Formal Education:
1980 Diploma in Technical Computer Science,
1986 PhD (Dr.-Ing) in Computer Science
Working Career:
1980--1987 Scientific Assistant in the
Computer Science Department of the Technical University of
Darmstadt,
1987--1991 Assistant Professor in the
Computer Science Department of the Technical University of
Darmstadt
Selected Project Experience:
1980--1986 work in three different projects on the development of an
automatic indexing system for a controlled indexing vocabulary,
supported by the German Ministry of Research (BMFT)
1980--1987 Work in the project ``Materials Data Bases --- User Studies
and System Design'', supported by the German Ministry of Economics
1994-- Partner in the ESPRIT Project FERMI (Formalization and
Evaluation of Multimedia Retrieval, BRA 8134)
Areas of Expertise:
Information Retrieval, Scientific Databases, Object-oriented databases
Present Position:
Full Professor in the Computer Science Department of the University of Dortmund
Languages: German, English, French
Nationality: German
References:
[1] Norbert Fuhr and U. Pfiefer.
Probabilistic information retrieval as combination of abstraction, inductive learning and probabilistic assumptions.
ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 12(1):92 -- 111, 1994.
[2] Norbert Fuhr.
A probabilistic relational model for the integration of ir and databases.
In Proceedings of SIGIR-93, 16th ACM Conference on Research and
Development in Information Retrieval, pages 309--317, 1993.
[3] Norbert Fuhr.
Integration of probabilistic fact and text retrieval.
In Proceedings of SIGIR-92, 15th ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval .
[4] Norbert Fuhr.
Probabilistic models in information retrieval.
Computer Journal, 35(3):243--255, 1992.
[5] Norbert Fuhr and Chris Buckley.
A probabilistic learning approach for document indexing.
ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 9(3):223--248, 1991.
[6] G. Knorz, G. Lustig, M. Schwantner, N. Fuhr, S. Hartmann and K. Tzeras.
AIR/X - a rule-based multistage indexing system for large subject fields.
In Proceedings of the RIAO'91, pages 606--623, Barcelona, Spain, April 1991.
[7] Norbert Fuhr.
A probabilistic framework for vague queries and imprecise information in databases.
In R. Sacks-Davis, D. McLeod and H. Schek, editors, Proceedings
of the 16th International Conference on Very Large Databases, pages
696--707, Los Altos, CA, 1990. Morgan Kaufman.