Abbreviations:
MMIR: Multi Media Information Retrieval ,
IR: Information Retrieval,
HCI: Human Computer Interaction,
MM: Multi Media,
CBR: Case Based Reasoning,
NLP: Natural Language Processing
Site: Aberdeen (Robert Gordon)
Media: text
Areas of expertise: data mining, user-centred design and software evaluation, MMIR, data visualisation
Contact: David Harper
Site: Copenhagen
Media: Text, images
Areas of expertise: Users, cognitive aspects, interaction
Contact: Peter Ingwersen
Site: Darmstadt (GMD)
Media: Electronic publishing
Areas of expertise: Dialog-based IR systems, information visualisation, electronic publishing
Contact: Neuhold
Site: Dortmund
Media: Networked IR
Areas of expertise: Scientific methodology, measurement theory statistics, networked IR
Contact: Fuhr
Site: Dublin
Media: Text
Areas of expertise: MMIR techniques, filtering and routing
Contact: Smeaton
Site: Glasgow
Media: Speech, music, voice, text, graphics
Areas of expertise: Scientific methodology, HCI, CBR, electronic publishing
Contacts: Van Rijsbergen (CS) Dunlop (CS), Draper (Psych)
Site: Grenoble
Media: Medical images
Areas of expertise: HCI, MMIR, browsing and querying, dynamic aspects of evaluation and visualisation
Contact: Chiaramella
Site: London (City)
Media: Text
Areas of expertise: Users, large scale evaluation, operational measures, qualitative measures
Contact: Robertson
Site: Nancy
Media: Art images
Areas of expertise: HCI, MM, images methodology and formal modelling
Contact: Crehange
Site: Padova
Media: Legal data
Areas of expertise: Statistics, browsing, legal IR
Contact: Crestani
Site: Pisa
Media: Images
Areas of expertise: Formal modelling, scientific methodology
Contact: Sebastiani
Site: Tampere
Media: Text, Images
Areas of expertise: Test collections, evaluation, user studies, newspaper applications
Contacts: Jarvelin, Sormunen
Site: Zurich (ETH)
Media: Speech, text
Areas of expertise: Practical evaluation in MM, speech, evaluation measures
Contact: Schauble
Site: Zurich (Ubilab)
Media: Banking applications
Areas of expertise: Evaluation, NLP, banking applications
Contact: Sonnenberg
Activities
There will be five types of activities.
* Two workshops per year (six in total) the main theme of each workshop will be chosen from the ten objectives Each workshop would last 2-3 days. The workshops would rotate between the sites.
* One small discussion meeting per year including at least one representative from each site. Each meeting would last 1-2 days.
* One 'industrial brainstorming' session per year in which members of Mira would visit industrial groups to investigate their activities in IR. Suggested groups to visit are Oxford University Press, Springer Verlag, Ubilab (Zurich) and the Commonwealth Agriculture Bureau. A minimum outcome would be a report to Mira and to the company involved. Each session would last up to 2 days.
* One conference at the end of the three year period, the proceedings to be published. The conference would last up to 3 days.
* Personnel exchanges between sites but not to be funded by Mira