[Corpora-List] New Informer - Spring 2013

Wed Apr 24 10:55:30 UTC 2013

Informer: Spring 2013 Issue Out Now!

http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/

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Editorial
By Udo Kruschwitz

Welcome back! This spring 2013 edition of Informer will bring you a 
range of fairly different articles, perhaps just the right mix for this 
time of the year. More about the articles later, let us first have a 
glimpse at what has been going on in the IR community. [...]

http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2013/04/editorial-6/

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Information Wayfinding, Part 1: A Not-So-New Metaphor
By Tyler Tate

Browsing the Web. Surfing the Net. Navigating a Web site. Traversing a 
hierarchy. Going back. Scrolling up and down. Returning home. We’ve seen 
such metaphors throughout our history of using computers to interact 
with information. Haphazard though they may seem be, these metaphors 
highlight a universal reality of human psychology: we perceive the world 
- both physical and digital - in spatial terms. As George A. Miller [1] 
observed in 1968 [...]

http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2013/04/information-wayfinding-part-1-a-not-so-new-metaphor/

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Interaction Models for Faceted Search
By Tony Russell-Rose

Faceted search offers tremendous potential for transforming the search 
experience. It provides a flexible framework by which users can satisfy 
a wide variety of information needs, ranging from simple fact retrieval 
to complex exploratory search and discovery scenarios. But there is one 
design aspect of faceted search that is particuarly hard to get right: 
the interactive behaviour of the facets themselves, i.e. how they should 
respond and update when selected. Surprisingly, the design choices at 
this level of detail can make a remarkable difference to the overall 
user experience: the wrong ones can make an application feel disjointed 
and obstructive, and increase the likelihood of returning zero results. 
In this post, we’ll examine the key design options and provide some 
recommendations [...]

http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2013/04/interaction-models-for-faceted-search/

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Call for Book Reviews (Spring 2013)
By Cathal Gurrin

This issue we include another Call for Reviews in which we seek 
reviewers for a number of recently published books that may be of 
interest to the IR community. Books will be allocated for review on a 
first-come-first-served basis and you would have about one month to 
carry out the review. If you are interested in reviewing one of these 
books, please let Cathal know (cgurrin at computing.dcu.ie) which book you 
are interested in reviewing and we will arrange for a copy (paper or 
online format) to be sent to you along with review guidelines. For 
examples of previous book reviews, see the most recent issues of 
Informer. The currently available books (courtesy of our good friends at 
Springer) are [...]

http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2013/04/call-for-book-reviews-spring-2013/

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Search: Emergent and Extrinsic Semantics
By John Tait

Semantics is a term often used in the search technology and information 
retrieval community these days. A distinction is drawn between semantic 
and traditional search, implying that somehow semantic search is a more 
advanced or sophisticated form [...]

http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2013/04/search-emergent-and-extrinsic-semantics/

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Hybrid Parallel Classifiers for Managing Big Data with Hierarchies
By Nandita Tripathi

“Big Data” is one of the latest buzzwords in the IT industry nowadays. 
Companies are building up huge stores of data running into terabytes and 
more. Data hierarchies are getting bigger and bigger and more complex. 
At the same time, search/categorization speeds are also expected to 
increase. Single classifiers are now unable to deal with this huge data 
in real time [...]

http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2013/04/hybrid-parallel-classifiers-for-managing-big-data-with-hierarchies/

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Information Retrieval Group, University of Duisburg-Essen
By Norbert Fuhr

The Information Retrieval group at the University of Duisburg-Essen is 
part of the Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science Department in 
the Faculty of Engineering Sciences at the University of Duisburg-Essen. 
The department provides degree programmes in Applied Computer Science as 
well as in Applied Cognitive and Media Science, both at the bachelor and 
master level. Besides 11 computer science professors, there are also 
four professors of psychology, who are mainly teaching in the second 
program. This unique composition also leads to a user-oriented focus in 
the computer science programme [...]

http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2013/04/information-retrieval-group-university-of-duisburg-essen/

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Events Spring 2013
By Andy Macfarlane

http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2013/04/events-spring-2013/

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Applied research at the Competence Center Information Retrieval and 
Machine Learning of DAI Laboratory, TU Berlin
By Frank Hopfgartner

The Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) Laboratory at Technische 
Universita¨t Berlin, headed by Prof. Dr. Sahin Albayrak, works on 
providing solutions for a new generation of systems and services to 
support our everyday life, coined as  "smart services and smart 
systems". The institute currently employs over 100 researchers, 
post-docs, graduate students, and support staff. The main objective of 
the lab is to provide a bridge between Academia and Industry, which has 
led to strong ties with leading multinational companies, research 
institutes and various SMEs (Berlin is home to a large share of Europe’s 
ICT start-ups) [...]

http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2013/04/ccirml/

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Made in Germany - Information Retrieval Research in Regensburg
By David Elsweiler

These are heady times for the German IR community. Norbert Fuhr’s recent 
winning of the Salton Prize not only rewarded a fantastic and long-term 
individual contribution to the field, but has also served to shed light 
on the whole IR scene in Germany - a fact underlined by this "Made in 
Germany" series [...]

http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2013/04/made-in-germany-%e2%80%93-information-retrieval-research-in-regensburg/

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