Kun Lu, PhD
IR doctoral student Kun Lu was one of the first two graduates of the PhD program in Information Studies this past summer. Kun’s dissertation, “Assessing Systematic Topic Difficulty Based on Query And Collection Features,” investigated a timely area and proposed [Read more ...]
RGIR Members to Present at the CAIS-ACSI Meeting
RGIR doctoral student members Hye Jung Han and Soohyung Joo, and Dietmar Wolfram will be presenting their research “Tales from Transaction Logs: User Search Session Patterns in an Image-based Digital Library” at the Canadian Association for Information Science – L’Association canadienne des [Read more ...]
Postdoctoral Fellow in Information Retrieval at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Information Retrieval School of Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee The School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is accepting applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Information Retrieval for the 2013-14 academic year (12 months). The [Read more ...]
RGIR Members at iConference 2013
The following RGIR members will be presenting their research at the upcoming iConference in Fort Worth in February: Poster: The Usability Study on the Multicultural Children’s Book Project of the National Library for Children and Young Adults (NLCY) in Korea. Presenters: [Read more ...]