Position: Professor of Computing Science
Current Research Base:
Information Storage and Retrieval: formal models, inference mechanisms, semantics for information, evaluation methodology, different media: images, speech, text.
Experience in Research and Development:
1. Project: Automatic Classification and Retrieval
Support: Office of Scientific and Technical Information, London
Place: King's College Research Centre, Cambridge.
Period: 1971-1972
2. Project: Cluster-based Information Retrieval
Support: Australian Government Research Grant
Place: Monash University
Period: 1974-1975
3. Project: Probabilistic Information Retrieval: Prediction of good index
and search terms
Support: British Library Research Development
Place: Computer Laboratory, Cambridge
Period: 1979-1980
4. Project: Office Filing and Retrieval of Unstructured Information
Support: ESPRIT (EEC)
Place: University College, Dublin
Period: 1983-1987
5. Project: Knowledge Worker Intelligently Collecting/ Coordinating/
Consulting/Knowledge
Support: ESPRIT (EEC)
Place: University of Glasgow
Period: 1989-1991
6. Project: Second Generation Hypermedia Application Project
Environment
Support: ESPRIT (EEC)
Place: University of Glasgow
Period: 1990-1993
7. Project: Information and Data on Open Media for Network of Users
Support: ESPRIT (EEC)
Place: University of Glasgow
Period: 1992-1995
8. Project: Multimedia Information Retrieval
Support: ESPRIT (EEC)
Place: University of Glasgow
Period: 1992-1995
9. Project: Formalisation and Experimentation on the Retrieval of
Multimedia Information
Support: ESPRIT (EEC)
Place: University of Glasgow
Period: 1994-1997
10. Project: Voice Processing for Information Retrieval
Support: University of Glasgow Innovation Fund
Place: University of Glasgow
Period: 1995-1997
References:
[1] C. J. van Rijsbergen.
Foundations of evaluation.
Journal of Documentation, 30:365--373, 1974.
[2] C. J. van Rijsbergen.
Information Retrieval.
Butterworths, second edition, 1979.
[3] C. J. van Rijsbergen and K. Sparck Jones.
Information retrieval test collections.
Journal of Documentation, 32:59--75, 1976.
[4] C. J. van Rijsbergen.
The science of information retrieval: its methodology and logic.
In Conferentie Informatiewetenschap in Nederland,, pages 21 --
38, Den Haag, 1990. RABIN.
[5] C. J. van Rijsbergen.
What is information anyway?
In Proceedings of the Joint International Computers Ltd.,
Newcastle, 1993. University of Newcastle Seminar.
[6] C. J. van Rijsbergen.
The state of information retrieval: logic and information.
The Computer Bulletin, 5(1):18--20, 1993.