Contact details
Iadh Ounis (Reader) Department of Computing Science University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ Email: ounis at dcs.gla.ac.uk Tel : +44(0)141 330 5652 Fax : +44(0)141 330 4913
I work at the Department of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, where I am a Reader (the equivalent of an Associate Professor in the US). I have been a member of the Department since 1999. I am the principal investigator of the Terrier project, where we are doing a lot of work on Web, Blog and Enterprise search, Desktop, Intranet and Vertical search engines, as well as developing and evaluating novel large-scale text information retrieval techniques and applications. We have regularly participated in several and various TREC Tracks using our Terrier search engine and technology since 2001. We are part of the Glasgow IR Group.
I was the General Chair of ESSIR 2007 and ECIR 2008, both of which were held in Glasgow. I coordinate the TREC Blog track since 2006. I also blog over at the TerrierTeam.
Research Interests
My research interests mainly fall in the area of large-scale Text Information Retrieval:- Information Retrieval on the Web
- Information Retrieval in Intranet, Enterprise and Desktop settings, including Expert Finding
- Blog search
- Distributed IR and Large-scale text retrieval system building (e.g. Terrier)
- Probabilistic IR models, in particular Divergence From Randomness (DFR) Models and Language Models
- Evaluation and scalability of search engines
- Hyperlink structure analysis
- Methods of combination/fusion
- Text mining; Multilingual retrieval and NLP for textual IR
- Study of Users's query and browsing logs
- Semantic Web
I am keen in accepting PhD students in the above general areas of research. Feel free to contact me about this to discuss possible topics of mutual interests and possible funding opportunities
I teach modules in Information Retrieval (IR) to final honours and MSc graduate students, and research-oriented IR courses to MSc students in advanced computing science . Finally, I contribute to courses in Databases.