Professor Kalervo Järvelin

Position: Associate Professor

Research and Development Base:

• information retrieval
• distributed heterogeneous databases
• artificial intelligence in information retrieval
• text databases
• structured document databases

Professional activities:

• Member of the Council of the Faculty of Social Sciences
• Member of the Council of the Department of Information Studies
• Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Kirjastotiede ja Informatiikka (Library and Information Science) (Finland)
• Member of the Editorial Board of the journal : Information Processing & Management (USA) (1990-) ; referee for the same journal, 1994.
• Referee for the journal : Data & Knowledge Engineering (USA), 1994 Program Committee Member of The 15th, 16th and 18th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR '92, '93 and '95 in Copenhagen, Pittsburg and Seattle).

References:
[1] T Niemi and K Järvelin.
Prolog-based Implementation of a Straightforward NF2 Relational Query Interface. University of Tampere, Department of Computer Science, Report A-1994-10, November 1994. 80 p.
[2] K Järvelin.
Katsaus elektronisen tiedonvdlityksen teknologiaan [A Review on Electronic Communication Technology]. Tiedotustutkimus 17(3), 1994 : 45-56. [In Finnish]
[3] A Pirkola and K Järvelin
The effect of Anaphora and Ellipsis Resolution on Proximity Searching in a Text Database. University of Tampere, Department of Information Studies, RN-1994-1, October 1994. 25 p.
[4] K Järvelin and T Niemi
An NF2 Relational Interface with Aggregation Capability for Document Retrieval, Restructuring and Analysis. University of Tampere, Department of Information Studies, RN-1994-2, December 1994. 25 p.