Information Foraging Lab

News

• Google Award for tool that ‘understands’ Dutch texts
  

  Google has awarded a European Digital Humanities Award to a project in which language technologists and computer scientists from Radboud University Nijmegen will work together to create a tool that 'understands' Dutch texts. An engine like this will provide academics with better answers to their questions. Google is awarding a gift of $50,000 USD in support of this effort.

• IIiX 2012 will be in Nijmegen
  

  The RU/UvA team won the bidding process for hosting the Information Interaction in Context (IIiX) conference in 2012. This conference will take place August 21-24 2012 in Nijmegen. 

• CFP TOIS special issue Searching Speech
  

  ACM Transactions on Information Systems is soliciting contributions to a special issue on the topic of "Searching Speech". The special issue will be devoted to algorithms and systems that use speech recognition and other types of spoken audio processing techniques to retrieve information, and, in particular, to provide access to spoken audio content or multimedia content with a speech track.

• IFL participates in two labs at CLEF
  

  At the Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation (CLEF) in Padua, Italy, the Information Foraging Lab will present recent work in two labs: CLEF-IP (Intellectual Property, classification and retrieval) and logCLEF (workshop aimed at exploring methodologies for studying search engine log files). The corresponding notebook papers can be found at the conference website.