From Left: Adam Roegiest, Adriel Dean-Hall, Alexandra Vtyurina, Charles Clarke, Frank Tompa, Mustafa Abualsaud, Aiman Al-Harbi, Luchen Tan, Bahareh Sarrafzadeh, Nava Ehsan, Haotian Zhang, Olga Vechtomova
Research Areas
Information Retrieval Group is involved in several areas. Our primary research interests are towards:
- Understanding users' behaviour during complex information seeking tasks.
- Automatic entity and relationship extraction from documents.
- Designing interactive user interfaces and visualization techniques for studying users' behaviour during complex search tasks.
- Improving the mechanisms and the user interface for gathering feedback on the results of information retrieval systems.
- Developing and testing systems that make personalized recommendations of venues and attractions.
- Cross language plagiarism detection.
- Incorporating user-models for evaluation of retrieval systems and information filtering systems.
Upcoming Talks
Past SeminarsMembers
Professors
Jérémy Barbay
jbarbay (at) uwaterloo.ca
519-885-1211 ext. 37824
Charles Clarke
claclark (at) plg2.uwaterloo.ca
519-885-1211 ext. 35241
Gordon V. Cormack
gvcormac (at) plg.uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 ext. 34450
Chrysanne DiMarco
cdimarco (at) cs.uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4443
Ian James Munro
imunro (at) uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 ext. 34433
Tamer Ozsu
tozsu (at) uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 ext. 32252
Mark D. Smucker
msmucker (at) engmail.uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 ext. 38620
Frank Wm. Tompa
fwtompa (at) uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 ext. 34675
Olga Vechtomova
ovechtom (at) uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 ext. 32675
Ph.D. Students
Adam Roegiest
aroegies (at) uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 ext. 34822
Supervisor: Gordon V. Cormack
Bahareh Sarrafzadeh
bsarrafz (at) uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 ext. 34822
Supervisor: Olga Vechtomova
Luchen Tan
l8tan (at) uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 ext. 34822
Supervisor: Charles Clarke
Adriel Dean-Hall
adeanhal (at) uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 ext. 35388
Supervisor: Charles Clarke
Alexandra Vtyurina
avtyurin (at) uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 ext. 35388
Supervisor: Olga Vechtomova
Aiman Al-Harbi
Supervisor: Mark D. Smucker
Gaurav Baruah
gbaruah (at) uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 ext. 34822
Supervisor: Mark D. Smucker
Master's Students
Mustafa Abualsaud
Supervisor: Mark D. Smucker
Visitors
Nava Ehsan
Visting: Frank Tompa
Alumni
Resources
Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines
Contact: claclark at ir dot uwaterloo dot ca | Edit (Git)