Advances In Information Retrieval: Recent Research From The Center For Intelligent Information Retrieval (the Information Retrieval Series)
by W. Bruce Croft /
2000 / English / PDF
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The Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) was formed
in the Computer Science Department ofthe University
ofMassachusetts, Amherst in 1992. The core support for the Center
came from a National Science Foun- tion State/Industry/University
Cooperative Research Center(S/IUCRC) grant, although there had been
a sizeable information retrieval (IR) research group for over 10
years prior to that grant. Thebasic goal ofthese Centers is to
combine basic research, applied research, and technology transfer.
The CIIR has been successful in each of these areas, in that it has
produced over 270 research papers, has been involved in many
successful government and industry collaborations, and has had a
significant role in high-visibility Internet sites and start-ups.
As a result of these efforts, the CIIR has become known
internationally as one of the leading research groups in the area
of information retrieval. The CIIR focuses on research that results
in more effective and efficient access and discovery in large,
heterogeneous, distributed, text and multimedia databases. The
scope of the work that is done in the CIIR is broad and goes
significantly beyond “traditional” areas of information retrieval
such as retrieval models, cross-lingual search, and automatic query
expansion. The research includes both low-level systems issues such
as the design of protocols and architectures for distributed
search, as well as more human-centered topics such as user
interface design, visualization and data mining with text, and
multimedia retrieval.
The Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) was formed
in the Computer Science Department ofthe University
ofMassachusetts, Amherst in 1992. The core support for the Center
came from a National Science Foun- tion State/Industry/University
Cooperative Research Center(S/IUCRC) grant, although there had been
a sizeable information retrieval (IR) research group for over 10
years prior to that grant. Thebasic goal ofthese Centers is to
combine basic research, applied research, and technology transfer.
The CIIR has been successful in each of these areas, in that it has
produced over 270 research papers, has been involved in many
successful government and industry collaborations, and has had a
significant role in high-visibility Internet sites and start-ups.
As a result of these efforts, the CIIR has become known
internationally as one of the leading research groups in the area
of information retrieval. The CIIR focuses on research that results
in more effective and efficient access and discovery in large,
heterogeneous, distributed, text and multimedia databases. The
scope of the work that is done in the CIIR is broad and goes
significantly beyond “traditional” areas of information retrieval
such as retrieval models, cross-lingual search, and automatic query
expansion. The research includes both low-level systems issues such
as the design of protocols and architectures for distributed
search, as well as more human-centered topics such as user
interface design, visualization and data mining with text, and
multimedia retrieval.
