FIRE Projects

FIRE – Finnish Information Retrieval Expert Group

We are: Anna Sendra, Farid Alijani, Sanna Kumpulainen, Jaakko Peltonen, Paavo Arvola

We are: Sanna Kumpulainen and Pekka Henttonen

We are: Elina Late, Sanna Kumpulainen

Hille Ruotsalainen & Sanna Kumpulainen from FIRE (with Anssi Männistö/TAU, Mert Seker/TAU and Jenni Raitoharju/TAU)

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COMPLETED PROJECTS

Simulating and Evaluating User Interaction in IR using Test Collections
TAHTI: Task-based Information Access in Public Admistration
Task-based Information Access in Molecular Medicine
TRIX
CHILDINFO Institutional Practices and Information Systems in the Production and Use of Information in Child Protection Processes

TAHTI: Task-based Information Access in Public Administration

We are: Sanna Kumpulainen, Miamaria Saastamoinen & Kal Järvelin
Focus and research questions: The focus of the project is on
- identifying the needs and use of different types of information resources in public administration,
- the description of work task types triggering information needs and modeling the work processes, and
- analyzing barriers in information access at task, system integration and system levels.
Funding comes from: Academy of Finland, UTA and TISE
The schedule is: Finishing year 2013

Domain-Specific Web Information Retrieval

We are: Ari Pirkola
Focus and research questions: Focused crawling, Domain-specific Web IR, Keyphrase extraction, Vertical search engines
Funding comes from: Academy of Finland
The schedule is: 2007-2012
Co-starring: Tuomas Talvensaari

s-grams – Approximate String matching in IR

We are: Anni Järvelin, Antti Järvelin
Focus and research questions: Out-of-Vocabulary word matching / translation in mono and cross-language IR
- Which variations of skip-grams are effective?
- Which distance metrics are effective?
Funding comes from: UTA, Academy of Finland, KR, PKR
The schedule is: 2000-2010
Co-starring: Heikki Keskustalo, Ari Pirkola

Task-based Information Access in Molecular Medicine

Focus and research questions: The focus of the project is on information interaction in real life work tasks in the domain of molecular medicine (information seeking and retrieval, system use features, barriers to information).
Funding comes from: Academy of Finland, UTA and TISE
The schedule is: Finishing year 2013
Co-starring: Annikki Roos (THL), Aiden Doherty & Daragh Byrne (DCU, Ireland)

TRIX

We are: Paavo Arvola, Marko Junkkari, Jaana Kekäläinen
Focus and research questions: XML information retrieval research
- indexing and retrieval system for XML
- data structures
- query languages
- contextualization in relevance ranking
- evaluation methods
Funding comes from: Academy of Finland, 2007-10, 2011-12
Output: conference papers & posters, theses, dissertation, participation in INEX 2002-2010
Co-starring: Sami Kiviharju, Matti Lassila, Nina Tyni, Johanna Vainio

Semantic Information Retrieval in Unannotated Document Collections

We are: Feza Baskaya, Prof. Kalervo Järvelin, Prof. Jaana Kekäläinen and Anne Keskimaa
Focus and research questions: Ontology-based query formulation in various languages, methods for building ontologies, design of search interfaces based on ontologies
Funding comes from: TEKES/Semantic Web 2.0,Academy of Finland
The schedule is: till the end of 2009
Co-starring: Eduskunta, TietoEnator

Project TRT

We are: Mr. Aki Loponen, Dos. Ari Pirkola, Prof. Kalervo Järvelin
Focus and research questions: Statistical morphological processing and translation methods for out-of-vocabulary words in cross-lingual information retrieval
Funding comes from: Academy of Finland
The schedule is: Finished by 2010

Simulating and Evaluating IR Interaction in a Test Collection

We are: Feza Baskaya, Heikki Keskustalo, Kal Järvelin, Ari Pirkola
Focus and research questions: Effectiveness of IR when we model various interaction decisions of users (relevance levels, patience to (re)formulate queries, to browse, …)
Funding comes from: Academy of Finland
The schedule is: 2005 – 2014
Co-starring: Tarun Sharma (India), Marianne Lykke Nielsen (Denmark)