This site provides details of the QMIR group, including information about group members, research, publications, seminars and software.

 

The group is part of the Department of Computer Science at Queen Mary, University of London. 

 

Our primary research interests lie in information retrieval (IR). IR aims to provide effective and efficient methods of managing electronic information, which involves representation, retrieval and presentation issues.

Research in the QMIR group covers a wide range of topics, both theoretical and practical. We have strong expertise in structured document retrieval and business information domains, lead a worldwide evaluation project (INEX), and build on our own commercial software, HySpirit, for developing specialised search tools for applications including e-commerce, financial service portals, computer crime detection as well as patient management in medical fields. Research topics include multimedia, XML and Web retrieval, knowledge-based uncertain reasoning, formal models and theories, integration of database and information retrieval technologies (probabilistic SQL), personalisation, efficiency, document clustering and summarisation, evaluation of retrieval systems, information seeking, cross-lingual retrieval, machine translation, and natural language processing. Results from these research investigations are being applied in the context of business search solutions, web applications, digital libraries, the semantic web, and interactive digital TV.